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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780563538578 ISBN: 0563538570 Label: BBC Books Manufacturer: BBC Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: October 28, 2003 Publisher: BBC Books Studio: BBC Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Doctor's second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A rose, by any other name, would still be a great authorLloyd Rose's debut Doctor Who novel, City of the Dead, was a magical adventure with such lyrical prose as had not been seen in a Doctor Who book for a long time. The question would be whether or not she could follow up such a stunning debut novel and avoid the dreaded sophomore jinx. I'm pleased to say that she does an excellent job. Not only is Camera Obscura just as good, but it's good in a much different way. Gone is the mysticism that City of the Dead had in spades. Gone is the magical reality. ... Read More Rating: - 8 out of 8 for OctaveUnbelievable! A good 8th Doctor book. Even more unbelievable, after literally years of bland, boring and/or just plain bad BBC books, two excellent books (Camera Obscura & Suns Of Caresh) come along in the same month. Camera Obscura has a plot. Well written, interesting characters that have a purpose - they drive the plot, they don't just go with the flow, wherever the plot may take them. A great setting. Doctor Who always seems to fit so well into Victorian London. In this case Lloyd handles ... Read More Rating:  - What a ride...CAMERA OBSCURA is a very good novel. It's not as good as Lloyd Rose's previous offering, CITY OF THE DEAD, as it lacks that story's rich attention to detail. On the other hand, while it may be lacking overall in comparison, it has some brilliant individual sequences that surpass the first book, and rival anything seen so far in Doctor Who book fiction. It has a few problems, but what the book does well more than outweighs the novel's few missteps. I found many passages in CAMERA OBSCURA to ... Read More 
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