Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} and the Dalek Invasion of Earth by The essential Terrance Dicks stories, as chosen by fans. Coming this August is a two-volume celebration of this much-loved storyteller, collecting ten of Terrance Dicks’ best Doctor Who novels, as chosen by fans. You can pre-order The Essential Terrance Dicks Volumes One and Two now. Terrance Dicks was at the heart(s) of Doctor Who for over 50 years - from joining production of The Invasion in 1968 as a Script Editor to his final short story in 2019. Terrance wrote 64 Target novels from his first commission in 1973 to his last, published in 1990, helping introduce a generation of children to the pleasures of reading and writing, with fans including Neil Gaiman, Sarah Waters, Mark Gatiss, Alastair Reynolds, Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Frank-Cottrell Boyce, and Robert Webb, among many others. This special two-volume collection, published on the anniversary of Terrance’s death, features the very best of his Doctor Who Target novels as chosen by fans - from his first book, The Auton Invasion , to his masterwork, the 20th anniversary celebration story , voted all- time favourite. With forewords by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Robert Webb, The Essential Terrance Dicks is a masterclass in contemporary fiction, by a writer of unlimited imagination. Volume One contains, complete and unabridged: Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen Doctor Who and the Wheel in Space Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks. Volume Two contains, complete and unabridged: Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang Doctor Who and the Horror of Fangn Rock Doctor Who and the Five Doctors. Robert Webb said in his foreword to Volume Two: "All readers are travellers in time and space. A story takes our imagination on a journey through strange lands, meeting strange people and doing things we would never do in our ordinary lives. For as long as we are holding that book, reading makes Time Lords of us all. " You can pre-order The Essential Terrance Dicks Volumes One and Two now ahead of its release on the 26th August 2021. Slyther. Slythers were creatures native to Skaro. They were occasionally utilised by the Daleks to act as guards at their installations. Biology [ edit | edit source ] Slythers looked like large, black creatures. Their skins were so thick that they were immune to the stings of the Varga plant so they wouldn't transform into a Varga like other lifeforms. (COMIC: The Only Good Dalek ) They moved slowly and regularly groaned. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth ) History [ edit | edit source ] During the Dalek occupation of Earth in the 22nd century, the Daleks used Slythers in their attacks. (AUDIO: Masters of Earth ) Towards the end of the invasion, the Supreme Controller used a Slyther to guard the Bedfordshire mines at night, where it killed and ate anything it found. After it attacked a small group of humans consisting of Ian Chesterton, Larry Madison, Wells, and Ashton (killing the last), Ian hit it with a rock, causing it to fall down a pit to its death. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth ) By 2199, there were still Slythers in the forests around London where they would attack anyone who wandered into their paths. Dedicated knights hunted and killed them. (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks ) In the year 2254, the Seventh Doctor encountered Slythers on Skaro. (GAME: Dalek Attack ) During the late 22nd century, parents who had been alive during the invasion of Earth told stories of the Slythers to scare their children into behaving. (AUDIO: An Earthly Child ) During the Great War, a Slyther was used by the Daleks on the planet Antalin. (PROSE: War of the Daleks ) In the year 2515, the Daleks used Slythers during their assault on Lan Beta. (PROSE: Parasite ) While on Skaro in the 27th century, Bernice Summerfield commented that she would rather hug a Slyther than have her nerve fried by a Dalek gunstick as it would be quicker and less painful. (AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro ) During the 41st century, Station 7 contained a section of the forest on Skaro which included Varga plants and a Slyther which later returned to the Daleks. (COMIC: The Only Good Dalek ) Following the reconstruction of Skaro in an era that succeeded the Last Great , Missy adopted a Slyther as a pet when she found herself on the planet. She named it Doctor and allowed it to eat Thals. (PROSE: Postcards from the Universe ) Terrance Dicks. Terrance Dicks (born Terrance William Dicks on 14 April 1935 in East Ham, Essex [1] , died 29 August 2019 [2] ) whom fans have long affectionately called "Uncle Terrance", script edited the Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee eras of Doctor Who and wrote many Doctor Who episodes, novels