Two Fifth Doctor Target Novels Re-Released This Month

Two Target novels featuring Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor are re-released this month, Earthshock by Ian Marter and The Awakening by Eric Pringle

Earthshock

‘Why on Earth?’ asked Nyssa disapprovingly. ‘Why on Earth not?’ replied the Doctor.

A group of palaeontologists have been savagely attacked while carrying out a study of fossilised dinosaur remains in an underground cave system on twenty-sixth-century Earth. A party of troopers and Professor Kyle, the only survivor of the attack, are investigating the deaths when they come across the Doctor and his companions at the site of the massacre. The time travellers are immediately suspected.

Adapted by the late Ian Marter — who also played the role of Harry Sullivan — from the original script by Eric Saward, Earthshock features the long awaited return of the Cybermen, the Doctor’s most lethal enemies.

The Awakening

‘We’re in the wrong century,’ wailed Tegan. ‘No, we’re not,’ Turlough assured her grimly. ‘It is 1984.’

The Doctor has promised Tegan that he will take her to her grandfather’s village of Little Hodcombe. But all is not well in this little village — the whole population is involved in a war game that seems ever more sinister, and little Hodcombe itself is surrounded by an energy field. Something is very wrong indeed, and the Doctor, Turlough and Tegan take on what seems to be a hopeless rescue mission.

Both books are available from WH Smith and all other good book stockists.