Book #185 of 2025: Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution by Una McCormack Una McCormack makes it look easy. She takes a fun but messy installment of Doctor Who, which on TV struggles to balance introducing the new companion and season-long plot with the immediate wacky adventure at hand — involving an ordinary nurse getting whisked …
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Book #120 of 2024: Doctor Who: Caged by Una McCormack A solid Doctor Who adventure, mostly notable for the entirely non-humanoid cast outside of the Fifteenth Doctor and his companion Ruby Sunday. That’s the sort of approach I love to see from the wider canon of this franchise, taking advantage of the freedom from visual …
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Book #1 of 2021: Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: All Flesh is Grass by Una McCormack The second and final Time Lord Victorious novel offers a generally satisfying resolution to this sprawling Doctor Who multimedia experiment, although there are still a few open areas that will likely be shaded in by future releases of some …
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