Next we have the Target novelisation of Terror of the Vervoids, both the book and episode are probably the best written works from Pip & Jane Baker, though that really doesn't say a lot. Again my thoughts on the actual story I'll go more into when I talk about the episode itself. I will say that reading the book did help me to follow the story much better, every time I've watched Terror of the Vervoids, I always forget how the story went, and I lose track very quickly of who's doing what, where and why. Though that's probably an indictment on just how messy the story itself is, already in the hours that have followed since reading I'm trying the remember which way round the plot went. As far as anything new the book offers, we get a brief glimpse into the backstory for Professor Lasky and her affinity towards plants but that's about it. They also added an extra line about how the Vervoids should they reach Earth would drive the humans into the deserts or arctic wastelands. Probably after recognising how ludicrous the idea that the Vervoids would likely wipe out all humanity.....somehow, it's the far future, humans are all over the universe at this point, and even then I'm sure a decent flamethrower or herbicide would put pay to any Vervoid invasion...they're still just plants after all!