 | Edition: |  US (paperback) | | | When: | June 1979
| | | Publisher: | Pinnacle | | | ISBN: | 0-523-40611-8 | | | Format: | paperback | | | Owned: | | | | Buy: |   | | | New: | CDN$ 28.32 | | Used: | CDN$ 0.12 | |
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Note: Number 5 in the series of 10 US paperback novelisations published by Pinnacle in 1979-1980 — the others were: 1) Day of the Daleks, 2) The Doomsday Weapon, 3) The Dinosaur Invasion, 4) Genesis of the Daleks, 6) The Loch Ness Monster, 7) The Talons of Weng-Chiang, 8) The Masque of Mandragora, 9) The Android Invasion and 10) The Seeds of Doom. Each of these US editions were reprinted several times between 1979 and 1989, with the ISBN changing 3 times (the different ISBNs are listed as separate editions below). Cover blurb:
NOW A HIT TELEVISION SERIES
THE CYBERMEN
One by one, their limbs became diseased — they were replaced by plastic and steel! Little by little, their brains tired — computers worked just as well!
Locked in a battle once again with these dreadful Cybermen, Doctor Who is caught between desperate Vogans, determined to save their planet, Voga, and the Cybermen, determined to destroy it. But Doctor Who has one last trick up his sleeve: it is a poison — powerful, plentiful, and deadly. And it is the only weapon humans have against the Cybermen, and the only reason the Cybermen must destroy Voga — the planet of Gold.
Doctor Who is a mysterious, zany, and very mature Time Lord (750 years mature to be exact) who hurtles through space in a stolen Time Machine. Since there's a problem with the steering, he never lands exactly when or where he plans to. This, along with his desperate desire to bring law and order to the galaxies, and his insatiable curiosity, consistently places him in weird and often wild circumstances. |
UK (1st paperback)
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