10 книг
-
Human Nature Paul Cornell
ISBN: 0-426-20443-3 Год издания: 1995 Издательство: Virgin Books РазвернутьApril, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amongst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. He’s having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers. Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can…
-
Blood Heat Jim Mortimore
ISBN: 0-426-20399-2 Год издания: 1993 Издательство: Virgin Books Язык: Английский The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth. An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurrassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong. Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...
-
The Left-Handed Hummingbird Kate Orman
ISBN: 0-426-20404-2 Год издания: 1993 Издательство: Virgin Books Язык: Английский Развернуть1968: Cristian Alvarez meets the Doctor in London. 1978: The great temple of the Aztecs is discovered in Mexico. 1980: John Lennon is murdered in New York. 1994: A gunman runs amok in Mexico City. Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the Blue, a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him — but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events of Blood Heat and The Dimension Riders, the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered — and a lethal force from South America's prehistory has been released. The Doctor, Ace…
-
Timewyrm: Apocalypse Nigel Robinson
ISBN: 0-426-20359-3 Год издания: 1991 Издательство: Virgin Books The end of the Universe. The end of everything. The TARDIS has tracked the Timewyrm to the edge of the Universe and the end of time -- to the lush planet Kirith, a paradise inhabited by a physically perfect race. Ace is not impressed. Kirith has all the appeal of a wet weekend in Margate, and its inhabitants look like third-rate Aussie soap stars. The Doctor is troubled, too: If the Timewyrm is here, why can’t he find her? Why have the elite Panjistri lied consistently to the Kirithons they govern? And is it possible that the catastrophe that he feels impending is the result of his own past actions?
-
Timewyrm: Exodus Terrance Dicks
ISBN: 0-426-20357-7 Год издания: 1991 Издательство: Virgin Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьThe pursuit of the Timewyrm leads the Doctor and Ace to London, 1951, and the Festival of Britain -- a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich. Someone -- or something -- has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor travels further back in time to the very dawn of the Nazi evil. In the heart of the Germany of the Third Reich, he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided. History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor…
-
Timewyrm: Genesys John Peel
ISBN: 0-426-20355-0 Год издания: 1991 Издательство: Virgin Books Язык: Русский РазвернутьMesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller. Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind's long progress to the stars. And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor’s forebears on…
-
The Room with No Doors Kate Orman
ISBN: 0-426-20500-6 Год издания: 1997 Издательство: Virgin Books Развернуть‘Dear Doctor,’ wrote Chris, ‘I give up.’ Swordplay, samurai, demons, magic, aliens, adventure, excitement... Who needs them? The Doctor and Chris travel to sixteen-century Japan, a country gripped by civil war as feudal lords vie for control. Anything could tip the balance of power. So when a god falls out of the sky, everyone wants it. As villagers are healed and crops grow far too fast, the Doctor and Chris try to find the secret of the miracles -- before the two rival armies can start a war over who owns the god. Chris soon finds himself alone -- except for an alien slaver, a time-travelling Victorian inventor, a gang of demons,…
-
Damaged Goods Russell T. Davies
ISBN: 0-426-20483-2 Год издания: 1996 Издательство: Virgin Books Развернуть'Wherever this cocaine has travelled, it hasn't gone alone. Death has been its attendant. Death in a remarkably violent and inelegant form. The Doctor, Chris and Roz arrive at the Quadrant, a troubled council block in Thatcher's Britain. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved. And so, amidst the growing chaos, a bizarre trio moves into number 43. The year is 1987: a dead drug dealer has risen from the grave, and an ancient weapon is concealed beneath human tragedy. But the Doctor soon discovers that the things people do for their children can…
-
Strange England Simon Messingham
ISBN: 0-426-20419-0 Год издания: 1994 Издательство: Virgin Books Развернуть‘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…
-
Transit Ben Aaronovitch
ISBN: 0426203844, 9780426203841 Год издания: 1992 Издательство: Virgin Books Развернуть"Oh no, not again..." It’s the ultimate in mass transit systems, a network of interstitial tunnels that bind the planets of the solar system together. Earth to Pluto in forty minutes with a supersave non-premium off-peak travelcard. But something is living in the network, chewing its way to the very heart of the system and leaving a trail of death and mutation behind it. Once again a reluctant Doctor is dragged into human history. Back down amongst the joyboys, freesurfers, chessfans, politicians and floozies, where friends are more dangerous than enemies and one man’s human being is another’s psychotic killing machine. Once again the…
