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Series is Doctor Who - 8th Doctor
Doctor Who - 8th Doctor:

A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.
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1 1997 1997 (1) The Eight Doctors
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'Trust the TARDIS...'

Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the Doctor falls foul of a final booby-trap set by his arch enemy, the Master.

When he recovers, the disoriented Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called "the Doctor" - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the TARDIS, and his hands move over the controls of their own accord.

The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and Samantha Jones, a rebellious teenager from Coal Hill School.

But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely familiar faces...
2 1997 1997 (2) Vampire Science
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Jonathan Blum  
Kate Orman  
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In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds.  Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco.

Some want to coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment to find a new source of blood.  But some would rather go out in a blaze of glory - and UNIT's attempts to contain them could provoke another devastating war.

The Doctor strikes a dangerous bargain, but even he might not be able to keep the city from getting caught in the crossfire.  While he finds himself caught in a web of old feuds and high-tech schemes, his new companion Sam finds out just how deadly travelling with the Doctor can be.
3 1997 1997 (3) The Bodysnatchers
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It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the dead are being stolen from their graves - men, women and children alike - for the sinister purpose of a very mysterious gentleman.

When the Doctor and Sam arrive, they are witness to a horrifying scene in the evil-smelling fog: something rises up from the filthy waters of the Thames and devours a man - a man terrified for his life and on the run from the devil himself...

Teaming up with an old friend, pathologist Professor George Litefoot, the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Together with Sam, they discover there is a far graver threat facing London than just earthly grave robbers. Deadly alien beings the Doctor has encountered before are at work, and they bring a whole new twist to the word 'bodysnatchers'…
4 1997 1997 (4) Genocide
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Years after leaving UNIT, Jo Grant receives a plea for help from an old acquaintance. A paleontological study of the earliest known humans is apparently under threat from a UNIT force lead by a captain that does not officially exist. Investigating further, she begins to find herself out of her depth - and out of the twentieth century altogether...

Meanwhile the Doctor and Sam visit Earth in 2109 - but there is no trace of the human race. Earth is the home of the Tractites, a peaceful race who have been living there for hundreds and thousands of years. Astonished and appalled, the Doctor travels back in time to see just what went wrong in Earth's pre-history.

Why have Jo and the expedition been taken back in time? Are the Tractites all they seem? Finally, separated from the TARDIS, the Doctor's last chance to put things right rests with Sam - but has even she turned against him?
5 1997 1997 (5) War of the Daleks
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The Doctor is repairing the TARDIS systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving through space, the Quetzel.

When another ship approaches and takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travelers on board - there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold. Delani, the captain of the second ship, orders the pod to be opened. The Doctor is powerless to intervene as Davros is awakened once again.

Bit this is no out-and-out rescue of Davros. Delani and his crew are Thals, the sworn enemies of the Daleks. They intend to use Davros as a means to wipe out the Daleks, finally ridding the universe of the most aggressive, deadly race ever to exist. But the Doctor is still worried. For there is a signal beacon inside the pod, and even now a Dalek ship is closing in…
6 1997 1997 (6) Alien Bodies
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On an island in the East Indies, in a lost city buried deep in the heart of the rainforest, agents of the most formidable powers in the galaxy are gathering. They have been invited there to bid for what could turn out to be the deadliest weapon ever created.

When the Doctor and Sam arrive in the city, the Time Lord soon realises they've walked into the middle of the strangest auction in history - and what's on sale to the highest bidder is something more horrifying than even the Doctor could have imagined, something that could change his life forever.

And just when it seems his life can't get any worse, the Doctor finds out who else is on the guest list…
7 1998 1998 (7) Kursaal
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Kursaal is a pleasure world, a huge theme park for the Cronus system - or rather it will be if it isn't destroyed during construction.

Eco-terrorists want the project halted to preserve vital archeological sites - areas containing the last remains of the long-dead Jax, an ancient wolf-like race, whose remains are being buried beneath the big-business tourist attraction.

Sam falls in with the environmentalists and finds her loyalties divided.  Meanwhile, the Doctor's own investigations lead him to believe the Jax are not extinct at all.

