BOOK DETAILS
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 0-426-20101-9 |
| Publication Date | 26 May 1980 |
SYNOPSIS
The huge, octopus-like Kroll lived deep in the swamps of the humid, steamy planet. To the native swamp-warriors, Kroll was an angry, mythical god. To the money-grabbing alien technicians, Kroll was a threat to a profit-making scheme.
In their search for another segment of the Key to Time, the
THE POWER OF KROLL is a novel in the Key to Time Sequence. Also available THE RIBOS OPERATION, |THE STONES OF BLOOD and THE ANDROIDS OF TARA.
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NOTES
CHAPTER TITLES
- Prologue
- The Swamp
- The Gun-Runner
- The Sacrifice
- The Tunnel
- The Thing in the Lake
- The Attack
- The End of Harg
- The Storm
- Escape Through the Swamps
- The Rocket
- Countdown
- The Power of Kroll
- Epilogue
DEVIATIONS FROM THE TELEVISED VERSION
- A prologue explores the Kroll’s feeding cycle and how the creature slept for centuries While fed on the nutrient-rich mud before being disturbed by the building of the refinery.
- The moon is named as Delta Three.
- Thawn mentions having brought Harg back some book tapes.
- Romana is described as wearing bright orange rather than red and black.
- The Swampies believe Romana is a spy.
- Thawn mentions having four crew rather than five, with the hovercraft pilot being omitted.
- Skart is said to be the Swampies’ high priest.
- Rohm-Dutt (whose name is written as Rohm Dutt throughout) has a dream of being pursued by the Swampies and attacked by Kroll.
- There is no mention of the Sons of Earth wanting to go back to Earth, just stopping human colonists expanding to Delta Three.
- Dugeen confirms he is a member of the Sons of Earth, sent to sabotage the Refinery. His reaction to Thawns’s crack about them being a crank organisation is more angry than the televised version.
- The Swampie killed by Kroll in the marshes is trying to get on The Doctor and Romana’s boat rather than on the bank.
- The Swampies make no effort to save Ranquin from Kroll’s tentacle and leave the refinery after The Doctor stops the launch.
- The Doctor suggests that Fenner share the food and supplies left in the refinery with the Swampies. In the novelisation Fenner actually looks through the stores, considering the idea.