Story: 2157 AD, planet Earth. To a Doctor Who fan, this means only one thing…the Dalek Invasion of Earth. But thanks to Craig Hinton, there’s now more. Due to a “sub-space infarction,” which coincidentally occurs at the same time as a “vortex rupture” (this is all tecno-babble deluxe!), the TARDIS gets “destroyed.” The Doctor, along with Roz and Chris, jump into the temporal life boats just in time to escape this cataclysm, only to be separated and spread across our Solar System. The Doctor and Roz end up on Mars, and they’re not alone. A spaceship crashes near to where they arrive, and on board they find a group of random travellers all with seemingly seperate agendas. As night begins to fall, the Doctor and Roz, along with the survivors of the doomed ship, head towards an entrance to the extensive underground cave system built thousands of years ago by the indigenous Martians. Little do they know, they are being followed. Chris, seperated from his crewmates, arrives in a subterranean research facility 50 kilometers beneath the surface of Pluto’s moon Charon. Out here in the farthest reaches of the Solar System are the sole surviving members of a doomed subspace tunnel research station. They are destined to be destroyed by the Daleks, or “invaders,” as they are frequently called…
Review: I enjoyed this book, but boy, is it ever chockablock with continuity! Daleks and Ice Warriors and Sutekh. Oh my! But it has been woven together quite well. I mean, we all know the TARDIS can’t be destroyed. We know how the Dalek invasion turns out. So not much is at risk here. I’m all for old enemies returning, and I’m just beginning a run of books which are filled with old enemies. I just hope I don’t get drowned in all the nostalgia. I give this one 8 out of 10.
Year: 1996
Author: Craig Hinton
Publisher: Virgin
Pages: 256