Doctor Who: Interference - Book Two

Eighth Doctor Adventures #26

by Lawrence Miles

They call it the Dead Frontier. It's as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.

But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown. The past is meeting the present, cause is meeting effect, and the TARDIS crew is about to be caught in the crossfire.

The Third Doctor. The Eighth Doctor. Sam. Fitz. Sarah Jane Smith. Soon, one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one of them will be something less than human...

Genres: Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Novels, Fantasy, Ebooks, Time Travel

314 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 2, 1999

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interference really benefits from reading both volumes back to back, this epic adventure has so many bold and fascinating ideas that at timed even the two novels doesn’t seem enough.

This story is aimed at those who have read all the previous entries in the series, whilst an extensive knowledge of Classic Who helps make this more of a rewarding read.
It’s also reignited my aim to finally complete the series.

Most of the EDAs I’d previously read in the 2000’s are directly after these volumes, so I had some idea on how this story would pan out.
This felt like a massive part of that jigsaw has now been put place and I liked the various foreshadowing to big event at the end of this book casually mentioned throughout the story (once you know it, it’s so easy to spot!).

I’m sure that I’ve read at least the next 20 books in the series before.
So now that I’m up to speed on the overall arc, it’s going to be interesting to see how much I enjoy that series with that added bit of nostalgia.

[Gareth · Rating 3 out of 5]

The best bits of this two-part novel have been saved for last, with Sam’s journey coming to an end, Fitz’s story looping back through the first book in interesting ways and the Doctor — mostly via Third Doctor flashbacks — changing in seismic ways that set up future books.

Lawrence Miles continues to ask interesting questions about his characters and setups, but all that said, Interference is stronger as an exercise or a statement than as a novel, with its focus on what the book range *could do* rather than on telling a completely satisfying story right now. The Third Doctor stuff is quite cool and exciting but it takes the heat off of the Sam and Fitz stuff; an experiment that creates pacing issues. It’s a recommendable endeavour on the whole, but perhaps more for a reader working their way through the entire book line than someone who just fancies a good book.

3.5

[Macey · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Lot happens in interference but you know when youre reading a slightly older book & they say something about The Modern World and then it rings true like 20 years later. well. yeah. 'we arent directly controlled by the media per se, but we still make all our decisions based on what the media tells us' god yeah. i bet the remote loves short form video. gonna miss sam i wont lie 😔 i want to say that idk why all the authors seemed to hate her but its probably just cos she's a teenage girl with opinions & ideas so. not entirely sure what was going on with fitz here just in how he got out of that??? something about the bottle universe?? but wow. fucked up. i also really loved the like. scripted bit of the fake sam & fake doctor inside the media and how they Think sam would act i love it when media deals with the fact that its characters are characters not real people i love when media gets meta with it....... probably well worth a reread at some point to understand it better

[Cara M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Big and clever are how I like my books, particularly ones set in the Doctor Who universe. And this one was so big and so clever.
And a little anarchist too. :D

[Hidekisohma · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, i've finally done it. I finished Sam's run of being with the 8th doctor. and...the culmination of this two parter was...well...uneventful. That's the best way to put it.

The 2nd part of the story is very complicated in Lawrence Miles fashion, so suffice it to say, Wacky complicated shenanigans ensue, the doctor and Sam save the day, and Sam peaces out.

That's the main part of the story. The weird part of this book is that, i was hoping for something but it didn't pan out the way i wanted. i was hoping and expecting that Sam leaving would be a big deal. It was not. I was expecting 3 and 8 to hang out. They did not. This book was a lot of missed opportunity while also being confusing.

The first book was so much build up, when, in essence, it didn't really need it. That's the crux of this two-parter. Did it NEED to be a two parter? The answer is no. No it did not. This story could have easily been told in 1 book with just removing needless stuff like the point of view of this arms dealer named "llewis" and just removing the 3rd doctor's story entirely.

I SEE what the author was trying to do by including the 3rd doctor, but it took up way too much time and only really amounted to one thing they could have easily accomplished in a much smaller time. Now don't get me wrong, i LOVE the third doctor, but he didn't really need to be here for more than a quick cameo.

