Doctor Who Only Human (Audible Audio Edition) Gareth Roberts Anthony Head BBC Worldwide Limited Books
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Somebody's interfering with time. The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack arrive on modern-day Earth to find the culprit - and discover a Neanderthal Man, twenty-eight thousand years after his race became extinct. Only a trip back to the primeval dawn of humanity can solve the mystery. Who are the mysterious humans from the distant future now living in the distant past? What hideous monsters are trying to escape from behind the Grey Door? Is Rose going to end up married to a caveman?
Caught between three very different types of human being - past, present and future - the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack must learn the truth behind the Osterberg experiment before the monstrous Hy-Bractors escape to change humanity's history forever...
Doctor Who Only Human (Audible Audio Edition) Gareth Roberts Anthony Head BBC Worldwide Limited Books
Ever since the relaunch in 2005, I've been a fan of Doctor Who (and have later gone back to watch the classic series as well). And when I discovered there were a ton of novels based on the show as well, I knew I had to check them out. All of them have different writers, and all of them vary in degrees of quality. But all of them still capture the spirit of the show; playing out like actual episodes, while being able to utilize things that would be extremely difficult to create on the show (in terms of special effects).Taking place during the time of the Ninth Doctor, he and his companions, Rose and Captain Jack Harkness, make their way to present day England when the TARDIS picks up a disturbance in the space time continuum. There, they discover, to their shock, a very much alive Neanderthal man running around town. And when their investigation takes them on a journey into Earth's ancient past, their ensuing battle with the time travelers messing with history will make them understand what it truly means to be human.
These books are pretty much just for fans of Doctor Who, as there's plenty of references to various episodes of the show, so the writing pretty much expects you to already know who the Doctor and Rose are, what the TARDIS is, and so on. These books pretty much play out like a professionally published fan fiction, and all the main characters behave and sound like they would on the show proper. Case in point, this story plays out perfectly like an unaired episode, with a great balance of seriousness, humor, and thoughtful lessons. All the characters are in perfect form, and though Jack Harkness gets pushed to the wayside a bit, he has a particularly memorable moment in which he has to provide a distraction so the Doctor and Rose can slip by the authorities. What he does, I dare not spoil, but it had me in tears, laughing.
And that's part of the book's charm---there's a great many humorous moments that I think a lot of other "Who" books have been lacking. The Neanderthal man they befriend early on is extremely friendly and likeable, and his exploits in the modern day are both hilarious, but also insightful, as his observations about the strangeness of present day humans reveals a lot about how truly bizarre we can be as a species. And therein lies the book's greatest strength; it's message in humanity. It's so easy to look back on our ancestors and believe them to be savages, but after glimpsing the future and how mankind has found ways to do away with negative emotions, to the point of being almost robotic and uncaring, it makes the reader have to look themselves in the mirror and wonder just who is the real barbarian here?
Both a funny and telling glance at human nature, this is easily one of the more unique and well written "Who" novels that I've come across.
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Doctor Who Only Human (Audible Audio Edition) Gareth Roberts Anthony Head BBC Worldwide Limited Books Reviews
The Doctor is celebrating his 50th anniversary this year. That's 50 years of television episodes, 50 years of music scores, and 50 years of original books. As a new "Whovian" I've been interested in in reading some of the books, but was completely overwhelmed by the vast number, however the books released for the 50th Anniversary have provided me with an set of "recommendations" as to what read first. From there you can figure out which writers you like, and which Doctor's you prefer.
"Only Human" in particular was a fun read. Since we only had one season with Eccelstein's Doctor, it was fun to engage in another adventure with him, Rose, and Captain Jack. Even more importantly, the story line Neanderthals, time travel, and futuristic Earth with limited technological capabilities-- are fascinating. It makes for a great read.
I know nothing about Doctor Who but I got this for my little sister, and she ADORES it. The minute she saw the man's face she yelled out happily and began to read the first few pages before exclaiming that a Rose and Jack were in there. Don't exactly know what that meant as the first thing that came to mind was the Titanic when hearing those two names, but she hugged me plenty so the two must have been important. Either way, she loved it and said that 'Nine' was perfectly well written. 100% she rated it.
