The Crooked World Explained

The Crooked World
Author:	Steve Lyons
Series:	Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release Number:	57
Subject:	Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Anji
Release Date:	June 2002
Publisher:	BBC Books
Pages:	288
Isbn:	0-563-53856-2
Preceded By:	The Book of the Still
Followed By:	History 101

The Crooked World is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.^[1] It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.

Plot

The Doctor accidentally brings the concept of reality to a world based on cartoon physics.

Continuity

• The concept of a person's belief affecting a creature also featured in Lyons's previous novel Salvation.

Outside references

• All the characters are parodies of popular cartoon characters, though none are mentioned by name.^[1]

Reception

In Interzone, Matt Hills writes, "Lyon's tenth Who novel seems at first as if it is going to be a very long set of tiresome in-jokes and references. But it opens out into a sharply drawn meditation on social justice and individual guilt, as well as dealing with the cultural transmission of ideas."^[2]

External links

• The Cloister Library - The Crooked World

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wolverson. E.G.. The Crooked World. Doctor Who Reviews. 11 November 2014. 5 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121205012154/http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk/EDA57.htm. dead.
2. News: Hills . Matt . 'Neo-Retro' Tales of a Time Lord . 19 January 2023 . . 186 . February 2003 . 57–58.