These 2 books essentially do 3/4 8th doctor story 1/4 3rd doctor. and they really don't intersect. And it's kind of annoying. I was hoping for like a 5 doctors or a "twice upon a time" where they hang out, but no, they hardly even interact. I almost feel like it was a marketing ploy for this. Get your hopes up and then be like "lol just kidding. no. you get no fun crossover." I know it didn't promise it persay, but your imagination and hope runs away with you.

I raced through this book as i excited to see what happened. Sadly, my excitement did not pay off. It was....fine? but it's sad the majority of the book is Sarah Jane and Sam while Fitz is stuck in goofy land and 8 doesn't really start doing anything until about 1/3 of the way through the 2nd book.

I AM excited to see what they do with Compassion, and the next book is written by Paul Magrs who i like, so we'll see how that goes. As for this one, I KNOW they're setting something up for "Ancestor Cell" With this book, but for now, i wasn't very impressed with this one. Not enough payoff for the 450 page buildup it had me read.


All in all, 2.5 out of 5. But...how to round it? i REALLY want to give it a 2.5...but.......since i can't...... just from the disappointment i can't in good conscience give it a 3. sorry. rounded down to a 2 out of 5.

[Natalie · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is zero reason why this narrative needed two full books. As it stands, there are two completely separate stories that could have been their own entries, and no need to intertwine them in the complicated fashion that Miles deemed was necessary. Both covers sell the story, incorrectly, as a crossover between Doctors 3 and 8, which completely not the case. Their paths never cross except once in the previous book, and even then it was just a fever dream. The way this story drags out is almost criminal. There are a few interesting revelations, but certainly not worth the slog that Miles dragged us through to get there. There's a whole chapter that's an interview about an arms deal that lends no bearing to the novel. Sequences are expanded upon that could have been summed up in sentences.
This bloated story had some good ideas, certainly. I enjoyed the resurgence of the Faction Paradox, and the idea of the Remote people being constantly plugged into the media and using that for guidance. The population of Anathema and its ultimate location was a good addition too. The last 40 or so pages back on Dust with I.M. Foreman was the best part- had it been an entire book about that I would have rated this title four stars.
Interference could have stood another thorough editing, and ultimate separation of the two stories into separate entries into the EDA. As it is, I can't in good conscience rate it higher than a 2, for its meandering, soul-sucking toll it took on the last week of my life.

[Evie · Rating 3 out of 5]

‘I.M. Foreman sighed at him. “You really are a complete mess, aren’t you?” she said.
“Increasingly,” said the Doctor.’

I feel like this one exchange sort of sums up the whole book really.

Mixed feelings on this one to be honest. But I can’t deny its ambition and scope.

[K · Rating 5 out of 5]

非常にややこしかったがとても面白かった。

I.M.フォアマンの正体は太古の昔のギャリフレイ人。タイムロードではなく”神官（モンク）”、当時は神官もタイムロードと同じくタイムトラべルの技術・知識に精通していた。タイムロードにはギャリフレイ人の中でもラシロンが発明したDNAを持った少数のエリートのみがなれる。

フォアマンもタイムロードと同じく13回リジェネレーションするがリジェネレーションするたびにヒューマノイドから遠ざかっていく。タイムロードは食したもののDNAをとりこむが、そこから大きな影響をうけない防御機能ももっている。しかし、フォアマンはその機能を持たず、取り込んだDNA全ての影響をうけ、最終形態で宇宙すべてのDNAを取り込んだ生態となる定めとあった。太古の昔、フォアマンはギャリフレイで全ての自分のリジェネレーション形態と遭遇し、その日より、ギャリフレイからできるだけ遠ざかる旅をスタートさせる。その旅で行う"ショー”が宇宙に小さな影響を及ぼしはじめ、ドクターがターディスを盗んでギャリフレイを飛び出したのも、無意識にその影響をうけていたため。

