Doctor Who_ Remembrance of the Daleks - Ben Aaronovitch [0]
– a blue police telephone box in the middle of a scrapyard. The old man whom the girl calls
‘grandfather’ is annoyed at the intrusion: there is something he has to do, and he has a premonition that he will be delayed for some time . . .
Six regenerations later the Doctor returns; and Ace, his travelling companion, sees London as it was before the Sixties started swinging – and long before she was born.
But a Grey Dalek is lurking in Foreman’s Yard; Imperial Daleks are appearing in the basement of Coal Hill School; and both factions want the Hand of Omega, the Remote Stellar Manipulator that the Doctor has left behind. Has the Doctor arrived in time to deprive the Daleks of the secret of time travel?
ISBN 0-426-20337-2
UK: £2.50 *AUSTRALIA: $5.95
CANADA: $6.25 NZ: $11.95
,-7IA4C6-caddhh-
*USA: $3.95
*RECOMMENDED PRICE
Science Fiction/TV Tie-in
DOCTOR WHO
REMEMBRANCE OF
THE
DALEKS
Based on the BBC television series by Ben Aaronovitch by arrangement with BBC Books, a division of BBC
Enterprises Ltd
BEN AARONOVITCH
Number 148 in the
Target Doctor Who Library
A TARGET BOOK
published by
The Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. PLC
A Target Book
Published in 1990
By the Paperback Division of
W.H. Allen & Co. Plc
Sekforde House, 175/9 St. John Street, London EC1V 4LL
Novelisation copyright © Ben Aaronovitch 1990
Original script copyright © Ben Aaronovitch 1989
‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1989, 1990
The BBC producer of Remembrance of the Daleks was John Nathan-Turner
The director was Andrew Morgan
The role of the Doctor was played by Sylvester McCoy Typeset by Avocet Robinson, Buckingham Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading
ISBN 0 426 20337 2
A CIP catalogue record is available from the British Library
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 upon the subsequent purchaser.
CONTENTS
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
To Andrew who opened the door,
and Anna who pushed me through it.
I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time.
Richard III, I, i
Prologue
The old man had a shock of white hair pulled back from a broad forehead; startling eyes glittered in a severe high-cheekboned face. Although he was stooped when he walked, his slim body hinted at hidden strengths. Light from the streetlamps, blurred by the gathering mist, glinted in the facets of the blue gem set in the ring on his finger.
He paused for bearings by a pair of gates on which the words:
I M FOREMAN
Scrap Merchant
were barely visible in the night, before carefully picking his way through the junkyard towards the police box at its centre.
A common enough sight in the England of the early 1960s, the dark blue police box was strangely out of place in the junkyard, and even more oddly, this one was humming. The old man stopped by its doors and reached into a pocket for the key.
‘There you are, grandfather,’ said a girl’s voice from inside.
His sharp hearing picked up a woman’s whispered response from behind him. ‘It’s Susan,’ said the woman.
The old man’s face creased with irritation as he sensed that he was