Cut off from the TARDIS, separated from his companion and pursued for murder, the Doctor realises Kursaal hides a terrible secret - and that Sam is being affected by events more than anyone would guess...
8 1998 1998 (8) Option Lock
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Landing in present-day England, all appears serene as the Doctor and Sam emerge from the TARDIS into the idyllic grounds of the Silver family's ancestral home.  Only when they enter the house do they expect things are not what they seem.

How far-reaching is the strange power of a secret society almost 700 years old, and how is it linked to the mysterious Station Nine?  And what is the significance of a series of paintings that drove a man to suicide?

From thirteenth century England to the former Soviet Union, from the United States to the cold wastes of space, the various strands of a complex plan come together and threaten to engulf the world in a nightmare of nuclear destruction...
9 1998 1998 (9) Longest Day
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Its surface ravaged by colliding time-fields, the planet Hirath is a patchwork of habitable areas separated by impenetrable zones of wild temporal fluctuations.

The planet's unique biosphere is being exploited by an uncaring company happy to rent out temporarily isolated chunks of the planet to the highest bidder - no questions asked.  But the controlling computer seems to be malfunctioning, and the viability of the whole planet hangs in the balance - along with countless thousands of lives.

Arriving at Hirath's control base, the Doctor and Sam are soon separated and trapped on the dying planet.  While Sam becomes the focus of attention in a barren penal settlement, the Doctor discovers the secret of Hirath's unique condition - just as a race of hideous bloodthirsty alien creatures arrive in force to reclaim it.

Caught up in a desperate struggle for survival, it seems time has run out for every living creature on Hirath - not least Sam and the Doctor...
10 1998 1998 (10) Legacy of the Daleks
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England in the late 22nd century is slowly recovering from the devastation that followed the Daleks' invasion.  The Doctor's very first travelling companion - his granddaughter, Susan - is where he left her, helping to rebuild Earth for the survivors.  But danger still remains all around...

While searching for his lost companion, Sam, the Doctor finds himself in Domain London.  But it seems that Susan is now missing too, and his efforts to find her lead to confrontation with the ambitious lord Haldoran, who is poised to take control of southern England through all-out war.  With the help of a sinister adviser, Haldoran's plans are already advanced.  Power cables have been fed down a mineshaft, reactivating a mysterious old device of hideous power.  But has the Dalek presence on Earth really been wiped out?  Or are there still traps set for the unwary?

The Doctor learns to his cost once again that when dealing with the evil of the Daleks, nothing can be taken at face value...
11 1998 1998 (11) Dreamstone Moon
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Sam is on her own, but her distance from the Doctor doesn't make for a trouble-free life.  Rescued from an out-of-control spaceship, she finds herself on a tiny moon which is the only known source of dreamstone, a mysterious crystalline substance that can preserve your dreams - or give you nightmares.

Pitched into the middle of a conflict between the mining company extracting dreamstone and ecological protesters, Sam thinks it's easy to decide who the good guys are - until people start dying, and the killers seem to be the same species as some of her new friends.

Meanwhile, the Doctor has tracked Sam down, but before he can reach her he's co-opted by the Dreamstone Mining Company and their sinister military advisers.  Suddenly, it's war - and the Doctor is forced to fight against what he believes in.  He alone suspects that dreamstone isn't what it appears to be.  But nobody's listening - and nobody could dream who the real enemy is...
12 1998 1998 (12) Seeing I
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He has no idea why Samantha Jones ran away from him.

Sam is homeless on the streets of the colony world of Ha'olam, trying to face what's just happened between her and the Doctor.  He's searching for her, and for answers.  While she struggles to survive in a strange city centuries from home, the Doctor comes across evidence of alien involvement in the local mega-corporation, INC - and is soon confined to a prison that becomes a hell of his own making.

Where did INC's mysterious eye implants really come from?  What is the company searching for in the deserts?  What is hiding in the shadows, watching their progress?

Faced with these mysteries, separated by half a world, Sam and the Doctor each face a battle - Sam to rebuild her life, the Doctor to stay sane.  And if they do find each other again, what will be left of either of them?
13 1998 1998 (13) Placebo Effect
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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...
14 1998 1998 (14) Vanderdeken's Children
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A mysterious disturbance in the hyperspacial vortex causes the Doctor and Sam to materialise the TARDIS in deep space.  Here they find that a huge derelict alien craft has become the subject of a dangerous confrontation between starships from the rival systems of Nimos and Emindar.  At the centre of the dispute is a ruthless politician with secrets of his own - a man who is willing to risk innocent lives to claim the derelict for himself.