ギャリフレイはほぼ宇宙の中心に近いところにあり、そこから離れ、この宇宙の外を目指した結果、フォアマンは遠い未来、塵しかそんざいしなくなった地球にたどり着く。フォアマンは移動に、ターディスをつかっている。ただし、このターディスは箱の中に入っていない状態。

ファクション・パラドックスはギャリフレイァンがDNAをとりこむ性質があること、フォアマンの最終形態と運命を先につきとめており、フォアマンが惑星の生命力そのものとなったとき、ファクション・パラドックスのDNAを滑り込ませようとする。しかし、そのDNAを放った瞬間、3thドクターがタイムトラベラー全てを嫌悪したマグナルダに殺され、リジェネレーション周期にはいっており、ファクション・パラドックスのDNAはドクターに組み込まれてしまう。タイムロードの防御機能凌駕し、ファクション・パラドックスの影響がドクターにで始めるのはまだ何リジェネレーション先。おそらく８thドクターで出てくるはず。兆候としてまず影を失うだろうと、ファクション・パラドックスは予見。

ファクション・パラドックスのファーザーはフィズ。2000年生き続けることに。ファクション・パラドックスの手先となったリモートのうちコードはリモートのメディアの補完するためのメモリーが生み出したコピー。
ドクターはフィズがどうなったか、コード見た瞬間に理解していた。

3thドクターの死は、本来起こるはずでないところでおこっているのでファクション・パラドックスの影響がすでに宇宙におよびはじめている。


ファクション・パラドックスの影響が及んだ宇宙の話なので、本来あってはならないストーリーということになる。タイムロードの暗黒史。ドクターですら知らなかった、虐殺や奴隷などの事実が語られる。時系列を守るためなら、それに害をなす種族を根本から消滅させることも辞さないタイムロード。宇宙の事象に関して干渉してはならないというルールはこのあたりの反省から出ている面もあるようだ。しかし、ドクターはギャリフレィを飛び出し、そしてフォアマンのように、ドクターの存在自体が宇宙の時系列に影響を与えることになっていることが明かされる。

8thドクターの体にはファクション・パラドックスの影響がやはり出始めており、ドクターも異変に気がつきある。そこで今回のストーリーは終わるが。

先にこのあとの話を読んでいたので、ようやく何故ドクターがファクション・パラドックスのDNAに感染したのか判明。戦争に巻き込まれないために武装するタイムロードの暴走をとめるためギャリフレイを滅ぼすことになるドクター。うーーん。つらいなぁ。

[Leo H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stunning. I was very nearly late to lectures because of sitting in bed reading the end of this one morning. It is (of course) a two-part book, so by it's nature this one 'feels' better simply because narrative threads are tied up and a number of excellent twists are revealed here, whereas Book One merely sets things up, so to speak.
The one problem I had was: The two books are structured in four sections; What Happened on Earth Part 1 and What Happened on Dust (a desert-y planet) Part 1 in Book One, and What Happened on Earth Part 2 and What Happened on Dust Part2 in Book Two. The Earth sections make up the majority of the text, but I found the sections on Dust immesurably better. The Earth sections are a little preachy, and take an awfully long time to really get anywhere, whereas the sections on Dust are punchy and full of fascinating ideas. Also, neither book made any real reference to 'The War', a concept Miles had established in his previous book, Alien Bodies, which I was a little disappointed by.
On the whole, definitely worth reading. Miles is a wonderful writer, incredibly witty, and has more brilliant ideas than most Who writers put together. It is a constant source of annoyance to me that he has been ostracized by the Dr Who 'community' simply for telling it like it is, and is therefore unofficially banned from writing any more Who books. See sense, Steven Moffat! Give him another chance!

[Justin Rees · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just like the first part of this story, this sequel is both brilliant, and absolutely bonkers. An excellent end to the two volume storyline, I enjoyed my ride the whole way through. Finding out the about the mysterious I.M Forman was groundbreaking as a Doctor Who fan, and those who are yet to read are in for a treat. Definitely read this series if you love paradoxical, throw back to classic, craziness Dr Who (and really, who of us fans doesn't?)

