Book: Doctor Who: Night of the Humans
Author: David Llewellyn
ISBN: 978-1-846-07969-6
Pages: 247
For those who don’t know (Although I can’t imagine there are that many of ya) Doctor Who is a long running British science fiction TV series about an alien, The Doctor, who has a time machine, the TARDIS, that’s disguised as a 1960s style Police telephone box. The Doctor generally travels with companions, who are usually, but not always, human. And this year, 2013, is Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, so I couldn’t do this 100 Book Challenge without at least one Doctor Who book in it.
This book features The Doctor and Amy Pond as portrayed on TV by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.
Following a distress call from around 250,000 years in our future the TARDIS lands on a world made completely out of flattened space junk, called the Gyre, they soon encounter the hostile Sittuun, who take The Doctor and Amy prisoner, however as they’re being taken back to the Sittuun’s crashed spaceship, they’re attacked by a band of savages who kidnap The Doctor.
Amy soon learns that the savages are humans, humans who are descended from the survivors of a crashed human spaceship from ages ago, humans who have lost their knowledge of their past, who believe the Gyre is in fact Earth and their great god Gobo will soon come and take them to the sacred place called El Paso.
But of more immediate concern is the comet that’s scheduled to strike the Gyre and destroy it, sending debris out into space, to collide with the planets out there, including the Sittuun homeworld. Can Amy, with the help of the Sittuun, rescue The Doctor and save both the Sittuun and the humans? Well, with the help of the space swashbuckler Dirk Slipstream, maybe. But the question is, who can she trust?
Rating… Oh, 5 out of 5 TARDISes easily, although I did think that Amy’s characterization was slightly off from the TV portrayal, The Doctor though was spot on. The author managed to portray the sadness and the disbelief at the way things happen, as well as weave a nice little mystery into the book. I’d definitely recommend it to any Doctor Who fan out there.
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