Books like 'Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Element'
Readers who enjoyed Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Element by Stephen Cole, Colin Baker, Maggie Stables, Lalla Ward & Nicholas Briggs also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Stubborn Lives of Hart Tanner: A Middle Falls Time Travel story by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHart Tanner is a con man. A grifter who enjoys gaming people as much as does whatever ill-gotten gains he might receive.When he dies an embarrassing, pain-riddled death, he is beyond surprised to wake up at an earlier point in his life with all memories still intact... -
Tuned Out by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"One of those books which leaves you feeling bereft when you get to the end. An addictive page-turner laced with hilarity, poignancy and nostalgia." Toby Grant spends his days working for a digital marketing agency and his nights stressing about how unfair life is for his generation... -
Under the Same Sky by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMagnus and Kaitlyn are in two different places, two different times. But she remembers their last conversation — “Where do you know I love you?” “On the air around me, mo reul-iuil. On every breeze is your sigh, under every sky. Tis always the same stars, ye ken. As long as ye are under them then I can hear ye, I love ye, ye say. I can always hear it.” “Good... -
Back To You by Steve Bates
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSearching for history’s greatest pastrami on rye, Chris arrives from 1,000 years in the future and hides his time machine in an alley. But Eddie sees through the disguise, takes an unexpected ride, and demonstrates it to his boss at a failing cable TV network... -
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Return from Kragdon-ah by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlex Hawk has spent six years in Kragdon-ah. He has led armies, won battles, and seen strange and fantastic creatures.He has been continually frustrated in his efforts to return to the twenty-first century and his daughter Amy.Return from Kragdon-ah not only wraps up this epic trilogy with more surprises, twists, and turns, it will reveal whether Alex Hawk will ever make it home... -
Magnus and a Love Beyond Words by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLove conquers all, but can it conquer a storm of this magnitude? "I need ye tae run, Kaitlyn. When I say go, ye run, and daena look back." — Magnus 2019There is a battle against time for the origin story of the vessels. It encompasses past, present, and future. And Magnus and Kaitlyn have loved ones to protect in every time.__________________"I can't leave you. I can't.”"When I say.. -
Jason Apsley's Second Chance by Adrian Cousins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you were catapulted back to 1976, what would you do?Meet Jason Apsley, a forty-two-year-old divorcee, who's an opinionated miserable bugger. Struggling with life which is exacerbated by his negative attitude.A random event shifts time, causing Jason to continue life in 1976, six months before he's due to be born... -
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase by Douglas Adams
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the Earth is unexpectedly demolished, Arthur Dent finds The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy an essential companion... -
The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman: A Time Travel Adventure by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Joseph Bridgeman, a reclusive insomniac with a weakness for ‘The Beatles’ on vinyl and a constant headache. When his annoying accountant suggests hypnotherapy might help him sleep, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time-travel and things get a little complicated... -
Foreign Travels by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArturo Sandus, starship Captain and inadvertent time traveler, is now working on improving the tech level of the Roman Empire, stepping away from civil and military activities. His aim now is to build up the tech level to a point where he can build a spaceship that will hopefully take him home. A development that is still decades away, at least... -
The Travelers: Book 2 by Lee Hunnicutt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book picks up where the last book left off. Jack, Sonny and Beth are transported back to the ancient Indian burial cave in the jungles of the 1970s Panama Canal Zone. After spending time in the Canal Zone, they return to 1875 San Francisco and reunite with Anne... -
Free to Infect, First to Die by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuring a daring raid on a secret Pirate stronghold in the Caribbean, Captain Rob McGregor of the Sea Dancer and his own pirate crew steal the infamous treasure belonging to Captain William Kidd. Rich beyond their wildest dreams, Captain McGregor and his band of pirates set out to sea, their ships' holds full of pirate booty... -
Getting Fired Up by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsArturo Sandus, Federation Space Captain is a long, long way from home, but he is building a new home in Britannia of the early 5th Century. His plan to industrialize a moribund northern part of the dying Roman Empire is progressing but not without issues. His memory and lack of knowledge is proving troublesome... -
Doctor Who: The TARDIS Handbook by Steve Tribe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the Eleventh Doctor and Amy embark on all-new adventures in time and space, The TARDIS Handbook gives you the inside scoop on 900 years of travel aboard the Doctor's famous time machine. Everything you need to know about the TARDIS is here - where it came from, where it's been, how it works, and how it has changed since we first encountered it in a London junkyard in 1963... -
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Eschaton by Andrew Hastie
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTime is running out.The Eschaton crises are converging.Josh may be the only one who can save them, but he's trapped in the future. The third book in the original Infinity Engines series, Eschaton continues this action-packed, dystopian time travel adventure. The Oblivion Order is falling apart, and the timeline is beginning to unravel... -
The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the outside, Rebecca Wright had an enviable life, and she enjoyed that envy. She had a beautiful house, handsome husband, and a no-limit credit card. What she didn't have was empathy. But, it's never too late in Middle Falls. A lesson that isn't learned in one lifetime can be learned in the next, or the next. Rebecca may need every chance she can get... -
Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary by Jason Loborik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJUST WHO IS THE DOCTOR?Now updated with all the latest information on all your Doctor Who favorites!The secrets of this mysterious time traveler lie within the pages of Doctor Who The Visual Dictionary , a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guide to his world... -
The Quotable Doctor Who: Wise Words from Across Space and Time by Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first-ever collection of the most intelligent, strangest, mysterious, and wonderful quotes from all fifty years of the BBC America hit television series Doctor Who.Over the years, Doctor Who has become one of the most popular science fiction series to date, with an ever growing and extremely dedicated fan base... -
The Passage by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the spring of 1685, Lord Hugo Everly, ardent supporter of the Protestant upstart the Duke of Monmouth, vanishes without a trace just before the Monmouth Rebellion, leaving future generations forever baffled as to what might have become of him... -
Sailing East by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFlavius Theodosius Iunior, by the grace of God, Augustus of the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire was having a bad day... -
One Second Per Second by S.D. Unwin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe greatest scientific challenge of our age wasn’t to enable time travel, it was to prevent it. The laws of physics had turned out to be idiotic, erecting no barriers to hopping time. In fact, they make it hard to avoid. I’m in the business of preserving the timeline—making sure the world sticks to the sacred rule of One Second Per Second, and that history unfolds according to plan... -
A Time For Love by Constance O'Day-Flannery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a tornado transports her back in time to 1876 and into the embrace of rugged Texas rancher Jordan McCabe, who mistakes her for his mail-order bride, ambitious businesswoman Elizabeth Mackenzie must make choice--surrender to passion or lose the love of a lifetime. Original... -
The War Doctor: Only the Monstrous by Nicholas Briggs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree new battles for The War Doctor1.1 The InnocentAs the Daleks mass their time fleet for a final assault on Gallifrey, something ancient is waiting for them at Omega One. And a sacrifice must be made.Arch manipulator and Time Lord strategist, Cardinal Ollistra receives shock news of the Doctor’s death... -
Phelix by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFollow the Bradbeer family and their adventures once again in PHELIX, the second offering of The Time Store. RULE NUMBER TWO OF TIME TRAVEL, LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND. London. A borough steeped in history. Home of the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, Old Royal Naval College and the PRIME MERIDIAN. Also home to the Bradbeers, a family of Time Travellers. The year is 1913... -
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I'll Stop the World by Lauren Thoman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe end and the beginning become one in a heart-pounding coming-of-age mystery about the power of friendship, fate, and inexplicable second chances.Is it the right place at the wrong time? Or the wrong place at the right time?Trapped in a dead-end town, Justin Warren has had his life defined by the suspicious deaths of his grandparents... -
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures: 10th Doctor Audio Originals by Peter Anghelides, Catherine Tate
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Tennant, Catherine Tate and Michelle Ryan read this exclusive collection of original audio adventures. Join the Tenth Doctor on these seven adventures in Time and Space, written specially for audio.Pest Control by Peter Anghelides - read by David Tennant?. The Doctor and Donna face monstrous insects and a ruthless robot exterminator.The Forever Trap by Dan Abnett - read by Catherine Tate... -
Doctor Who: Live 34 by James Parsons, Andrew Stirling-Brown
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratings‘You’re listening to LIVE 34.’‘LIVE 34 -- news on the hour, every hour -- LIVE 34 -- broadcasting to Colony 34 all day, every day -- LIVE 34 -- constantly updated every minute of every hour -- LIVE 34 -- sport, weather, business, local news, interplanetary affairs -- LIVE 34 -- live, independent, accurate, comprehensive -- LIVE 34 -- all news, all day, every day -- LIVE 34... -
1636: Mission to the Mughals by Eric Flint, Griffin Barber
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe latest entry in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint. After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia go on a quest for the makings of medicines that have yet to be invented in 17th century Europe... -
Taking Off by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsArturo Sandus, starship Captain and inadvertent time traveler has finally defeated the last remnants of the old Imperial forces and secured the borders of the Empire. He has restored the Roman Republic, admittedly an all-new modern and hopefully longer-lasting Republic, and is looking forward to some time at home with his lovely wife, Morghanna... -
In Times Like These by Nathan Van Coops
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition here"We broke something. How do you break time? Can something so bad happen that you fracture the world?" Benjamin Travers has been electrocuted. What's worse, he and his friends have woken up in the past. As the friends search for a way home, they realize they're not alone. There are other time travelers, and some of them are turning up dead... -
Doctor Who: Engines of War by George Mann, Aslı Dağlı
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"The death of billions is as nothing to us Doctor, if it helps defeat the Daleks."The Great Time War has raged for centuries, ravaging the universe. Scores of human colony planets are now overrun by Dalek occupation forces. A weary, angry Doctor leads a flotilla of Battle TARDISes against the Dalek stronghold but in the midst of the carnage, the Doctor's TARDIS crashes to a planet below: Moldox... -
Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeorge is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crisis, but George gets a quirky, philosophical physics professor named Shiloh... -
The War of the Prophets by Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe crew of Deep Space Nine must carry out their separate missions to ensure the survival of the Federation. But scattered across the Quadrant, they cannot know that Gul Dukat, Emissary of the Pah-wraiths, has raised an army of mindless warriors, the Grigari... -
Timediver's Dawn by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe author of The Fires of Paratime returns readers to the world of witches, high technology and space travel, of science and superstition--a world so short of energy resources that all fuels are grown or captured from the sun. It is on this world that a lone man must achieve the impossible... -
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The Time Store by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRULE NUMBER ONE OF TIME TRAVEL, PRESERVE TRUE TIME. Greenwich, London. A borough steeped in history. Home of the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, Old Royal Naval College and the PRIME MERIDIAN. Also home to the Bradbeers, a family of Time Travellers. If you’re lucky, the Bradbeers will help you live your dreams or recapture lost time... -
The Prophet's Stone by Matthew O. Duncan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt had been ten years since Roy came to New Terra. At the conclusion of the great interstellar war against the Serpent People, Roy went from being an Ace fighter pilot to a simple farmer, married to his beloved wife Katreena and father to their three beautiful children. He had discovered a happiness that he had long given up on having again in his lifetime... -
Trials and Tribble-Ations by Diane Carey, Ronald D. Moore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlmost a century ago, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise first encountered the irresistible (and astonishingly prolific) lifeform known as the tribbles, resulting in one of the most unusual adventures in the annals of Starfleet... -
Operation Time Search by Andre Norton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSnooping around a top-secret government installation, photographer Ray Osborne stumbled across an experimental time field. Suddenly the familiar Ohio landscape disappeared and Ray found himself transported to a prehistoric world where the dread priest of Atlantis waged a war against the Sun-born of Mu... -
Doctor Who: Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Wherever this cocaine has travelled, it hasn't gone alone. Death has been its attendant. Death in a remarkably violent and inelegant form."The Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz, arrive at the Quadrant, a troubled council block in Thatcher's Britain. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved... -
All the Traps of Earth and other stories by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlternative cover for same ISBN: here.A collection of Simak's sci-fi stories... -
Farishta by Marc Pastor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmb un punt de partida apassionant, girs argumentals imprevisibles i una imaginació pròpia dels mestres del thriller fantàstic, la nova novel·la de Marc Pastor conjuga intriga i aventura per atrapar el lector i mantenir-lo aferrat sense treva a les seves pàgines.Acaba d’acomplir els divuit anys i la Farishta, desinhibida i valenta, ja ha trobat la feina de la seva vida... -
The Pages of Time by Damian Knight
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen sixteen-year-old Sam Rayner moves abroad with his family, he is forced to leave behind everyone and everything he holds dear. As he struggles to settle in his new surroundings, Sam thinks his situation cannot get any worse, however a shocking terrorist attack turns his world on its head... -
Three Feet of Sky: Book One by Stephen Ayres
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf humanity created an afterlife, would you be accepted?Adam Eden confronts a world of predatory psychopaths, an annoying concierge, and a naked neighbour ... with a peculiar talent.After years of destitution, Adam Eden's life is finally on the up. But, whilst out celebrating his recent good fortune, Adam unwittingly chooses death over embarrassment... -
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Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch, James Goss
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith unfinished business to attend to, the Seventh Doctor returns to where it all began: Coal Hill School in London in 1963. Last time he was here, the Doctor left something behind – a powerful Time Lord artefact that could unlock the secrets of time travel... -
Singularity by Bill DeSmedt
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA maverick astrophysicist, a rookie secret agent, and an uncanny consultant join forces in this technological thriller to stop the capture of a submicroscopic black hole whose power will be harnessed to transform - or end - the world. More than a hundred years earlier, the most violent cosmic collision ever recorded flattened a remote area in Tunguska, Siberia... -
Doctor Who: Colditz by Steve Lyons, Sylvester McCoy
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOctober 1944: As World War II draws towards its conclusion, a Nazi defeat begins to seem almost inevitable. But that might be about to change...Two intruders are captured in the grounds of Colditz Castle, the most secure POW camp in Germany. At first, the guards think they're dealing with British spies... -
Doctor Who and the Ark in Space by Ian Marter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt a time in the far off future, Earth has become inhospitable. A selection of humanity is placed deep frozen in a fully automated space station to await the day of their return to earth.. -
Doctor Who: Project: Lazarus by Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratings"I'll survive Doctor. I always do."Unfinished business.A frightened girl is stalked in a land of eternal night.A hunter longs for recognition and power.A traveller in time returns to correct the mistakes of the past and faces a danger that could rob him of his future. Unless his future intervenes.And in the shadows stands Nimrod. Waiting...Welcome to the Forge... -
Survival of the Fittest by Sabine C. Bauer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn eye for an eye…Colonel Frank Simmons has never been a friend to SG-1. Working for the shadowy government organization, the NID, he has hatched a horrifying plan to create an army as devastatingly effective as that of any Goa’uld. And he will stop at nothing to fulfill his ruthless ambition, even if that means forfeiting the life of the SGC’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Janet Fraiser...
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