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What horror lies behind Legion International's impeccable facade?

'My name is Bliss,' said the newcomer, 'and I bring great news for you all!'

 

The new owners of a Second World War aerodrome promise a golden dawn of prosperity for the East Anglian village of Culverton. The population rejoices - with one exception. Former spitfire pilot Alec Whistler knows the aerodrome of old, having found a strange, jade-coloured crystal there years before...

 

When black-shirted troops appear on the streets, Whistler takes his suspicions to his old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The Doctor and Jo are sent to investigate and soon discover that all is not well in the seemingly idyllic village.

 

What are the black coffin-like objects being unloaded at the aerodrome? What horror lies behind Legion International's impeccable facade? And what is the monstrous creature growing and mutating in the marsh?

 

As Culverton gears up for its summer fete, the Doctor finds himself involved in a race against time to prevent a massive colonisation of Earth. For the last of the Gaderene are on their way...

 

 

Featuring the Third Doctor, Jo Grant and UNIT, this story takes place between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death.

bbc books #58

Publication Date: 4 January 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55587 4

Pages: 284

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War in the Land of Dreams.

The Brigadier's wife is dead. A terrible accident. Grieving, he searches for death, and finds his way to Avalon, the other-dimensional kingdom of the Catuvelauni.

 

The Doctor is also in Avalon, marooned. He's lost his companions, his TARDIS... and his hopes for the future. Now it seems they'll have to make a new life for themselves with the Celts who live in the Dreamlands. Perhaps even help in the Celt's negotiations with the Unseelie, the original inhabitants of Avalon, who live far to the North.

 

But then a gateway opens between Earth and Avalon. The British Army arrives in force. And the Brigadier negotiates a treaty that will lead to war in the Land of Dreams.

 

With fearsome dragons duelling jet fighters, vicious Gallifreyan agents causing havos, and Compassion fighting against her ultimate fate, can the Doctor save the world, his best friend, and himself?

 

 

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

bbc books #59

Publication Date: 7 February 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55588 2

Pages: 274

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Can Miranda Pelham uncover what happened to God?

Millennia ago, the great god Valdemar held sway over the universe. Somehow the Old Ones defeated this dark presence and entombed him beneath the acid skies of Ashkella, before disappearing themselves for ever.

 

Over the centuries, the myths of Valdemar grow, crossing solar systems and races. A novellist, Miranda Pelham, pieces together the Dark God's story. Unfortunately for her, revolution and the rise of of a New Protectorate force her to strike an agreement with the decadent necromancer Paul Neville to find the lost Ashkellia.

 

The Doctor and Romana, despite their best efforts, become embroiled in the complex conspiracies and attempts to rediscover Valdemar. High in the boiling sulphuric acid clouds, in the Palace of the Old Ones, a place where reality and dreams collide, the way is being prepared for the resurrection of the Dark One.

 

The Doctor faces an agonising choice: should he continue with his quest to gather the segments of the Key to Time, or prevent the rebirth of a being so powerful that its release will alter the entire fabric of the universe?

 

 

Featuring the Fourth Doctor, Romana I and K-9, this story takes place between The Stones of Blood and The Power of Kroll.

bbc books #60

Publication Date: 7 February 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55591 2

Pages: 278

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Hmm well I am getting interested in this Dr.Who.Of course i have alwasy loved time travel.I think i shall check a few of these out

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Can the Doctor save the doomed planet of Yquatine?

Yquatine - cultural, political and economic centre of the Minerva System. A planet with a month to live.

 

Fitz knows. He was there when Yquatine fell. Now, trapped a month in the past he doesn't know if the Doctor survived. He doesn't know where Compassion has gone. He doesn't know who the invaders will be.

 

But he does know the date and time when he will die with the millions of others.

 

The Doctor teams up with Lou Lombardo - part time dodgy temporal gadget salesman and full time pie seller. Compassion is lost in time and space. And Fitz is living out his final days working in a seedy cocktail bar. Until he meets Arielle... But is the President's runaway girlfriend really the best person to shack up with?

As the Doctor tries to talk sense into the politicians and soldiers, and Compassion tries to avert the war, Fitz is about to discover that things can only get worse.

 

 

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

bbc books #61

Publication Date: 6 March 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55594 7

Pages: 286

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What is the terrible truth at the heart of the planet Eskon?

The Doctor, Fitz and Compassion arrive on the planet Eskon - a strange world of ice and fire. Far beneath the planet's burning surface are vast lakes frozen solid by the glacial subterranean temperature.

