Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket

Summary

Starfall – a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint – scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint’s lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket, the key to eternal life, really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, the Doctor and Rose aim to find out. Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television.

Review

Rating: 9

Another great story from Justin Richards. This one featured space pirates and some very devious robots. The story began with the TARDIS breaking down in an area of space, called the zeg, where most mechanical devices wouldn’t work (sort of a full-time EMP). Every mechanical device was steam driven. How cool is that. The second half of the story is the search for the missing pirate treasure, with a few homicidal characters thrown in for good measure. It was well told with lots of twists and turns. I could visualise this as an episode.

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