BOOK DETAILS

SYNOPSIS

“The daleks tell me I’m going to do something for them – something I would rather die than do.”

Stranded in Victorian London, separated from his TARDIS and forced to cooperate with The Daleks, it seems that The Doctor’s luck has finally run out. The Daleks are searching for the elusive Human Factor, and want The Doctor to help them find it. With Victoria and Jamie held captive, The Doctor has no choice. An army of daleks stands poised to conquer the universe. Will the Human Factor be their ultimate weapon?

This is a brand-new novelisation of a classic Dalek story, and is the first story to feature Victoria as a companion.

NOTES

CHAPTER TITLES

• Prologue
  

1. To Set A Trap
   
2. The Old Curiosity Shop
   
3. The Net Tightens
   
4. Further Curiosities
   
5. Curioser and Curioser
   
6. Kennedy’s Assassination
   
7. The Net Tightens
   
8. The Better Mousetrap
   
9. Portrait of Innocence
   
10. The True Enemy
    
11. The Kidnapping
    
12. Recovery
    
13. A Trial of Strength
    
14. Frictedition
    
15. Double Dealing
    
16. The Test Begins
    
17. A Test of Skills
    
18. Friend And Foe
    
19. Terall’s Agony
    
20. The Traitor
    
21. Fencing
    
22. Pawn of the Daleks
    
23. The Human Factor
    
24. Awakening
    
25. Dalek Superior
    
26. Time Bomb
    
27. Skaro
    
28. Emergency!
    
29. At Last!
    
30. Waiting
    
31. Transmutation
    
32. The Dalek Doctor
    
33. The End of the Daleks?

• Epilogue

  
  DEVIATIONS FROM THE TELEVISED STORY
  

• The novel opens up with a prologue detailing the events following on from The Daleks’ Master Plan, which took place over a thousand years prior to this story’s setting. Due to the First Doctor’s interference and the failure of the Dalek force on Kembel to destroy Earth, numerous war forces were able to assemble to assault the main forces of the Dalek Empire in a The Evil of the Daleks)”>series of wars over the course of the millennium, among them the Thals, the Draconians and the Terran Federation. The Daleks‘ disastrous performances in “their Great War” led their computers to predict that they would be fought to extinction within 80 years if things did not improve.
  
• According to the novel, the Emperor was at one point the Dalek Prime, marking its third appearance after  and The Mutation of Time. It is the same Dalek who exterminated Davros in Genesis of the Daleks.
  
• While all the Daleks on were silver, with black-domed variants acting as the Emperor’s guards, the novelisation describes the standard daleks as grey, although this may be due to the serial being in black and white. The Emperor’s guards are also described as “almost entirely black”, despite the black-domed Dalek/a> seen on the cover, to better fit with the term of “Black daleks” used to describe them in the serial. Additionally, a Red Dalek takes command of the operations on Earth, acting as an emissary for the Supreme Council, making this the second time John Peel has inserted a Red Dalek into a novelisation, after The Mutation of Time.
  
• Maxtible turns Kemel against Jamie by telling him Jamie wants to rape and kill Victoria.
  
• The scene of The Doctor sabotaging the arch is extended.
  
• Jamie, Victoria and Kemel smash The Dalek City water pumps, resulting in the fires getting out of control.
  
• Perry is said to be in his mid-twenties, but on screen he is older.
  
• Perry is also said to be an avid viewer of Z-Cars and No Hiding Place.
  
• Kennedy thinks The Dalek is a alien from a daft BBC sci-fi TVseries.