Review: Doctor Who: Apocalypse by Nigel Robinson

Mass market paperback, 201 pages
Published 1991

Acquired March 2010
Read February 2017

The New Doctor Who Adventures: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
by Nigel Robinson

The third Timewyrm novel is the worst yet. While Genesys was shitty, Apocalypse is just boring, filled with non-characters doing uninteresting things, one of those books you can't even remember what you didn't like about it because your main memory of reading it is your eyes gliding over the pages as you hoped it came to an end soon. Generic and tedious.

Next Week: The final confrontation with the Timewyrm: Revelation!

Audio Catchup: Three First Doctor Stories featuring William Russell

What if William Russell read every Big Finish story, whether he was in it or not? The world would be a better place, that's what.  Recently I listened to:

• Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles #7.01: The Time Museum by James Goss
• Doctor Who: The Lost Stories #3.7: The Masters of Luxor by Anthony Coburn (adapted by Nigel Robinson)

Though both are good looks back at the earliest Doctor Who on the eve of its 50th anniversary, The Masters of Luxor is great a perfect recreation of the 1963/64 era, yet something new and different... which is quite an accomplishment for a story from that time! On the other hand, The Time Museum manages to present an oft-referenced onscreen moment in an entirely new and interesting light, which I was not expecting.