Doctor Who: Night Of The Humans

Summary

250,000 years’ worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all – the Humans.

The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between the Sittuun and Humans, and the countdown has already started. There’s a comet in the sky, and it’s on a collision course with the Gyre…

When the Doctor is kidnapped, it’s up to Amy and ‘galaxy-famous swashbuckler’ Dirk Slipstream to save the day.

But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?

Review

Rating: 8

This is the best of the new Doctor (11th) novels so far. The world it’s set on is something I’ve not come across in Science Fiction novels before and it’s well described. The characters are well written; particularly the secondary characters such as the “bad” humans devolved into savages, a very Zap Braningan-like anti-hero and the Sittuun. I’m still struggling to picture the new Doctor in the books and often imagine David Tennant; I suspect this is the strength of association with David in the new Doctor series, but also a lack of defining characteristics of the Matt Smith Doctor. Perhaps after a few more books…

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