Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice
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3.3 • 12 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The Wheel. A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth—a colony plagued by problems. Equipment failures and thefts are on the rise. Children tell stories of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. And some of the younger workers refuse to go down into the warren-like mines.
And then one of them, surfing Saturn’s rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction.
Once on the Wheel, the Doctor and his companions, Jamie and Zoe, face a critical situation when they become suspected by some as the source of the ongoing sabotage. They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that reaches back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery that could destroy the Wheel—and kill them all...
Customer Reviews
Formulaic but interesting
I am a long time Doctor Who fan, and also a fan of Stephen Baxter's sci-fi novels. I wanted to love this novel but found it a bit formulaic. It had a large cast of characters but they all seemed a bit too cliche to me, including the megalomaniacal station overlord, a bunch of rebellious teenagers, the goody-two-shoes handicapped mayor and other stock character types. Don't get me wrong. It's not a bad novel. There is some intriguing science, but I did not feel intellectually challenged, and there was never a point where the challenges the characters faced made me feel tension. Stephen Baxter is an awesome science fiction author, but this is not an awesome science fiction book. I have a feeling the constraints of the Doctor Who universe's conventions stifled his creativity a bit.