 

But the civilised community that relies on the ice reservoirs for its survival has more to worry about than a shortage of water. The hideous slimers - degenerative mutations in the population - are growing more hostile by the moment, and their fanatical leader will stop at nothing to exact revenge against those in authority. But what connects the slimers to the unknown horror that lurks deep beneath the ice? And what is the terrible truth the city leaders will do anything to conceal?

 

To unearth the ugliest secrets of Eskon, the TARDIS crew becomes involved in a desperate conflict. While Fitz is embroiled in the deadly plans of the slimers, the Doctor and Compassion must lead a danger-frought subterranean expedition to prevent a disaster that could destroy the very essence of Eskon... its cold heart.

 

 

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

bbc books #62

Publication Date: 3 April 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55595 5

Pages: 288

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England is invaded by... killer robot sheep.

Jo Grant had no inkling of the ship that revolved in orbit like a discreet, preposterous thought in the mind of someone serene but bonkers.

 

High above London and its crust of smog, stretched tall above the soapy atmosphere of the Earth, is a ship the size and exact shape of St Pancra railway station.

 

On board, the Doctor and that mysterious lady adventurer, Iris Wildthyme, are bargaining for their lives with creatures determined to infiltrate the 1970s in the guise of characters from nineteenth-century novels.

 

Without the help of UNIT, the Doctor and his friends face the daunting task of defeating aliens, marauding robot sheep, the mysterious Children of Destiny and... the being who calls himself Verdigris.

 

 

Featuring the Third Doctor and Jo Grant, this story takes place between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death.

bbc books #63

Publication Date: 3 April 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55592 0

Pages: 288

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This is Earth. The year is 2000 AD. This is your future.

This is the city: a technological paradise built by an advanced race. Its glittering towers reach proudly for the stars, and its spires are looped by elevated roadways.

 

The people that lived here were enlightened and contented. They travelled in bubble-topped saucer cars, along moving pavements or in anti-gravity tubes. Obedient robots tended to their every whim. Disease, war, famine and pollution had been eradicated. Food machines synthesised all essential nutrients into pill form, and personal rocket ships brought the solar system within reach. The people of the city befriended Venusians and Martians alike.

 

The city is self-cleansing. Its systems harness solar power and static electricity. Its buildings are constructed from a metal that will never rust or tarnish. It will stand forever as a monument to the achievements of the human race.

 

This is Earth. The year is 2000 AD. This is your future.

 

Welcome to the Space Age.

 

 

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

bbc books #64

Publication Date: 1 May 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53800 7

Pages: 237

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An isolated community. A mysterious benefactor.

Dorsill: a group of islands shrouded in fog, the community facing economic ruin - struggling to survive

 

When prodigal local Christopher Sheldon, buys the islands outright, the locals owe him a debt of thanks. They don't ask too many questions about what Sheldon and his friends are up to; they don't care that he seldom ventures into the one small village; they don't ask why he saw fit to spend such an amount of money - or where he got it...

 

Even when the first few people die, there's an assumption that it's down to natural causes: allergic reactions, an especially virulent strain of flu, a tragic fishing accident... And if the sheep and chickens are behaving oddly, that's hardly a worry.

 

No, if there's anything to arouse suspicion, it's the arrival of retired civil servant Sir Edward Baddesley. But generally life goes on, with its little triumphs and upsetting tragedies.

 

Until the two strangers arrive...

 

 

Featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri, this adventure takes place after the TV story Vengeance on Varos.

bbc books #65

Publication Date: 1 May 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55598 X

Pages: 246

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Can the Doctor solve his own murder?

Banquo Manor - scene of a gruesome murder a hundred years ago. Now history is about to repeat itself.

 

1898 - the age of advancement, of electricity, of technology. Scientist Richard Harries is preparing to push the boundaries of science still further, into a new area: the science of the mind.

 

Pieced together at last from the accounts of solicitor John Hopkinson and Inspector Ian Stratford of Scotland Yard, the full story of Banquo Manor can now be told.

 

Or can it? Even Hopkinson and Stratford don't know the truth about the mysterious Doctor Friedlander and his associate Herr Kreiner - noted forensic scientists from Germany come to witness the experiment.

 

And for the Doctor, time is literally running out. He knows that Compassion is dying. He's aware that he has lost his own ability to regenerate. He's worried by Fitz's fake German accent. He's desperate to uncover the Time Lord agent who has him trapped.