[Rae Wallace · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek is the twenty-sixth instalment of the Eighth Doctor Adventures and concludes Interference. The Eighth Doctor is still being tortured to death in a Saudi prison while Sam tries to stop the Remote and Sarah attempts to rescue him. Meanwhile, the Third Doctor has found himself in an adventure not his own.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
The Eighth Doctor is sidelined at first due to his incarceration, as in Book One , though this shifts after his rescue. His admission that he is not apolitical is symbolised through a temporary change in dress. Though his stance later returns to normal, the experience appears to broaden his perspective. His romantic inclination is explored in a conversation with I.M. Foreman, where he claims he avoids attachment because he is too complicated—even for another Gallifreyan. Their implied intimacy raises uncomfortable questions of consent, given Foreman inhabits Magdalena’s body.

A possible inconsistency in the Eighth Doctor’s portrayal: he claims his imprisonment affects him more deeply than Ha’olam in Seeing I, yet the aftermath appears less severe. After Ha’olam, he required emotional support and suffered claustrophobia; here he seems to need little beyond rest.

Sam becomes central to the Remote’s understanding of sacrifice by entering their media. Her morality is now more nuanced than when she first joined the Doctor, and she ultimately succeeds where he fails—saving both herself and Earth through her grasp of the Remote’s communication.

Fitz’s arc is tragic and complex. Through the interspersed ‘Travels with Fitz’ chapters, we witness his gradual erosion of identity and descent towards suicidal ideation, believing his death will preserve his identity. He is remembered as Kode, retaining his personality without his memory. Later it is revealed he joined Faction Paradox to escape Anathema—becoming Father Kreiner—leaving a copy of himself among the Remote. Ironically, Father Kreiner, leading a different Remote group at Anathema II, is unrecognisable in form or temperament.

I.M. Foreman evolves from a Doctor-like figure into an idea: each incarnation absorbs consumed DNA, becoming progressively less humanoid. By Number Thirteen, Foreman is pure energy, ultimately becoming Dust’s biosphere—a stark metaphor for becoming what one consumes.

Sarah Jane Smith feels slightly more mature on Earth, but on Dust she seems oddly helpless, partly due to Father Kreiner’s perspective. Though one repeated line, not filtered through Kreiner’s perspective—‘It looks like a TARDIS’—initially conveys disorientation but eventually strains credibility.

The Third Doctor is well captured in voice and manner, though described inaccurately as ‘lanky’. His unusual passivity—allowing Foreman to lead—fits the premise that this is not truly his story.

WORLD-BUILDING
As in Book One, settings function symbolically. The TV-script worlds used to teach the Remote about sacrifice are overtly allegorical, examining how society assigns arbitrary value—why millions dying may provoke less response than a single baby or puppy.

There are also subtle links to wider continuity, such as the anonymous UN special scientific advisor in Sarah’s documentary, strongly implied to be Iris Wildthyme.

THEMES
Sacrifice is explored through TV-scripted mini-adventures forcing Sam or the Eighth Doctor to choose between lives. Some choices are tragic but understandable; others—such as killing a baby—are deliberately abhorrent. The reader, like the Remote, is asked what morality truly demands. Compassion’s perilous position at the edge of a death-drop mirrors this ethical vertigo.
Politics underpins Interference. Society is described as driven by

‘two systems of thought, the politics and the transmissions, […] causing a kind of schizophrenia.’

—an uncomfortable metaphor that risks misunderstanding, though effective if read strictly as a ‘split mind’.

Identity and consumption intertwine throughout: Foreman’s evolution, the Remote’s signal-absorption, and Fitz’s fragmentation all suggest we inevitably become what we consume. Reconstruction of identity—Foreman’s experimentation, and Guest’s manipulation of the Remote—proves morally ambiguous. Kode’s re-remembering is especially troubling, raising ethical questions even with consent.

Unreliable narration and artificiality through metafiction reinforce the instability of meaning and perception.