and novelisations, becoming one of the most prolific authors and scriptwriters. Contents. Profile [ edit | edit source ] Overview [ edit | edit source ] Terrance Dicks began his long association with Doctor Who in 1968, when he joined the production team during the Second Doctor story The Invasion . He soon began writing scripts for the series. His first notable work was , an epic, ten-episode collaboration with Malcolm Hulke. Dicks served as script editor through the Jon Pertwee era. He handed the reins to Robert Holmes with the coming of Tom Baker. Dicks continued to supply scripts for the series under his name and pseudonyms, specifically "Robin Bland" which was used when too many changes were made to his script for . Between seasons 13 and 14, he unsuccessfully attempted to sell a version of Doctor Who to BBC Radio, which would have starred Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen. (INFO: The Seeds of Doom ) At roughly the same time, he submitted what would become State of Decay to the Doctor Who production office. It remained unproduced for several years as the BBC had recently produced a new version of Dracula . His final script for televised Doctor Who was for the twentieth anniversary story The Five Doctors . In 1973, Dicks, along with other writers from the TV series, were commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations adapting TV episodes. Over the next two decades, Dicks became the most prolific author of the line. He was editor of the range at one point. In later years, when Target adopted the policy of commissioning the original teleplay writers to novelise their works, Dicks became the "go-to guy" when the original teleplay writer was deceased, unable or unwilling to adapt their work in book form. The Target Books line was retired in the early 1990s. Dicks wrote original novels for virtually every line of Doctor Who fiction, with notable exceptions being Virgin Missing Adventures, Telos Publishing, Big Finish Productions' Bernice Summerfield series of books and the current hardcover series of BBC Books novels, although he wrote two entries in the Quick Reads novella series, most notably Made of Steel , which introduced fans to Martha Jones a full month before her TV debut. He is one of only a handful of Classic Era TV writers to have written licenced Modern Era stories (others include Andrew Cartmel, who has written for the Doctor Who Adventures comic strip, and Rona Munro, who contributed a script to Series 10). He also co-wrote The Making of Doctor Who , the first non-fiction book about the series. In 2007, after a hiatus of seventeen years, Dicks returned to writing episode novelisations by adapting Invasion of the Bane for a new series of novelisations based upon The Sarah Jane Adventures , published by Penguin Character Books. Although most closely associated with Doctor Who , Dicks has also worked on other projects, such as a mid-1970s series of novels featuring the adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Of the first thirteen incarnations of the Doctor, Dicks wrote novels and novelisations featuring all of them except the Ninth, Twelfth and Thirteenth Doctors. In terms of novelisations, discounting the Modern Era Doctors, for whom novelisations have not been commissioned, along with the Eighth Doctor, the only Doctor era not receiving the Dicks treatment at some point was the Seventh Doctor (discounting the special case of Shakedown , a partial novelisation of the independent film Shakedown: Return of the , which Dicks adapted for the Virgin New Adventures, expanding the story to include the Seventh Doctor). He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who . Contributions to the Doctor Who universe [ edit | edit source ] Major characters and concepts created in a Terrance Dicks script or substantially developed by him as script editor include the Time Lords (in The War Games , co-written with Malcolm Hulke), as well as the Master played by Roger Delgado. More minor creations include the Rutans, the War Lord, the Death Zone and Morbius. In-universe his name is given to a library at St Luke's University. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension ) The first part of was dedicated to his 'Masterful' talents. In the DWU [ edit | edit source ] Television credits [ edit | edit source ] As writer [ edit | edit source ] Doctor Who [ edit | edit source ] The War Games (with Malcolm Hulke) Robot The Brain of Morbius (re-written substantially by script editorRobert Holmes and credited to the pseudonymRobin Bland) Horror of Fang Rock State of Decay The Five Doctors. Direct-to-video [ edit | edit source ] Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans Mindgame Mindgame Trilogy : Battlefield. As script editor [ edit | edit source ] Doctor Who [ edit | edit source ] The Invasion The Krotons The Seeds of Death The War Games Spearhead from Space Doctor Who and the