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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 29 September 2025 |
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| Rating: |   7 |
This second volume of Fourth Doctor stories contains two stories from the Doctor's time in E-Space, slotting in somewhere before Warrior's Gate. The Tardis crew is trying to find the CVE that will take them out of E-Space and back into N-Space. The first story, The Planet of Witches, works by taking all the clichés regarding witches in media productions and turning them on their head. We get an old crone who maniacally cackles, but turns out is not an old crone who maniacally cackles, witchfinders who do not find witches to burn them, but find witches to pass on as servants useful because of their knowledge. Magic isn't magic; it's just misunderstood technology. There are a few other such surprises. The story itself reminds me quite a bit of Alan Barnes' previous Big Finish efforts: The Other Side and Zagreus. The second story, The Quest of the Engineer, seems to go by the logic that whatever happens in N-Space is replicated in some way in E-Space. That is how it seems. I cannot tell whether that was the actual thinking. Even so, this story is pretty much the E-Space version of The Pirate Planet. An evil genius controls a planet like its a spaceship, destroys worlds to harvest their resources, and has a strange ulterior motive for doing all this. The two stories progress very much like most mid-season Doctor Who TV serials. They are reasonably entertaining, but not the kind of thing to knock your socks off.
