BBC Doctor Who books

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A masked man, a robot army, an empire at war.

The history books were clear: the once-proud Haddron Empire, fatally weakened by civil war, was finally brought to its knees by a catastrophic explosion. But, then again, history books can lie...

 

Landing in what seems to be a medieval castle, the Doctor and his friends discover that the final act of a drama that has torn apart a stellar empire is being played out around them.

 

Who is the man behind the mask, and how are his chess games linked to life and death in his fortress prison? What is the secret of the suits of armour which line the banqueting hall? Who is on the battle cruiser that is getting closer all the time, and what will they want when they finally arrive?

 

The pieces are all in place, and the TARDIS crew soon find themselves under siege. With both deadly robot troops and human traitors to defeat, it seems the future of the entire empire hangs in the balance...

 

 

Featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria, this adventure is set between the TV stories The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World.

bbc books #028

Publication Date: 3 August 1998

ISBN: 0 563 40598 8

Pages: 288

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Iris Wildthyme joins the Doctor and Sam on a mythical quest.

Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.

 

Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers - powers that a member of the Doctor's own race is keen to possess herself: the eccentric time traveller and philanderer known only as Iris Wildthyme.

 

As the real reasons for Iris's obsession become clear, the Doctor and Sam must embark on a perilous journey across deserts, mountains, forests and oceans. Both friends and foes are found among spirits, djinns, alligator men and golden bears - but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam.

bbc books #029

Publication Date: 7 September 1998

ISBN: 0 563 40595 3

Pages: 283

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A secret mission to a savage world.

Eager for solitude away from the TARDIS and the endlessly inquisitive Leela, the Doctor steps out onto a benign-looking planet. But the apparent tranquillity hides a terrifying secret...

 

The TARDIS has arrived on a world of violence, where hideous creatures hunt and kill endlessly, vying for supremacy at the top of the food chain. But is evolution on the planet natural or engineered by some higher power? And why has an aggressively suspicious alien police force sent a secret mission here?

 

With no one safe from the planet's tireless predators, Leela's warrior instincts are tested to the full. The Doctor, meanwhile, begins to suspect that there is a scientific purpose to the planet - one married to a sinister intelligence.

 

Whatever the data being collated from the planet, the Doctor soon realises its usage may have far-reaching consequences for all humanity...

 

 

Featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela, this adventure is set between the TV stories The Robots of Death and The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

bbc books #030

Publication Date: 7 September 1998

ISBN: 0 563 40594 5

Pages: 251

[DrWho42 13]

Strangely heavy planets and mysterious transmat links.

Two planets, Janus Prime and Menda, orbit a Red Giant on the edge of the galaxy. The planets lie diametrically opposite each other on either side of the huge sun - but where Menda is rich and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime's moon leaves the sun in a constant state of eclipse.

 

Humans are colonizing the area, and a rival group sets up on Janus Prime via a mysterious transmat system left behind by the planet's former inhabitants. But what is its true purpose?

 

When the Doctor and Sam arrive, they must piece together a centuries-old puzzle. How can Janus Prime's moon weigh billions of tons more than it should? What is the secret purpose of the hyperspatial link? They discover a terrible weapon is hidden in the glowing sands of the planet, one that if it falls into the hands of the warring humans could destroy the galaxy.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam.

bbc books #031

Publication Date: 5 October 1998

ISBN: 0 563 40599 6

Pages: 283

[DrWho42 13]

Jack the Ripper is really... Oh.

'I won't fight you.'

'Oh, but you will.' The voice twisted and cracked. Fury and madness tore through it.

'You will fight me, Doctor!'

 

The Doctor is on the run from a faceless enemy that knows his every thought and move. He flees to his past, planning to leave Ace in safe hands in order to fight on alone. But his enemy has other plans, and the Doctor's history no longer exists.

 

The TARDIS is finally drawn to London in the winter of 1888, where the Doctor and Ace discover a dark secret from Gallifrey's past, and the name of their unseen opponent.

