The Crooked World

The Crooked World
AuthorSteve Lyons
SeriesDoctor Who book:
Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number
57
SubjectFeaturing:
Eighth Doctor
Fitz and Anji
PublisherBBC Books
Publication date
June 2002
Pages288
ISBN0-563-53856-2
Preceded byThe Book of the Still 
Followed byHistory 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

The Doctor accidentally brings the concept of reality to a world based on cartoon physics.

Continuity

  • The concept of a person's belief affecting a creature also featured in Lyons's previous novel Salvation.

Outside references

  • All the characters are parodies of popular cartoon characters, though none are mentioned by name.[1]

Reception

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

  1. ^ a b Wolverson, E.G. "The Crooked World". Doctor Who Reviews. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  2. ^ Hills, Matt (February 2003). "'Neo-Retro' Tales of a Time Lord". Interzone. No. 186. pp. 57–58. Retrieved 19 January 2023.