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Last month, The Shakaar released the first four novels in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, which together formed the Timewyrm saga. For our April 2001 Release, we've chosen to stay with Doctor Who books and have again chosen interlocking tales. So, we proudly present: -

Doctor Who And The State Of Decay by Terrance Dicks (Target Books)
Doctor Who: Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks (Virgin New Dr Who Adventures)
Doctor Who: Goth Opera by Paul Cornell (Virgin Doctor Who Missing Adventures)

These three tales follow the history of vampires in the Doctor Who universe.

STATE OF DECAY is an adaptation of the televised Doctor Who adventure in which The Doctor and Romana first encounter the progeny of The Great Vampire. N.B. It is from the Target series of novelizations and, as such, was written for children.

BLOOD HARVEST features the Doctor and Ace tracking down a malignant alien force while running a speakeasy and investigating gang warfare in Prohibition-era Chicago. Meanwhile, Bernice is caught in the middle of intrigue on the vampire planet and there is a sinister plot at the highest level of Time Lord society. The title is probably Terrance Dicks' tribute to RED HARVEST, Dashiell Hammett's classic tale of gang warfare.

GOTH OPERA features the 5th Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa battling The Vampire Messiah and his Gallifreyan consort. It is a companion-piece to Blood Harvest and, though it could stand alone, it would be best to read Blood Harvest first.

If you want more tales of The Doctor and the vampires, check out Vampire Science, published by BBC books and featuring the 8th Doctor and Sam. But you'll have to get that one from the bookshop, where it is readily available for г5.99 :-)

If you want to contact Shakaar with comments, suggestions or requests, leave a message on alt.binaries.e-book headed ATTN SHAKAAR. (In reply to the gentleman who commented on our standards of proofreading, I wish to say that there are bound to be a few mistakes since no-one is infallible, but spellings such as "favourites"; "labour"; "revelled" etc.. are NOT errors: they are the U.K. english in which the books were written. Next time you don't know what you're talking about, try to be less insulting.)

On with the book...


DOCTOR WHO AND THE STATE OF DECAY

Based on the BBC television serial by Terrance Dicks by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation

TERRANCE DICKS

A TARGET BOOK published by the Paperback Division of W. H. ALLEN & Co. Ltd A Target Book
Published in 1982 by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd A Howard & Wyndham Company 44 Hill Street, London WIX 8LB
Copyright (c) Terrance Dicks 1981
'Doctor Who' series copyright (c) British Broadcasting Corporation 1981
Printed in Great Britain by The Anchor Press Ltd, Tiptree, Essex
ISBN 0 426 20133 7
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
01 The Selection
02 The Strangers
03 The Stowaway
04 The Messengers of Aukon
05 The Tower
06 Tarak's Plan
07 The Secret Horror
08 The Resting Place
09 Escape
10 The Vampires