Book info

• Title Doctor Who: The Many Hands
• Author Dale Smith
• Year 2008
• Genre Science Fiction

Edinburgh, 1759. The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard. That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died... It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro.

Thoughts

I love that there are certain things you can recognise in a Doctor Who story - they’re not necessarily in all of them, but when they pop up, you know what you’re getting. This time we had a famous historical figure, although not really central to the main plot. We had some aliens trying to use and abuse humans for their own benefit, and we had the Doctor and this time Martha trying to figure it all out before it was too late. The idea of those hands moving around, a bit like the Addams Family, was very creepy, very Doctor Who.

Rating: 3 / 5