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In this, the first adventure of his third 'incarnation', DOCTOR WHO, Liz Shaw and the Brigadier grapple with the nightmarish invasion of the AUTONS - living, giant-sized, plastic-modelled 'humans' with no hair and sightless eyes; waxwork replicas and tailors' dummies whose murderous behaviour is directed by the NESTENE CONSCIOUSNESS - a malignant, squid-like monster of cosmic proportions and indescribably hideous appearance.

ISBN 0 426 11295 4

DOCTOR WHO

AND THE

AUTON INVASION Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who and the Spearhead from Space by Robert Holmes by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation

TERRANCE DICKS

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

CONTENTS

1 Prologue: Exiled to Earth

2 The Mystery of the Meteorites

3 The Man from Space

4 The Faceless Kidnappers

5 The Hunting Auton

6 The Doctor Disappears

7 The Horror in the Factory

8 The Auton Attacks

9 The Creatures in the Waxworks

10 The Final Battle

A Target Book

Published in 1974

by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd. A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex

ISBN 0426 10313 0

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.

Prologue: Exiled to Earth

In the High Court of the Time Lords a trial was coming to its end. The accused, a renegade Time Lord known as the Doctor, had already been found guilty. Now it was time for the sentence.

The Doctor looked very out of place standing amongst the dignified Time Lords in their long white robes.

To begin with, he was quite a small man. He wore an ancient black coat and a pair of check trousers. He had a gentle, rather comical face and a shock of untidy black hair. But there was strength in that face, too, and keen intelligence in the blue eyes.

A hush fell as the President of the Court rose, and began to speak. 'Doctor, you have been found guilty of two serious offences against our laws. First, you stole a TARDIS and used it to roam through Time and Space as you pleased. '

'Nonsense,' said the Doctor indignantly. 'I didn't steal it. Just borrowed it for a while. '

The President ignored the interruption. 'More important, you have repeatedly broken our most important law: interference in the affairs of other planets is a serious crime. '

Again the Doctor interrupted: 'I not only admit my interference, I am proud of it! You just observe the evil in the galaxies. I fight against it. '