Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space - J. L. Morrissey

Category: Adults, Doctor Who, General Fiction, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: Adventure Doctor Who Sci-Fi

Written by J. L. Morrissey
Read by Peter Purves
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space was a forty-six-page novella published in 1966 in the same format as the Doctor Who annual releases. It stands as the first officially published original (i.e. non-TV-based) long-form text story to feature the Doctor. It proved to be an anomaly of Doctor Who prose fiction. No other original fiction books would be published until 1980, when the children’s The Adventures of K9 short story series debuted. After that, only the novels Harry Sullivan’s War and Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma followed in the 1980s. It was not until 1991’s launch of the Virgin New Adventures line that the Doctor himself returned to original fiction published as a standalone novel.

Invasion is further unusual for being the only original First Doctor novel ever published in which he is not travelling with at least one of his televised companions.

Publisher’s summary:

The Doctor is joined at the beginning of the story by the Mortimer family, who are fleeing the Great Fire of London.

They then land on a spaceship driven by a super-computer and carrying survivors from Andromeda who are planning an invasion of the galaxy.