The Crooked World
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| Author | Steve Lyons |
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| Series | Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures |
Release number | 57 |
| Subject | Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Anji |
| Publisher | BBC Books |
Publication date | June 2002 |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 0-563-53856-2 |
| Preceded by | The Book of the Still |
| Followed by | History 101 |
The Crooked World is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.[1] It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.
Plot[edit]
The Doctor accidentally brings the concept of reality to a world based on cartoon physics.
Continuity[edit]
- The concept of a person's belief affecting a creature also featured in Lyons's previous novel Salvation.
Outside references[edit]
- All the characters are parodies of popular cartoon characters, though none are mentioned by name.[1]
Reception[edit]
In Interzone, Matt Hills writes, "Lyon's tenth Who novel seems at first as if it is going to be a very long set of tiresome in-jokes and references. But it opens out into a sharply drawn meditation on social justice and individual guilt, as well as dealing with the cultural transmission of ideas."[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Wolverson, E.G. "The Crooked World". Doctor Who Reviews. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ Hills, Matt (February 2003). "'Neo-Retro' Tales of a Time Lord". Interzone. No. 186. pp. 57–58. Retrieved 19 January 2023.