 

And worst of all... he's about to be murdered.

 

 

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

bbc books #66

Publication Date: 5 June 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53808 2

Pages: 276

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A universe in chaos can damn well look out for itself.

In the American Midwestern town of Lychburg, something is afoot.

 

Its citizens are being killed in inexpressibly horrible and brutal ways and the police don't have a clue who's responsible. The only suspects are a mysterious and sinister stranger, who calls himself the Doctor, and his young companions Jamie and Victoria.

 

The Fourth Doctor and Romana, meanwhile, have been summoned by the Gallifreyan High Council. A force has been unleashed into the space/time continuum... a force so unimaginably terrible that it is set to rip the universe itself apart and plunge it into primal, screaming chaos from which nothing will survive.

 

Of course, since something of this nature happens every other day of the week, the Doctor's really far more interested in finding out what's happened to a close personal friend, who seems to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. And quite right, too.

 

The fate of a universe plunging into fetid and unending chaos can damn well look out for itself for a change...

 

 

This is an adventure concerning the Second and Fourth Doctors, and takes place between The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Abominable Snowmen, The Stones of Blood and The Armageddon Factor. You lucky people.

bbc books #67

Publication Date: 5 June 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55596 3

Pages: 280

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The Doctor's not the man he was. But who has he become?

The Doctor's not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy - Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists - is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too.

 

A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies over Gallifrey. Its origin and purpose are unknown, but its powers threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only the Doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe and nothing sacred.

 

Shot at by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions. With options finally running out, he must face his most crushing defeat or take one last, desperate chance for salvation...

 

 

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

bbc books #68

Publication Date: 3 July 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53809 0

Pages: 287

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The Doctor's a hit on television.

'Coming up after the break, the start of a new series of programmes featuring the mysterious traveller in Time and Space known only as...The Doctor.'

 

While on their travels, The Doctor and Ace detect a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex and decide to investigate.

 

They soon find themselves on the agricultural planet Blinni-Gaar, where they discover that the population has become dangerously dependent on the programmes of the powerful TV station, Channel 400.

 

Why is the Director-General of Channel 400 so interested in the Doctor? Who are the mysterious aliens who watch from the shadows of the Brago nebula? Why is a pack of Zzinbriizi Jackals stalking the streets of Blinni-Gaar?

 

As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a complex web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally - of the most dangerous kind.

 

 

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

bbc books #69

Publication Date: 3 July 2000

ISBN: 0 563 55597 1

Pages: 249

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Only one man can stop The Burning.

The late nineteenth century - the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the centre of the Empire.

 

Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.

 

But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the Society for Psychical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artefacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: a man with no name, no history.

 

Only one man can unravel the mysteries; only one man can begin to understand the forces that are gathering; only one man can hope to fight against them. Only one man knows that this is just the beginning of the end of the world.

 

Only one man can stop The Burning.

 

 

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

bbc books #70

Publication Date: 7 August 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53812 0

Pages: 240

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The true history of Queen Victoria's space programme.

The year is 1878. Three ships of the British Imperial Spacefleet have just set course for the moon.

 

The discovery of a mysterious diary, recalling a seemingly impossible journey, takes the Doctor and his companions back to a crucial moment in history - and into certain danger. For the moon of 1878 is far from deserted.

 

Trapped in a crater teeming with hostile animal and plant life, the Doctor and Turlough must join the British explorers on a hazardous journey to battle for their freedom before the long lunar night descends. For, lurking in the shadows are the Vrall - cunning and utterly ruthless killers.

 

With the loss of one of their ships - and their captain - the British team become embroiled in a struggle to survive that tests duty and honour to their limits.

 

Meanwhile, Turlough finds himself with Time in his hands and the Doctor must make a choice that will determine the future of an Empire - and Earth itself.

 

 

Featuring the Fifth Doctor, Turlough and Kamelion, this story takes place between Resurrection of the Daleks and Planet of Fire.

bbc books #71

Publication Date: 7 August 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53801 5

Pages: 281

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In a war, there are worse things than dying.

1918. The world is at war. A terrible raging conflict that has left no one untouched.

 

In the North Yorkshire village of Hawkswick, it seems that the dead won't stay down. There are reports of horrifically wounded soldiers on manoeuvres in the night. Pets have gone missing, and now livestock is found slaughtered in the fields.

