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Loading... Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzaniby Terrance Dicks
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A straightforward retelling of the TV story from Dicks, but the quality of the original scripts – some of the best written for Doctor Who's classic run – shines through. ( ) This is one of the darker Doctor Who novels. The Doctor and Peri land on Androzani Mino, a planet torn by warring factions. Everyone wants Spectrox, a chemical that extends the human lifespan, and an ugly civil war has broken out. The time-travelers' only ally is the unstable rebel leader Sharez Jek, who is besotted with Peri. Unfortunately, both the Doctor and Peri have been poisoned, and the Doctor embarks on an exhausting quest to get the antidote. I still to this day remember bits of this book: the fumes of the caves, the black leather glove as it caresses Peri's unconscious face, the spilling of the antidote...so upsetting! http://nhw.livejournal.com/896496.html A good Robert Holmes script, turned into an average Terrance Dicks novel. no reviews | add a review
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Peter Davison reads this exciting novelisation of the explosive final adventure for the Fifth Doctor. "With plenty of action the keep the sound designers busy and some haunting music, this an essential addition to the BBC Audio range" - Doctor Who Magazine, December 2018 From the moment they land on the planet Androzani Minor, everything goes wrong for the Doctor and his new young companion, Peri. They become involved in the struggle between brutal gun-runners, ruthless Federation troops, and the hideously mutilated Sharaz Jek, who lurks in the depths of the caves with his android army. Key to the struggle is spectrox, the most valuable substance in the universe. Suitably processed, spectrox is an elixir of life, but in its raw state it is a deadly poison - a fact which will cost the Doctor another of his Time Lord lives... Peter Davison, who portrayed the Fifth Doctor in the hit BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks's novelisation of the original serial by Robert Holmes, frequently named as one of the best adventures of the original Doctor Who series. Duration: 3 hours 5 mins approx. No library descriptions found. |
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