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Doctor Who: Kingdom of Silver
KINGDOM OF SILVER (A Three-Part Story)
The Doctor arrives on Tasak in search of refreshment, armed with nothing more than a kettle. But this is a time of crisis for a civilisation about to enter an industrial age.
Mindful that a devastating war is only recently over, the wise and revered Magus Riga will do almost anything to save his people from the follies of the past. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And the planet Tasak is host to ancient powers buried deep and long forgotten. Can visitors from another world avert disaster or will their intervention drag this innocent world into the Orion War?
KEEPSAKE (A One-Part Story)
Sifting through the technological junk of Reclaim Platform Juliet-November-Kilo, the Doctor discovers evidence of a personal tragedy involving some friends of his. Where will the story of their fate lead?
The Doctor arrives on Tasak in search of refreshment, armed with nothing more than a kettle. But this is a time of crisis for a civilisation about to enter an industrial age.
Mindful that a devastating war is only recently over, the wise and revered Magus Riga will do almost anything to save his people from the follies of the past. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And the planet Tasak is host to ancient powers buried deep and long forgotten. Can visitors from another world avert disaster or will their intervention drag this innocent world into the Orion War?
KEEPSAKE (A One-Part Story)
Sifting through the technological junk of Reclaim Platform Juliet-November-Kilo, the Doctor discovers evidence of a personal tragedy involving some friends of his. Where will the story of their fate lead?
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First published September 15, 2008
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James Swallow
274 books987 followersJames Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author and scriptwriter, a BAFTA nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over sixty books, along with scripts for video games, comics, radio and television.
DARK HORIZON, his new stand-alone thriller, is out now from Welbeck; OUTLAW, the 6th Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier, and the 4th book in the series - SHADOW - is available in the USA from Forge.
His writing includes the Marc Dane action thrillers, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Marvel, Tom Clancy, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, 24, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more.
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DARK HORIZON, his new stand-alone thriller, is out now from Welbeck; OUTLAW, the 6th Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier, and the 4th book in the series - SHADOW - is available in the USA from Forge.
His writing includes the Marc Dane action thrillers, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Marvel, Tom Clancy, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, 24, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more.
For information on new releases & more, sign up to the Readers’ Club here: www.bit.ly/JamesSwallow
Visit James's website at http://www.jswallow.com/ for more, including ROUGH AIR, a free eBook novella in the Marc Dane series.
You can also follow James on Twitter at @jmswallow, Bluesky at @jmswallow.bsky.social, Mastodon at @jmswallow@mstdn.social and jmswallow.tumblr.com at Tumblr.
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February 27, 2013
3.5 stars
Kingdom of Silver is a 3-parter; a straightforward Cybermen story wherein our silver pals are lying dormant on an unsuspecting planet. I'd rate it at 3 stars, but awarded the extra half-star for the second story, Keepsake, which is linked to Kingdom through two of its characters.
Not the best that BF has to offer, but not bad.
Kingdom of Silver is a 3-parter; a straightforward Cybermen story wherein our silver pals are lying dormant on an unsuspecting planet. I'd rate it at 3 stars, but awarded the extra half-star for the second story, Keepsake, which is linked to Kingdom through two of its characters.
Not the best that BF has to offer, but not bad.
November 15, 2019
I'll go ahead and give this one 3.5 stars, more for the last little one-part epilogue story than anything else. I enjoyed this well-enough, though I'm still a little iffy about these Seventh-Doctor-On-His-Own things. But this one was a bit better than the last Seventh Doctor audio I listened to, so I'll give it credit there. The epilogue - which from the behind-the-scenes interviews I gathered is actually called "Keepsake" - was a bittersweet cap to the story of the two androids in "Kingdom of Silver." I liked those two quite a bit.
A decent outing for Seven. Not amazing, but not horrible either. A good little audio story to listen to while doing some of my more mindless tasks at work.
A decent outing for Seven. Not amazing, but not horrible either. A good little audio story to listen to while doing some of my more mindless tasks at work.
June 29, 2017
A refreshing change for the 7th Doctor line, which has become rather gloomy of late. Here, we have a rather more straightforward story that combines elements of steampunk with Bond-style action (there's even a hidden base inside a volcano) and, of course, cybermen.
The story is set, from a historical perspective, somewhere between the 8th Doc audio Sword of Orion and the Cyberman mini-series, but works perfectly well on its own - it honestly doesn't matter which order you listen to them in. It is, perhaps, not a great story, riffing off Tomb of the Cybermen more than a little, but it's rather more entertaining than one might expect, and likely benefits from having only three parts.
Unfortunately, and in a reversal of the usual pattern, the single episode addendum at the end is rather less good than the main feature. Apart from including a rather irritating guest character, its primary purpose seems to be to turn the upbeat ending of the main story to ashes.
It's almost enough to drag the final rating down to three stars, but I'm feeling generous.
The story is set, from a historical perspective, somewhere between the 8th Doc audio Sword of Orion and the Cyberman mini-series, but works perfectly well on its own - it honestly doesn't matter which order you listen to them in. It is, perhaps, not a great story, riffing off Tomb of the Cybermen more than a little, but it's rather more entertaining than one might expect, and likely benefits from having only three parts.
Unfortunately, and in a reversal of the usual pattern, the single episode addendum at the end is rather less good than the main feature. Apart from including a rather irritating guest character, its primary purpose seems to be to turn the upbeat ending of the main story to ashes.
It's almost enough to drag the final rating down to three stars, but I'm feeling generous.
January 5, 2023
Now this was a release I had never finished, yes I finished Kingdom of Silver which was a poor story that put me from listening to Keepsake but I'm glad I returned to it, for it was a tragic story about two androids who have fallen in love to be torn away from each other which I thought was beautifully sad.
Kingdom of Silver: 2/10
Keepsake: 9/10
Kingdom of Silver: 2/10
Keepsake: 9/10
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April 8, 2009Both Kingdom of Silver and Keepsake seemed to me unusually dull even for Seven/Cyberman stories. Apparently they fit into the continuity of BF's sequence of Cyberman plays; I might give them another try in that context.
January 21, 2016
The Doctor lands on a planet that is studying its history which seems to parallel the Cybermen. Or is it a planet the Cybermen tried to conquer is the question when some have been thawed. Can the Doctor save people from being converted?
September 23, 2008
A solid little Cyberman story - not a must-have, but worthwhile. As is often the case, I was more intrigued by the one-part story "Keepsake" than in the main three-parter.
August 30, 2014
The planet Tasak is about to enter its industrial age. But it arrives as the result of a terrible secret from its past.
October 20, 2015
A fun and somewhat provocative Cybermen-and-Seven story. Nice contrast provided by a pair of android lovers. Not lovers of androids, but androids who are lovers, heh.
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