Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen

4th Doctor Novel

De: Douglas Adams, James Goss

Narrado por: Dan Starkey

An unabridged reading of the brand-new novel based on a storyline by Douglas Adams.

The Doctor promised Romana the end of the universe, so she's less than impressed when what she gets is a cricket match. But then the award ceremony is interrupted by 11 figures in white uniforms and peaked skull helmets wielding bat-shaped weapons that fire lethal bolts of light into the screaming crowd. The Krikkitmen are back.

Millions of years ago, the people of Krikkit learned they were not alone in the universe and promptly launched a xenophobic crusade to wipe out all other lifeforms. After a long and bloody conflict, the Time Lords imprisoned Krikkit within an envelope of Slow Time, a prison that could be opened only with the Wicket Gate key, a device that resembles - to human eyes, at least - an oversized set of cricket stumps....

From Earth to Gallifrey, from Bethselamin to Devalin, from Krikkit to Mareeve II to the far edge of infinity, the Doctor and Romana are tugged into a pan-galactic conga with fate as they rush to stop the Krikkitmen gaining all five pieces of the key. If they fail, the entire cosmos faces a fiery retribution that will leave nothing but ashes....

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The Doctor blended with Hitchhiker's Guide

First, the narration by Dan Starkey was amazing. He switched between good impressions of the 4th Doctor and K-9 and a variety of other character's voices and accents so that there was no problem differentiating between them. The story was pretty wild, intricate enough that it took some focus to follow the threads. It had several aspects of Hitchhiker's Guide (and its sequels) but was a rollicking Doctor Who story through and through. Romana really shines in this, more than she was allowed to in the TV show. She is nearly the equal of the Doctor (although several hundred years younger and less experienced) and has a fine balance of correcting the Doctor and admiring his approach. There are some brief cameos from some other Who characters that were enjoyable if you recognized them but it wasn't necessary to enjoy their appearance.

I love Doug Adams

Everything that man writes is gold. This one almost reads like a murder mystery, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend.

Great book, audio levels could have been better

Love Douglas Adams and the narrator was an amazing voice actor, but the audio levels were a little uneven and it made it very difficult to hear some parts, especially if there was ambient noise

A delightful example of Douglas Adams’ writing style

Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen is an exemplar of the late Douglas Adams’ style, and fans of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (all five novels of it) will be interested to hear the bones upon which Life, the Universe, and Everything was based upon.

Doctor Who Versus Hitchhiker's Guide 3

There are some winks at old nemeses like The Black Guardian and Shada, but this is Doctor Who, Romana, and K-9 versus the horrifyingly genocidal Krikkitmen that Arthur Dent originally fought in his third book. Dent's influence is prevalent in references to paperwork and the BBC. The bonus is how the Krikkitmen are part of a larger scheme.

Life, the Universe, and the Doctor

Anyone whose read Adams' third Hitchhiker novel will recognize this story, since it's basically that story, only longer, slightly less funny, significantly more interesting, and featuring a different bunch of heroes, namely the Doctor, Romana II, and K9. I always thought Life, the Universe, and Everything stuck out from Adams other books as being a more straightforward adventure than the rest of the Hitchhiker novels. It makes sense, then, that it was originally a Doctor Who story. That said, this is not at all as straightforward as most Who adventures, but it is a great read nonetheless.

The lost Dr. Who adventure from Douglas Adams!

Goss perfectly mimics Douglas Adams's style in his efforts to complete this formerly unproduced script as a novel. Great fun! And who knew Dan Starkey had such a great Tom Baker impression in his repertoire!

Excellent audio book

One of my best stories. Loved the narrator and his voice. I listen to it twice, yes that good.

Great story!

Over the course of his days as a script editor for the Doctor Who TV series during the 4th Doctor's Era, Douglas Adams personally wrote four stories for the Doctor. Two stories, The Pirate Planet and City Of Death, were broadcast as intended. The third story, Shada, gained a reputation as a notorious lost entry in the series. It never originally aired as intended, due to a union strike that haulted production halfway through filming. It has been revisited in various ways since then. However there is an often overlooked fourth story that most people forget about. Adams pitched it multiple times, but at the time it was rejected as being "too silly". He eventually reworked the material into what would have been a continuation of the Hitchhiker TV series, but it finally found a home in the third Hitchhiker novel: Life, The Universe, and Everything. This novel was later adapted wonderfully to radio by the great Dirk Maggs, but it has always remained a Hitchhiker story despite its origins. Until now. This novel pits the Krikkitmen against their originally intended advisory, the 4th Doctor. If you are a fan of Douglas Adams and/or the 4th Doctor, than this is a must buy, wonderfully complimenting the three other novels based on his stories.

Tom Baker Fun! (You Needn't Know "Who" That Is)

I bought it on a whim, not having any history with Doctor Who novels, but this is a amusing, fast-paced read for any Who fan, Douglas Adams aficionado, or anybody who appreciates dry British narration of science fiction.

Give it a try!