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Doctor Who and the State of Decay

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Doctor Who and the State of Decay is a novella written by Terrance Dicks. Released in 1982, it is a novelization of Dicks' serial of the same name.

Characters[]

  • Fourth Doctor
  • Romana II
  • K9 Mark II
  • Adric
  • Aukon - one of the Three Who Rule, previously the science officer of the Hydrax
  • Zargo - one of the Three Who Rule, previously the captain of the Hydrax
  • Camilla - one of the Three Who Rule, previously the navigational officer of the Hydrax
  • The King Vampire - the swarm leader of the Great Vampires which lurks beneath the crashed Hydrax

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Publisher's summary[]

The Doctor, Romana and K9 — and a young stowaway called Adric — are trapped in the alternative universe of E-Space.

Seeking help, they land on an unknown planet — and find a nightmare world where oppressed peasants toil for the Lords who live in the Tower, and where all learning is forbidden — a society in a state of decay.

What is the terrifying secret of the Three Who Rule? What monstrous creature stirs beneath the Tower, waking from its thousand-year sleep?

The Doctor discovers that the oldest and deadliest enemy of the Time Lords is about to spring into horrifying action.

Plot[]

Chapter 1: The Selection[]

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In-universe continuity[]

  • The Doctor returns to the events of this story in Terrance Dicks' The Eight Doctors. Dicks' Blood Harvest serves as a sequel to these events while Paul Cornell's novel Goth Opera and Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum's novel Vampire Science expands on the themes of State of Decay. Neil Penswick's novel The Pit shows the Great Vampires once again trying to return to reality.
  • The Doctor mentions the "hermit" (or K'anpo Rimpoche).
  • The Doctor and Romana encounter a vampire in Eddie Robson's audio drama The Labyrinth of Buda Castle.

See Also[]

Title Author Release date Significance
Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock Terrance Dicks 1978 A novella by the same author with similar themes
Blood Harvest Terrance Dicks 1994 A direct sequel to State of Decay
The Pit Neil Penswick 1993 A somewhat oblique sequel to State of Decay

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