 

Suspicion naturally falls on nearby Hawkswick Hall, a psychiatric hospital for shell-shocked soldiers, where Private Daniel Cory senses a gathering evil. As events escalate, a stranger arrives on the scene.

 

Can this man from the Ministry solve the mystery of Hawkswick? And can Hawkswick solve the mystery that is this man from the Ministry?

 

 

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

bbc books #72

Publication Date: 4 September 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53805 8

Pages: 271

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Dying can be fun. The Doctor doesn't agree.

The Beautiful Death. The ultimate theme-park ride. For twenty galactic credits, you can find out what it's like to be dead.

 

But something has gone wrong. Visitors expecting a sightseeing tour of the afterlife have been transformed into mindless zombies set on a killing rampage.

 

The TARDIS arrives in the aftermath of the disaster and, to the Doctor's baffled delight, he is immediately congratulated for saving the population from certain and terrible destruction.

 

The only problem is, he hasn't actually done it yet.

 

Aided and abetted by a drug-addled lizard, a hard-hitting investigative reporter and a suicidal ship's computer, the Doctor has no choice but to travel back in time and discover exactly how he became a hero.

 

And then he finds out. He did it by sacrificing his life.

 

 

Featuring the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9, this story takes place between Shada and The Leisure Hive.

bbc books #73

Publication Date: 4 September 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53803 1

Pages: 280

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Alan Turing and Graham Greene break the code.

It's nearly the end of the Second World War. There's a mysterious new code and Alan Turing has been called in to crack it. Everyone assumes it's a German code, as that's where the source is emanating from - apart from Turing's new friend, the Doctor.

 

Indeed it seems the Doctor knows too much about the code and the code-makers — and when people start to die, even Turing wonders if the Doctor is the one to blame.

 

Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor, and thinks he's a rum enough chap, but in a remote African village he has encountered something far stranger.

 

To find out the truth, they must all cross the front line and travel through occupied Germany — right into the firing line of the bloodiest war in history. What they find there has no human explanation — and only the Doctor has the answers. Or maybe, they're just more questions...

 

 

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

bbc books #74

Publication Date: 2 October 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53806 6

Pages: 242

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The Doctor's borrowed something he shouldn't have.

'Danger is my middle name,' Ace said. 'Or it would be if I had more than one. I can look after myself these days, you know.'

 

Freedom. Liberty. Free Will. Independence. Choice. Everyone wants to be free. But at what point does freedom become irresponsibility? What happens when one person's choice causes another's oppression?

 

The Doctor's on a simple mission to return a communications device he borrowed years previously. Being a Time Lord, he can return it before anyone misses it.

 

But events in the Mendeb system have moved more quickly than the Doctor estimated, and he lands in the ruins of a civilisation devastated by mysterious invaders.

 

 

This story features the Seventh Doctor and Ace, and is set some time after the television story Survival.

bbc books #75

Publication Date: 2 October 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53804 X

Pages: 283

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Is the Doctor a cold war spy?

The Players have decided on an Endgame. Play ends only when one side has been annihilated - even if the entire planet is destroyed in the process. They weren't expecting the Doctor to be one of the pieces - and neither was he. He really doesn't want to get involved.

 

The Doctor doesn't know who he is - but he's fast ceasing to care. Caught up in ennui, nothing seems to matter to him any more. He has no interest in the Cold War, in spies or double agents or secret documents.

 

But he's soon forced to take an active role. Because as far as the authorities are concerned, the Doctor is The Third Man ...

 

 

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

bbc books #076

Publication Date: 6 November 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53813 9

Pages: 228

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History ends. In Los Angeles.

'All this useless beauty. All these great leaps forward. And for what? So that the first alien with an advanced degree in interplanetary warfare can take it all from you?'

 

As the millennium draws to a close, the future of humankind hinges on the activities of one multimedia company, InterCom. Suspecting that old mistakes are being repeated, the Brigadier asks the Doctor and his companions to investigate the company's Los Angeles headquarters. But their infiltration is disrupted by the murderous games of terrorists seeking the fulfilment of age-old prophecies.

 

While the Doctor and UNIT encounter aliens in the boardroom, Tegan meets a pop star, Turlough finds himself a victim of his own desires and Los Angeles becomes a war zone in which humanity is merely a helpless bystander.

 

 

Featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough, The Brigadier and UNIT, this adventure takes place between the TV stories The Awakening and Frontios.

bbc books #077

Publication Date: 6 November 2000

ISBN: 0 563 53802 3

Pages: 275

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Can the Doctor save the world and bring up a daughter?