 

It is Jack the Ripper.

 

 

Featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace, this adventure takes place after the BBC novel Illegal Alien.

bbc books #032

Publication Date: 5 October 1998

ISBN: 0 563 40596 1

Pages: 280

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A solar system tears itself apart.

The people of Belannia II see their sun, Bel, shrouded in night for a month following an impossible triple eclipse. When Bel returned to them a younger, brighter, hotter star, it is the beginning of the end for the entire solar system...

 

100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Belannia IV, where the population are under threat as disaster looms - immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are surging through this area of space.

 

While the time travellers attempt to help the survivors and ease the devastation, a religious suicide-cult leader is determined to spread a new religion through Bel's system - and his word may prove even more dangerous than the terrible forces brought into being by the catastrophic changes in the sun...

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam.

bbc books #033

Publication Date: 16 November 1998

ISBN: 0 563 40593 7

Pages: 249

[DrWho42 13]

A threat beyond continuity.

'Sing about the past again, and sing that same old song.

Tell me what you know, so I can tell you that you're wrong.'

 

Gallifrey. The Doctor's home planet. For twenty thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos. They have circumnavigated infinity and eternity, harnessed science and conquered death. They are the Lords of Time, and have used their powers carefully.

 

But now a new force is unleashed, one that is literally capable of anything. It is enough to give even the Time Lords nightmares. More than that: it is enough to destroy them.

 

It is one of their own.

 

Waiting for them at the end of the universe.

 

 

Featuring the Doctor, this novel celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of Doctor Who.

bbc books #034

Publication Date: 16 November 1998

ISBN: 0 563 40591 0

Pages: 280

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Death waits in the catacombs beneath Proxima City.

The Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II, one of the earliest planets colonised in humanity's first big push into space. But instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest.

 

The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out. Humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.

 

Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City. It seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well founded - that the sinister Face-Eater from Proximan mythology has awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who would defile its world...

 

 

This is another book in the series of adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam.

bbc books #035

Publication Date: 4 January 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55569 6

Pages: 279

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Gods arrive in New York.

The gods have returned, and they're here to save our world.

 

New York, 1965. A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land. In the midst of this turmoil, people cry out to their gods.

 

And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call. Walking the slums and tenements of downtown Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshippers.

 

Steven wants to believe in miracles, but the Doctor is more sceptical. What are the strangers' real motives, and why does history make no mention of these events? As New York begins to tear itself apart, the Doctor's principles are tested to their limits. Which side should he choose to help? And what part will a London schoolgirl named Dorothea Chaplet play in the ensuing chaos?

 

What price is humankind willing to pay for salvation?

 

 

Featuring the First Doctor and Steven, and introducing Dodo, this adventure takes place between The Massacre and The Ark.

bbc books #036

Publication Date: 4 January 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55566 1

Pages: 274

[DrWho42 13]

Sinister visions of demons and madness.

The TARDIS has finally brought the Doctor and Sam back to Earth - and straight into danger.

 

It is 1963. Six very different people have been gathered together for study by parapsychologist Charles Roley in his stately home outside London. All of them claim to have been possessed by the devil, and all have shared similar delusions - they describe the same bizarre 'death cave' riddled with demons.

 

Roley's experiments are having a gradual yet terrifying effect on his subjects, and the Doctor and Sam discover the connections between those tainted with the madness are more disturbing than anyone could guess.

 

For the Doctor, too, has seen the cave they describe - on a dead world, billions of years ago...

 

 

Introducing the Eighth Doctor's new companion, Fitz Kreiner, this book is another original adventure for Doctor Who.

bbc books #037

Publication Date: 1 February 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55568 8

Pages: 275

[DrWho42 13]

An adventure in history.

The Doctor has always been wary of meddling with established history. But what happens when the history books lie?

 

With the secrets of time travel restored to him after his long exile on Earth, the Doctor has made a test flight into the past. Accompanying him are his assistant, Jo, and an old friend, scientist Liz Shaw. The travellers realise they are visiting one of the most significant times in Earth's history - and one of the most dangerous...

