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|image = Race against time UK.jpg | |||
|series=''[[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who]]'' | |||
|number = 6 | |||
|doctor=Sixth Doctor | |||
|companions= [[Peri Brown|Peri]] | |||
|enemy= {{O'Mara|c}} | |||
|setting= | |||
|writer= [[Pip and Jane Baker]] | |||
|illustrator = [[Gail Bennett]] | |||
|cover = [[Gail Bennett]] {{sm|(UK)}}, [[Romas Kukalis]] {{sm|(US)}} | |||
|publisher= Severn House | |||
|release date= [[12 November (releases)|12 November]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]] | |||
|format= Paperback Book, ? Pages | |||
|isbn= ISBN 0-7278-2116-4 (UK edition)<br />ISBN 0-345-33228-8 (US Edition) | |||
|prev = Invasion of the Ormazoids (novel) | |||
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'''''Race Against Time''''' is the sixth and last in a series of "choose-your-own-adventure" style [[gamebook]]s, titled [[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who]] in the UK and released in the US in [[Ballantine|Ballantine Books']] ''Find Your Fate'' line. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | |||
=== UK edition === | |||
Have you ever longed to climb aboard [[the TARDIS]] and enter another dimension? Meet the Doctor and join him in outwitting his enemies? Well, now's your chance! All you need is a pair of dice, a pencil, a little bit of luck and all your wits about you. Ready? | |||
Somewhere deep in the Universe [[the Rani]] is planning an evil experiment to plunge the [[Earth]] back into primeval slime. Only the Doctor — and you — can locate her fiendish Time Destabilizer and save the world! Now open the covers and join the Doctor in an adventure through [[Time]] and [[Space]]... | |||
=== US edition === | |||
=== US | |||
YOU and the Doctor must join forces to find and destroy the most awesome device ever created in a ''RACE AGAINST TIME''. | YOU and the Doctor must join forces to find and destroy the most awesome device ever created in a ''RACE AGAINST TIME''. | ||
Doctor Who is the world's greatest [[Time Lord]], but an awful calamity has befallen him. Along with YOU and his companion [[Peri]], the Doctor is caught in Time Limbo — the worst possible place for a Time Lord to be! | Doctor Who is the world's greatest [[Time Lord]], but an awful calamity has befallen him. Along with YOU and his companion [[Peri Brown|Peri]], the Doctor is caught in Time Limbo — the worst possible place for a Time Lord to be! | ||
Your goal is to help the Doctor reach and defuse the Time Destabilizer, an invention that threatens not just the [[Solar System]], not just the Galaxy, but the entire Universe! If you fail, you will be suspended for all eternity in a vacuum with no light, no dark, no beginning, no end. | Your goal is to help the Doctor reach and defuse the Time Destabilizer, an invention that threatens not just the [[Solar System]], not just the Galaxy, but the entire Universe! If you fail, you will be suspended for all eternity in a vacuum with no light, no dark, no beginning, no end. | ||
This is the biggest challenge you've ever faced. The decisions you make will shape the destiny of all life in the galaxy, so do your best to | This is the biggest challenge you've ever faced. The decisions you make will shape the destiny of all life in the galaxy, so do your best to FIND YOUR FATE. | ||
== | == Plot == | ||
''to be added'' | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Sixth Doctor]] | * [[Sixth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Peri Brown]] | * [[Peri Brown]] | ||
* [[ | * {{O'Mara|c}} | ||
* [[Human (Race Against Time)|Human]] | |||
* [[Delivery-boy (Race Against Time)|Delivery-boy]] | |||
== Associated | == Associated images == | ||
This | This book was illustrated throughout by [[Gail Bennett]], who also drew the cover for the UK edition. The full page illustrations are shown below: | ||
<gallery hideaddbutton="true" > | <gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" > | ||
Race Against Time 1.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 2.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time extra 2.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 3.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 4.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 5.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 6.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time extra 3.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 7.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 8.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time extra.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 9.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 10.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 11.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 12.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race Against Time 13.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett | |||
Race against time US.jpg|US cover by [[Romas Kukalis]] | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
''to be added'' | ''to be added'' | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* The Bakers also wrote several teleplays for the [[Sixth Doctor]], and for the [[Seventh Doctor]]. The stories they wrote that were produced were ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'', ''[[Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)|Terror of the Vervoids]]'' and ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''. | |||
* The Bakers also wrote several teleplays for the [[Sixth Doctor | |||
{{Make Your Own Adventure Books}} | |||
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[[Category:Find your fate novels]] | [[Category:Find your fate novels]] | ||
[[Category:1986 novels]] | [[Category:1986 novels]] | ||