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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Sunday, December 31, 1995

Written by

Terrance Dicks

Pages

272

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Space Station

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Megerra, Sentarion, Space Station Alpha, Tiger Moth

Synopsis

"The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win."

For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.

The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontarans' secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Chris and Roz and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion — where Professor Bernice Summerfield's researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.

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On the whole, an impressively gripping read, although you can certainly tell that this was adapted from a story that originally didn't have the Doctor in it; the revival of the main Sontaran and Rutan characters was a tad hamfisted, and the fact that Steg's second death is a mirror of his first doesn't help. Nor, for that matter, does lampshading it. That being said, this was a compelling depiction of the Sontaran-Rutan conflict, nicely paced, and packed with interesting characters. I enjoyed it thoroughly.


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