 

It is Russia, 1916, and Europe is in the grip of the Great War. With the TARDIS missing, its crew find themselves trapped in a country on the brink of revolution.

 

The Doctor and Liz are soon caught up in the deadly machinations of Tsar Nicholas' court, while Jo appears to fall under the sinister spell of the infamous Mad Monk, Rasputin...

 

 

Featuring the Third Doctor, Liz and Jo, this adventure takes place between the TV stories The Three Doctors and Carnival of Monsters.

bbc books #038

Publication Date: 1 February 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55567 X

Pages: 250

[DrWho42 13]

A deadly mixture of performance art, gambling and opera.

The Vega Station - a haven for gamblers, art lovers and duty-free shoppers, the one place where the Battrulians and their erstwhile enemies, the Canvine, meet and mix, in neutral space. A pressure point, an explosive mixture. And just as the new President of Battrul is about to arrive, the TARDIS crew turn up.

 

Fitz is in trouble. He's accedently got himself hired as an assassin while trying to emulate James Bond. And he's upset Bigdog Caruso, the unofficial Canvine leader on Vega.

 

Sam is in trouble. She's become involved with the key witness to a murder, and the witness has vanished.

 

The Doctor, meanwhile, has been roped in to help with investigations into robbery, sabotage and the murder, as well as to sort out Fitz's problems, Sam's problems, and the President's safety. He's in his element.

 

And if they should get bored, there's a hitman on the loose, monsters roaming the station corridors, an exhibition of art by a painter who depicted his own death, and the opera.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #039

Publication Date: 1 March 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55572 6

Pages: 284

[DrWho42 13]

A menace from under the sea.

When a lighthouse keeper reports seeing a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands, UNIT sends Mike Yates to investigate. The last thing he expects to find there is an old friend - with a new face...

 

The Doctor and his companions arrive on a pleasure beach in the 1970's, hoping for time off after their recent adventures. But they do not get to relax for long.

 

Violent incidents are at an all time high in the area and people are going missing - or else changing into something more than human...

 

The Doctor soon realizes a sinister presence lurks in the cold seas off Tayborough Sands - a presence with sinister designs upon humanity.

 

 

Featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and UNIT, this adventure takes place between Warriors of the Deep and The Awakening.

bbc books #040

Publication Date: 1 March 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55571 8

Pages: 249

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The Doctor must prevent the Revolution Man.

1967: The Revolution has just started. All you need is love - but the ability to bend space and time helps. An entity called the Revolution Man is writing his graffiti across the surface of the Earth, using a drug called Om-Tsor.

 

Trouble is, none of this was supposed to happen. The Doctor knows that the Revolution Man isn't for real, that he's part of the problem, not part of the solution. But how is he going to convince the flower children? How is he going to convince Sam? And he doesn't dare tell Fitz...

 

The Chinese People's Army want to defeat the capitalists. Om-Tsor is the most powerful means available, and the source is on their doorstep. If half of India is immolated - well, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs...

 

1969: The Revolution Man has decided. Mankind is evil, not good. The only way forward is to destroy all of it. The Doctor and Sam struggle to find him but time is running out...

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #041

Publication Date: 6 April 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55570 X

Pages: 251

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Someone is toying with history.

Promising his companion, Peri, high society elegance in fin-de-siecle London, the Doctor manages to hit the right time, but the wrong place...

 

The TARDIS has landed on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of a Boer War skirmish. And soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in the adventures of a struggling politician and war correspondent who they know is destined for greater things - a certain Winston Churchill. But mysterious forces seem to be interfering in his potentially great career...

 

Arriving in London, the Doctor and Peri enter high society but find themselves in a world of intrigue populated by notorious figures from Wallis Simpson to Joachim von Ribbentrop.

 

And behind everything, the Doctor senses the hidden hand of the Players - mysterious beings who regard human history as no more than a chess board. Can the Doctor and Peri find the right moves to defeat them - before it's too late?

