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Author | Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham |
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Series | Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures |
Release number | 28 |
Subject | Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Compassion |
Publisher | BBC Books |
Publication date | October 1999 |
Pages | 273 |
ISBN | 0-563-55585-8 |
Preceded by | The Blue Angel |
Followed by | Frontier Worlds |
The Taking of Planet 5 is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion. It is, in part, a sequel to the television serial Image of the Fendahl. It also features references to many elements from the Cthulhu Mythos stories of H. P. Lovecraft, in particular the Elder Things and their ancient Antarctic city from At the Mountains of Madness.