PLOT
For an Eighth Doctor novel, the Eighth Doctor remains curiously peripheral. Once freed, he swiftly resolves several lingering threads, demonstrating the necessity of his earlier absence. However, there’s a physical inconsistency: he was previously unable to stand after shock-baton torture, but his escape occurs during a similar beating, and he’s able to stand and reach the TARDIS. This leaves him with few lasting consequences beyond a broken arm.

The resolution hinges less on the Doctor saving the day and more on others unknowingly compensating for his earlier actions. Leaving Fitz in Geneva ultimately leads to his transformations into Kode and Father Kreiner; the Remote’s access to the TARDIS stems from the Doctor’s own involvement. Sam’s intervention ultimately prevents catastrophe.

On Dust, the Third Doctor follows Foreman’s lead and his misplaced regeneration—effectively foreshadowed—results from the Eighth Doctor crossing their timelines.

One potential flaw concerns Foreman’s paradoxical timeline: without the Doctor’s involvement on Dust, Foreman’s future seems impossible. Given the novel’s nature, this ambiguity may be intentional and is unlikely to trouble most readers.

WRITING
Lawrence Miles employs metafiction, TV scripts, omniscient commentary, flashbacks, and stream of consciousness alongside limited third-person narration. Reliability is constantly questioned: some exaggerated TV sequences prove truer than seemingly objective passages, particularly those filtered through Father Kreiner’s cynicism.

Most devices are effective, though the Seeing Eye documentary lingers too long over known material.

BRIEF QUOTES
On… what had that planet been called? Ha’olam. On Ha’olam, the implant had predicted that he’d go mad, eventually. He’d heard it whispering to him in the night, telling him that if he didn’t find a way out — and there was no way out — he’d end up losing control. But he’d been in that prison for three years, and he’d kept hold of his sanity right up until the very last day. Sort of.

[…] Three days here in the cell. Three days, and he’d already fallen further than he had on Ha’olam. This, he reminded himself, was the hard edge of history, not part of anybody’s equation. You couldn’t get away from it, not without help from the other world. From the TARDIS world.

Except that the TARDIS world didn’t make sense. That was what Badar had said, and the Doctor had agreed with him, in the end.

So, as the guards began beating him in the chest, the Doctor decided to let it make sense. And he wasn’t surprised, not even a little bit, when he heard the engines straining against the sheer weight of space-time, the TARDIS finding a space for itself in the corner of the cell.

The guards were so busy trying to rupture his lungs, they didn’t even notice it.
—17 Rewired (it’s bigger on the inside. Aren’t we all?), p. 77

It was true. There was no denying it. The Remote weren’t being dehumanised: they were being turned into something beyond human. The ultimate cultural development of mankind, more icon than animal. Everyone knows who Wile E. Coyote is, thought Fitz, but nobody knows who I am. Coyote’s immortal, and I stopped being important over six hundred years ago. So which of us is stronger? The one with the big floppy ears and the unlucky streak, that’s who.
—Travels with Fitz (X) p. 133

If Fitz didn’t die now, he’d end up running to the Mother when she came. He knew it’d happen that way. He had to get away from Anathema, to get away from the transmitter before he lost his identity for ever and became something more than human. If the Faction offered him a way out, then he wouldn’t be able to resist it. However grim that way out might be.

He couldn’t let the Faction give him that choice. He had to end this now. While part of him was still Fitz Kreiner.

He was still looking down, but the ground didn’t feel like a problem any more. The drop was just something that happened to be there. Fitz shuffled forward, and let the toes of his boots hang over the edge of the platform.

This was it. The one sure-fire way for him to stay alive was by dying now. And of course there was no hope of rescue. When the Doctor met that future version of Fitz in the twentieth century, he wouldn’t be able to come back here in the TARDIS to stop him jumping. Because that’d be a paradox, wouldn’t it? If Fitz didn’t jump, the Doctor could never have known he was going to jump, and so on and so on.

I will, in a very real sense, be history.

So. Out of options, and out of time. […]

Fitz stood on the highest level of the tower, gawping down at the floor several hundred feet below. The media was still throbbing away above his head, and the ant-people were still mumbling to themselves as they wandered in and out of the dome buildings.