 

 

Featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri, this adventure takes place between the TV stories The Mark of the Rani and The Two Doctors.

bbc books #042

Publication Date: 26 April 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55573 4

Pages: 251

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A dimensional anomaly strands the Doctor in Sweden.

When the Doctor loses both Sam and the TARDIS after an encounter with a mysterious dimensional anomaly, he finds himself affected in a very fundamental way, doubting his own powers and making crucial errors of judgment.

 

Stranded amongst the forests and lakes of southern Sweden in the summer of 1999, it quickly becomes clear to the Doctor and Fitz that something unusual - and dangerous - is afoot.

 

Fitz finds himself acting the hero as the search for Sam gets them involved with investigations into strange disappearances - and manifestations of even stranger creatures.

 

Events quickly spiral out of control as the Doctor and Fitz become entangled with a secret deep beneath the forest, a secret which could save Sam and an entire doomed alien race - but destroy the Earth in the process.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #043

Publication Date: 10 May 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55574 2

Pages: 278

[DrWho42 13]

Is this the end for the world's computers?

It's 1999 and the Millennium Bug is threatening to bring the world's computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined to work against them.

 

As the government realises the full implications of Year 2000, one company seems to promise all the technological answers... but what exactly are the methods and motives behind the operation?

 

What is the connection between the Millennium Bug, a raid on a Russian nuclear base, a break-in at a British defence contractor, and a pen that Sarah Jane Smith kept as a memento of a past adventure? The Doctor and Commander Harry Sullivan of MI5 must discover the truth before the world is plunged into a digital winter.

 

No longer just an expensive miscalculation, the Millennium Bug could also be the key to an alien take-over of Earth...

 

 

Featuring the Fourth Doctor and Harry Sullivan, this adventure takes place between the TV stories The Deadly Assassin and The Face of Evil.

bbc books #044

Publication Date: 24 May 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55586 6

Pages: 283

[DrWho42 13]

Reality collapses in San Francisco.

They called it the Millennium Effect. But the millennium was only beginning...

 

San Francisco's changed since the start of 2000. The laws of physics keep having acid flashbacks. There are sightings of creatures from outside our dimensions, stranded aliens and surrealist street performers. The city has become a mecca for impossible creatures, those who revel in them - and those who want to see them pinned down and put away. And beneath the waters of the Bay, something huge is waiting.

 

The Doctor and Sam find their pasts catching up with them - in Sam's case, a past she didn't know she had. Time is running out for the city, and the Doctor may have to sacrifice an old friend to sort everything out.

 

But who's trying to sort the Doctor out?

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #045

Publication Date: 7 June 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55576 9

Pages: 279

[DrWho42 13]

A swarm of vicious aliens tear apart a holiday planet.

'The Krill are pure rage. Pure aggression. There is nothing for me to reason with, nothing that I can appeal to. By now there must be millions of them out there, and I don't know how to stop them.'

 

The water world of Coralee is the showpiece planet of the colonies - two suns, unspoilt beaches and a thriving tourist culture. The Doctor and Ace arrive intending to have a proper holiday, but when the Doctor joins an archeological expedition conducting a dig at a sunken temple, he soon realises that, beneath the surface, something is very wrong. An ancient and terrible weapon has been revived and every living creature on the planet is at risk.

 

Who are the aliens that wait in the asteroid field? What is the mysterious creature that stalks the shadows of the colonies? Who has unleased the devastating power of the Krill?

 

Out in the deep ocean there is a storm brewing and the Doctor is not sure if anyone will survive.

 

 

Featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace, this story takes place after the BBC Doctor Who novel Matrix.

bbc books #046

Publication Date: 7 June 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55577 7

Pages: 279

[DrWho42 13]

War is Hell.

The Ardennes, December 1944: the Nazi forces are making their last offensive in Europe - a campaign which will come to be called the Battle of the Bulge. But there is a third side to this battle; an unknown and ancient force which seems to pay little heed to the laws of nature.