Silurians The Ambassadors of Death Inferno Terror of the Autons The Mind of Evil The Claws of Axos The Dæmons Day of the Daleks The Sea Devils The Curse of Peladon The Mutants The Time Monster Carnival of Monsters Frontier in Space The Three Doctors Planet of the Daleks The Green Death The Time Warrior Invasion of the Dinosaurs Death to the Daleks The Monster of Peladon Planet of the Spiders. Dedications [ edit | edit source ] Spyfall "Masterful" dedication. Spyfall: Part One. Prose [ edit | edit source ] Novels [ edit | edit source ] Virgin New Adventures [ edit | edit source ] Timewyrm: Exodus Blood Harvest Shakedown - (technically an expanded upon novelisation of his Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans ) BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures [ edit | edit source ] The Eight Doctors Endgame. BBC Past Doctor Adventures [ edit | edit source ] Catastrophea Warmonger (with Barry Letts) . BBC Quick Reads [ edit | edit source ] Made of Steel Revenge of the Judoon. Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures [ edit | edit source ] Mean Streets. Novelisations [ edit | edit source ] Target novelisations [ edit | edit source ] Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen Doctor Who and the Giant Robot Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders The Three Doctors Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks The Revenge of the Cybermen Doctor Who and the Web of Fear Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil Doctor Who and the Mutants Doctor Who and Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang Doctor Who and the Face of Evil Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock Doctor Who and the Time Warrior Death to the Daleks Doctor Who and the Android Invasion Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl Doctor Who and the Robots of Death Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks Doctor Who and the Underworld Doctor Who and Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child Doctor Who and the State of Decay Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken Doctor Who and the Sunmakers Meglos Four to Doomsday The Five Doctors Kinda Snakedance Warriors of the Deep Inferno The Mind of Evil The Krotons The Time Monster The Seeds of Death The Faceless Ones The Ambassadors of Death The Mysterious Planet The Wheel in Space The Smugglers Planet of Giants The Space Pirates. Junior Doctor Who [ edit | edit source ] Junior Doctor Who and the Giant Robot Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius. The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations [ edit | edit source ] Invasion of the Bane. Short stories [ edit | edit source ] Brief Encounters [ edit | edit source ] Farewells. The Target Storybook [ edit | edit source ] Save Yourself. Dalek [ edit | edit source ] Davros Genesis. Daily Mirror [ edit | edit source ] Dr. Who and the Hell Planet. Bernice Summerfield short stores [ edit | edit source ] A Mutual Friend (in A Life of Surprises ) Non-fiction [ edit | edit source ] The Making of Doctor Who (first edition co-written with Malcolm Hulke; second edition updated and revised by Terrance Dicks alone) The Doctor Who Monster Book The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book The Second Doctor Who Monster Book. Stage plays [ edit | edit source ] Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday The Ultimate Adventure. Audio [ edit | edit source ] Big Finish Doctor Who stage plays [ edit | edit source ] Seven Keys to Doomsday The Ultimate Adventure. [ edit | edit source ] Comeback. Companion Chronicles [ edit | edit source ] Beyond the Ultimate Adventure. Video Game [ edit | edit source ] Destiny of the Doctors (with Hannah Redler, Gary Russell and Andy Russell) Contributions to the mythos [ edit | edit source ] Major characters and concepts created for or debuting in a Terrance Dicks script include: Die größten Hörerlebnisse nur bei Audible. Erlebe Audible auf dem Smartphone, Tablet, am Computer oder deinem Amazon Echo. Auch offline. Die größten Hörerlebnisse. Entdecke genau das, was du hören willst: Wähle aus 200.000 Titeln und inspirierenden Audible Original Podcasts. Natürlich werbefrei. Genieße dein Hörerlebnis ohne Unterbrechung. Einfach ausprobieren. Teste Audible 30 Tage kostenlos. Du kannst jederzeit kündigen. Hör die Welt mit anderen Augen. Mit Audible Originals und exklusiven Geschichten. 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The numbering of the novelisations was introduced in 1983, with the first seventy-three books retroactively renumbered in alphabetical order (although not every book had a numbered edition). The books from #74 onwards were predominantly numbered in the order of publication, with a few notable exceptions. Stories [ edit | edit source ] Bold titles indicated a deviation from the original episode title other than "Doctor Who and the ______"