Corpse Marker is a novel written by Chris Boucher. Released in 1999, it is the twenty-sixth novel in BBC Books' Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures series. A sequel to Boucher's Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death, it tells of the robots of Kaldor City becoming violent once again. It also features Carnell - a character from Boucher's series Blake's 7.
Characters[]
- Fourth Doctor
- Leela
- Carnell
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Publisher's summary[]
Long ago and far away, the Doctor and Leela faced the Robots of Death...
To a society dependent on robots, the news that these benign, tireless, obedient labourers could be turned into killers would cause panic. So it was kept a secret. In Kaldor City, only the three survivors of the Storm Mine massacre know the truth. But now, several years later, they are beginning to show signs of mental breakdown. And once again, the robots are being programmed to kill. Can the dead genius Taren Capel possibly be involved in this new outrage?
Worst of all, this time the deadly robots are not confined to a Sandminer. This time they are loose in Kaldor City. And this time, unless the Doctor and Leela can stop them, they really will destroy the world.
Full summary[]
Threatened by upstarts from the common classes, such as Topmaster Kiy Uvanov, Company Executives hire Carnell, a noted Psychostrategist, to devise a plan to undermine the people's trust in the current generation of robots, allowing the Company to introduce a new cyborg class with a minimum of fuss and ensuring the panic-stricken populace will accept the stability offered by the traditional ruling families.
However, Carnell fails to factor the Doctor and Leela's presence into account and soon the plan goes completely wrong. As the executives who hired Carnell are now out to make him a scapegoat, he strikes a deal with Uvanov, giving Uvanov the leverage he needs to ensure a smooth transfer of power to him and his followers.
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See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Signifigance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who and the Robots of Death | Terrance Dicks | 1979 | This novel is a sequel to The Robots of Death |
| Occam's Razor | Alan Stevens and Jim Smith | 2001 | The first audio drama in the Kaldor City series |
| Match of the Day | Chris Boucher | 2005 | A novel by the same author with similar themes |
| Robophobia | Nicholas Briggs | 2011 | A loose sequel to The Robots of Death |
| The Robots of Life | Roland Moore | 2019 | The first audio drama in The Robots series |
| Last Man Running | Chris Boucher | 1998 | A novel by the same author with similar themes |
| Drift | Simon A. Forward | 2002 | A novel featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela |