Jon

it's a right mixture of stories, some excellent some not as good, but perhaps this is influenced by who(!) tour favourite who is! Worth reading if you're a who fan though.

Enjoyable, clever and good fun, but it's best to have read other books in the series recently as you tend to forget bits and pieces, or alternatively have a beer memory than me!

Interesting, with some really good bits, but a lot of waffle too - I got quite confused at times with all the names of people being dropped about, often with little relevance to the story. Maybe I'm just getting a bad memory so found it too confusing , but I was pleased when I finished the book and found it quite a chore to read.

wow! The first story in this book was written by Terry when he was at school and is better than some books I've read by adults! I liked these stories, some were excellent, some added to the Disc world story and others weren't as food, but a good mix and what a talented man.

Not the best from Arthur C Clarke by a long way! I'd almost say it was a Mills and Boon ZF novel. I felt the behaviour of governments and to a lesser extent the characters were unrealistic and unbelievable. I enjoyed the first half but found the last half didn't have an exciting, or even interesting climax.

Very interesting plot, shallow characters and also stereotyped too, but overall quite enjoyable, if somewhat unbelievable in places (and I don't mean the miracles, I mean the world and character reactions to situations)

A very interesting book, I'm not sure it's a classic but I enjoyed watching our hero change throughout his adventures. I think it was a bit formulaic at times and the characters were from a 1950's Doris Day school of conversation but that made it easier to see the change in their values and worked quite well.

Excellent, based in historical fact with plausible and fallible lead characters instead if the James bond heroes these type of books usually have I found it gripping and thoroughly enjoyable.

Great doctor who adventure. I couldn't really picture the doctor as Paul Magann but oddly despite it being written in 1999 it perfectly fitted Matt Smith! Really enjoyed it.

Good book, but dated.

Great start, really good sense of humour and sounds a real adventure but became a bit “and then we did...” towards the USA section.

Some interesting thought experiments but quite a lot of bizarre ones too. If it had been 20 experiments it would have been excellent!

Great plot with so many twists and turns but a bit confusing when listened to as an audio book. Perhaps it's because in a real book you can reread things easily whereas in an audio book you can't. Would make an excellent film or series.

Formulaic, clich??d stereotyped characters and pretty implausible in places. Not one of my favourite Dobbs books.

A good Morse book (we listened to the audio book read by Lewis which was really good, his impersonations of Morse were quite believable) quite sad too.

I've read some great reviews of this book so I'm assuming I'm just not intelligent enough to have enjoyed this. It's slow, full of techno babble and often a bit confusing. It's hard work early on and then suddenly gets you interested before losing it again for a while. I enjoyed the ideas and liked the characters but wouldn't recommend this I'm afraid. The most disappointing bit (for me) was the ending which seemed to fizzle out almost as if the author couldn't be bothered to keep going (I know how he felt!)

Very good, though are there really that many completely nutty gun owners in the US, and is so that's worrying!

Can't wait for the science to catch up with the fiction!

Interesting and quite good prequel to the first New Star Trek film. Bit short though.

This is a supposed to be a Sci Fi masterpiece but I'm afraid though I enjoyed the basic premise the story telling left me often a bit confused and the characters we're, with the exception of Mike, just cardboardy.

What also felt wrong was that Whilst humanity has developed scientifically it had stayed routed in a fantasy male world full of women who's only desire was to please men. No effort had been put in to see how humanity had grown through the years.

This almost struck me a Sci Fi from Playboy magazine in 1960!

The book is now very dated and I can't say I thought it was worth reading even allowing for it being written in 1961.

I reread War of the World's a couple of years ago and really enjoyed that. Perhaps the difference was HG Wells setting the plot in the past which is fixed rather than a future we now live in and don't recognise.

It doesn't make you like politicians, religious people, corporations nor Americans. It could almost be used as a motivational book for terrorists as by the end you pretty much hate politicians and Americans and in particular American Poljticians! Funny in a black humour way and a bit worrying too.

Another fun adventure, you have to be on the ball to keep tabs on all the characters. Great writing style and really enjoyable.

Well written and good fun. Highly recommended especially to Robert Ranking and Jasper fforde fans.

Loved it! Great style of writing but a bit confusing occasionally. Straight on to the next in the series!

Great twists and turns but a touch too scooby doo at the conclusion, definitely read another of his books though.

Excellent Sci Fi tale weaving modern day, ww2 and Greek myths together seamlessly. One if the most believable WW2 stories I've read. Brilliant stuff, very enjoyable too.