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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2019 4:41:48 GMT
If one were looking to perhaps purchase The Wages of Sin, would you recommend it or suggest another book in a similar vein? |
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Post by newt5996 on Nov 9, 2019 4:54:27 GMT
If one were looking to perhaps purchase The Wages of Sin, would you recommend it or suggest another book in a similar vein? I believe my score gives the answer and if you liked books like Sanctuary you’ll like this one |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2019 5:36:47 GMT
If one were looking to perhaps purchase The Wages of Sin, would you recommend it or suggest another book in a similar vein? I believe my score gives the answer and if you liked books like Sanctuary you’ll like this one 8/10 for a purchase it is.  I was rather fond of the Salvation review, it got me back into reading some of the early PDAs, but I'd forgotten just how modern some of the storytelling in it was. It's interesting how rare some genre barriers tend to be crossed. I think there are only a handful of pure historicals to the Third Doctor's name, for instance. Less for the Fourth Doctor. So, it's nice when something like The Wages of Sin or Ten Little Aliens (which essentially did an Androzani-style story for the First Doctor) can honour the characterisation of the Doctors and companions while placing them in settings alien to their incarnation, but more familiar to their predecessors/successors. |
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Post by newt5996 on Nov 9, 2019 6:32:22 GMT
I believe my score gives the answer and if you liked books like Sanctuary you’ll like this one 8/10 for a purchase it is. I was rather fond of the Salvation review, it got me back into reading some of the early PDAs, but I'd forgotten just how modern some of the storytelling in it was. It's interesting how rare some genre barriers tend to be crossed. I think there are only a handful of pure historicals to the Third Doctor's name, for instance. Less for the Fourth Doctor. So, it's nice when something like The Wages of Sin or Ten Little Aliens (which essentially did an Androzani-style story for the First Doctor) can honour the characterisation of the Doctors and companions while placing them in settings alien to their incarnation, but more familiar to their predecessors/successors. Yeah I still think I prefer virgins who output because Benny and 7, but there’s been a lot of great stuff here. I’ve also been told I’m at the point where the EDAs really pick up |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2019 11:14:02 GMT
8/10 for a purchase it is. I was rather fond of the Salvation review, it got me back into reading some of the early PDAs, but I'd forgotten just how modern some of the storytelling in it was. It's interesting how rare some genre barriers tend to be crossed. I think there are only a handful of pure historicals to the Third Doctor's name, for instance. Less for the Fourth Doctor. So, it's nice when something like The Wages of Sin or Ten Little Aliens (which essentially did an Androzani-style story for the First Doctor) can honour the characterisation of the Doctors and companions while placing them in settings alien to their incarnation, but more familiar to their predecessors/successors. Yeah I still think I prefer virgins who output because Benny and 7, but there’s been a lot of great stuff here. I’ve also been told I’m at the point where the EDAs really pick up The NAs had a nice sense that they were always challenging their own borders. SLEEPY is arguably the archetypal Virgin story, containing everything Who in the 90s became known for, and it's still this deeply interesting sci-fi novel about a sudden psi-virus that's radically altering Yemayan life. They got comfortable, they got confident, but they never lost that impulse to ask: "But why this way, though?" When the TV Movie came out, it seemed to polarise that part of the Wilderness Years. On one side, there were people who loved the new approach and adopted the tone wholeheartedly. On the other, there was a kickback towards more traditional storytelling styles. Much more radically than guns vs. frocks, from the looks of things. The EDAs are definitely reaching that point where interpretations of the Eighth Doctor had begun to settle into something a bit more homogenous. Of the many voices, I think Alan Barnes played a pretty big part in determining Eight as we see him now. He wrote for his debut in both the comics ( Endgame) and on audio ( Storm Warning). The NAs seemed to lean more towards traditional sci-fi, whereas the EDAs tend to lean more towards traditional fantasy. |
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Post by newt5996 on Nov 11, 2019 18:44:08 GMT
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Post by newt5996 on Nov 17, 2019 21:54:50 GMT
Yeah I still think I prefer virgins who output because Benny and 7, but there’s been a lot of great stuff here. I’ve also been told I’m at the point where the EDAs really pick up The NAs had a nice sense that they were always challenging their own borders. SLEEPY is arguably the archetypal Virgin story, containing everything Who in the 90s became known for, and it's still this deeply interesting sci-fi novel about a sudden psi-virus that's radically altering Yemayan life. They got comfortable, they got confident, but they never lost that impulse to ask: "But why this way, though?" When the TV Movie came out, it seemed to polarise that part of the Wilderness Years. On one side, there were people who loved the new approach and adopted the tone wholeheartedly. On the other, there was a kickback towards more traditional storytelling styles. Much more radically than guns vs. frocks, from the looks of things. The EDAs are definitely reaching that point where interpretations of the Eighth Doctor had begun to settle into something a bit more homogenous. Of the many voices, I think Alan Barnes played a pretty big part in determining Eight as we see him now. He wrote for his debut in both the comics ( Endgame) and on audio ( Storm Warning). The NAs seemed to lean more towards traditional sci-fi, whereas the EDAs tend to lean more towards traditional fantasy. That's an interesting outlook and from the 19 I've read I kind of agree with it. The EDAs seem to be more sci-fantasy than anything. |
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I was rather fond of the Salvation review, it got me back into reading some of the early PDAs, but I'd forgotten just how modern some of the storytelling in it was. It's interesting how rare some genre barriers tend to be crossed. I think there are only a handful of pure historicals to the Third Doctor's name, for instance. Less for the Fourth Doctor. So, it's nice when something like The Wages of Sin or Ten Little Aliens (which essentially did an Androzani-style story for the First Doctor) can honour the characterisation of the Doctors and companions while placing them in settings alien to their incarnation, but more familiar to their predecessors/successors.