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Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars
 

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By:Terrance Dicks
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Description:  Novelisation of the 1975 Doctor Who TV story Pyramids of Mars. Also available as an audio reading.

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Edition: UK (1st paperback)
Released:  December 1976
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11666-6
Format: paperback
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For many thousands of years Sutekh had waited... trapped in the heart of an Egyptian Pyramid. Now at last the time had come — the moment of release, when all the force of his pent-up evil and malice would be unleashed upon the world...

The TARDIS lands on the site of UNIT headquarters in the year 1911, and the Doctor and Sarah emerge to fight a terrifying and deadly battle... against Egyptian Mummies, half-possessed humans — and the overwhelming evil power of Sutekh!

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Edition: UK (1st hardback)
Released:  December 1976
Publisher:  Allan Wingate
ISBN:0-85523-141-6
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For many thousands of years Sutekh had waited... trapped in the heart of an Egyptian Pyramid. Now at last the time had come — the moment of release, when all the force of his pent-up evil and malice would be unleashed upon the world...

The TARDIS lands on the site of UNIT headquarters in the year 1911, and the Doctor and Sarah emerge to fight a terrifying and deadly battle... against Egyptian Mummies, half-possessed humans — and the overwhelming evil power of SUTEKH!

Terrance Dicks was born in 1935 and educated at East Ham Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge.

After a spell in advertising the author became a full-time scriptwriter, first for radio, then television where for five years he was Script Editor of the ‘Doctor Who’ series. He is now a free-lance author and writes many of the highly successful ‘Doctor Who’ books, and is currently launching a new adventure series for boys and girls about the Canadian Mounted Police Force.

Terrance Dicks lives in Hampstead, London, is married and has three children. He is an obsessive reader, likes ‘messing about in boats’ and is cultivating an interest in mysticism and meditation.

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Edition: UK (2nd hardback)
Released:  January 1978
Publisher:  WH Allen
ISBN:0-491-02094-5
Format: hardback
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Edition: UK (2nd paperback)
Released:  January 1982
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11666-6
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Note:  Same ISBN as previous paperback edition.

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The mind of Sutekh the Destroyer is consumed with jealousy and hatred. Convinced that all living things are his mortal enemy, he is determined to annihilate all forms of life throughout the universe.

Imprisoned at the heart of an Egyptian pyramid, the force of his maniacal evil has been paralysed for centuries. But now, after thousands upon thousands of years of long captivity, the moment of deliverance has arrived.

Sutekh’s vicious megalomania is about to be unleashed upon the world — unless the Doctor succeeds in outwitting a mind so powerful it can force him to his knees and torture him at a glance...

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Edition: UK (3rd paperback)
Title:  Pyramids of Mars
Released:  March 1993
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11666-6
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‘Egyptian mummies building a rocket? That’s really crazy Doctor!’

Returning to UNIT HQ, the Doctor and Sarah are thrown into turmoil when the TARDIS is caught up by a mysterious force. Sutekh, the last of the Osirians, has been released from his pyramid prison by Egyptologist Marcus Scarman, and now plans to avenge his imprisonment by destroying all life in the Cosmos.

Professor Scarman, possessed by the spirit of Sutekh, builds a rocket and flies to Mars, for it is here that the mystical eye of Horus lies — the key to Sutekh’s prison. Can the Doctor stop the evil Egyptian’s path of destruction?


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