Revolution Man by Paul Leonard
In Brief: A space drug gives hippies superpowers and they almost destroy the world.
Revolution Man was alright but had the problem of giving away its central mystery (the source of the super-powers) too early in the book. So without any sort of mystery everything just sort of meandered along through the late-60s until the story just sort of stops after the main antagonist (a rock-star/cult-leader) is shot and killed by The Doctor.
While this ending sounds rather shocking the problem is that there's just no build-up to it. Also, the Eighth Doctor books are all so self-contained that there's no sense that anything that happens will have an impact on the rest of the range. The Doctor will still be a somewhat ditzy adventurer, Sam will still be an arrogant whiner and Fitz will still be the bumbling fool.
I'm also not sure what Paul Leonard was trying to say in the book. He's definitely anti-anarchy since the book is very critical of the peace/love movement of the 60s, but does that mean that the best way for humanity is to adhere to the status quo? It's all rather muddled. Thankfully at least his prose is decent.
That's pretty much all I have to say about Revolution Man, as with most of the series I've already pretty much forgotten about it.
