Merlin and Dr Who in teenage fantasies
- Publication: The Sunday Press
- Date: 1994-08-28
- Author: Sue Knight
- Page: 28
- Language: English
MERLIN AND THE LAST TRUMP, by Collin Webber VGSF, Stg. £4.99
BLOOD HARVEST, by Terrance Dicks Doctor Who Books, Stg. £4.99
GOTH OPERA, by Paul Cornell Doctor Who Books, Stg. £4.99
WITH AN impossibly convoluted plot that races between Arthurian Britain and AD 3797, taking in a fiendish plot to destroy mankind. Merlin and the Last Trump is an enjoyable addition to the increasingly popular genre of comic fantasy.
Don't hope for a summary of what happens. this inventive piece of fiction flies off in all directions at once. All that can safely be said is that the fate of mankind hinges on one uninspiring wimp of a computer analyst about to fling himself in despair off Tower Bridge. In other starring roles are the time-travelling Merlin, his dad, Uther Pendragon (dead). Sir Griswold des Arbres (a previously uncredited Knight of the Round Table). a lady medium with a passing acquaintance with Doris Stokes. the First Unborn (frozen sperm) and Lucifer's sidekick Nemesis, surrounded by an engaging band of demons, one of whom, the band-leader Moog. jazzily sounds the last trumpet to mark the end of the world.
Notwithstanding, or perhaps because of, the rather naughty bits, it should delight fans of the genre from teenagers upwards.
Those of the original Dr Who generation, remembering the good Doctor on black-and-white TV surrounded by clanking Daleks. will he startled by his loss of innocence in the new series of books under the cover title. The Missing Adventures. In fact, as the preface to Goth Opera states. the books are aimed at those who have grown up with Dr Who and are now ready for more sophisticated fare. Hmm.
In Goth Opera. the doctor briefly becomes a vampire — Dr Who meets Hammer Horror — while in Blood Hermit by the veteran Terrance Dicks —the Vampires are joined by Al Capone in '30s Chicago. Amusing enough but with sentences like "Romana wants to help Biroc free the Thank", they are strictly for aficionados.
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