 

Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to? What is the true nature of the military experiments conducted by both sides?

 

The Doctor, Sam and Fitz must seek out the truth in a battlefield where no one and nothing is quite what they seem.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #047

Publication Date: 5 July 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55583 1

Pages: 242

[DrWho42 13]

Jamie and Zoe get lost in a vicious war.

The year is 2204. The final confrontation between humankind and the monstrous Selachians is about to reach its tragic conclusion.

 

Once again the Doctor has become entangled in human history. Caught up in a brutal and bloody conflict, he knows he must do nothing to influence the outcome. But, when the TARDIS disappears and Zoe falls into Selachian hands, he is forced to intervene...

 

In the struggle that ensues, Jamie fights alongside the human forces and discovers for himself the true horror of war. And Zoe plans her escape from the alien prison camp where she's held, only to find herself, quite literally, out of her depth. Meanwhile, the Doctor comes face to face with a man who will become one of the most vilified figures in history.

 

As the death toll mounts and events come to a head, the Doctor must make a painful choice: which is more important, the sanctity of the time stream or the lives of his companions?

 

 

Featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe, this adventure takes place between the TV stories The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates.

bbc books #048

Publication Date: 5 July 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55584 X

Pages: 284

[DrWho42 13]

The Doctor's past rewrites his future.

They call it the Dead Frontier. It's as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.

 

But while one Doctor faces both his own past and his own future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown. The past is meeting the present, the cause is meeting the effect, and the TARDIS crew is about to be caught in the crossfire.

 

The Third Doctor. The Eighth Doctor. Sam. Fitz. Sarah Jane Smith. Soon, one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one of them will be something less than human.

 

 

Featuring both the Third and Eighth Doctors, Interference is the first ever full-length two-part Doctor Who novel.

bbc books #50

Publication Date: 2 August 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55582 3

Pages: 314

[DrWho42 13]

The Doctor's future rewrites his past.

Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and found out that her entire life had been stage-managed by a time-travelling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn't it?

 

Now Sam's back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge, and good old-fashioned depravity. But she's about to learn the first great truth of the universe: that however corrupt and amoral your own race might be, there's always someone in the galaxy who can make you look like a beginner.

 

Ms Jones has just become a minor player in a million-year-old power struggle... and as it happens, so has the Doctor.

 

Both of him.

 

 

Featuring both the Third and Eighth Doctors, Interference is the first ever full-length two-part Doctor Who novel.

bbc books #49

Publication Date: 2 August 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55580 7

Pages: 309

[DrWho42 13]

Has the Doctor really moved to the suburbs?

This is a story about Winter...

 

As the Doctor becomes embroiled in the doings of the crew of the Federation Starship Nepotist, his old friend Iris Wildthyme is rescuing old ladies from a shopping mall attacked by savage owls.

 

And, in a cat's cradle of interdimensional Corridors lies the Valcean City of Glass, whose King Dedalus awaits the return of his Angel son and broods over the oncoming war...

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #51

Publication Date: 6 September 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55581 5

Pages: 279

[DrWho42 13]

Susan becomes linked to a dark force on Arkhaven.

The Doctor and his companions land in the city of Arkhaven, the last bastion of civilisation on a doomed world.

 

The inhabitants of the city are pinning all their hopes on a final desperate gamble for survival. Behind the scenes there are jealous factions at work, secretly contesting for the chance to shape the destiny of a new world. Beneath its ordered surface, Arkhaven is a city of secrets and mysteries where outward appearances can be deceptive.

 

Is the thing they call the 'Creeper' really at large in Arkhaven's eerie outer zone - and is it beast or machine? What is the hidden force at work that has acted so strangely upon Susan?

 

With Barbara lost and the countdown to doomsday drawing to a climax, the Doctor must discover the true nature of the final enemy - or is that enemy simply fear itself?

