BOOK DETAILS

SYNOPSIS

A ship at the edge of space. A robot with a secret. A sinister presence.

The Doctor and Donna are trapped on board a mysterious spacecraft. Fate of the crew: unknown. Fate of the universe if what’s on board gets out: terminal.

Based on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.

Episode Guide

NOTES

CHAPTER TITLES

Prologue: Apple
Fenslaw
Coliss
Brate
Gilvane
Stond
Ratico
Vandeen
Blinss
Sensill
One
Tacsladia

DEVIATIONS FROM THE TELEVISED STORY

• Dialogue is switched around or slightly altered in some places compared to how it was spoken on screen.
  
• The prologue elaborates that Isaac Newton had been up all night completing De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas, as well as the location of the scene being his family home, Woolsthorpe Manor in the Lincolnshire hamlet of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth.
  
• The Doctor mentions that, by contrast, dropping a cup of tea into the TARDIS controls does no harm.
  
• Donna uses part of the buggy frame to attack the Not-Donna’s hand when the Not-things chase them.
  
• There is an additional moment where Donna is startled by her reflection in a door, thinking it’s her Not-thing self.
  
• When the TARDIS rematerialises, The Doctor opens the doors by clicking his fingers.
  
• There is an additional moment where The Doctor turns off the HADs physically on the TARDIS console and takes longer to realise he had chosen the wrong Donna.