Doctor Who: Harvest of Time

Another great read from Alastair Reynolds. The third Doctor and the Master have to collaborate (some of the time) to defeat an invasion of bodysnatching aliens. The imagery in the book is great, you get a good sense of the locations, characters (especially the Doctor and the Master) and the aliens Sild.

The combination of Alastair Reynolds and Doctor Who is a great combination; the pace is fast and the book is quite hard to put down.




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Sleepover by Alastair Reynolds

This is a good short story (no suprise there), but unlike most Alastair Reynold's stories it is set on Earth, admitted a future Earth. The population of Earth (expect a few thousand) is cryogenically frozen for reason that are explain but it would be a spoiler to explain why here. One of the first to be frozen, a former CEO of an AI company, is selected to be revived for caretaker duties on what sounds like oil-rig-like structures where the whole of human race is being stored.

Creatures of the deep, AI emergence and other dimensions all play a role - so you won't miss out on the elements of Reynold's other books.

Confession time - when I first download this onto the Kindle I wasn't aware it was short story/novella in an anthology Apocalyptic SF by Mike Ashley, I thought it was a short story by Alastair Reynolds. I enjoyed it so much I download the anthology.


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