 

 

Featuring the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan, this adventure takes place between the TV stories The Reign of Terror and Planet of Giants.

bbc books #52

Publication Date: 6 September 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55579 3

Pages: 281

[DrWho42 13]

An ancient force that never existed returns to destroy the universe.

Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And it's alive.

 

Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.

 

Outside the ordered universe, things move. They're hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.

 

In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene - but it's more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #53

Publication Date: 4 October 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55585 8

Pages: 274

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Can the Toymaker really want a rematch?

There are some evils in the universe that need to be fought. And others that need redeeming...

 

Many years ago the Doctor, a student at the Academy on Gallifrey, lost a friend to the mysterious and malevolent force known as the Celestial Toymaker. Now, in his fifth incarnation, the Doctor receives a telepathic call from his long-lost classmate, begging for help.

 

As he sets out to rescue his friend and exact revenge, the Doctor's companions become increasingly involved. Adric, determined to justify his place aboard the TARDIS, opts to face the Toymaker's game challenges while Nyssa, angered by the Doctor's actions, finds herself excluded by the people she thought were her friends.

 

And what is the connection between the Toymaker and the planet Dymok, whose comatose inhabitants find a new saviour in the shape of Tegan Jovanka?

 

 

Featuring the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan, this adventure takes place after the TV adventure The Visitation.

bbc books #54

Publication Date: 4 October 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55578 5

Pages: 252

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Dare to tamper with the forces of creation.

What strange attraction lures people to the planet Drebnar? When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find out why.

 

He discovers that scientists from the mysterious Frontier Worlds Corporation have set up a base on the planet, and are trying to blur the distinction between people and plants. The TARDIS crew plan to prevent a biological catastrophe - but their plan goes wrong all too soon.

 

Compassion finds her undercover work so engrossing she risks losing her detachment. Fitz seems too distracted by the local population to keep his eye on Compassion. So when the Doctor gets trapped in a freezing wilderness, who can stop him falling victim to a lethal experiment in genetic modification?

 

For something else has been lured to Drebnar, something that Frontier Worlds Corporation will ruthlessly exploit without care for the consequences - an ancient organism which threatens to snuff out Drebnar's solar system.

 

Outside the ordered universe, things move. They're hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.

 

In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene - but it's more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #55

Publication Date: 29 November 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55589 0

Pages: 273

[DrWho42 13]

The robots are beginning to kill again.

Long ago and far away, the Doctor and Leela faced the Robots of Death.

 

To a society dependant on robots, the news that these benign, tireless, obedient labourers could be turned into killers would cause panic. So it was kept a secret.

 

In Kaldor City, only the three survivors of the Sandminer massacre know the truth. But now, several years later, they are beginning to show signs of mental breakdown. And once again, the robots are being programmed to kill. Can the dead genius Taren Capel possibly be involved in this new outrage?

 

Worst of all, this time the deady robots are not confined to a Sandminer. This time they are loose in Kaldor City. And this time, unless the Doctor and Leela can stop them, they really will destroy the world.

 

 

Featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela, this adventure takes place between the BBC Doctor Who novel Last Man Running and the TV story The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

bbc books #56

Publication Date: 29 November 1999

ISBN: 0 563 55575 0

Pages: 282

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The Doctor gets involved in the space race.

Fleeing a doomed space station in tiny life capsules, the Doctor and Compassion find themselves prisoners of Parallel 59, a militaristic power on the planet Skale. Meanwhile Fitz finds himself apparently safe in Mechta, a colony for convalescents.

 

A space race is in full swing on Skale, with each of the planet's many blocs desperate to be first to reach the stars. If the Doctor's knowledge helps Parallel 59 to succeed, the consequences for the rest of the world could be devastating.

 

But Fitz knows nothing of his friends' predicament. Enjoying his new life, he's not even sure he wants to be rescued - which is a good thing.

 

Because the Doctor has no intention of going to Mechta. He's decreed that Fitz's new-found utopia must be totally destroyed.

 

 

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.

bbc books #57

Publication Date: 4 January 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55590 4

Pages: 284