While the Doctor and Sam find themselves accompanying an expedition into the heart of the alien vessel, strange and frightening incidents spread terror through the watching ships.  But exploring deeper into the derelict disturbs a sinister presence and takes the expedition towards an inevitable confrontation with fate - and perhaps beyond the boundaries of life itself...
15 1998 1998 (15) The Scarlet Empress
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Arriving in the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught in a bizarre struggle for survival.

Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers - powers that a member of the Doctor's own race is keen to possess herself: the eccentric time traveler and philanderer known only as Iris Wildthyme.

As the real reasons for Iris's obsession becomes clear, the Doctor and Sam must embark on a perilous journey across deserts, mountains, forests and oceans.  Both friends and foes are found among spirits, djinns, alligator men and golden bears - but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?
16 1998 1998 (16) The Janus Conjunction
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The planets Janus Prime and Menda are diametrically opposed on orbit around a vast Red Giant star.  But while Menda is rich and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime endures everlasting night, its moon causing a permanent solar eclipse.

When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Janus Prime, they find themselves in the middle of a war between rival humans colonising the area.  The planet is littered with ancient ruins, and the Mendans are using a mysterious hyperspatial link left behind by the planet's former inhabitants.  But what is its true purpose?

The Doctor and Sam must piece together a centuries old puzzle.  How can Janus Prime's moon weigh billions of tons more than it should?  Why is the planet riddled with deadly radiation?  As the violence escalates around them, will the time-travelers survive to discover the answer?
17 1998 1998 (17) Beltempest
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The people of Belannia II see their sun, Bel, shrouded in night for a month following an impossible triple eclipse.  When Bel is returned to them a younger, brighter, hotter star, it is the beginning of the end for the entire solar system...

100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Belannia IV, where the population is under threat as disaster looms - immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are surging through this area of space.

While the time travellers attempt to help the survivors and ease the devastation, a religious suicide-cult leader is determined to spread a new religion through Bel's system - and his word may prove even more dangerous that the terrible forces brought into being by the catastrophic changes in the sun...
18 1999 1999 (18) The Face-Eater
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The Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II, one of the earliest planets colonised in humanity's first big push into space.  But instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest.

The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out.  Humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.

Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City.  It seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well founded - that the sinister Face-Eater from Proximan mythology has awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who defile its world...
19 1999 1999 (19) The Taint
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The TARDIS has finally brought the Doctor and Sam back to Earth - and straight into danger.

It is 1963.  Six very different people have been gathered together for study by parapsychologist Charles Roley in his stately home outside London.  All of them claim to have been possessed by the devil, and have shared similar delusions - they describe the same bizarre 'death cave' riddled with demons.

Roley's experiments are having a gradual yet terrifying effect on his subjects, and the Doctor and Sam discover the connections between those tainted with the madness are more disturbing than anyone could guess.

For the Doctor, too, has seen the cave they describe - on a dead world, billions of years ago.
20 1999 1999 (20) Demontage
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The Vega Station - a haven for gamblers, art lovers and duty-free shoppers, the one place where the Battrulians and their erstwhile enemies, the Canvine, meet and mix, in neutral space.  A pressure point, an explosive mixture.  And just as the new president of Battrul is about to arrive, the TARDIS crew turn up.

Fitz is in trouble.  He's accidentally got himself hired as an assassin while trying to emulate James Bond.  And he's upset Bigdog Caruso, the unofficial Canvine leader on Vega.

Sam is in trouble.  She's become involved with the key witness to a murder, and the witness has vanished.

The Doctor, meanwhile, has been roped into help with investigations into robbery, sabotage and the murder, as well as to sort out Fitz's problems, Sam's problems, and the President's safety.  He's in his element.

And if they should get bored, there's a hitman on the loose, monsters roaming the station corridors, and exhibition of art by a painter who depicted his own death, and the opera.
21 1999 1999 (21) Revolution Man
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1967: The Revolution has just started. All you need is love - but the ability to bend space and time helps. An entity called the Revolution Man is writing his graffiti across the surface of the Earth, using a drug called Om-Tsor.