'I love her,' the Doctor said.

'Of course you do, she's your daughter.'

 

Earth in the nineteen-eighties is a battleground. Rival alien factions have travelled from the far future to pursue their vendetta. As UFOs fill the skies, a giant robot stalks the Derbyshire hills, and alien hunters search for the mysterious Last One, the Doctor is the only man who can protect the innocents caught in the crossfire.

 

But old scores are being settled, the fate of a Galactic Empire is at stake, and, against his will, the Doctor is drawn into a decade-long war that will strike at those he holds most dear.

 

The Doctor has lost his memory, his friends, his past and his TARDIS. All he has now is the love of his daughter. But will even that be taken from him?

 

 

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

bbc books #078

Publication Date: 8 January 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53810 4

Pages: 281

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Is there any defence against the Quantum Archangel?

'Hear me, Lord of Time. We are a vengeful people. Our reach is infinite and our patience eternal. For your actions, we will have vengeance. And the vengeance of the Chronivores is terror beyond imagining.'

 

Five thousand years ago, the Priest-Kings of Atlantis attempted to enslave Kronos, greatest of the Chronivores. They failed, with catastrophic results. Thirty years ago, the Master sought to do the same, and barely escaped with his life.

 

London, 2003: torn apart by tragedy, the Doctor and Mel have gone their separate ways, only to find their paths crossing once more. While the Doctor tries to stop an old friend from making a terrible mistake, Mel is horrified to learn that her best friend has fallen under the influence of the Master.

 

As the Master desperately tries to defend himself against the power of Kronos, the Doctor and Mel must overcome their differences. If they don't, the Quantum Archangel will be triumphant. And if she is, nothing in the Universe will ever be the same again.

 

 

Featuring the Sixth Doctor and Mel, this adventure takes place between the TV stories Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani, and is a sequel to the TV story The Time Monster.

bbc books #079

Publication Date: 8 January 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53824 4

Pages: 282

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The Doctor gets his TARDIS back - but can he leave Earth?

'You know me then?' asked the Doctor, a little tentatively.

'You're the Doctor,' replied Fitz, a slight frown worming its way on to his forehead.

'Yes, yes, yes, the Doctor, of course I am.' The Doctor smiled, genuinely pleased to see the familiar face of Fitz, even if for the moment he couldn't quite put a name to it. 'But, er, Doctor Who?' he added, hopefully.

 

The Doctor and Fitz are back together at last, but the Doctor is not the man he once was - which is a shame, because Fitz has promised Anji Kapoor that his old friend is her best hope of finding her alien-abducted boyfriend, Dave.

 

Soon the Doctor, Fitz and Anji find themselves involved in a desperate contest between Pierre-Yves Dudoin and Arthur Tyler the Third, each determined to be the first privately-funded man in space. But not all the parties are playing fairly: members of an alien race called the Kulan are helping the Frenchman - but what are their real motives? At the far reaches of the solar system a Kulan battle fleet awaits the order to take the planet Earth...

 

Can the Doctor find Dave before the alien contact proves fatal? Who are the secret agents keeping tabs on the rival Space Race teams? Will the Doctor's mysterious Blue Box finally reveal its purpose? And does the Doctor, now truly a man without a past, have what it takes to stop the Kulan Invasion of Earth...?

 

 

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

bbc books #080

Publication Date: 5 February 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53825 2

Pages: 249

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'There are many beasts and monsters in the universe, it is true. But the worst of them is Man.'

 

A terrifying alien army is sweeping across the landscape, decimating towns and subjugating everyone and everything in its path. With their astute military tactics and advanced weaponry, the invaders seem unstoppable.

 

But this is no distant star, no alternate timeline. Trapped in a frightened city, the Doctor and his companions discover that this is Earth history, and they are powerless to intervene. The impending slaughter of thousands is a matter of grim historical fact.

 

Not everyone within the city is prepared to accept their fate. Desperate people embark upon desperate courses of action. They may even succeed.

 

For, deep beneath the city, something truly alien is stirring...

 

 

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

bbc books #081

Publication Date: 3 February 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53819 8

Pages: 281

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Homicidal princesses and deadly android doubles.

Anji Kapoor has just had the worst week of her entire life, and things aren't getting any better. She should be back at her desk, not travelling through time and space in a police box with a couple of strange men.

