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“Nonsense, child”, retorted the Doctor. “Grandfather indeed! I’ve never seen you before in my life!”
All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else’s nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet’s history.
At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the House of Lungbarrow in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.
673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he’s home at last.
In this, the Seventh Doctor’s final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.
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60 primary books#60 in Doctor Who: The New Adventures
Doctor Who: The New Adventures is a 60-book series with 60 released primary works first released in 1991 with contributions by John Peel, Terrance Dicks, and Nigel Robinson.
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For the 7th Doctor, the producers/story editor came up with a new, expanded, mysterious backstory for the character. Sadly, when the BBC quasi-cancelled the original run much of that material fell by the wayside.
The novel “Lungbarrow” was intended to use that material which I eventually read out of curiousity.
Unfortunately, the framing plot is extremely bad and reads more like a horrible Scooby-Doo/Doctor Who crossover fanfic.
Moreover, the author, tries to be too clever for his own good making for a confusing and dull read.
While the background material was interesting (although vague and non-comittal), everything else in this book underlines, highlights and adds a blink tag to why I usually avoid media tie-ins like the plague.
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