Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

Name: Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Dan Abnett
ISBN: 9781445867922

Author: Dan Abnett

Narrator: Michael Maloney

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BBC Digital Audio

Published: 01/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

For centuries the Maintainers have worked. With no help from other worlds, they subsist on the food they can grow and that’s little enough. But their purpose, their whole life, is to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth. Life used to be hard. Now as crops fail, livestock sicken, and the temperature drops, it’s becoming impossible. This year’s Winter Season Feast won’t be the usual celebration. It’s no time for optimism or hope – or to welcome unexpected guests. The Doctor, Amy and Rory find a society breaking apart – and then the Doctor’s old enemies the Ice Warriors make their move. With the cold-hearted threat of invasion, the real battle for survival begins. Or does it? The Doctor suspects that behind everything lies a deadlier, even more chilling danger... A thrilling adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.

About Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett is a novelist and award-winning comic-book writer who has written numerous novels for Black Library, Marvel, and more. He currently resides in Maidstone, Kent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on January 02, 2022

This is a book based on the television series. This one has Matt Smith's Doctor with Amy and Rory. Rory and Amy want to go home for Christmas. Instead they end up on a planet where the winters are getting worse and worse and the inhabitants have very little chance of survival. When I read a media tie......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on July 18, 2016

The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in the midst of a post-technological society, facing a looming crisis. For a long term fan, there's a lot of fun in 'The Silent Stars Go By'. We have a returning monster and countless references (some tongue in cheek) to past, classic Doctor Who, if Dan Abnett isn't a......more

Goodreads review by Ken on January 17, 2018

When this book was first published The Ice Warriors hadn't appeared in the modern series, so it was great to finally have a story featuring them. The author really captures Matt Smith's incarnation of The Doctor perfectly.......more

Goodreads review by Samuel on June 23, 2023

Fun story with the Doctor, Amy, and Rory......more

Goodreads review by Dan on May 31, 2012

This Doctor Who book for adults sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive on a snowy planet which is being terraformed. But someone has gone missing and there are giants in the woods! The aliens in this book are the Ice Warriors which have not been seen on TV for many a year. They are written wonderfully......more

Quotes

Like a hunting Martian ploughing remorselessly, effortlessly through freshly fallen snow of an ice world, the novel skilfully establishes its target and never fails to relinquish it; intrigue, scares, uncompromising adventure and all important character development. http://www.eyeofhorus.org.uk