The Devil Goblins from Neptune

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The Devil Goblins from Neptune

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Author(s):

Martin Day; Keith Topping

First Pub:

1997

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

1997

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Internal ID:

389

Series:

The Murder Game

Doctor Who - Past Doctors*

#1 of 76

Doctor Who - Past Doctors*

A series of novels by BBC Worldwide featuring stories of the past Doctors for the television show Doctor Who.

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1) The Devil Goblins from Neptune
2) The Murder Game
3) The Ultimate Treasure
4) Business Unusual
5) Illegal Alien
6) The Roundheads
7) The Face of the Enemy
8) Eye of Heaven
9) The Witch Hunters
10) The Hollow Men
11) Catastrophea
12) Mission: Impractical
13) Zeta Major
14) Dreams of Empire
15) Last Man Running
16) Matrix
17) The Infinity Doctors
18) Salvation
19) The Wages of Sin
20) Deep Blue
21) Players
22) Millennium Shock
23) Storm Harvest
24) The Final Sanction
25) City at World's End
26) Divided Loyalties
27) Corpse Marker
28) Last of the Gaderene
29) Tomb of Valdemar
30) Verdigris
31) Grave Matter
32) Heart of TARDIS
33) Prime Time
34) Imperial Moon
35) Festival of Death
36) Independence Day
37) The King of Terror
38) The Quantum Archangel
39) Bunker Soldiers
40) Rags
41) The Shadow in the Glass
42) Asylum
43) Superior Beings
44) Byzantium!
45) Bullet Time
46) Psi-ence Fiction
47) Dying in the Sun
48) Instruments of Darkness
49) Relative Dementias
50) Drift
51) Palace of the Red Sun
52) Amorality Tale
53) Warmonger
54) Ten Little Aliens
55) Combat Rock
56) The Suns of Caresh
57) Heritage
58) Fear of the Dark
59) Blue Box
60) Loving the Alien
61) The Colony of Lies
62) Wolfsbane
63) Deadly Reunion
64) Scream of the Shalka
65) Empire of Death
66) The Eleventh Tiger
67) Synthespians™
68) The Algebra of Ice
69) The Indestructible Man
70) Match of the Day
71) Island of Death
72) Spiral Scratch
73) Fear Itself
74) World Game
75) The Time Travellers
76) Atom Bomb Blues

Copyright:

Dedication:

Dedicated to Ian Abrahams, who made me do this.
KT

Dedicated to Emily
(a sort of fairy tale for when you're older).
MD

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Extract (may contain spoilers)

The pilot landed the helicopter as close to the construction site as possible. Smoke was pouring out from the turbines; perhaps that was sufficient to fool their attackers into thinking that the Mi-6 would explode on impact. Certainly the small creatures seemed to turn their ambitions elsewhere, and so they missed the craft's abrupt landing, splitting asunder the huge coniferous trees to create its own clearing. Just before the wheels hit the frozen soil the engine casing exploded outward, sending more black smoke into the air.
Liz emerged from the downed helicopter gingerly. The soldiers fanned out to the periphery of the clearing, guns trained upward into the night sky. Engineers, coughing against the smoke, were already swarming over the mountings beneath the rotor blades.
Liz looked up. The night sky was streaked with black and grey, like some grotesque modern painting. There were certainly no helicopters or planes there now. Even the goblin-like creatures seemed to be heading away in a dark swarm. She shivered at the sound of their rustling wings, fading all the while.

Added: 12-Feb-2003

Last Updated: 06-Apr-2020

02-Jun-1997

BBC Books

Date Issued:

02-Jun-1997

Pages*:

283

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

255

Publisher:

BBC Books

ISBN:

0-563-40564-3

ISBN-13:

978-0-563-40564-1

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Black Sheep - Cover Artist

From the outer reaches of the Solar System, alien eyes are surveying the Earth. Eyes as cold and cruel as the methane ice that shrouds their distant world…

The Doctor is perturbed when a spate of deaths follow the break-up of an alien mass in the atmosphere. But this is merely the latest incident in a sinister conspiracy that threatens the entire planet, and the Doctor himself is embroiled in the plans of all the players.

The Brigadier's concern is heightened by the possibility of traitors at the very heart of UNIT. Leaving for Geneva to discover the truth, he little realises the deadly motives of an enemy agent on his own doorstep. The Doctor and Liz, meanwhile, discover that London doesn't have a monopoly on alien invasions.

What are the gargoyle-like creatures that kill without mercy? What do they want from our planet - and how do they figure in top-secret governmental plans?

As the lines between allies and enemies begin to blur, the Doctor finds himself fighting to save the Earth once again. But who will he be saving it for?

Featuring the third Doctor, Liz Shaw and UNIT, this adventure takes place between the TV stories INFERNO and TERROR OF THE AUTONS.

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