BBC Doctor Who books

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For once, the Doctor's just not interested.

"Things go missing on Heritage. It's one of the hazards of living here. One of the many hazards."

 

Nobody visits Heritage. Why would they? Dry, dusty and hot, it's nothing but a failed mining colony too stupid to realise that it's actually dead. No-one wants to visit, least of all Ace. But the Doctor's got his hearts set on a flying visit, just while they're in the neighbourhood. That's when he finds out that Heritage wants visitors just as much as visitors want them.

 

So, while Ace is getting friendly with the locals, the Doctor is trying his best to convince them he's not interested in their secrets. All he wants is a few quiet days and a nice cup of tea.

 

Trouble is, secrets have a way of unearthing themselves when the Doctor's around. Whether he wants them to or not.

 

 

This adventure features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

bbc books #117

Publication Date: 7 October 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53864 3

Pages: 281

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The Doctor and Sabbath take part in a boat race.

"Things go missing on Heritage. It's one of the hazards of living here. One of the many hazards."

 

The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn.

 

Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart - a planet famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful demonstration of power by Earth's ruthless multi-stellar corporations.

 

Is Sabbath's goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart native?

 

As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises that he is being manoeuvred into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him?

 

 

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

bbc books #118

Publication Date: 4 November 2002

ISBN: 0 563 53863 5

Pages: 288

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"Death after death"

 

On the very edge of the galaxy lies Akoshemon: a putrefied world of legendary evil.

 

In the year 2382 archaeologists land on Akoshemon's only moon, searching for evidence of the planet's infamous past. But when the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are drawn into the lunar caverns they find more than a team of academics — and help uncover much more than ancient history.

 

Something is lying in wait, deep inside the labyrinth of caves: something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation that ruined Akoshemon. Something that rejoiced in every kind of horror and destruction — and wishes to do so again.

 

An age-old terror is about to be reborn. But what is the hideous secret of the Bloodhunter? And why does Nyssa feel that her thoughts are no longer her own? Forced to confront his own worst fears, even the Doctor will be pushed to breaking point — and beyond.

 

 

This adventure features the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa.

bbc books #119

Publication Date: 6 January 2003

ISBN: 0 563 53865 1

Pages: 288

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Terrorists attack an alternative Scotland.

The TARDIS lands in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, during Easter 2003. The city is almost at a standstill, its public services close to collapse and its people terrorised by a bombing campaign.

 

Within hours one of the Doctor's friends is caught in a deadly explosion, while another appears on television confessing to the murder of twelve people. The TARDIS is stolen by forces intent on learning its secrets. When the Doctor tries to investigate, his efforts are hampered by crippling chest pains.

 

Someone is manipulating events to suppress humanity's development - but how and why? The trail leads to London where a cabal pushes the world ever closer to catastrophe. Who is the prisoner being held in the Tower of London? Could he or she hold the key to saving mankind?

 

The Doctor must choose between saving his friends or saving Earth in the past, present and future. But the closer he gets to the truth, the worse his condition becomes...

 

 

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

bbc books #120

Publication Date: 3 February 2003

ISBN: 0 563 53869 4

Pages: 288

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A megabyte modem?

WHAT LURKS IN THE ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH?

 

'A timely look at a vital issue of today... you will never look at a computer the same way.' - Phreakphest

 

A DRAMATIC TRUE STORY OF HI-TECH CRIME

 

The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the Age of the Personal Computer, the newborn 'Internet' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters our homes. Across the technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents.

 

A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious hacker known only as 'The Doctor' join forces to combat an electronic threat fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw.

 

Respected computer journalist Charles 'Chick' Peters was an eyewitness as these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation's vunerable capital - and inside the world of the computer. BLUE BOX is the compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally change the way you think.

 

 

Features Peri and the 6th Doctor

bbc books #121

Publication Date: 3 March 2003

ISBN: 0 563 53859 7

Pages: 288

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The Doctor arrives in a Bristol ravaged by time.

"What right do you have to wipe out a whole reality?"

 

The history of the planet Earth has become splintered, each splinter vying to become the prime reality. But there can only be one true history.

