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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Thursday, January 14, 1982

Written by

Terrance Dicks

Publisher

Target Books

Pages

125

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Vampires

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

E-Space

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

E-Space, Vampire planet

Synopsis

The Doctor, Romana and K9 – and a young stowaway called Adric – are trapped in the alternative universe of E-Space.

Seeking help, they land on an unknown planet – and find a nightmare world where oppressed peasants toil for the Lords who live in the Tower, and where all learning is forbidden – a society in a state of decay.

What is the terrifying secret of the Three Who Rule? What monstrous creature stirs beneath the Tower, waking from its thousand-year sleep?

The Doctor discovers that the oldest and deadliest enemy of the Time Lords is about to spring into horrifying action.

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'I'm afraid I can't think in billions,' said Romana. 'I can only think of Adric - alone and a prisoner in this Tower. You go to the TARDIS, I'll join you as soon as I can.'