Trouble is, none of this was supposed to happen. The Doctor knows that the Revolution Man isn't for real, that he's part of the problem, not part of the solution. But how is he going to convince the flower children? How is he going to convince Sam? And he doesn't dare tell Fitz...

1968: The Chinese People's Army want to defeat the capitalists. Om-Tsor is the most powerful means available, and the source is on their doorstep. If half of India is immolated - well you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs...

1969: The Revolution Man has decided. Mankind is evil, not good. The only way forward is to destroy all of it. The Doctor and Sam struggle to find him but time is running out...
22 1999 1999 (22) Dominion
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When the Doctor loses both Sam and the TARDIS after an encounter with a mysterious dimensional anomaly, he finds himself affected in a very fundamental way, doubting his own powers and making crucial errors of judgment.

Stranded amongst the forests and lakes of southern Sweden in the summer of 1999, it quickly becomes clear to the Doctor and Fitz that something unusual - and dangerous - is afoot. Fitz finds himself acting the hero as the search for Sam gets them involved with investigations into strange disappearances - and manifestations of even stranger creatures.

Events quickly spiral out of control as the Doctor and Fitz become entangled with a secret deep beneath the forest, a secret which could save Sam and an entire doomed alien race - but destroy the Earth in the process.
23 1999 1999 (23) Unnatural History
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'They called it the Millennium Effect,' said the Doctor.  'But the millennium was only beginning.'

San Francisco has changed since the start of 2000.  The laws of physics keep having acid flashbacks.  There are sightings of creatures from outside our dimensions, stranded aliens and surrealist street performers.  The city has become a mecca for those who revel in impossible creatures - and those who want to see them pinned down and put away.

Sam's past is catching up with her - a past she didn't know she had.  The Doctor is in danger of becoming the pièce de rèsistance in a twisted collection of creatures.  And beneath the waters of the Bay, something huge is waiting.

With time running out, the Doctor must choose which to sacrifice - a city of wonders, or the life of an old and dear friend.
24 1999 1999 (24) Autumn Mist
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The Ardennes, December 1944: the Nazi forces are making their last offensive in Europe - a campaign which will come to be called the Battle of the Bulge.  But there is a third side to this battle: an unknown and ancient force which seems to pay little heed to the laws of nature.

Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to?  What is the true nature of the military experiments conducted by both sides?

The Doctor, Sam and Fitz must seek out the truth on a battlefield where no one and nothing is quite what it seems…
25 1999 1999 (25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
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Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch.  Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and discovered that her entire life had been stage-managed by a time-travelling voodoo cult.  Funny how things turn out, isn't it?

Now Sam's back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge and good old-fashioned depravity.  But she's about to learn the first great truth of the universe: that however corrupt and amoral your own race may be, there's always someone in the galaxy that can make you look like a beginner.

Ms Jones has just become a minor player in a million-year-old power struggle… and as it happens, so has the Doctor.

Both of him, actually.
26 1999 1999 (26) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
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They call it the Dead Frontier.  Its as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.

But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown.  The past is meeting the present, cause is meeting effect, and the TARDIS crew is about to be caught in the crossfire.

The Third Doctor.  The Eighth Doctor.  Sam.  Fitz.  Sarah Jane Smith.  Soon, one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one of them will be something less than human…
27 1999 1999 (27) The Blue Angel
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This is a story about Winter…

As the Doctor becomes involved in affairs aboard the Federation Starship Nepotist, his old friend Iris Wildthyme is rescuing old ladies who are being attacked by savage owls in a shopping mall.

And, in a cat's cradle of interdimensional Corridors lies the Valcean City of Glass, whose King Dedalus awaits the return of his angel son and broods over the oncoming war…
28 1999 1999 (28) Taking of Planet 5
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Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly.  Now, in Antarctica, an archeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict.  And it's alive.

Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe.  Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.

Outside the ordered universe, things move.  They're hungry.  And something has given them the scent of our space/time.

In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene - but it's more than just a local conflict of interest.  One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.
29 1999 1999 (29) Frontier Worlds
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What strange attraction lures people to the planet Drebnar?  When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find out why?

