I actually have a signed first edition of this. (As you can probably guess from the userpic, I might be more of a Moorcock fan than you, although I still have plenty of his books to look forward to.)
But I can't disagree with your review. Mediocre by the standards of Doctor Who novels and by the standards of Michael Moorcock novels.
I'm not sure about MM being "by some margin" the most famous novelist to write a Doctor Who novel. Go into a Waterstones and you might struggle to find more than one or two of his works, but I bet you'll find plenty of Stephen Baxter's and Alastair Reynolds's.
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But I can't disagree with your review. Mediocre by the standards of Doctor Who novels and by the standards of Michael Moorcock novels.
I'm not sure about MM being "by some margin" the most famous novelist to write a Doctor Who novel. Go into a Waterstones and you might struggle to find more than one or two of his works, but I bet you'll find plenty of Stephen Baxter's and Alastair Reynolds's.