'I'm a Time Lord, not a bank manager. when I invested in this place I had no idea that it would succeed. I mean - a time travelling restaurant?'

The Crystal Bucephalus: a restaurant patronized by the highest echelons of society in the 10th millennium. The guests are projected back in time to sample the food and drink of a bygone age.

When the galaxy's most notorious crime boss is murdered in the Bucephalus, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are immediately arrested for the killing. To prove their innocence, they must track down the perpetrators of slaughter and sabotage, and uncover a conspiracy which has been 5,000 years in the making.

Ten Stories - Seven Doctors - One Chain of Events

'The consequences of having the Doctor crashing around our universe can be colossal... The Doctor is a time traveller.  Never forget that, because it is central to an understanding of what makes him so terribly dangerous.  Most of us, in our tiny, individual ways are involved in the writing of history.  Only the Doctor is out there rewriting it.'

But even the Doctor may not see the threads that bind the universe together.  Perhaps, instead, he cuts right through them.  Who knows what events he sets in motion without even realizing?  Who knows what consequences may come back - or forward - to haunt him?

Ten completely new tales from the universe of Doctor Who.  Seven Doctors' lives, inexorably linked in a breathtaking chain of consequences.

As always, the editors have assembled a dazzling array of writing talent, from award winning TV script writers to acclaimed New Adventures authors.  And, as before, there are the usual contributions from talented new writers.

GODENGINE

AN ORIGINAL DOCTOR WHO NOVEL

'We're on Mars, we're surrounded by Ice Warriors, and the TARDIS has been destroyed.  Business as usual, I suppose.'

Stranded on Mars, the Doctor and Roz team up with a group of colonists on a journey to find much needed supplies at the North Pole.  But when their expedition is joined by a party of Ice Warrior pilgrims, tensions are stretched to breaking point.  Meanwhile Chris finds himself on Pluto's moon, trapped with a group of desperate scientists in a deadly race against time.

The year is 2157: the Earth has been invaded, and forces are at work on Mars to ensure that the mysterious invaders are successful.  Unless the Doctor can solve the riddle of the GodEngine, the entire course of human history will be changed.

DOCTOR WHO

Craig Hinton is the author of two previous Doctor Who novels and is a regular contributer to TV Zone and Cult Times magazines.  Although he lives on a different planet from most people, he often visits Earth to frighten the natives.

'The Millennium, Mel: the last New Year's eve of the Twentieth century. But it's definitely not party time.'

England, 1999: the Doctor and Mel have come to London to celebrate the new year with old friends - and to heal old wounds. But others are making more sinister preparations to usher in the new millennium. A software house is about to run a program that will change the fabric of reality. And an entity older than the universe is soon to be reborn.

When Anne Travers' fear of the great Intelligence and millionaire philanthropist Ashley Chapel's secret researches combine, London is transformed into a dark and twisted mirror image populated by demons and sorcerers. Only the Doctor can put things right, but his friends have also been shockingly changed and he cannot trust anybody - least of all himself.

'Hear me, Lord of Time.  We are a vengeful people.  Our reach is infinite and our patience eternal.  For your actions, we aill have vengeance.  And the vengeance of the Chronovores is terror beyond imagining.'

Five thousand years ago, the Priest Kings of Atlantis attempted to enslave Kronos, greatest of the Chronovores.  They failed, with catastrophic results.  Thirty years ago, the Master sought to do the same, and barely escaped with his life.

London, 2003: torn apart by tragedy, the Doctor and Mel have gone their seperate ways, only to find their paths crossing once more.  While the Doctor tries to stop an old friend from making a terrible mistake, Mel is horrified to learn that her best friend has fallen under the influence of the Master.

As the Master desperately tries to defend himself against the power of Kronos, the Doctor and Mel must overcome thier differences.  If they don't, the Quantum Archangel will be triumphant.  And if she is, nothing in the Universe will ever be the same again.

'We've been colonising other planets for a thousand million years,' she said, turning to the camera and giving her trademark smile.  All right, Mr Matheson - I'm ready for my close-up.'

In the 101st century, nostalgia is everything.  Television from the 20th century is the new obsession, and Reef Station One is receiving broadcasts from a distant Earth of the past, transmitting them to a waiting audience.

When the Doctor and Peri arrive on Reef Station One, they find a fractured society, totally dependant on film and television.  They also discover that the Republic's greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor's oldest enemies.

As the alien influence spreads its tentacles throughout the Republic, the Doctor and Peri must unravel the link between Walter J. Matheson's business empire and the invaders.  Because, if they don't, they'll end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time.

This adventure features the Sixth Doctor and Peri.

Iris is an enigma... She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery. With a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped to her head. She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, with a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped her head and she's puffing on a gold-tipped black Sobranie.

And she drives a big red double-decker bus, ostensibly bound for Putney Common. Except it's not. She's been to Putney Common precisely once and that was by accident. That was when she picked up Tom, who is now her best friend.

Together they journey through the multiverse: boozing and fighting; righting wrongs and buggering things up again. Here, in their first exciting anthology of ludicrous adventures they meet monsters, klllers, ambassadors, insect-things, detectives, weirdos, psychics, fiends and sundry perverts.