Scorpio Attack (Blake's 7 book by Hoyle)

Title:	Scorpio Attack
Creator:	Trevor Hoyle
Date(s):	August 1981
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Blake's 7
Language:	English
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Scorpio Attack is a 1981 for-profit Blake's 7 pro novel by Trevor Hoyle.

Fan Comments

1982

Why the *** did they leave out Power? Trevor Hoyle was obviously never given a photo of Dorian. The cover photo is dreadful, it makes them look as though they’re

all watching the numbers in a lift!!

Yes, strangely enough I can take Soolin in written form, quite acceptable in the book, but something went badly wrong when the character got to the screen.

I loved the book - it remained true to the series. I wish they'd publish some more B7 books.

Rubbish!

Having bought the book and read it at a single sitting, I finished with a sense of dissatisfaction. What was lacking was any feeling for the characters on the part of the author. The book was little more than the dialogue from the TV scripts bound together with rather uninspired descriptive passages.

Trev - why bother!?

The books have never captured the screen image, this one least of all.

Typical Hoyle!

Why do they always get Trevor Hoyle to write them? Why does he always write them so badly? It would be better if they just published the final version of the scripts.

(No name}Scorpio Attack? Ah yes, I remember. That was the fnovel1 (and indeed it was) that this idiot forked out £1.50 for to keep her collection up to date. I ask myself, did Fir Hoyle miss 1 Power1 and so find himself unable to write it from memory as the rest of the book gives the impression he did not have the usual access to production notes, scripts, etc? The Hoyle novels have massacred B7 as the Butterworth Space 1999's massacred that. BBC - What are you doing to us!?

It's a piece of B7 ephemera and therefore to be collected but I don't really like it that much. I think that most fanzines are better written.

The third Trevor Hoyle book seems to me very poor value compared with the previous two. The three episodes (why was 1 Power* omitted, I wonder?) were unconnected, and, as in performance, unconvincing. I did feel, however, that traitor as written was a better episode than the transmission suggested. Both the ’General* and the ’President* were complete caricatures of the ones Robert Holmes created, and the awful line about Avon ’killing Servalan himself* was, in the original, 'thrown away' in a casual exchange with the others (and was **I wanted to kill her myself" ie he might have done at the time) not elevated into some death wish that was never developed in the series. I did not think this was an improvement! Stardrive was unbelievable even at script-level! Why wasn't it 'strangled at birth* or re-written? I thought script editors were allowed to do this?