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Book List
Author is Simon Messingham
#Year1st ReadTitleAuthor(s)My Rating 
1 1999 1999 The Face-Eater
Doctor Who - 8th Doctor #18
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The Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II, one of the earliest planets colonised in humanity's first big push into space.  But instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest.

The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out.  Humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.

Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City.  It seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well founded - that the sinister Face-Eater from Proximan mythology has awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who defile its world...
2 2004 2004 The Indestructible Man
Doctor Who - Past Doctors #69
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The Myloki.  Mysterious aliens from beyond Space and Time.

Their target: EARTH


The human defenders of PRISM are enmeshed in a doomed interstellar war against an unknowable invader with the power to possess, duplicate and destroy from within.

Only one man stands in their way.  A man destiny has made indestructable.

Against all odds the legendary Indestructable Man saves the Earth but victory comes at the highest price.  The world economy collapses, governments crumble and PRISM itself is torn apart by a best-selling exposé.

AD2096; PRISM has gone underground, becoming the clandestine SILOET headed by new commander Hal Bishop.

Bishop receives an urgent summons to his headquarters.  An infiltrator has been unmasked and captured in the heart of SILOET itself.  Fatally wounded, the infiltrator makes a miraculous recovery.  It appears he is indestructable.

The implications are terrifying.

The Myloki may just have returned.  And who is left to stop them?

This adventure features the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.
3 2002 2002 The Infinity Race
Doctor Who - 8th Doctor #61
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Welcome to the Selonart Trans-Global Regatta - The ultimate sporting event in the universe!

The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn.

Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart - a planet famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful demonstration of power by Earth's ruthless multi-stellar corporations.

Is Sabbath's goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart native?

As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises he is being manoeuvered into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him?

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor
4 1994 Strange England
Doctor Who - New Adventures #29
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'The more the Doctor dreams,' the Quack said, 'the more real I become. He has not yet dreamed me fully, but he will.'

When the TARDIS lands in the idyllic gardens of a Victorian country house, Ace knows that something terrible is bound to happen. The Doctor disagrees. Sometimes things really are as perfect as they seem.

Then they discover a young girl whose body has been possessed by a beautiful but lethal insect. And they meet the people of the House: innocents who have never known age, pain, or death - until now.

Now their rural paradise is turning into a world of nightmare. A world in which the familiar is being twisted into something evil and strange. A world ruled by the Quack, whose patent medicines are deadly poisons and whose aim is the total destruction of the Doctor.
5 2000 2000 Tomb of Valdemar
Doctor Who - Past Doctors #29
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Millenia ago, the great god Valdemar held sway over the universe.  Somehow the Old Ones defeated this dark presence and entombed him beneath the acid skies of Ashkellia, before disappearing themselves forever.

Ove the centuries, the myths of Valdemar grow, crossing solar systems and races.  A novelist, Miranda Pelham, pieces together the Dark God's story.  Unfortunately for her, revolution and the rise of a New Protectorate force her to strike an agreement with the decadent necromancer Paul Neville to find the loast Ashkellia.

The Doctor and Romana, despite their best efforts, become emroiled in the complex conspiracies and attempts to re-discover Valdemar.  High in the boiling sulphuric acid clouds, in the Palace of the Old Ones, a place where reality and dreams collide, the way is being prepared for the resurrection of the Dark One.

The Doctor faces an agonising choice: should he continue with his quest to gather the segments of the Key to Time, or prevent the rebirth of a being so powerful that its release will alter the entire fabric of the universe?
6 1998 1998 Zeta Major
Doctor Who - Past Doctors #13
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'You've decided to concentrate on deriving energy from the kinetic force of planetary movement...'

A glib remark from the Doctor to a desperate scientist has had far-reaching effects on the empire of Morestra.  Eminent Morestran scientist Sorenson, attempting to find a new power source for his planet, risked a universal catastrophe by attempting to steal anti-matter crystals from the distant planet Zeta Minor.  The Doctor averted disaster, but has in effect sent all Morestra up a technological cul-de-sac.

Now in his fifth regeneration, the Doctor becomes involved once again in Morestra's future.  The empire has become a theocracy, and the all-powerful Church, finally discovering that Sorenson's world-spanning energy tower will never work, is attempting to save face by covertly returning to Zeta Minor to steal the powerful minerals they need.  This time, they believe they are prepared for all eventualities...

With his companions embroiled in ever-shifting loyalties and intrigues of the Morestran court, only the Doctor accepts that the forces of the anti-matter universe can never interact with our own.  Can he stop something he started two thousand years ago?






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