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|writer= [[Pip and Jane Baker|Pip & Jane Baker]] | |writer= [[Pip and Jane Baker|Pip & Jane Baker]] | ||
|publisher= Severn House | |publisher= Severn House | ||
|release date= [[28 August (releases)|28 August]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]] | |release date= [[28 August (releases)|28 August]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]] | ||
|format= Paperback Book, ? Pages | |format= Paperback Book, ? Pages | ||
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== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
=== UK | === 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? | 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]]... | 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 | === US edition === | ||
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''. | ||
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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. | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[The Rani]] | * [[The Rani]] | ||
== Associated | == Associated images == | ||
This book was illustrated throughout by [[Gail Bennett]], who also drew the cover for the UK edition. The full page illustrations are shown below: | This book was illustrated throughout by [[Gail Bennett]], who also drew the cover for the UK edition. The full page illustrations are shown below: | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* The Bakers also wrote several teleplays for the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor]] eras of the TV series, in seasons [[Season 22|22]] through [[Season 24|24]]. The stories they wrote that were produced were [[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)| | * The Bakers also wrote several teleplays for the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor]] eras of the TV series, in seasons [[Season 22|22]] through [[Season 24|24]]. 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]]''. | ||
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[[Category:Find your fate novels]] | [[Category:Find your fate novels]] | ||
Revision as of 15:22, 8 February 2015
Race Against Time is the sixth and last in a series of "choose-your-own-adventure" style gamebooks, titled Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who in the UK and released in the US in 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
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!
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 FIND YOUR FATE.
Characters
Associated images
This book was illustrated throughout by Gail Bennett, who also drew the cover for the UK edition. The full page illustrations are shown below:
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
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by Gail Bennett
US cover
References
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Notes
- The Bakers also wrote several teleplays for the Sixth and Seventh Doctor eras of the TV series, in seasons 22 through 24. The stories they wrote that were produced were The Mark of the Rani, Terror of the Vervoids and Time and the Rani.
