"Fascinating bit of geek-lore: in the years when no new Doctor Who episodes were being made, Doctor Who novels were free to become rich and strange, and eventually they gave rise to something richer and stranger. The Faction Paradox novels, about warring sects of time travellers, now have no links to parent series Doctor Who at all. The series was wound-up last year, and New Zealand publisher Random Static decided this was a shame, and acquired the rights. This is their first stand-alone addition to the series. It's so overwritten as to be oddly beautiful, and the story about the erruption of the time-travellers' war into 17th century Britain is complex and involving."
