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Doctor Who and the Cybermen is a novella written by Gerry Davis. Released in 1975, it is a novelization of the Doctor Who serial The Moonbase which Davis cowrote with Kit Pedler.
Characters[]
- Second Doctor
- Ben Jackson
- Polly Wright
- Jamie McCrimmon
- The Director
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Publisher's Summary[]
One by one, their limbs became diseased - they were replaced by plastic and steel!
Little by little, their brains tired - computers worked just as well!
With metal limbs, they had the strength of ten men. They could live in the airless vacuum of space. They had no heart, no feelings, no emotions and only one goal - power!
In the year 2070, a small blue planet caught their attention. They would land on its satellite and, from there, attack, ransack, destroy and finally abandon...
THE SATELLITE WAS THE MOON
THE HELPLESS PLANET - EARTH
THEIR NAMES? THE CYBERMEN!
Can the Doctor defeat an enemy whose threat is almost as great as that of the mighty Daleks?
Plot[]
Chapter 1: Prologue: The Creation of the Cybermen[]
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In-universe continuity[]
- A short backstory is given for the Cybermen. A longer version of this backstory is shown in Marc Platt's audio drama Spare Parts.
- A similar plot is used by the Cybermen in Revenge of the Cybermen.
- In Nick Wallace's audio drama The Dying Light, Stoyn mentions tracking the TARDIS during the events of this story.
- The Moonbase appears in Gary Russell's novella Horror of the Space Snakes.
See Also[]
- Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet by Gerry Davis