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|image= Warriors of the Deep novel.jpg | |image = <gallery> | ||
| | Warriors of the Deep novel.jpg|1984 edition | ||
|number= 87 | 2WarriorsDeep.jpg|1992 edition | ||
|doctor=Fifth Doctor | </gallery> | ||
|companions=[[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] | |number = 87 | ||
|enemy=[[Silurian]]s, [[Sea Devil]]s | |doctor = Fifth Doctor | ||
|setting= [[Sea Base 4]], [[2084]] | |companions = [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] | ||
|writer= | |enemy = [[Silurian]]s, [[Sea Devil]]s | ||
|read by=[[Peter Davison]] | |setting = [[Sea Base 4]], [[2084]] | ||
|publisher= Target Books | |writer = Terrance Dicks | ||
|publisher2= W.H. Allen | |read by = [[Peter Davison]], [[Janet Fielding]] | ||
|novelisation of= Warriors of the Deep (TV story) | |cover = [[Andrew Skilleter]] | ||
|publisher = Target Books | |||
|release date= | |publisher2 = W.H. Allen | ||
|format= Hardcover and paperback editions; 12 chapters, 126 pages | |novelisation of = Warriors of the Deep (TV story) | ||
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-19561-2 | |release date = 16 August 1984 | ||
|prev= The Dominators (novelisation) | |format = Hardcover and paperback editions; 12 chapters, 126 pages | ||
|next= The Aztecs (novelisation) | |isbn = ISBN 0-426-19561-2 | ||
|series2 = [[List of Doctor Who television stories|TV series order]] | |series = [[Target novelisation]]s | ||
|prev2=The Five Doctors (novelisation) | |prev = The Dominators (novelisation) | ||
|next2=The Awakening (novelisation) | |next = The Aztecs (novelisation) | ||
}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a novelisation based on the 1984 television serial [[Warriors of the Deep|of the same name]]. | |series2 = [[List of Doctor Who television stories|TV series order]] | ||
|prev2 = The Five Doctors (novelisation) | |||
|next2 = The Awakening (novelisation) | |||
}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a novelisation based on the 1984 television serial [[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|of the same name]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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* Icthar is identified multiple times, by the Doctor and the author, as the unnamed [[Bokka K'to|Silurian Scientist]] previously encountered by the [[Third Doctor]] in the televised ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. Poised between the [[Okdel L'da|Old Silurian]] initially leading the shelter and the [[Morka|Young Silurian]] who usurped him. | * Icthar is identified multiple times, by the Doctor and the author, as the unnamed [[Bokka K'to|Silurian Scientist]] previously encountered by the [[Third Doctor]] in the televised ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. Poised between the [[Okdel L'da|Old Silurian]] initially leading the shelter and the [[Morka|Young Silurian]] who usurped him. | ||
* While the televised version implies the [[Sea Devil]]s are hibernating in a bunker beneath the ocean floor, the novelisation describes them as sleeping in the lower depths of the [[Silurian]] craft itself. Their length of inactivity is stretched from hundreds of years to thousands. | * While the televised version implies the [[Sea Devil]]s are hibernating in a bunker beneath the ocean floor, the novelisation describes them as sleeping in the lower depths of the [[Silurian]] craft itself. Their length of inactivity is stretched from hundreds of years to thousands. | ||
* | * Solow and Nilson converted to the ideology of the East Bloc, the power bloc opposed to the base. After the death of Solow's husband and parents, Nilson convinced her that the philosophy of the East Bloc was the answer to all of life's problems, but for the East Bloc to wipe out all suffering and injustice on Earth, sacrifices would have to be made. Conversely, Nilson is described as "a complete fanatic", if anything more ruthless than the people he serves. | ||
* The [[Myrka]] is described as a kind of "sea dragon", specially bred and adapted by the Silurians with cybernetic technology. It electrocutes its victims as with the televised story, but attacks with a lash-like tail that can send people hurtling across the room with its kinetic power alone. To the Doctor's knowledge, the creature is "almost invincible". | * The [[Myrka]] is described as a kind of "sea dragon", specially bred and adapted by the Silurians with cybernetic technology. It electrocutes its victims as with the televised story, but attacks with a lash-like tail that can send people hurtling across the room with its kinetic power alone. To the Doctor's knowledge, the creature is "almost invincible". | ||
* The novelisation clarifies that [[Tegan]]'s foot is undamaged while trapped under the toppled airlock door "by a kind of freak accident". | * The novelisation clarifies that [[Tegan]]'s foot is undamaged while trapped under the toppled airlock door "by a kind of freak accident". | ||
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== Additional cover images == | == Additional cover images == | ||
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true"> | <gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true"> | ||
HardbackWarriorsOfTheDeep.jpg|1984 Hardback edition | |||
2WarriorsDeep.jpg|1992 edition.<br />Cover by [[Alister Pearson]] | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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== Audiobook == | == Audiobook == | ||
In [[June (releases)|June]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]], [[BBC Audio]] released an abridged audio book version of the novel, read by [[Peter Davison]]. It was later reissued on ''[[Tales from the TARDIS: Volume Two]]''. | In [[June (releases)|June]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]], [[BBC Audio]] released an abridged audio book version of the novel, read by [[Peter Davison]]. It was later reissued on ''[[Tales from the TARDIS: Volume Two]]''. | ||
The Target Book was again released as an audiobook on [[4 May (releases)|4 May]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by [[Janet Fielding]]. | |||
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true"> | |||
Warriors of the Deep audiobook.jpg|Audiobook cover | |||
</gallery> | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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[[Category:Target novelisations]] | [[Category:Target novelisations]] | ||
[[Category:1984 novels]] | [[Category:1984 novels]] | ||