Escaping from one battle and straight into another, the Doctor and his companion, Catherine, find themselves on a far flung world where time travellers are persecuted as witches and warlocks by the Papal Inquisition.

Ten Stories - Seven Doctors - No Fixed Abode

Imaginatively entitled DECALOG 2, this is the second collection of Doctor Who short fiction.  And this time the theme is the Doctor's home - inasmuch as a peripatetic Time Lord can be said to have a home.

As before, the editors have gathered a galaxy of star writers to illuminate the theme.  Many of the contributors will be well known to the readers of the New Adventures and the Missing Adventures series of novels: Daniel Blythe, Paul Cornell, Andy Lane, David McIntee and Gareth Roberts are prolific Doctor Who authors.  And as before this volume also includes contributions from new writers.

In these stories, among many other unexpected occurrences, the Doctor meets a pretender to the English throne, Nyssa meets a ghost, Zoe gets lost in time, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is dismissed from UNIT, and K-9 is in electrifying form.  And the Kandyman is on Tara in a verse play in iambic pentameters.

Britain is at war.  Night after night the Luftwaffe are bombing London.  A serial killer dubbed the Limehouse Lurker is stalking the rubble-strewn streets.  But a deadlier threat falls from the sky in the shape of a sinister silver sphere…

Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees the sphere crash-land and split open - and glimpses something emerging from within.  But the military dismiss his account of events - the sphere is simply a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way.  What else could it be?

Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace are the only people to believe McBride.  The sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology - and whatever was inside it is now loose upon London.

Before long the Doctor and his friends have embarked on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi operatives - and some very old enemies...

Ace is dead.  Or at least she will be - soon...  In a secret room deep in the TARDIS the Doctor has been examining the body of Ace's future self.  He 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 that there is unfinished business for his to deal with.

What is the secret experiment being conducted by the British Rocket Group?  Why are giant ants appearing in the suburbs of 1950s 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.

'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.

'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.'

Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar.  They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programmes of the dangerously powerful Channel 400.  As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.

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?  And why is a pack of Zzinbriizi Jackals stalking the streets of Blinni Gaar?

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

'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 in the shadows of the colonies?  Who has unleashed 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.