He couldn’t really do this.

Could he?

Could he?
—Travels with Fitz (XI), pp. 170-171

SUMMARY
A bold, intellectually ambitious conclusion, Interference blends philosophical inquiry with narrative experimentation. It is unsettling, innovative, and thematically rich—science fiction that demands engagement rather than passive reading.

SIMILAR BOOKS
For the long-term fallout of Interference, The Ancestor Cell delivers the much-debated climax. Those drawn to philosophical, idea-driven stories will enjoy The City of the Dead , while Beautiful Chaos offers a lighter, memory-bending adventure. Fans of Sam check out Seeing I , and anyone intrigued by identity and its fragmentation will find EarthWorld compelling. For something not part of the canon but darker, emotional, and brutally affecting, A Monster Calls is an unforgettable read.

RATING
Character development: ★★★★
World-building: ★★★★★
Plot: ★★★★½
Writing: ★★★★½
Enjoyment: ★★★★¾

Overall rating: ★★★★½ (4.55/5)

[Daniel Cork · Rating 5 out of 5]

So here we are. It's finally time to conclude Interference and say goodbye to Sam. I loved the first installment of this story and can't wait to see how this two-novel epic concludes. The stakes are high and time is off-balance. Interference is the end of one arc and the start of another.

The Third Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and a traveling show stand up to The Remote on Dust to protect a town of people. The Eighth Doctor is trapped and his mind is slowly collapsing. Sarah Jane Smith and K9 are on the verge of revealing a political conspiracy years in the making. Fitz is slowly becoming something other than human and Sam is on another planet preparing to save the universe one last time. Faction Paradox are about to make their biggest mistake yet, but for them, their mistakes often tend to be happy ones.

Lawrence Miles concludes the Interference storyline with plenty of action, insane imagery, mind-boggling ideas, and controversy. It's a novel willing to rewrite Doctor Who's history and make it part of the ongoing arc in the series. Depending on your perspective it's a risky move that's either very clever or very silly.

The characters are on fire here, the ideas are fully fleshed out and the world-building is terrific. The second installment continues the threads from the previous book and wraps them all up well. Sure one of the decisions in the novel is incredibly controversial, but it contributes something to the ongoing arc and has consequences. It's not as political as the previous novel since this installment is more of a sci-fi epic than the previous installment. Yet it still manages to carry out what the last novel set out to do and Lawrence does a brilliant job bringing it all together.

Overall: It's hard to say much about this novel since what I said about the previous book can also be said about this one. Interference is an underrated if not controversial masterpiece that has me in awe. Only Lawrence Miles would have the balls and audacity to pull off something this insane and creative. 10/10

[Michel Siskoid Albert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everything I said about the first book of Lawrence Miles's Interference is also true of Book Two, but let's not leave it at just that. First, the Remote storyline has an epic climax which gives Sam - in her last adventure - a great deal to do and contribute. And then there's more than 100 pages left. Ah yes, because Interference interferes with itself with a Third Doctor story that rather boldly short-circuits continuity, and that too has a big, timey-wimey climax. I wasn't sure it was structurally a good idea, but it pays off. Of course, Miles is much more interested in his own ideas than the nominal leads of the series. While the ladies - Sam and Sarah Jane - do well, neither Doctor has much agency, and things are solved by guests like "I.M. Foreman". But those ideas are blazingly good (he makes something of the Ogrons, which in itself, is amazing) so I never felt robbed. It'd be like complaining about "Blink". Speaking of complaints... I remember the author being the biggest grump imaginable re: the new television series, and seeing as it took up many of the ideas he develops or helps develop here (a Time War among them), I wonder if it partly had to do with not being given credit, or seeing his ideas simplified or "ruined". That said, he signs a check we might not be able to cash. This is a multi-author, editor-guided book series and some of the cool stuff he seeds may not be as cool once it blossoms under a different writer's pen. Or so I've heard...

