The Crooked World

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The Crooked World
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Author Steve Lyons
Series Doctor Who book:
Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number
57
SubjectFeaturing:
Eighth Doctor
Fitz and Anji
Publisher BBC Books
Publication date
June 2002
Pages288
ISBN 0-563-53856-2
Preceded by The Book of the Still  
Followed by History 101  

The Crooked World is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . [1] It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.

Contents

Plot

The Doctor accidentally brings the concept of reality to a world based on cartoon physics.

Continuity

Outside references

Reception

In Interzone , Matt Hills writes, "Lyon's tenth Who novel seems at first as if it is going to be a very long set of tiresome in-jokes and references. But it opens out into a sharply drawn meditation on social justice and individual guilt, as well as dealing with the cultural transmission of ideas." [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Wolverson, E.G. "The Crooked World". Doctor Who Reviews. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  2. Hills, Matt (February 2003). "'Neo-Retro' Tales of a Time Lord". Interzone . No. 186. pp. 57–58. Retrieved 19 January 2023.