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Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion (Doctor Who Library (Target) #22)
The Doctor walked slowly forward into the cul-de-sac. The giant dinosaur turned its head to focus on the midget now approaching... The Doctor aimed his gun to fire... suddenly from behind came a great roar of anger. He spun round – blocking the exit from the narrow street towered a Tyrannosaurus rex, its savage jaws dripping with blood... The Doctor and Sarah arrive back i
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Published
September 8th 2009
by BBC Audiobooks America
(first published 1976)
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Third Doctor, Sarah, UNIT. Novelisation of 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' with some added details and scenes. One of the particularly memorable novelisations, and a good choice for someone unacquainted with Doctor Who. A catchy idea (London is deserted because of randomly appearing dinosaurs) disguising a thematic study of people's blind spots. The author offers no solutions, only consequences, and therein lies the drama. Only the Doctor emerges unscathed (and Benton, if you're looking for him...more
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1038662.html#cutid2[return][return]I am not sure if this is the best of the Season 11 novels, as Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders clearly takes that trophy, but it is certainly the most interesting. It starts with a lovely vignette of a Scot in London for the football who becomes a victim of the dinosaurs; there are other little bits of depth added as well, Professor Whitaker becoming very camp, and a couple of odd extra details - the Doctor is described as hav...more
Another fantastic Malcolm Hulke novelization...this time of his final script contribution to "Doctor Who". Freed from the filler required for the over-long pace of six episodes, and spared the blight of the horrific SFX of the TV version, Hulke crafts another concise-yet-spellbinding morality play. The revised conclusion makes as interesting a statement about alternate POVs as you'll ever find in a Target novel.
Never read a science fiction book and had heard of Dr. Who through English/Scottish friends, then I found this in the used book store. It's a simple enough read, quick, entertaining for a night, full of metaphor and such from the era. Not bad.
Harlan's introduction was the best part of the book. The rest of it is strictly for hard-core fans who lived in the days before VCRs and DVD players were commonplace. Take the performance part out of Doctor Who, and the fun takes a serious hit.
I remember that I didn't really care for this one as much as Doctor Who: The Aztecs.
Dr. Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm Hulke (1981)
ONe of the Who books that improves on the TV episode, as it isn't hampered by a cheap special effects budget.
The Doctor and JO Grant return to modern day London to find the people are gone and dinosaurs are roaming the streets.
The Doctor and JO Grant return to modern day London to find the people are gone and dinosaurs are roaming the streets.
I recently started to read Dr. Who books. They aren't the greatest written books, but like a lot of science fiction, they are creative.
A fun silly little book.
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Malcolm Hulke was a British science fiction writer best known for his tenure as a writer on the popular series Doctor Who. He is credited with writing eight stories for Doctor Who, mostly featuring the Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee. With Terrance Dicks, he wrote the final serial of Patrick Troughton's run as the Doctor, the epic ten-part story "The War Games." Hulke may be best k...more
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