Dominion

by Nick Walters

An adventure featuring the eighth Doctor Who, Fitz and Sam. The TARDIS travels through a worm-hole in space and time that leaves it nearly dead in a present-day Swedish forest. The Doctor reasons that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0563555742
• ISBN13: 9780563555742
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: BBC Worldwide Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.4" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Don't shoot, the bloke with the tenacles wants to be your friend!

Hey, a new writer! And he seems to know what he's doing! With the cast growing larger and the Eighth Doctor books starting to form more of a serial as opposed to a bunch of standalone adventures that merely took place one after the other, it's clear that the dynamics of the line were starting to shift somewhat and being that the majority of the stories were good but nothing special probably meant that it was getting time to shake things up a little. And while we don't really get that here, certain things are clarified or brought into a stronger focus before we had to move toward whatever grand plan the line was beginning to envision. Walters does shake things up right away by having the action happen pretty much on the first page, with Sam being snatched away from the TARDIS by something mysterious, throwing off Fitz and the Doctor to such an extent that neither of them seems to recover fully until the book is nearly over. Sidelining Sam was probably a good idea as Fitz was still new and we needed to see what his character could do without her relative experience to balance out the fact that often he didn't know what the heck he was doing. So far he works out well, lacking Sam's overriding sense of superiority that she could often irritate with and more prone to be sure about the mistakes he was making, he provides a necessary change from Sam's lockstep trusting of the Doctor. Fitz doesn't automatically want to do things his way, even if the Doctor's tends to be right. For most of the novel he's on the wrong foot but manages to stay afloat anyway, though he's still got far to go. Meanwhile the Doctor is really off-balance and almost ineffectual for most of the novel, dazed by Sam's sudden absence and fretting about the TARDIS, this is the most unnerved we've seen him in a while and Walters showcases this incarnation's compassion and openness well, but also highlights why he's not really as formidable as, say, the Seventh Doctor as for most of the time he's making this up as he goes along and if he's right it's often by accident. And yet his humanity helps him relate to the people around him probably better than any Doctor we've seen since the Fifth. You'll noticed I haven't said much about the plot yet. That's because it's no real great shakes. People are disappearing and strange aliens are attacking folks in the woods. The aliens are admirably grotesque and Walters does get some mileage out of the gruesomeness (with one rather well done and out of left field scene in the hospital, even if it does homage a certain movie with Sigourney Weaver somewhat) but once it's clear that nobody is talking to them you'll know that they actually don't mean any harm. Then it's up to the Doctor and crew to save the day from the headstrong humans who just want to wreck everything. So far Walters ideas are interesting, but more the sum of his influences than anything new. The aforementioned "Alien" reference notwithstanding, the alien Dominion, on

A good solid story. Worth reading.

Good story. Inventive. Fast paced. Evenly paced. Style and substance.The ending was a bit....... confusing/silly/jumbled/improbableStill, a worthy addition to your Doctor Who library

X-Files meets Doctor Who

Nick Walters makes a stunning debut in his first solo Doctor Who novel. With its dark, contemporary Earth setting and sinister, mysterious military figures, this is maybe the closest a Doctor Who story has felt to an X-Files tale. Separated from Sam and the TARDIS, the Doctor and Fitz have to rely on their wits alone as they try to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances plaguing a small area in Sweden. Between the previous book (Revolution Man) and this, Fitz has really come into his own as a character and a companion. This story nicely follows on from events in Revolution Man, while still being a strong story on its own, and leads nicely into the next book. This series is finally starting to feel like a series, rather than a collection of separate adventures, and I couldn't be more pleased.