The Crooked World

Author	Steve Lyons
Series	Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	57
Subject	Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Anji
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	June 2002
Pages	288
ISBN	0-563-53856-2
Preceded by	The Book of the Still
Followed by	History 101

The Crooked World is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.^[1] It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.

Plot

The Doctor accidentally brings the concept of reality to a world based on cartoon physics.

Continuity

• The concept of a person's belief affecting a creature also featured in Lyons's previous novel Salvation.

Outside references

• All the characters are parodies of popular cartoon characters, though none are mentioned by name.^[1]

Reception

In Interzone, Matt Hills writes, "Lyon's tenth Who novel seems at first as if it is going to be a very long set of tiresome in-jokes and references. But it opens out into a sharply drawn meditation on social justice and individual guilt, as well as dealing with the cultural transmission of ideas."^[2]