This episode was a big ol' mess of paradoxes, Daleks, Dalek puppetry, and timey-wimey craziness. In other words, a Dalek Empire story. Special props to the sound effects crew; the noisy menace of the titular monsters was a wonder! ( )

another good Dalek story (ie a good story about Daleks, rather than a story about a good Dalek). I have to say that Sarah Sutton as Nyssa particularly impressed me this time round, unlike the previous two audios I heard her in, Land of the Dead and Winter for the Adept. Lots of time travel action, two very bleak and convincing pictures of Earth at different tragic stages in its future, lots of continuity references to, of all stories, The Dalek Invasion of Earth. It got a little tangled up in time paradoxes and who the Dalek Emperor was actually being at the time towards the end, but very much kept my attention. ( )