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hmmm. Where to begin. So I M Foreman was basically a Time Lord. Well he had the ability to regenerate so I'll class him as a Time Lord for the purposes of this review. Disappointed that the author decided to rewrite the Third Doctor's regeneration.

[Trin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm TRAUMATIZED?!

More coherent thoughts later, if I become capable of them.

But Fitz Kreiner definitely suffered and died so that Rory Williams could...suffer and die.

[Joe Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bullet fast, hugely ambitious, full of big, weighty ideas and unforgettable character beats.

[emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

The lore started blowing my mind about 2/3rds in. I'm a Faction stan for life (also - you wouldn't do this to anyone who didn't look like Paul McGann!)

[James Lotshaw III · Rating 1 out of 5]

Tuned out early in this book, and just read without following what was going on.

[arden · Rating 4 out of 5]

contains james stewart & a really really good plot twist. good enough 4 me

[Nicholas Whyte]

http://nhw.livejournal.com/1114003.html[return][return]A typically rambling Lawrence Miles story, rambling in this case over two volumes, linking together his Faction Paradox concept with the truth about I.M. Foreman, and bringing in also Sarah Jane Smith as an investigative journalist to supplement EDA regulars Sam and Fitz. There are some passages of vivid writing (the Saudi prison cell, Sam's experiments with LSD) and a fairly spectacular plot resolution, with an intricate narrative structure which I suspect actually does make sense (though I remained a little confused about the various versions of Fitz' story). I think really one for completists only (as with almost the whole Eighth Doctor range), but engaging enough to keep my interest over both volumes.

[Sean Homrig · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Ambitious" is the understatement of the year when describing Lawrence Miles' sweeping epic featuring two Doctors and three companions (four if you include the young Sarah Jane and her older self as separate). It is admittedly disappointing that there is no multiple Doctor interaction, but this is overshadowed the sweeping ideas presented. The subplot featuring the Third Doctor seems (and is) a little bit of an afterthought, but this is forgiven but the abrupt and shocking conclusion. The problem with the story is that its ideas are so ambitious, they're just barely within the imagination of the reader. The Eighth Doctor story also seems a bit padded and seems to just taper out, but for the most part it's a solid read.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

The 2nd part, only read this after reading the 1st part. The Doctor is still a prisoner, Sam is on another planet, and Fitz is on the same planet but hundreds of years in the past. My main problem with this is what did the author have against Fitz, it is truely heartbreaking what he does to him. It's a good story that looks at paradox, you even get a mini adventure with the 3rd Doctor. If you're not prepared to accept that every time the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS the canon changes then you will not like this book. Me, I really liked it, clever and unpredictable plot twists. And lots, and lots of character moments. A really good read.

[Numa Parrott · Rating 3 out of 5]

oooh. This one was scary. I won't spoil anything because it was really awesome and you absolutely must read it for yourself!

Okay, I will mention that the change of endings for the Third Doctor was a very interesting twist, and I'd like to think that it's completely canon.

If you love the Doctor, READ IT.

[Akiva ꙮ · Rating 5 out of 5]

More later. I need someone to discuss this with, because it's way too fucking complicated, in the best possible way. I tried to explain about the Remote to Julia because anarchist politics, and she respectfully (and correctly) refused.

[Drew Perron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book Two continues straighforwardly on from Book One. It has many of the same issues (and a few weird new ones), but resolved things in a way that turned out more interesting and satisfying than expected.

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brought to you by Lawrence Miles...who decided that "Alien Bodies" wasn't scrubbing enough brains clean! Though he seems to be determined to ensure otherwise...

[Peter Camenzind · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Simon Curtis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Singularly bonkers. Must revisit.

[Olivia Fishwick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Building on the narrative, metafiction, theme, and structure established in the first book, the second book of Interference picks up right where Miles left off with flying colors. If you like the first book, you'll like the second--there's not a lot to draw them away from each other. One small complaint I would voice is the ultimate conclusion to I.M. Foreman's character. While narratively effective and enjoyable, the pacing of this ending is a little too quick and might leave something to be desired. Overall this book is extremely thought-provoking and an engaging read for anyone who's a fan of the series.