It's a good - if strange - book, and very unlike his more famous works. I sigh a little when I think of it though, because it was meant to have had a footnote all to itself in an article I once wrote on mind control in children's literature (the covert thesis of which was that it's to cater to their masochistic fantasies). But somehow the reference to The Master got edited out...

All the same, I never made the Doctor Who connection till you mentioned it.