Doctor Who_ Battlefield - Marc Platt [0]
The Doctor arrives on the scene and meets two old friends: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, called out of retirement to help in the emergency, and Bessie the souped-up roadster.
Ace escapes from death by drowning in a submerged spaceship, only to find herself at the mercy of a demon known as the Destroyer.
The action is fast and furious, as expected in a script by Ben Aaronovitch, who wrote the classic Remembrance of the Daleks. And why do the knights address the Doctor as
‘Merlin’? What is the power of the sword that Ace retrieves from the bottom of the lake? Will Morgaine carry out her threat to destroy the world?
This novelization is by Marc Platt, who both scripted and novelized Ghost Light, the story that immediately followed Battlefield in the 1989 season.
ISBN 0-426-20350-X
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DOCTOR WHO
BATTLEFIELD
Based on the BBC television series by Ben Aaronovitch by arrangement with BBC Books, a division of BBC
Enterprises Ltd
MARC PLATT
Number 152 in the
Target Doctor Who Library
published by
The Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd
Published in 1991
By Target Books
an imprint of Virgin Publishing Ltd
338 Ladbroke Grove London W10 5AH
Novelization copyright © Marc Platt 1991
Original script copyright © Ben Aaronovitch 1989
‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1989
The BBC producer of Battlefield was John Nathan-Turner the director was Michael Kerrigan
The role of the Doctor was played by Sylvester McCoy Typeset by Type Out, London SW16 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading ISBN 0 426 20350 X
For Ben the perfect gentle Knight who let his humble squire take over the reins
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
CONTENTS
Prologue
Part One
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Part Two
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Part Three
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Part Four
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
PROLOGUE
Three sisters bore him down to the boat. Swan-haired and regal, each was crowned with a circlet of silver and robed in weeds of darkest green. Sisters, yet each also a queen from one of the Thirteen Planets. Summoned, even in the final throes of war, to another Universe as the prophecy decreed. Two queens to carry the High King. One queen to tend his wounds.
The aged king was armoured in black with the crest of the Pendragon on his breastplate. Lying still on the pallet, he gazed up into the endless blue of the sky over Avallion.
He searched for the corridor gate that led back to the home dimension, but he could no longer focus on the invisible as Merlin had once shown him.
With the bulk of his army scattered, this final battle had become a rout. He had been trying to rally his forces, any forces at all, when out of the smoke came three of Morgaine’s rabble. Three grey knights from her personal entourage, fiercely trained and with the arrogance of near victory in their gait.
They had circled round him, just out of reach, neither attacking nor parrying, but they laughed mockingly at their lucky catch.
He knew they were confining him in a cage until Mordred might arrive to take the glory as the High King’s executioner. Where was the honour in that? But what did Mordred have to do with honour? There was no honour even in