Doctor Who and the Sunmakers (novelisation)

Doctor Who and the Sunmakers (novelisation)

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Doctor Who and the Sunmakers
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fourth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Leela K9
Main enemy:	Usurian
Main setting:	Megropolis One, Pluto, the far future
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co]]
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Release details
Release number:	60 (given to later editions)
Release date:	November 1982
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 127 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20059-4

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial DW: The Sun Makers, which was written by Robert Holmes and shown from 26 November 1977.
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel. It features the artwork of Andrew Skilleter. (See below for information on other editions which have been published with different covers).

Publisher's summary

Everyone knows that Pluto is a barren airless rock. So naturally the Fourth Doctor is surprised when he discovers artificial suns, an ultra-modern industrial city and a group of colonists being worked – and taxed – to dealt in this inhospitable and supposedly undeveloped part of the universe …
With the help of his companion Leela and the faithful K9, the Doctor takes on the mysterious and powerful Company, ruthless exploiter of planets and their people.

Illustrations

• None

Deviations from televised story

To be added

Writing and publishing notes

• Last in the range to have a title prefixed by “Doctor Who and …”
• Although not generally acknowledged as such, this was a rare occasion during the 1980s that the title of a novelisation differed from that of the original series, but barely: the serial spelled Sun Makers as two words, while the novelisation used the single-word form, Sunmakers.

Additional cover images

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  1989 edition; The Face of Evil and The Sunmakers

British publication history

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

Editions published outside Britain

To be added

See also

• The Target Book by David J Howe (Telos Publishing 2007)

External links

• On Target a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal