I listened to the first season and half of The Eight Doctor & Lucie Miller incredibly close together and back to back, so all of them are going to end up with the same review for the moment while I'm fixing up my forgotten rec's and clearing out my Currently Reading Folder (which shouldn't be 40 books, it should be somewhere relatively close to right under ten).

I have loved meeting Eight, and his resigned but inspirational way of being. I love Lucy's moxy, and her mouth. Her mouth may be the best thing on the planet. Even though I know the episodes are roughly the same length as tv episodes, from single one hours to double-extended two hours, somehow they end up feeling like bite-size, leaving me wanting just a little more from every single one. ( )

I think I liked Immortal Beloved best of the first Lucie series. It's a fairly standard sfnal storyline, the rulers of the planet having a lifestyle which involves horrible exploitation of their subordinates - in this case, clones whose personalities are wiped at maturity for the sake of a full brain transplant. Strong echoes of Zelazny's Lord of Light, and I thought also a bit of Today We Choose Faces. The Doctor and Lucie have to work out What Is Going On, and then How To Stop It. Not trying to be too clever, not trying to wow us with big name guest stars, just competently done sf. ( )