Only Human is a somewhat typical Gareth Roberts story with a quirky situation and plenty of humor with a dash of social commentary thrown in. A Neandrathal man lands in modern day England. The Doctor determines that he was there as a result of unethical time experiments and so the Doctor and Rose head back to the stone age while Jack is left to integrate the neandrathal man into modern society.
The story has plenty of humor and there are a lot of interesting elements with the time travellers, sometimes it feels like too much. They’re travellers from 400,000 AD where everyone has figured out how to modify their moods and lives to be totally comfortable at all times and avoid “wrong feeling.” And there are a small minority of refusers. This could be a book in itself.
And then you have a crazy scientist lady at the head of the operation who has removed her own consciousness and has some really evil plans...and this could be its own book.
And then you have the relationship between early humans and neandrathals...and this could be a book, through probably for Hartnell and not any of the modern day doctors.
There's a lot going on, and it's entertaining enough and pretty frenetic and fast paced. Mostly though, it does work. I do think the decision to set this during Jack's time on the TARDIS and having the neandrathal integrate into the twenty-first led only to light comedy and keeping Jack off the TARDIS. Probably the easiest thread to cut would have been this one. Still, it's a solidly enjoyable read as is.
At a dress-up party, one guest is a REAL Neanderthal. How he got to twenty first century England is a puzzle. Unfortunately, the time machine that brought him to our time was not so hot and so he couldn't go back (way back) home because he would die on the way. What good luck that Captain Jack was available to tutor Das in the ways of the modern world! He didn't volunteer for the job, but it turned out well. Das began looking for a mate nearly as soon as he learned English. The Doctor and Rose went into the past and met incredibly weird group of "researchers". They will do ANYTHING their leader tells them, even go into a cave where a large monster eats them one per day. The primitive Humans and the Neanderthals live close to each other. Rose gets engaged to one the natives and later loses her head in a literal sense. The book has so many twists and turns I was afraid the next Doctor Who novel I read would disappoint.
Ever since the relaunch in 2005, I've been a fan of Doctor Who (and have later gone back to watch the classic series as well). And when I discovered there were a ton of novels based on the show as well, I knew I had to check them out. All of them have different writers, and all of them vary in degrees of quality. But all of them still capture the spirit of the show; playing out like actual episodes, while being able to utilize things that would be extremely difficult to create on the show (in terms of special effects).
Taking place during the time of the Ninth Doctor, he and his companions, Rose and Captain Jack Harkness, make their way to present day England when the TARDIS picks up a disturbance in the space time continuum. There, they discover, to their shock, a very much alive Neanderthal man running around town. And when their investigation takes them on a journey into Earth's ancient past, their ensuing battle with the time travelers messing with history will make them understand what it truly means to be human.
These books are pretty much just for fans of Doctor Who, as there's plenty of references to various episodes of the show, so the writing pretty much expects you to already know who the Doctor and Rose are, what the TARDIS is, and so on. These books pretty much play out like a professionally published fan fiction, and all the main characters behave and sound like they would on the show proper. Case in point, this story plays out perfectly like an unaired episode, with a great balance of seriousness, humor, and thoughtful lessons. All the characters are in perfect form, and though Jack Harkness gets pushed to the wayside a bit, he has a particularly memorable moment in which he has to provide a distraction so the Doctor and Rose can slip by the authorities. What he does, I dare not spoil, but it had me in tears, laughing.
And that's part of the book's charm---there's a great many humorous moments that I think a lot of other "Who" books have been lacking. The Neanderthal man they befriend early on is extremely friendly and likeable, and his exploits in the modern day are both hilarious, but also insightful, as his observations about the strangeness of present day humans reveals a lot about how truly bizarre we can be as a species. And therein lies the book's greatest strength; it's message in humanity. It's so easy to look back on our ancestors and believe them to be savages, but after glimpsing the future and how mankind has found ways to do away with negative emotions, to the point of being almost robotic and uncaring, it makes the reader have to look themselves in the mirror and wonder just who is the real barbarian here?
Both a funny and telling glance at human nature, this is easily one of the more unique and well written "Who" novels that I've come across.
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