System Shock doesn't quite make it to being better than average, unfortunately. The Doctor and Sarah Jane arrive in London in 1998 to find aliens invading and Harry Sullivan now senior in MI5. The aliens are amusingly addicted to management-speak, and there are some nice riffs on the digital culture of the era. But inserting the quintessentially 70s characters of the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith into a late 1990s setting is a bold stroke that somehow doesn't come off, and the presentation of Harry as 20 years older and considerably wiser doesn't quite live up to its promise.
But it was interesting to read this immediately after my post on companions' afterlife, and I shall go on now to a different Harry future in Wolfsbane, having been discussing its ending with the book's author and also Ian Potter on Twitter.
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