 

The Doctor has a plan to ensure that the correct version of history prevails - a plan that involves breaking every law of Time. But with the vortex itself on the brink of total collapse, what do mere laws matter?

 

From the Bristol riots of 1831, to the ruins of the city in 2003, from a chance encounter between a frustrated poet and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to a plan to save the human race, the stakes are raised ever higher - until reality itself is threatened.

 

 

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

bbc books #122

Publication Date: 7 April 2003

ISBN: 0 563 48603 1

Pages: 288

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Is Ace the end of history?

Ace is dead. Or at least she will be - soon...

 

In a secret room deep inside the TARDIS the Doctor has been examining the body of Ace's future self. He now knows how she was killed, where she was killed and when she was killed. What he doesn't know is why...

 

To find the truth the Doctor makes a dangerous decision and takes the unsuspecting Ace to the very time and place of her death, hoping to cheat Time and find her killer before he can strike - but Time has other ideas. With Ace missing and the clock ticking the Doctor turns to old friends for help and finds there is unfinished business for him to deal with.

 

What is the secret experiment being conducted by the British Rocket Group? Why are there giant ants appearing in the suburbs of 1950's London? Who is the mysterious figure that is watching the Doctor's every move?

 

As events spiral out of control the Doctor realises that someone is manipulating time with careless disregard for the consequences to Ace - or the rest of the universe...

 

 

This adventure features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

bbc books #123

Publication Date: 5 May 2003

ISBN: 0 563 48604 X

Pages: 288

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Good Times Inc. would like to take you on a holiday in history.

"I think time and space just fell apart."

 

Anji isn't sure, but then it's hard to be sure of anything now. Good Times Inc. promised a new tourist experience, with hotels in every major period of human history - but that kind of arrogance comes with a price, and it's a price the Doctor doesn't want to pay.

 

As aliens conquer an alternative Earth, Anji and Fitz race to find out how to stop Good Times without stopping time itself - but they find that events are out of control; they can't even save each other. When the Doctor tries to help, it gets far worse. At the Last Resort, only Sabbath can save the day. And then the price gets even higher...

 

 

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

bbc books #124

Publication Date: 2 June 2003

ISBN: 0 563 48605 8

Pages: 288

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Wagontrain to the stars.

Colony on Axista Four in the year 2439, but the truth is not as neat and simple as the legend would suggest...

 

The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists - the 'realists' - has abandoned Ransome's Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement.

 

The 'Loyalists' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction. But the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship; and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet's first colonists are beginning to awake.

 

The Doctor is asked to help revive Ransom's daughter, Kirann, from cryogenic suspension in the hope that she will reunite the colony. But Kirann is more interested in other questions.

 

Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administraor Greene? And what really happened when the Colony Ship crash-landed on Axista Four one hundred years earlier?

 

 

This story features the Second Doctor, Zoe and Jamie and the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

bbc books #125

Publication Date: 7 July 2003

ISBN: 0 563 48606 6

Pages: 288

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Chloe takes her dolly to the start of the universe. Again.

The fuse has been lit. Reality has been blown apart, and the barriers that shield our universe from the endless others running parallel have shattered with it. The only chance the Doctor has of saving the multiverse from total collapse is if he can get back to Earth where the damage was first done - and put things right.

 

With time running out, the Doctor finally understands why 'our' universe is unique. In proving it, he nearly destroys the TARDIS and all aboard - and becomes involved with the machinations of the mysterious Timeless organisation. They can fix your wildest dreams, get away with murder and bring a whole new meaning to the idea of victimless crime.

 

Soon, Fitz and Trix are married, Anji's become a mum, and an innocent man is marked for the most important death in the universe's long history. The reasons why force the Doctor into a deadly showdown with an old, old enemy, in a killing ground spawned before time and space began.

 

 

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

bbc books #126

Publication Date: 4 August 2003

ISBN: 0 563 48607 4

Pages: 288

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A sad tale's best for winter.

Harry Sullivan. Died 28 November 1936. Deliver us from evil.

 

Harry is dead. Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death. But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad by what he has seen.

 

He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war... And of a mysterious stranger known only as The Doctor.

