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Loading... Match of the Dayby Chris Boucher
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. The TARDIS is malfunctioning and materialises on a different planet. When the Doctor and Leela investigate where they are, the Doctor ends up being challenged to a duel, and Leela fights for him, but is taken to court for breaking the rules. Elsewhere, a famous fighter is on the run after an assassination attempt, and during the course of the story his plot and the one involving the Doctor and Leela come together. (  ) mari_reads | May 6, 2011 |  http://nhw.livejournal.com/1014841.html#cutid2 In a society obsessed with fighting (reminiscent of The Game, which came out at about the same time) Leela becomes, believe it or not, a duelling champion, with the Doctor rather implausibly her agent. A few well-aimed digs at the cult of celebrity, and the effective portrayal of Leela, rather sink into a peculiar writing idiom (adopted only for some passages, but still very annoying), the very unevenly sketched world and society in which our heroes find themselves for this adventure, and a plot which barely hangs together. (  ) nwhyte | Mar 19, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
There were the contracts, the agents, the local sponsors, the pay-per-view broadcasts, the independent verification of results, the laws which made murder legal in carefully defined circumstances It had taken a long time for the system of freelance duellists to be established, and an even longer time to develop the league of interplanetary superstars the others fought to reach and to challenge. And just when it was all working satisfactorily and profitably someone or something started interfering with the set up. began to fall victim to casual, one-time challengers the sort of psychos and testosterone-addled drunks who would themselves be expected to die quickly and routinely. there is more to the situation than simple murder and mayhem. But before he can sort it out, he needs to save his client Leela. How long can she survive on a planet where not to kill is an offence punishable by death? No library descriptions found. |
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