The Crooked World

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Author(s):

Steve Lyons

First Pub:

2002

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2002

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Internal ID:

375

Series:

The Book of the Still
History 101

Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

#57 of 73

Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.

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1) The Eight Doctors
2) Vampire Science
3) The Bodysnatchers
4) Genocide
5) War of the Daleks
6) Alien Bodies
7) Kursaal
8) Option Lock
9) Longest Day
10) Legacy of the Daleks
11) Dreamstone Moon
12) Seeing I
13) Placebo Effect
14) Vanderdeken's Children
15) The Scarlet Empress
16) The Janus Conjunction
17) Beltempest
18) The Face-Eater
19) The Taint
20) Demontage
21) Revolution Man
22) Dominion
23) Unnatural History
24) Autumn Mist
25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) The Blue Angel
28) Taking of Planet 5
29) Frontier Worlds
30) Parallel 59
31) Shadows of Avalon
32) The Fall of Yquatine
33) Coldheart
34) The Space Age
35) The Banquo Legacy
36) The Ancestor Cell
37) The Burning
38) Casualties of War
39) The Turing Test
40) Endgame
41) Father Time
42) Escape Velocity
43) Earthworld
44) Vanishing Point
45) Eater of Wasps
46) The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) The Slow Empire
48) Dark Progeny
49) City of the Dead
50) Grimm Reality
51) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Hope
54) Anachrophobia
55) Trading Futures
56) The Book of the Still
57) The Crooked World
58) History 101
59) Camera Obscura
60) Time Zero
61) The Infinity Race
62) The Domino Effect
63) Reckless Engineering
64) The Last Resort
65) Timeless
66) Emotional Chemistry
67) Sometime Never...
68) Halflife
69) The Tomorrow Windows
70) The Sleep of Reason
71) The Deadstone Memorial
72) To the Slaughter
73) The Gallifrey Chronicles

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This book explains nothing. It is what would be called a filler story in comic books. Neat but uninteresting. Basically the Doctor enters a "cartoon" world and teaches them how to kill. The End.

Synopsis (may contain spoilers)

This is the 57th novel published by the BBC to feature the 8th Doctor. His companions are Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

The TARDIS crew lands on a planet (presumably) where cartoon-like characters roam. When the Doctor is shot and doesn't get back up, Streaky Bacon (a pig) goes with Fitz and the Doctor in the ambulance to Zanytown.

The Doctor eventually recovers and he, Fitz and Anji discover that their mere presence there is altering the way that the population is living. When one of the citizens of Zanytown kills his nemesis, all hell breaks loose.

Fitz and the Doctor have to diffuse the syndicate of evil in destroying the world while Anji goes with the Skeleton Crew to find the source of the Crooked World.

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Characters

Doctor 8 - (Doctor)
Fitz Kreiner - (Companion)
Anji Kapoor - (Companion)

Added: 11-Jan-2003

Last Updated: 06-Apr-2020

03-Jun-2002

BBC Books

Date Issued:

03-Jun-2002

Pages*:

251

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

229

Publisher:

BBC Books

ISBN:

0-563-53856-2

ISBN-13:

978-0-563-53856-1

Printing:

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence.

Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there's Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that's just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice long nap in his kitchen - so long as that darn mouse doesn't jam his tail into the plug socket again.

But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything - and it's possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again.

The Doctor's TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That's all folks!

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