 

Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail? Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas? And is it just a coincidence that Harry died under a full moon... ?

 

This adventure features the Fourth and Eighth Doctors, Sarah Jane and Harry.

bbc books #127

Publication Date: 1 September 2003

ISBN: 0 563 48609 0

Pages: 288

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Love will set the world on fire.

"Love! Surely one of the most destructive forces in the universe. There's nothing a man - or woman - won't do for true love."

 

1812 The Vishenkov household, along with the rest of Moscow, faces the advance of Napoleon Bonaparte. At their heart is the radiant Dusha, a source of inspiration - and more besides - for them all. But family friend, Captain Padorin, is acting like a man possessed - by the Devil.

 

2024 Fitz is under interrogation regarding a burglary and fire at the Kremlin. The Doctor has disappeared in the flames. Colonel Bugayev is investigating a spate of antique thefts on top of which he now has a time-travel mystery to unravel.

 

5000 Lord General Razum Kinzhal is ready to set in motion the final stages of a world war. More than the enemy, his fellow generals of the Icelandic Alliance fear what such a man might do in peacetime.

 

What can bridge these disparate events in time? Love will find a way. But the Doctor must find a better alternative. Before love sets the world on fire.

 

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

bbc books #128

Publication Date: 6 October 2003

ISBN: 0 563 48608 2

Pages: 288

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The 40th anniversary novel.

"With one glance he will destroy your body and wither your soul."

 

Second-Lieutenant Lethbridge-Stewart gets more than he bargained for when he is assigned to map out Greek islands at the end of the Second World War. Even if he lives to tell the tale, will he remember it?

 

Years later, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and his colleagues at UNIT investigate a spate of unexplained deaths and murders. Meanwhile, the Third Doctor and Jo are caught up in strange events in the small English Village of Hob's Haven.

 

As preparations get underway for a massive pop concert, a sinister cult prepares for a day of reckoning - business as usual for UNIT. But can the Brigadier help prevent the end of the world? His friends and colleagues are not so sure, because this time, the Brigadier has fallen in love...

 

This special 40th Anniversary Doctor Who adventure features the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and UNIT. It is written by Barry Letts - Producer of the Third Doctor's television stories - and Terrance Dicks - Script Editor for the latter part of the Second Doctor's era and all the Third Doctor television stories.

bbc books #129

Publication Date: 1 November 2003

ISBN: 0 563 48610 4

Pages: 288

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Simply giving Startrekfans.net a collection of Doctor Who BBC book list to look upon... It takes time to make these posts....

I haven't got any complaints from it, just compliments...

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Future history must follow the correct path. Eventually.

This week:

A hideous, misshapen creature releases a butterfly.

Next week:

The consequences of this simple action ensure that history follows its predicted path...

 

Sometime:

In the swirling maelstrom of the vortex, The Council of Eight map out every moment in history and take drastic measures to ensure it follows their predictions. But there is one elemental force that defies their prediction, that fails to adhere to the laws of time and space... A rogue element that could destroy their plans merely by existing.

 

Already events are mapped out and defined. Already the pieces of the trap are in place. The Council of Eight already know when Sabbath will betray them. They know when Fitz will survive the horrors in the Institute of Anthropology. They know when Trix will come to his aid. They know when the Doctor will finally realise the truth.

 

They know this will be:

Never.

 

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

bbc books #130

Publication Date: 5 January 2004

ISBN: 0 563 48611 2

Pages: 288

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Nearing the end of the list....

What I plan to do now, is two post most likely two books per week....

I might add some of the "Miscellaneous Doctor Who" books to the list, except for the Telos published ones, unless someone want's me to do so....

Next 2:

Empire of Death, written by David Bishop

Halflife, written by Mike Michalowski

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Ooooh....

 

Haven't posted here for awhile....

Sorry for the delay....

The Adventures of STF.net

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Can Queen Victoria raise the dead?

In 1856, a boy discovers he can speak with the voices of the dead. He grows up to become one of England's most celebrated spriritualists.

 

In 1863 the British Empire is effectively without a leader. Queen Victoria is inconsolable with grief following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert. The monarch's last hope is a secret seance.

