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 Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*
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Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.

1) The Eight Doctors
2) Vampire Science
3) The Bodysnatchers
4) Genocide
5) War of the Daleks
6) Alien Bodies
7) Kursaal
8) Option Lock
9) Longest Day
10) Legacy of the Daleks
11) Dreamstone Moon
12) Seeing I
13) Placebo Effect
14) Vanderdeken's Children
15) The Scarlet Empress
16) The Janus Conjunction
17) Beltempest
18) The Face-Eater
19) The Taint
20) Demontage
21) Revolution Man
22) Dominion
23) Unnatural History
24) Autumn Mist
25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) The Blue Angel
28) Taking of Planet 5
29) Frontier Worlds
30) Parallel 59
31) Shadows of Avalon
32) The Fall of Yquatine
33) Coldheart
34) The Space Age
35) The Banquo Legacy
36) The Ancestor Cell
37) The Burning
38) Casualties of War
39) The Turing Test
40) Endgame
41) Father Time
42) Escape Velocity
43) Earthworld
44) Vanishing Point
45) Eater of Wasps
46) The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) The Slow Empire
48) Dark Progeny
49) City of the Dead
50) Grimm Reality
51) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Hope
54) Anachrophobia
55) Trading Futures
56) The Book of the Still
57) The Crooked World
58) History 101
59) Camera Obscura
60) Time Zero
61) The Infinity Race
62) The Domino Effect
63) Reckless Engineering
64) The Last Resort
65) Timeless
66) Emotional Chemistry
67) Sometime Never...
68) Halflife
69) The Tomorrow Windows
70) The Sleep of Reason
71) The Deadstone Memorial
72) To the Slaughter
73) The Gallifrey Chronicles
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TARDIS: "Smiling she headed off to her room, and within a few seconds, she could hear the familiar wheezing and groaning noises reverberating through the walls as the TARDIS faded away from Micawber's World."
Synopsis (may contain spoilers)
Not as good as I would have liked.  A good story except for the ease and quickness that the Wirrrn take over others.  It seems that just one cell is enough.  Not much hope for survival is there?  Best to watch out for that Y4K thing and the extinction of the human species.  Interesting concept though.

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Dramatis Personae
Character
Affiliation
Doctor 8
Doctor
Samantha Jones
Companion

 

Added: 01-Jan-2001
Last Updated: 08-Apr-2020

Publications

 06-Jul-1998
BBC Books
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Date Issued:
06-Jul-1998
Pages*:
279
Read:
Once
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Internal ID:
676
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-563-40587-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-563-40587-0
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Credits:
Black Sheep  - Cover Artist
It is 3999.  An artificial planetoid, Micawber's World, is hosting the Intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all the worlds in the Galactic Federation are coming to take part.  But when the Doctor and Sam arrive, murders soon begin...

The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs that are said to enhance the natural potential of the competing athletes.  But what is their real purpose?  Why are members of the Security Forces disappearing randomly?  And just why is Chase Carrington, manufacturer of the drug, so protective of his company's secrets?

Watching and waiting at the very heart of Micawber's World, is a race of parasites the Doctor has fought before.  The Wirrrn have come to the Milky Way from Andromeda, determined to spread their seed throughout a whole new galaxy, and it seems to Sam that the Doctor has his hands too full to pay their threat full attention...
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Author(s)

Gary Russell  
Birth: 18 Sep 1963 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK

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