Doctor Who and Shada
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| Title: | Doctor Who and Shada |
| Publisher: | TSV New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club |
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| Author(s): | Paul Scoones |
| Cover Artist(s): | Alistair Hughes |
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| Date(s): | see below |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Doctor Who |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | novel online |
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Doctor Who and Shada is a gen novel by Paul Scoones. Cover artwork by Alistair Hughes.
Published by the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club, 2006. Print editions: Doctor Who - Shada by Paul Scoones & Jonathan Preddle (first edition) JPS Books, March 1989; Doctor Who - Shada by Paul Scoones (second edition) TSV Books, October 1991; Doctor Who and Shada by Paul Scoones (third edition) TSV Books, October 2001.
From the publisher, "The Doctor and Romana visit Professor Chronotis, a retired Time Lord living at Cambridge University. The Professor wants to return an ancient and very powerful book to Gallifrey - but the book has gone missing.
Skagra, an evil scientist, steals the book and the Professor's mind - and also takes Romana and the TARDIS.
In order to stop Skagra, the Doctor must discover the secrets of a notorious Time Lord criminal, and a long forgotten prison called Shada..."
CONTENTS
Prologue
- Professor Chronotis
- The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey
- In Search of the Book
- The Sphere
- Skagra
- Dead Man
- The Krargs
- Think Tank
- Skagra's Plan
- Shada
- Into the Vortex
- Battle of the Minds
- Epilogue
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Introduction
- Novelising Shada
- Author's Notes
- Covers Gallery
- Dirk Gently's Shada
- The Making of Shada (from TSV 26)
Other related novels:
- Doctor Who and the Pirate Planet
- Doctor Who and the City of Death
- Resurrection of the Daleks
- Revelation of the Daleks
Background Info
"In 1988, Paul Scoones and Jon Preddle decided to 'fill the gaps' in the Target range of novelisations by writing and publishing adaptations of the un-novelised television stories. Early plans to include the two Troughton Dalek stories in this schedule were abandoned when it became clear that Virgin Books would be publishing these. The first book in the series was a novelisation of Shada by Paul Scoones from Jon Preddle's transcript off a video recording. The pair were credited as co-authors on the first edition, published in March 1989. Later, the full rehearsal scripts for Shada were obtained, from which an entirely new novelisation was written by Paul Scoones and published in October 1991. The second book was The Pirate Planet by David Bishop (later the author of Who Killed Kennedy for Virgin Books). David's book was first published in September 1990 and reprinted in a retyped format in January 1991. July 1992 saw the publication of Revelation of the Daleks by Jon Preddle and City of Death by David Lawrence was published in November of the same year. Over seven years later, a fifth book, Resurrection of the Daleks, by Paul Scoones, was published in January 2000, completing the last of the 'gaps' in the Target novelisations.
These were unofficial publications only available to fans, and not for resale. No profit was made from the sale of these books." [1]