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Doctor Who and the Sunmakers

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Doctor Who and the Sunmakers is a novella written by Terrance Dicks. Released in 1982, it is a novelization of the serial The Sun Makers written by Robert Holmes.

Characters[]

  • Fourth Doctor
  • Leela
  • K9
  • Cordo - a foundry worker whom the Doctor saves from committing suicide
  • Gatherer Hade - The Collector's human lackey who collects taxes
  • The Collector - the Usurian in charge of Megropolis One
  • Mandrel - the leader of a revolution against the Company
  • The Commander - the head of the Company's Internal Revinue
  • Marn - the assisstant to Gatherer Hade
  • Bisham - a worker at a chemical plant imprisoned for taking executive grade pills
  • Synge - a technician
  • Veet - a member of Mandrel's revolt
  • Goudry - a member of Mandrel's revolt

rest to be added

Publisher's summary[]

Everyone knows that Pluto is a barren airless rock. So naturally the Doctor is surprised when he discovers artificial suns, an ultra-modern industrial city and a group of colonists being worked — and taxed — to death in this inhospitable and supposedly undeveloped part of the universe...

With the help of his companion Leela and the faithful K9, the Doctor takes on the mysterious and powerful Company, ruthless exploiter of planets and their people.

Plot[]

Chapter 1: The Cost of the Golden Death[]

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In-universe continuity[]

  • The Doctor begins to recite the Dormouse's tale from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He previously gave a garbled recitation in The Android Invasion.
  • The Usurians appear again in Guy Adams' audio drama The World Traders.
  • The Gabridelians are mentioned in Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham's Bernice Summerfield novel Beige Planet Mars and Lawrence Miles' novel Alien Bodies.
  • Professor Thripsted's Flora and Fauna of the Universe is mentioned again in Marc Platt's novel Lungbarrow. Professor Thripsted is mentioned in various works by Lawrence Miles alongside Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum's novel Unnatural History and Gary Russell's novel Placebo Effect.

See also[]

  • The Iron Sun by Adrian Berry

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