Doctor Who And The Space War

Name: Doctor Who And The Space War
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Malcolm Hulke
ISBN: 9781405666695

Author: Malcolm Hulke

Narrator: Geoffrey Beevers

Unabridged: 4 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BBC Digital Audio

Published: 02/04/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

‘Doctor!’ screamed Jo. ‘Look at that thing. It’s coming straight at us!’ A small, black spaceship, about a mile away, was approaching rapidly. It had no lights, no markings. But some instinct told Jo that the tiny craft meant danger. The year is 2540, and two powers loom large in the Galaxy - Earth and Draconia. After years of peace, their spaceships are now being mysteriously attacked and cargoes rifled. Each suspects the other and full-scale war seems unavoidable.The Doctor, accused of being a Draconian spy, is thrown into prison. And only when the Master appears on the scene do things really begin to move... Geoffrey Beevers, who played an incarnation of the Master in the classic BBC TV Doctor Who series, reads Malcolm Hulke’s complete and unabridged novelisation, based on the TV adventure 'Frontier in Space' and first published by Target Books in 1976. ‘BBC Audiobooks has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers... they benefit from new music and sound effects’ - Doctor Who Magazine

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on December 08, 2021

This is a novelization of the third serial of the tenth season of Doctor Who, originally broadcast in six segments in February and March of 1973. The Doctor is in his third regeneration and is ably accompanied by UNIT operative Jo Grant. Malcolm Hulke adapted his own teleplay for the book, making a......more

Goodreads review by Howard on March 16, 2024

3.5 Stars for Doctor Who and the Space War (audiobook) by Malcolm Hulke read by Geoffrey Beevers. It was fun jumping back into the classic Doctor Who universe.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on March 15, 2020

For Doctor Who fans of a certain age, the Target novelizations of Classic Who stories bring utter nostalgia., being from an age when they could be your only way to experience a story again. For anyone not from that era (including your current reviewer), they might seem a relic of a bygone age. Yet,......more

Goodreads review by Jason on May 13, 2025

Based on his script Frontier in Space this is one of the few novilisations which had a title change between screen and book. It’s number 57 in the Target catalogue. The only cover art it has is by Chris Achilleos. This is a brilliant novelisation. I’d even go so far as to say I think it’s better than......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on April 11, 2022

Frontier in Space is a Malcolm Hulke story that people either love to bits or absolutely despise as a boring Pertwee six-parter. I am firmly in the former camp, though I acknowledge that the serial has quite a few issues, it is a brilliant exploration of colonialism through the lens of the future. I......more