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Kursaal

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Copyright © Peter Anghelides 1998
1998
Science Fiction; Television Tie-In
1998
1 time
See 16
1 - 'There are no protected species on this planet'
2 - 'Kursaal security forces remain baffled'
3 - 'Sorry about the language'
4 - 'I'd value your opinion'
5 - 'Something here doesn't smell right'
6 - 'Bad intelligence'
7 - 'I thought I'd lost her'
8 - 'Manipulation skills are jolly useful'
9 - 'I thought you were the expert'
10 - 'No deals, Doctor'
11 - 'The commander will see you now'
12 - 'Show me where you are'
13 - 'Sometimes the obvious is staring right at you'
14 - 'Not the kind you want to consort with'
15 - 'She's already dead'
16 - 'Give me the moonlight'
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A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.

1) The Eight Doctors
2) Vampire Science
3) The Bodysnatchers
4) Genocide
5) War of the Daleks
6) Alien Bodies
7) Kursaal
8) Option Lock
9) Longest Day
10) Legacy of the Daleks
11) Dreamstone Moon
12) Seeing I
13) Placebo Effect
14) Vanderdeken's Children
15) The Scarlet Empress
16) The Janus Conjunction
17) Beltempest
18) The Face-Eater
19) The Taint
20) Demontage
21) Revolution Man
22) Dominion
23) Unnatural History
24) Autumn Mist
25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) The Blue Angel
28) The Taking of Planet 5
29) Frontier Worlds
30) Parallel 59
31) Shadows of Avalon
32) The Fall of Yquatine
33) Coldheart
34) The Space Age
35) The Banquo Legacy
36) The Ancestor Cell
37) The Burning
38) Casualties of War
39) The Turing Test
40) Endgame
41) Father Time
42) Escape Velocity
43) Earthworld
44) Vanishing Point
45) Eater of Wasps
46) The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) The Slow Empire
48) Dark Progeny
49) City of the Dead
50) Grimm Reality
51) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Hope
54) Anachrophobia
55) Trading Futures
56) The Book of the Still
57) The Crooked World
58) History 101
59) Camera Obscura
60) Time Zero
61) The Infinity Race
62) The Domino Effect
63) Reckless Engineering
64) The Last Resort
65) Timeless
66) Emotional Chemistry
67) Sometime Never...
68) Halflife
69) The Tomorrow Windows
70) The Sleep of Reason
71) The Deadstone Memorial
72) To the Slaughter
73) The Gallifrey Chronicles
For Anne Summerfield
Kursaal always love her
Amy Saraband casually dropped the final few marble bricks behind her on the tunnel floor, where they lay like puzzle teeth.
May contain spoilers
Licking its thin lips, the wolf moved swiftly after Mrs DuPré.
Comments may contain spoilers


TARDIS: "Then the blue box made a very strange sound, flashed its light, and disappeared."
Synopsis (may contain spoilers)
An interesting story and, as is rather obvious, about werewolves.  It does not, however, explain much and leaves a lot of loose threads.

Extract (may contain spoilers)
Kadijk released the eyelid carefully.  'His pupils are fixed and dilated,' he said, staring at Gray's pallid features.  There were bloodstains on the old man's face, smeared up the cheeks as though crudely wiped away.  He thought of how he had used a wet cloth to mop food off his boys' faces when they were toddlers.  There was more blood, thick and dark, on Gray's designer overalls, and clumps of soft brown fur.  He wasn't sure he could see any wounds.  Gray's chest rose and fell slowly.  'Where the hell is that police surgeon?'

'There's a call out,' said Zaterday, who was squatting down beside Saraband, up the slope and on the other side of the cavern by the scattered communications rig.  Kadijk wondered how that had survived when so much of the other equipment had been destroyed.  The whole area smelled like an animal house in the ZooPark, he thought.

Kadijk stood up and looked around again.  Seven in the party, two known dead, two survivors.  They needed the backup now.  And his senior police pathologist had chosen now to go on holiday.  A holiday away from a holiday world.  Kadijk snorted with disgust.  He could feel the rage boiling up in him again.  'Webber told me he was taking some leave.  He didn't tell me he was going to vanish without naming a deputy.  Damn him.  I hope his return flight crashes and burns and there's no one to identify the body.'  He coughed emphatically.  Webber was bound to have some fancy excuse.  'I know the HealthBlock hospital has skeleton staff...'

He was interrupted by Zaterday's girlish giggle.  'Skeleton staff - very droll, Captain.'

'Shut up, Zaterday.'  Kadijk stomped over to the Fodoran, who was still checking Saraband for injuries.  There was a dried trickle of blood which had trailed down onto the collar of her jumpsuit.  Kadijk stared at Zaterday.  'Weren't you supposed to have contacted the HealthBlock and arranged all this?  Jeez, I'm staffed by idiots.  No wonder this planet's never going to be finished in time!  Am I the only person on Kursaal with any sense of urgency?'

At least Gray is still alive, he thought, along with my career.  He shuffled back towards Gray's supine form, stopping briefly at the two ravaged corpses.

Whatever had done this was still loose, possibly nearby.  His support staff were probably still fighting their way through this worst storm he could remember, and he was beginning to wish he'd delegated this job to someone else and joined Webber on his off-world holiday.  What was worse, he was still ravenously hungry.  'I left a perfectly good steak in loganberry sauce back at the FoodBlock, you know,' he called over to Zaterday.  'It was more than compensating for the piss-poor pea soup they gave me for the first course.'

As he spoke, his eyes never left the corpses.  He had seen worse when he was a junior officer back on Kandax.  At his first murder, the SOC officer Bhairom had brought him over - 'to get your opinion' - pushed him into the tent protecting the scene of crime, and shown him the two kids' bodies without any warning.  Junior Officer Kadijk just had time to dodge back out again before he had brought up his whole lunch, to the cheery accompaniment of his senior's laughter.  It was the first and only time he'd ever thrown up when viewing a body.

Characters
Doctor 8 - (Doctor)
Samantha Jones - (Companion)

 

Added: 01-Jan-2001
Last Updated: 14-Feb-2025

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 05-Jan-1998
BBC Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
05-Jan-1998
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
£4.99
Pages*:
282
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
670
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-563-40578-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-563-40578-8
Printing:
1
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Credits:
Blacksheep  - Cover Artist
Kursaal is a pleasure world, a huge theme park for the Cronus system - or rather it will be if it isn't destroyed during construction.

Eco-terrorists want the project halted to preserve vital archeological sites - areas containing the last remains of the long-dead Jax, an ancient wolf-like race, whose remains are being buried beneath the big-business tourist attraction.

Sam falls in with the environmentalists and finds her loyalties divided.  Meanwhile, the Doctor's own investigations lead him to believe the Jax are not extinct at all.

Cut off from the TARDIS, separated from his companion and pursued for murder, the Doctor realises Kursaal hides a terrible secret - and that Sam is being affected by events more than anyone would guess...

This book is another in the series of adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam.
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First published 1998
First printing assumed
USA: $5.95
Canada: $7.99

Original series broadcast on the BBC Format © BBC 1963
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BBC Books
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