Tara Samms
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Project X Alien Adventures: Brown and Grey Book Bands, Oxford Levels 9-14: PROJ X:ALIEN:PK2 25XPB WALLET (2016) 28 exemplaires
Astrosaurs - 10 Book Set - RRP £49.90: Star Pirates, Planet of Peril, Hatching Horror, Mind-swap Menace, Space… (2005) 7 exemplaires
Project X Alien Adventures: Brown Book Band, Oxford Level 10: The Giants of Ariddas (2014) 5 exemplaires
Astrossauros. Fantasmas do Espaço 3 exemplaires
Hero Academy: The Pea-Souper 3 exemplaires
Many Happy Returns 3 exemplaires
Finding Phil 2 exemplaires
Young Bond 2 exemplaires
Astrossauros. Medo no Céu 1 exemplaire
135. Astrossauros - O planeta perigoso 1 exemplaire
O Dia dos Dinodróides 1 exemplaire
Astrossauros - Os Piratas das Estrelas 1 exemplaire
Astrossauros - O Planeta Perigoso 1 exemplaire
Project X Alien Adventures: Grey Book Band, Oxford Level 13: The Rust Monster by Steve Cole (2014-01-09) 1 exemplaire
Project X Alien Adventures: Brown Book Band, Oxford Level 10: The Giants of Ariddas: Written by Steve Cole, 2014… 1 exemplaire
O Mistério dos Raptors 1 exemplaire
Twit The Owl Who wasn't Wise 1 exemplaire
Spezial-Agent Mumie - Mit harten Bandagen 1 exemplaire
The feast of the drowned: part two 1 exemplaire
Astrosaurs: Teggs' Triple-saurus 1 exemplaire
Project X Alien Adventures: Brown Book Band, Oxford Level 11: The Image Maker by Steve Cole (9-Jan-2014) Paperback (1600) 1 exemplaire
The feast of the drowned: part one 1 exemplaire
Blakes 7 Origins (Project Avalon / Breakdown) 1 exemplaire
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- Cole, Steve
Cole, Stephen
Samms, Tara - Date de naissance
- 1971
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- male
- Nationalité
- UK
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- #2,674
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- 3.5
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- 628
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The book also suffers from a lack of variety due to its single author. Now, the previous two Doctor Who Christmas books were also the work of a single author... but it should come as no surprise that Steve Cole is not Dave Rudden. Most of these are generic Doctor Who adventures compressed into thirty pages, with little of the tone, style, or theme to make them into any kind of meaningful Christmas story; usually, Christmas feels tacked on. Or, if not tacked on, forced. There's one set in a toy factory, so sure, that's Christmassy... but then it's not really about Christmas presents in any kind of meaningful way, and it turns out to be what every Doctor Who fan wanted for Christmas, a sequel to The Android Invasion!
Well, maybe not.
There were just two stories that worked for me. The first was "The Eternal Present," which didn't really have anything to do with Christmas, but was a well-told character-focused story about an Englishman before World War II who goes on an expedition into the South American jungle with the Doctor and Rose and ends up discovering something amazing and dangerous. (It is, for some reason, a tie-in to Black Orchid, but you can ignore that.) Good sense of voice and some creepy scenes. The best story in the book is "Saviours," about a human space colony where vampires crash on Christmas day. This is the one story that captures something of what I think of as the Christmas vibe, the feeling of holding back the darkness with our love for one another. It's also creepy and well told, alternating between a child protagonist and a mysterious narrator. If they'd all been this good it would have been an excellent collection but alas.… (plus d'informations)