All posts tagged "scifi"
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 8 Vol 1, by Big Finish
Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor returns with a new companion to face the Sinestran race and a much bigger conspiracy to rule the galaxy.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Blake’s 7: Restoration Part 1, by Big Finish
This full cast audio drama, featuring original actors from the Blake's 7 TV series, picks up where the last story left off, with Liberator badly damaged and plunging to its imminent destruction.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Early Adventures 5.4: The Crash Of The UK-201, by Big Finish
When the First Doctor's companion, Vicki, finds herself on the spaceship which ultimately crashed and led to her first encounter with the Doctor, she decides to change the course of history by saving the ship.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Shilling & Sixpence Investigates, by Big Finish
Based on Nigel Fairs’s murder mystery serial that has been running for over 21 years throughout the UK, Shilling & Sixpence Investigate takes place in a sometimes quirky, sometimes dark world where nobody is quite whom they seem.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures Vol 2, by Big Finish
The first Doctor, with his original companions, come across a planet where the child-like inhabitants do not die, then visit ancient Japan where they find themselves in the middle of a plot to murder the Shogun and wrestle power from him.
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947Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Star Trek: Prometheus 2: The Root of All Rage, by Big Finish
In the second instalment of the this ongoing story, the crew of the Federation ship, Prometheus, try to prevent a galactic war from breaking out when a mysterious radiation cloud starts causing races to turn against each other.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, by various authors
Forty short stories retelling the original Star Wars film from the view point of other characters, from Stormtroopers and Sandpeople, to Aunt Beru and Obi-Wan at the moment of their deaths. Released for the 40th anniversary of the film.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, by Big Finish
Four narrated stories set across the Eleventh Doctor's era and featuring Amy Pond, Clara Oswald and previous characters that shared those same adventures.
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786Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Torchwood: Deadbeat Escape, by Big Finish
On a bleak night in Wales, Hywel Roberts finds himself in need of a hotel. He is greeted by a courteous and elderly gentleman but soon realises that this hotel - nicknamed the Deadbeat Escape - is no ordinary hotel and that he has been expected.
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894Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Jeremiah Bourne in Time, by Big Finish
Jeremiah Bourne is a young man who discovers he has an extraordinary gift for time travel. He doesn't need a machine. It just happens to him. He finds himself moving between present day London to 1910 and, along the way, helps a number of people in need.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles: The Second Doctor Vol 2, by Big Finish
Four new Doctor Who adventures set around the Second Doctor era and told from the companion's viewpoint, featuring several of the original TV actors reprising their roles including those of Jamie, Polly and Zoe.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Chronicles, by Big Finish
Four original, stand-alone audio adventures about the Tenth Doctor and his companions, with each story covering a different part of the Tenth Doctor’s timeline from his earliest adventures with Rose Tyler, through to companions Martha Jones and Donna Noble.
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959Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The Diary of River Song Series 3, by Big Finish
Popular Dr Who character River Song returns for a third series of audio adventures featuring the fourth Doctor, played by Peter Davidson, and the villainous Madame Kovarian.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The Martian Invasion Of Earth, by Big Finish
A full-cast audio adaptation of HG Wells' most well-known novel, The War of the Worlds, unfolding an alien invasion of Earth in Victorian times.
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822Books & LiteratureBook Review: How to Stop Time, by Matt Haig
A man with a very rare condition that ages him incredibly slowly, seeks meaning in his present-day life as he searches through time for his daughter.
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803Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The X-Files: Cold Cases, by Joe Harris, Chris Carter and Dirk Maggs
When the FBI's X-Files are breached, lead investigators Mulder and Scully are brought out of hiding to look into some cold cases that were never solved.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Third Doctor Adventures Vol 3, by Big Finish
Two original full-cast audio plays set in Jon Pertwee’s era of Doctor Who, as The Doctor and his companion, Jo Grant, face old enemies and new.
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679Books & LiteratureBook Review: Earth’s Guardians 1: A Life Redrawn, by JL Higgs
When an illustrator's drawings come to life at the same time as their friend disappears, Hannah and Taylor know they have to investigate what is happening.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: HG Wells’ The Island Of Dr Moreau, by Big Finish
A shipwrecked man finds himself on a strange island where a mysterious doctor and his assistant have been creating a race of man-animal hybrids.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: HG Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come, by Big Finish
A modern-day diplomat is taken through history in the hope of helping him make crucial decisions that will correct mistakes in an earlier intervention.