He discovers that scientists from the mysterious Frontier Worlds Corporation have set up a base on the planet, and are trying to blur the distinction between people and plants.  The TARDIS crew plan to prevent a biological catastrophe - but their plan goes wrong all too soon.

Compassion finds her undercover work so engrossing she risks losing her detachment.  Fitz seems too distracted by the local population to keep his eye on Compassion.  So when the Doctor gets trapped in a freezing wilderness, who can stop him falling victim to a lethal experiment in genetic modification?

For something else has been lured to Drebnar, something that Frontier Worlds Corporation will ruthlessly exploit without care for the consequences - an ancient alien organism which threatens to snuff out Drebnar's solar system.
30 2000 2000 (30) Parallel 59
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Fleeing a doomed space station in tiny life capsules, the Doctor and Compassion find themselves prisoners of Parallel 59, a militaristic power on the planet Skale.  Meanwhile Fitz finds himself apparently safe in Mechta, a colony for convalescents.

A space-race is in full swing on Skale, with each of the planet's many blocs desperate to be the first to reach the stars.  If the Doctor's knowledge helps Parallel 59 succeed, the consequences for the rest of the world could be devastating.

But Fitz knows nothing of his friends' predicament.  Enjoying his new life, he's not even sure he wants to be rescued - which is a good thing.

Because the Doctor has no intention of going to Mechta.  He's decreed that Fitz's new found utopia must be totally destoyed.
31 2000 2000 (31) Shadows of Avalon
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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 hope for the future.

Now is seems they'll have to make a new life for themselves with the Celts who live in the Dreamlands.  Perhaps even help the Celts' negotiate with the Unseelie, the sinister 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 fearsom dragons duelling jet fighters, vicious Gallifreyan agents causing havoc, and Compassion fighting against her ultimate fate, can the Doctor save the world, his best friend, and himself?
32 2000 2000 (32) The Fall of Yquatine
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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, where he meets Arielle, the President's runaway girlfriend.  But is she 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.
33 2000 2000 (33) Coldheart
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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 - degenerate 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 that 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-fraught subterranean expedition to prevent a disaster that could destroy the very essence of Eskon… its cold heart.
34 2000 2000 (34) The Space Age
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This is the city: a technological paradise built by an advanced race.  It's 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 cinstructed 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.
35 2000 2000 (35) The Banquo Legacy
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Andy Lane  
Justin Richards  
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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 boundries 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 who have 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.  And he's desperate to uncover the Time Lord agent who has him trapped.
36 2000 2000 (36) The Ancestor Cell
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Peter Anghelides  
Stephen Cole  
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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 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…
37 2001 2001 (37) The Burning
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Justin Richards  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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 artifacts.  People are dying.  Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: a man with no name, no history.

Only on 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.  And only one man knows that this is just the beginning of the end of the world.

Only one man can stop The Burning.
38 2000 2000 (38) Casualties of War
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Steve Emmerson  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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 the nearby Hawkswick Hall, a psychiatric hospital for shell-shocked soldiers, where Private Daniel Corey senses a gathering of 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?
39 2000 2000 (39) The Turing Test
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Paul Leonard  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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The Second World War is drawing to a close.  Alan Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort, is called in to break a mysterious new cypher.  It's coming from Germany, and everyone assumes that it is German - everyone except Turing's new friend, the Doctor.  Indeed is 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 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…
40 2000 2000 (40) Endgame
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Terrance Dicks  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Winning is everything - and nothing.
Losing is nothing - and everything.
All that matters is the game.


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…
41 2001 2001 (41) Father Time
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'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.

With UFOs filling the skies, a giant robot stalking the Derbyshire hills, and alien hunters searching 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 hold 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?
42 2001 2001 (42) Escape Velocity
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Colin Brake  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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'You know me then?' asked the Doctor, a little tentatively.  'You're the Doctor,' replied Fitz, a slight frown worming its way onto his forehead.  'Yes, yes, yes, the Doctor, of course I am.'  The Doctor smiled, genuinely pleased to see a familiar face, 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 Anji's 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 - and at the far reaches of the Solar System their battle fleet awaits...

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...?
43 2001 2001 (43) Earthworld
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Jacqueline Rayner  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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 is probably only pretending to know what's going on - because if her really knew, surely he qould have mentioned the homicidal triplet princesses, the teen terrorists, the deadly android doubles (and triples) and the hosts of mad robots?