 

The Doctor and Nyssa are also coming to terms with loss following the death of Adric and Tegan's sudden departure. Trying to visit the Great Exhibition of 1851, the time travellers are shocked when a ghost appears in the TARDIS, beckoning them to the Other Side.

 

What is hidden in a drowned valley guarded by the British Army? Is there life after death and can it be reached by those still alive? And why is the Doctor so terrified of facing his own ghosts?

 

This story features the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa.

bbc books #131

Written by: David Bishop

Publication Date: 1 March 2004

ISBN: 0 563 48612 0

Pages:

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The Doctor's lost his memory. Again.

To lose your memory once may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose it twice looks like carelessness.

 

The Terran colony world of Espero seems the unlikely source of a sophisticated distress call. And the Doctor, Fitz and Trix are not the only ones responding to it.

 

While Fitz consorts with royalty, the Doctor's on the run with a sixteen year old girl, and Trix meets a small boy with a dark secret.

 

In a race for the minds and souls of an entire planet, the Doctor and Trix are offered temptations that may change them forever.

 

At least one of them will be unable to resist.

 

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

Features Fitz and Trix

bbc books #132

Written by: Mark Michalowski

Publication Date: 5 April 2004

ISBN: 0 563 48613 9

Pages:

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A historical epic set in 19th Century China.

"May you live in interesting times."

 

The TARDIS crew have seen many times. When they arrive in China in 1865, they find banditry, rebellion, and foreign oppression rife. Trying to maintain order are the British Empire and the Ten Tigers of Canton, the most respected martial arts masters in the world.

 

There is more to the chaos than mere human violence and ambition. Can legends of ancient vengeance be coming true? Why does everyone Ian meets already know who he is? The Doctor has his suspicions, but he is occupied by challenges of his own. Soon the teachers must learn that sometimes the greatest danger is not from the enemy, but from the heart.

 

In interesting times, love can be a weakness, hatred an illusion, order chaos, and ten Tigers not enough.

 

This adventure features the First Doctor, and the companions of Ian, Barbara and Susan.

bbc books #133

Written by: David A. McIntee

Publication Date: 3 May 2004

ISBN: 0 563 48614 7

Pages:

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There's a new exhibition at the Tate Modern - The Tomorrow Windows.

"May you live in interesting times."

 

The concept is simple: look through a Tomorrow Window and you'll see into the future. You'll get "The Gist of Things to Come". According to the press pack, The Tomorrow Windows exhibition will bring about an end to war and suffering.

 

Which is why someone decides to blow it up.

 

Investigating this act of wanton vandalism, The Doctor, Fitz and Trix visit an Astral Flower, the show-world of Utopia, and Gadrahadradon - the most haunted planet in the galaxy. They face the sinister Cecces, the gratuitously violent Vorshagg, the miniscule Micron and the enigmatic Poozle. And they encounter the doomsday monks of Shardybarn, the warmongers of Valuensis, the politicians of Minuea and the killer cars of Estebol.

 

The also spend about half an hour in Lewisham.

 

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

Features Fitz and Trix.

bbc books #134

Written by: Jonathan Morris

Publication Date: 7 June 2004

ISBN: 0 563 48616 3

Pages:

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Well, that's all folks!

 

(For right now.... Wait awhile for a new novel to be released.... Next one's going to be a 6th Doctor one....)

The Adventures of STF.net

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Thats a lot of novels. Come on DW how many have you read?

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Oh, I have 'bout 16 of them...

 

They don't have much Who where I am.... But I find the books very interesting.... :lol:

 

Read 'bout 7 or 9 of them, and found much of what I read a joy, although I didn't enjoy Doctor Who: The Space Age as much, since I didn't know who the 8th Doctor was back then, and the past's view on a futuristic metropolis seemed more dystopian (which I wasn't into back then, dystopian sci-fi)....

 

One that sticks out in my mind as one that I would think anyone would enjoy is Doctor Who: Anachrophobia

 

'Bout a war that involves speeding up and/or decelerating time as a weapon on a war-torn over-capitalistic planet....

 

An 8th Doctor adventure...

 

Edited May 5, 2004 by drwho42