City at World's End
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Author | Christopher Bulis |
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Series | Doctor Whobook: Past Doctor Adventures |
Release number | 25 |
Subject | Featuring: First Doctor Barbara,Ian,andSusan |
Set in | Period between The Reign of TerrorandThe Witch Hunters[1][2] |
Publisher | BBC Books |
Publication date | September 1999 |
Pages | 281 |
ISBN | 0-563-55579-3 |
Preceded by | The Final Sanction |
Followed by | Divided Loyalties |
City at World's Endis aBBC Booksoriginal novel written byChristopher Bulisand based on the long-running Britishscience fiction televisionseriesDoctor Who.It features theFirst Doctor,Barbara,Ian,andSusan.
Plot[edit]
The Doctor and his three companions travel to Arkhaven. It is one of the last cities on a doomed alien planet. The city has one plan for survival, no backup. However, there are underlying plans threatening to sabotage this as various people vie for power the disaster might bring.
The Doctor then must deal with the 'Creeper', an entity prowling the outskirts of Arkhaven. His companions cannot help him, as one becomes lost and the other becomes mentally ill.
See also[edit]
An earlier novel with the same title,[1]written byGolden AgeU.S. science-fiction writerEdmond Hamilton,was first published in 1951 and republished in mass paperback in 1957. Hamilton's novel, which inspiredRobert A. Heinlein's survivalist novelFarnham's Freehold.Hamilton's novel begins when a distortion of the space-time continuum, caused by a super-atomic bomb explosion, catapults a U.S. midwestern community of 50,000 residents, called Middletown, into the remote future.
References[edit]
- ^The Doctor's Timeline at The Whoniversegives support for specific placement relative to other spin-off media.
- ^Placement betweenThe Reign of TerrorandPlanet of Giantsconfirmed by cover blurb.
External links[edit]
- City at World's Endtitle listing at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database