Anji's never going to complain about Monday mornings in the office again…
44 2001 2001 (44) Vanishing Point
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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.
45 2001 2001 (45) Eater of Wasps
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Trevor Baxendale  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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 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.
46 2001 2001 (46) The Year of Intelligent Tigers
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Jonathan Blum  
Kate Orman  
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'Doctor!' said Anji.  This couldn't be happening, he couldn't just walk out on them!  'Look, give them a chance, they're frightened, they're only -'

'Human?'  He took a deep breath, as though to stop himself from saying anything more.  'Now stay!'


The weather is going to hell.  The tigers are coming to town.  And the Doctor has taken his violin and vanished.

The island world of Hitchemus is home to a colony of musicians and seemingly harmless alien animals.  When the storms and the tigers break loose, the Doctor tries to protect the humans - but the humans don't want him.  When he ventures into the wilderness in search of the tigers' secrets, Fitz and Anji find themselves on their own, trying to prevent war.

With both sides eager for blood, and hurricanes on the horizon, the Doctor must decide whether this time he's on the side of the human race.
47 2001 2001 (47) The Slow Empire
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Enter, with the Doctor, Anji and Fitz, an Empire where the laws of physics are quite preposterous - nothing can travel faster than the speed of light and time travel is impossible

A thousand worlds believing they are the Centre, each under a malign control of which they themselves are completely unaware.

As the only beings able to travel between the worlds instantaneously, the Doctor and his friends must piece together the Imperial puzzle and decide what should be done.  The soldiers of the Ambassadorial Corps are always, somehow, hard on their heals.  Their own minds are busily fragmenting under metatemporal stresses.  And their only allies are a man whi might not be quite what he seems (and says so at great length) and a creature we shall merely call... the Collector.
48 2001 2001 (48) Dark Progeny
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The planet Ceres Alpha is being 'developed'.  The surface crawls with gigantic city-machines that are churning and rebuilding the world, seeding it with tomorrow's vegetation so that full-scale colonisation can follow.

But Gaskill Tyran, head of the biosphere-engineers WorldCorp, is finding things more difficult than he would like.  The whole project seems to be falling apart under an ever-increasing burden of mysteries.

Why has a batch of strange babies been born with telekinetic powers?  Why wont the terraforming go according to pan?  Why are there more and more problems with the comp systems that run the city-machines?

It seems there may be conspirators.  A rival Corporation with its eye on the contract for Ceres Alpha.  And Tyran's patience is now wearing thin.

But then he gets his answer.  A mysterious infiltrator known only as the Doctor.
49 2001 2001 (49) City of the Dead
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'Nothing can get into the TARDIS,' the Doctor whispered.  Then he realized that Nothing had.

New Orleans, the early 21st century.  A dealer in morbid artefacts has been murdered.  A charm carved from human bone is missing.  An old plantation, miles from any water, has been destroyed by a tidal wave.

Anji goes dancing.  Fitz goes grave-robbing.  The Doctor attracts the interest of a homicide detective and the enmity of a would-be magician.  He wants to find out the secret of the redneck thief and his blind wife.  He'd like to help the crippled curator of a museum of magic.  He's trying to refuse politely the request of a crazy young artist that he pose naked with the man's wife.

Most of all, he needs to figure out what all of them have to do with the Void that is hunting him down.

Before it catches him.
50 2001 2001 (50) Grimm Reality
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Simon Bucher-Jones  
Kelly Hale  
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There is a world where wishes can come true.  Where any simpleton can become a king and any scullery maid might be a princess in disguise.  Kindness and virtue  are rewarded, and the wicked are made to dance in red-hot shoes until they die.  But a witches oven will cook both the virtuous and the wicked alike, and many a frog-prince is crushed beneath the wheels of a cart before he gets that magic kiss.

This world has its own rules and it doesn't care that a certain Doctor Know-All and his friends don't know them.

Now other outsiders have come to the world - traders from the stars seeking the treasures that fell from the rip in the sky.  There are riddles to be solved, contests to win, flax to spin.  The world to survive.

But the World of Wishes is itself in danger from a race of beings with only one wish.  And there is a Princess asleep, and a beast awake - and Giants.






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