 

The Doctor (Strange Man No.1) is supposed to be returning her to Soho 2001 AD. So quite why there are dinosaurs outside Anji isn't sure. Sad sixties refugee Fitz (Strange Man No.2) seems to think they're either in prehistoric times or on a parallel Earth. And the Doctor, that dashing, time-travelling hero, is probably only pretending to know what's going on - because if he really knew, surely he would have mentioned the homicidal triplet princesses, the teen terrorists, the deadly android doubles (and triples) and the hosts of mad robots?

 

She's never going to complain about Monday mornings in the office again...

 

 

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

bbc books #082

Publication Date: 5 March 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53827 9

Pages: 252

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The Third Doctor meets the fist of fear.

'Join the Unwashed... Join the Unforgiving. Join the Ragged, for we are the way.'

 

A convoy of disenchanted ragamuffins is winding its way through the south-west of England. At its head, a filthy cattletruck containing four punk mummers... and something else. The band plays sudden, violent and hate-filled gigs along the way: Dartmoor, Glastonbury Tor, an old cemetery in Bristol. And every time they play, people die in unspeakable ways. Aristocrats, high-flying stockbrokers, police officers, all find themselves the victims of a Class War that is threatening to shatter society.

 

Within the dark cattletruck, a malevolent force is leading this ragged army on a Magical Mayhem Tour towards its final, secret destination. With Jo powerless to resist its seductive influence and the Doctor lost in a nightmarish void, can the band from hell be prevented from staging its final society-cracking performance, and thus spelling the end of the road for... everything?

 

 

Featuring the Third Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier, this adventure takes place between the TV stories The Green Death and The Time Warrior.

bbc books #083

Publication Date: 5 March 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53826 0

Pages: 250

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There is a God. And he's not happy.

Imagine a world where death has meaning, where God exists and faith is untested. Where people die with the purpose of their lives made clear to them in blissful understanding. Such a world exists, hidden on the far side of the universe where a battered blue police box has just faded into being...

 

But unknown to the populace, unknown even to the Creator, an alien evil has stalked this world for hundreds of years. When the Doctor, Fitz and Anji arrive, they soon find themselves embroiled in the alien's final, desperate plans for this planet - and in the hunt for a murderer who cannot possibly exist.

 

Unnatural deaths are being visited on the people. Campaigns of terror threaten to tear this world apart. It seems that the prophecy of the Vanishing Point where all life shall meet all death under the Creator's aegis is coming to pass. For when God exists, prophecy, however fantastic or deadly, is fact.

 

 

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

bbc books #084

Publication Date: 2 April 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53829 5

Pages: 278

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The Doctor takes on Hitler. Has he the Reich?

May 17th 1944: A squadron of Hurricanes shoots down an unidentified aircraft over the Dorset village of Turelhampton. A routine operation. So why is the village immediately evacuated?

 

2001: Troops still occupy Turelhampton, guarding the village's dark secret. When a television documentary crew break through the cordon looking for a story, they find they've recorded more than they'd bargained for.

 

Meanwhile, in Cornwall, a journalist is witness to a terrifying ceremony: agents of the worst evil in history plan to unleash a new, unthinkable horror on the world.

 

Caught up in both a deadly conspiracy and historical mystery, retired Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart calls upton his old friend the Doctor. Half-glimpsed demons watch from the shadows as the Doctor and the Brigadier discover the last, and deadliest, secret of the Second World War...

 

 

This story features the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier.

bbc books #085

Publication Date: 2 April 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53838 4

Pages: 286

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Zombies, killer wasps, and a walking bomb.

The TARDIS lands in the sleepy English village of Marpling, as calm and peaceful as any other village in the 1930s. Or so it would seem at first glance.

 

But the village is about to get a rude awakening.

 

The Doctor and his friends discover they aren't the only time-travellers in the area: a crack commando team is also prowling the Wiltshire countryside, charged with the task of recovering an appallingly dangerous artefact from the far future - and they have orders to destroy the entire area should anything go wrong.

 

And then there are the wasps... mutant killers bringing terror and death in equal measure. What is their purpose? How can they be stopped? And who will be their next victim?

 

In the race to stop the horror that has been unleashed, the Doctor must outwit both the temporal hit squad - who want him out of the way... and the local police - who want him for murder.

 

 

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

bbc books #086

Publication Date: 7 May 2001

ISBN: 0 563 53832 5

Pages: 279

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