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Warmonger

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2002
2002
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A series of novels by BBC Worldwide featuring stories of the past Doctors for the television show Doctor Who.

1) The Devil Goblins from Neptune
2) The Murder Game
3) The Ultimate Treasure
4) Business Unusual
5) Illegal Alien
6) The Roundheads
7) The Face of the Enemy
8) Eye of Heaven
9) The Witch Hunters
10) The Hollow Men
11) Catastrophea
12) Mission: Impractical
13) Zeta Major
14) Dreams of Empire
15) Last Man Running
16) Matrix
17) The Infinity Doctors
18) Salvation
19) The Wages of Sin
20) Deep Blue
21) Players
22) Millennium Shock
23) Storm Harvest
24) The Final Sanction
25) City at World's End
26) Divided Loyalties
27) Corpse Marker
28) Last of the Gaderene
29) Tomb of Valdemar
30) Verdigris
31) Grave Matter
32) Heart of TARDIS
33) Prime Time
34) Imperial Moon
35) Festival of Death
36) Independence Day
37) The King of Terror
38) The Quantum Archangel
39) Bunker Soldiers
40) Rags
41) The Shadow in the Glass
42) Asylum
43) Superior Beings
44) Byzantium!
45) Bullet Time
46) Psi-ence Fiction
47) Dying in the Sun
48) Instruments of Darkness
49) Relative Dementias
50) Drift
51) Palace of the Red Sun
52) Amorality Tale
53) Warmonger
54) Ten Little Aliens
55) Combat Rock
56) The Suns of Caresh
57) Heritage
58) Fear of the Dark
59) Blue Box
60) Loving the Alien
61) The Colony of Lies
62) Wolfsbane
63) Deadly Reunion
64) Scream of the Shalka
65) Empire of Death
66) The Eleventh Tiger
67) Synthespians™
68) The Algebra of Ice
69) The Indestructible Man
70) Match of the Day
71) Island of Death
72) Spiral Scratch
73) Fear Itself
74) World Game
75) The Time Travellers
76) Atom Bomb Blues
Copyright © Terrance Dicks 2002
To the memory of Bob Holmes, best of Doctor Who writers, and to Robin Bland, without whose brief but glorious career this book could not have been written, and to Justin Richards, who likes every story to have a beginning, middle and, especially an end, but not necessarily in that order!
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The Doctor stood by the entrance ramp to Lord Delmar's space yacht, saying goodbye to Commander Hawken and Reverend Mother Maren.
    Lord Delmar had generously loaned him the yacht so that he could travel in suitable style.  He had also provided a set of ambassadorial regalia, including a gorgeous blue and gold uniform, a white-plumed cocked hat and a gold chain with a seal of office.
    'I think your safe enough for the moment,' the Doctor was saying.  'Morbius wont risk another defeat, he'll return in force.  But it will take him some time to gather that force.'
    'By which time you'll have gathered a force to oppose him,' said Hawken.

 

Added: 15-Feb-2003
Last Updated: 08-Apr-2020

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 06-May-2002
BBC Books
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Date Issued:
06-May-2002
Pages*:
287
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Internal ID:
258
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ISBN:
0-563-53852-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-563-53852-3
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Black Sheep  - Cover Artist
This is High Treason, and for this you deserve death. However, in view of your past service, the sentence is commuted to exile. You leave Gallifrey this day, never to return.'

A chain of events has been set in motion that will change the Doctor and Peri forever. A chain that involves old enemies as well as old friends.
How did Peri come to be the leader of a gang of rebel fighters on an outlying planet? Who is the mysterious 'General' against whom they are rebelling so violently? Where does the so-called 'Supremo', leader of the Alliance forces ranged against the General, come from, and why is he so interested in Peri?

The answers lie in the origins of a conflict that will affect the whole cosmos - a conflict that will find humans, Sontarans, Draconians and even Cybermen fighting together for the greater good and glory. For the Supremo.

It is a conflict that will test both the Doctor and Peru to the limit, and bring them face to face with the dark sides of their own personalities.

This adventure features the Fifth Doctor and Peri.
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Terrance Dicks  
Birth: 10 May 1935 East Ham, London, England, UK
Death: 29 Aug 2019

Notes:
From the back of the book Warmonger.

Terrance Dicks joined Doctor Who as junior assistant trainee script editor in 1968, when they were making The Web of Fear and desperately trying to  make a roaring Yeti sound less like a flushing lavatory.  He worked on the show during the end of the Patrick Troughton years, and co-wrote The War Games, Troughton's last show, with Malcolm Hulke.  He stayed on as a script editor for the whole of the Jon Pertwee period, and left to write Robot, the first Tom Baker story.  (This was in accordance with an ancient Who tradition, which he'd just invented, that the departing script editor writes the first show of the next season.)

In the years that followed he wrote a handful of Doctor Who scripts, finishing in 1983 with The Five Doctors, the programmes twentieth anniversary special.

In the early 1970s he was in at the very beginning of the Doctor Who novelisation programme and ended up, more by luck than judgment, writing most of them - seventy something in all.  He has since written a number of Doctor Who 'originals', including Exodus, part of the opening Timewyrm sequence published by Virgin, and The Eight Doctors, the first original novel published by BBC Worldwide.

He has written two Doctor Who stage plays, one a flop d'éstime (great reviews, poor audiences), the other a bit of a pantomime but a modest touring success.  He has also written about a hundred non-Who books, fiction and non-fiction for young adults, but nobody ever asks about them.

In over thirty years with the Doctor he has grown older, fatter, greyer and grumpier.  But not noticeably wiser.

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