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The Adventures of K9 #3
K9 and the Zeta Rescue
The Adventures of K9 — No. 3
There have been great explosions in the galaxy. There is danger that the whole galaxy will be blown apart. The situation is too dangerous for even the Time Lords to handle. And so they call K9 to their aid. It is he who must save their world.
K9, the amazing robot dog already known to millions through his star appearances in the Doctor Who T.V. series, now features in an exciting set of books of his own. The other K9 books available include:
K9 and the Beasts of Vega
K9 and the Time Trap
K9 and the Missing Planet
There have been great explosions in the galaxy. There is danger that the whole galaxy will be blown apart. The situation is too dangerous for even the Time Lords to handle. And so they call K9 to their aid. It is he who must save their world.
K9, the amazing robot dog already known to millions through his star appearances in the Doctor Who T.V. series, now features in an exciting set of books of his own. The other K9 books available include:
K9 and the Beasts of Vega
K9 and the Time Trap
K9 and the Missing Planet
31 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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About the author
Dave Martin
98 books1 followerDavid Ralph Martin was an accomplished television and film writer. He contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979 in collaboration with Bob Baker. Baker and Martin's most notable contributions to the Doctor Who mythos were probably the robot computer K-9 (created for The Invisible Enemy) and the renegade Time Lord Omega (created for The Three Doctors, Doctor Who's tenth anniversary story).Together they were nicknamed "The Bristol Boys" by the Doctor Who production teams with whom they worked. They also worked together on the 1975 children's science fantasy television serial Sky and Into the Labyrinth.
In the early 1980s, Martin wrote a series of 4 small illustrated children's stories starring K9. In 1986, he wrote the Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure book Search for the Doctor.
In the early 1980s, Martin wrote a series of 4 small illustrated children's stories starring K9. In 1986, he wrote the Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure book Search for the Doctor.
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December 13, 2017
Not as smug in this one, seems K-9 is learning that being emotionless doesn't make him the best dog in the universe. These time lords aren't very impressive given they delegate the task of preventing a supernova to a robot dog. Maybe he'd been going on about how great it was having no emotions so they sent him off to die in an exploding star? His spaceship is pretty sweet.
April 8, 2020
It's a really good kids book with beautiful illustrations. A pleasure to read with my little ones
August 6, 2011
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Another day, another crisis: K9 is sent to investigate vast explosions in the Zeta Cancri system (also referred to Zeta Four Sector) where it is feared that if the stars collide the whole galactic neighbourhood will be devastated. (I checked, and ζ Cancri is indeed a well-known and complex multiple star system, though of course any the consequences of two of the stars colliding would be neither as immediate or as widely devastating as the book would have it.) Here for the first time we see the Time Lords who give K9 his orders, and they are indeed a rum bunch, though reminiscent of the Time Lord Council we were to encounter shortly in The Tides of Time.
The plot is a bit unfocussed: K9 finds a vast prison ship and an attractive young prisoner called Dea; he frees her, and she explains that they are witnessing the last stages of a war between the Telians and Megallans; K9 and Dea then watch as the two sides' leaders mutually destroy each other. K9, having not actually done anything to resolve the crisis, then stays behind to help Dea care for the remaining victims, explaining to the Time Lords on his return that he was aiming to improve his "understanding of the humanoid race", though with negative results. It's an interesting counterpart to the previous book in that K9 appears to feel that his lack of emotions is a potential disability after all.
Another day, another crisis: K9 is sent to investigate vast explosions in the Zeta Cancri system (also referred to Zeta Four Sector) where it is feared that if the stars collide the whole galactic neighbourhood will be devastated. (I checked, and ζ Cancri is indeed a well-known and complex multiple star system, though of course any the consequences of two of the stars colliding would be neither as immediate or as widely devastating as the book would have it.) Here for the first time we see the Time Lords who give K9 his orders, and they are indeed a rum bunch, though reminiscent of the Time Lord Council we were to encounter shortly in The Tides of Time.
The plot is a bit unfocussed: K9 finds a vast prison ship and an attractive young prisoner called Dea; he frees her, and she explains that they are witnessing the last stages of a war between the Telians and Megallans; K9 and Dea then watch as the two sides' leaders mutually destroy each other. K9, having not actually done anything to resolve the crisis, then stays behind to help Dea care for the remaining victims, explaining to the Time Lords on his return that he was aiming to improve his "understanding of the humanoid race", though with negative results. It's an interesting counterpart to the previous book in that K9 appears to feel that his lack of emotions is a potential disability after all.
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