 | Edition: | US (hardback) | | | When: | June 2012
| | | Publisher: | Ace Books | | | ISBN: | 978-0-425-25998-6 | | | Format: | hardback | | | Owned: | | | | Buy: |   | | | New: | CDN$ 6.40 | | Used: | CDN$ 6.16 | |
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Cover blurb:
Based on the scripts for the original television series written by Douglas Adams, the legendary author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Shada tells the lost adventure of Doctor Who that never made it to the screen.
Inside cover flaps read as follows:
From the unique mind of Douglas Adams, legendary author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes Shada, a Doctor Who story scripted for the television series Doctor Who but never produced — and now transformed into an original novel...
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Imagine how dangerous a LOT of knowledge is...
The Doctor's old friend and fellow Time Lord, Professor Chronotis, has retired to Cambridge University, where among the other doddering old professors nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. He took with him a few little souvenirs — harmless things really. But among them, carelessly, he took The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey. Even more carelessly, he has loaned this immensely powerful book to clueless graduate student Chris Parsons, who intends to use it to impress girls. The Worshipful and Ancient Law is among the most dangerous artifacts in the universe; it cannot be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.
The hands of the sinister Time Lord Skagra are unquestionably the wrongest ones possible. Skagra is a sadist and an egomaniac bent of universal domination. Having misguessed the state of fashion on Earth, he also wears terrible platform shoes. He is on his way to
Cambridge. He wants the book. And he wants the Doctor...
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952 and was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read English. As well as writing all the different conflicting versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he was responsible for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, and, with John Lloyd, The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff. From 1978-79, he worked as Script Editor on Doctor Who. He wrote three scripts for the show: "The Pirate Planet," "City of Death" (under the name David Agnew), and "Shada." Adams died in May 2001.
Gareth Roberts was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, in 1968. His scripts for Doctor Who on television include "The Shakespeare Code," "The Unicorn and the Wasp," "The Lodger," and "Closing Time." He has also written many scripts for the spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as scripts for such television shows as Emmerdale and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased). He has written nine previous Doctor Who novels and lives in West London. |
