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Smallville: Whodunnit by Dean Wesley Smith check out website: www.OrbitBooks.co.uk
With the extreme slowness of DVD and video release for American shows, it is up the novelisations and original novels to make an impact on the viewer in downtime.
In this short novel, the group discover the bodies of some school friends in the pond of their family farm. On the same day, Lionel Luthor, father of Lex, is kidnapped. Clark finds out that Lana was close friends with Danny who has been brutally killed alongside his family. He must attempt to use his super-powers, without his friends realising, to crack this difficult case. This time, the novel concentrates on the group's relationships and how Lex fits into the group or doesn't. It also continues to focus on Lex's ambivalent relationship with his father, who brought him up without love. The programme certainly seems as interested in Lex's development into super-villain as it is into Clark's adoption of the Superman role. A short but professional produced transcript of a potential episode in the series. It continues to look at the group's dynamics and focuses far less on the superpowers For once, kryptonite barely gets a mention and that is a refreshing change. Once again, it does not change anything in the series but if it does its job, viewers will tune in once more as Clark Kent moves closer to becoming the super-hero we know and already love. Sue Davies
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OTHER REVIEWS - May 2003
Untied Kingdom by James Lovegrove Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book Of Horror edited by Stephen Jones Star Trek: Enterprise: Surak’s Soul by JM Dillard The Mammoth Book Of Future Cops - by Maxim Jakubowski For Love And Glory by Poul Anderson Super-State: A Novel Of Future Europe by Brian Aldiss The Velocity Gospel (Accomplice Book 2) by Steve Aylett Storm Of Wings (Dragonmaster: Book One) by Chris Bunch Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Tales Of The Slayer Volume 2 Son Of Man by Robert Silverberg Smallville: Whodunnit by Dean Wesley Smith 3SF # 3 publisher: Ben Jeapes. editor: Liz Holiday Star Trek: Nemesis - Novelisation The Assassin’s Edge by Juliet E. McKenna Kushiel's Dart & Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey One More For The Road by Ray Bradbury Foundation: The International Review Of Science Fiction # 86
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Refining
the essential ingredients for a successful TV series is one of the
hardest things for writers and directors of the current hit shows.
It certainly seems clear that they must make the viewers remember
the series even when it's off air. 
So
this is Part 4 of the quadrology of books released before Season
2 aired on BBC2 this year, hinting at the sort of directions the
series will be taking as they move away from the 'monster a week'
scenario.
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