Timewyrm: Genesys
1991 • 230 pages

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Mesopotamia⁠ — the cradle of civilisation. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.

Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind’s long progress to the stars.

And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor’s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror⁠ — the Timewyrm.


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While beginning as a clever and faithful retelling of the epic of Gilgamesh, the story begins to oscillate between it's promising premise and a slow, trite slog.

February 22, 2017
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This is a story that probably couldn't have been done on television, if only for reasons of budget and content. The story is interesting and well written.

October 11, 2013

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