Kaoru's Reviews > Doctor Who: Parasite

Where did he go, this Jim Mortimore, I wonder? After he wrote the last truly great Big Finish audio "The Natural History of Fear" he just... vanished. (The same could be said about many other great Doctor Who writers from that period. Seriously, [i]where are they?[/i])

Anyway, this is one of his earlier efforts... and the first one in which he went all weird and mind-boggling. And yeah, this is a good thing - at least with Mortimore. "Parasite" surely wasn't the first "weird" book in the New Adventures, but most of them overreached themselves and were, frankly, rather stilted bores. "Time's Crucible", anyone? This one however feels strangely [i]adequate[/i] and [i]not really[/i] pretentious. Perhaps because the story and its scenes are so far out there that you have no other choice but to take it all in, no matter baffling everything is. A planet hatching out of an egg... or something? Huh? A monkey diving into a sea of intestines? What? And this is just the tip of the iceberg. And most certainly not everybody's cup of tea, hence the rather diversive ratings here. Nevertheless, for me it was a rather welcome diversion from the norm. Even though I can't say that I always understood it, hah.