Well, yeah, there was Time Lady Ace in Death Comes to Time (and, allegedly, Season 27 if it had ever been made); no-longer-alive Ace in the comics (which was a bit rough, I think); Motorcycle Ace was tough-and-gritty Ace a few more novels down the line, when they decided to redeem her a bit and cut her loose; that was around the time that Seven picked up two more new companions called Roz and Chris, who were futuristic police officers belonging to whatever futuristic police force the Master is pretending to belong to in that Three story where he wears the shiny uniform. I didn't read as many of the later NAs, though, so I never really had a strong opinion on those two one way or the other.
I think the online version of the Dying Days is a bit different from my old battered paperback copy, but still well worth a read; the Brig out of retirement yet again, Ice Warriors taking over Britain (they make it clear to the rest of the world that they only want Britain, and the rest of the world decides to let them keep it!), Eight being quietly awesome (the bit with the homemade hot air balloon/parachute thingy is just great; really). And Benny's great in it too; I think you may have a point there with regard to River, actually.
I will say one thing; the plot is suspiciously similar to Aliens of London/World War Three, but with Ice Warriors. Possibly the single greatest thing I've ever read in Who fiction, though, is the bit where the Ice Lord is being crowned King of Britain and isn't too enthusiastic about the oath he has to swear ("Who isss thisss Jesssusss Chrissst?? I challenge him to sssingle combat!" etc.) Either that or the bit where Eight's saying to Benny something like "Well, the Martian spaceship's been hovering over London for twenty minutes now and hasn't blown anything up; must be a good sign," and she replies with something like; "those big Martian cannon take twenty-five minutes to charge up."
Yes, some of the Eight novels are a little bit weird; Iris Wildthyme shows up in a couple of them, and then there's Larry Miles's Time-War-before-there-was-a-Time-War arc which they brushed under the carpet about halfway through the range.
There's one book which I can't remember whether it was one of the MAs or the PDAs, because I read it but never owned it; called "Rags"; it's basically an attempt to do something dark and horrible and character-torturing with Three and the UNIT family, who aren't really the obvious choices for such a treatment, if you ask me. As a Three fan, I don't know what you'd think of it, but if you ever get the chance to read it...
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I think the online version of the Dying Days is a bit different from my old battered paperback copy, but still well worth a read; the Brig out of retirement yet again, Ice Warriors taking over Britain (they make it clear to the rest of the world that they only want Britain, and the rest of the world decides to let them keep it!), Eight being quietly awesome (the bit with the homemade hot air balloon/parachute thingy is just great; really). And Benny's great in it too; I think you may have a point there with regard to River, actually.
I will say one thing; the plot is suspiciously similar to Aliens of London/World War Three, but with Ice Warriors. Possibly the single greatest thing I've ever read in Who fiction, though, is the bit where the Ice Lord is being crowned King of Britain and isn't too enthusiastic about the oath he has to swear ("Who isss thisss Jesssusss Chrissst?? I challenge him to sssingle combat!" etc.) Either that or the bit where Eight's saying to Benny something like "Well, the Martian spaceship's been hovering over London for twenty minutes now and hasn't blown anything up; must be a good sign," and she replies with something like; "those big Martian cannon take twenty-five minutes to charge up."
Yes, some of the Eight novels are a little bit weird; Iris Wildthyme shows up in a couple of them, and then there's Larry Miles's Time-War-before-there-was-a-Time-War arc which they brushed under the carpet about halfway through the range.
There's one book which I can't remember whether it was one of the MAs or the PDAs, because I read it but never owned it; called "Rags"; it's basically an attempt to do something dark and horrible and character-torturing with Three and the UNIT family, who aren't really the obvious choices for such a treatment, if you ask me. As a Three fan, I don't know what you'd think of it, but if you ever get the chance to read it...