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Not the Lizard King. He can't do everything.
What did Keith Topping think he was doing? Or more to the point, why did the series editors let this one loose on the market? If you want the funny, pop culture, action adventure send up of Dr Who this book is trying to be, look elsewhere. "The King of Terror" is a series of loosely connected vignettes that don't add up to much of a story at all, let alone a good story. So much is left unexplained and undeveloped that it was hard in the end to know what the point really was. And it wasn't funny. <
>That's not to say this book doesn't have some good points. I quite enjoyed the first third or so when I thought the story was going to go somewhere, the two British soldiers were pretty good, and the characterisation of Tegan had its moments. But the Brigadier was a blustering idiot, the Doctor pompous, moralistic and generally useless, and neither of them as written by Topping were sufficiently in accord with the characters as established on the TV show. The other characters were never defined enough to be interesting. <
>And as for Topping's treatment of Turlough . . . Turlough going out to get drunk and pick up? Turlough telling perfect strangers how happy he is and how wonderful the world is? Was he on drugs at that point? Whoever that was, it wasn't Turlough. Better that he wasn't in the story at all than wasted and misused like this. And I really do mean misused. Sexual aggression and sexual assault has no place in Dr Who.

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A combination of espionage thriller and space monsters!
With a ludicrously over-the-top title and a plot that seems to have been cobbled together from about five different novels, it's hard not to love The King of Terror. I could be wrong but I think the author got a tad carried away halfway through because there are one or two chapters where the plot stands still, but this is wildly ambitious and never-less-than-fun ride. I particularly enjoyed its very British take on a few US sacred cows. It may not be for all tastes - the Turlough kidnapping subplot, for example, has received a lot of negative comments in the past. I must admit, though, I found the idea of a stereotypical "alien abduction and probing" being doen by aliens on ANOTHER ALIEN to be really, really funny. I suspect that was the intention.

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THIS is Doctor Who?!? I think not!
If "Doctor Who" wasn't written on the cover I wouldn't have belived this to be a Doctor Who book.
The plot is confusing, boring, and completley unlike any Doctor Who I have ever seen/read.
Considering the content of most Doctor Who books and TV episodes, this book contains situations which are indecent and just plain gross.
The only reason I gave this book one star is because it's impossible to rate a book with zero.