The Nemonite Invasion (audio story)

The Nemonite Invasion
Doctor:	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Donna Noble
Main enemy:	The Nemonites
Main setting:	1940
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Audio]]
Writer:	David Roden
Director:	Kate Thomas
Producer:	Simon Hunt
Release details
Release number:	3
Release date:	12th February 2009
Format:	2 CDs
Production code:	na
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-408-40679-3

The Nemonite Invasion is a made-for-audio Tenth Doctor story, written by David Roden and produced for BBC Audio, released in February 2009.

Read by Catherine Tate, the story is released under the same format as the BBC Books Tenth Doctor Adventures book series and their associated audio book adaptations, but was released exclusively to audio. It is the third of its kind following Pest Control and The Forever Trap (several original audio stories of this nature have also been issued based upon Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures).

Publisher's Summary

Catherine Tate reads this exclusive thrilling story, in which the Doctor and Donna take on a race of dangerous bloodsucking aliens

When the sky rips open somewhere over Dover, two objects hurtle out of the Vortex and crash-land in the sea. One is the TARDIS, out of control and freefalling - but the other, a mysterious crystalline sphere, is far more sinister.

The Doctor and Donna are rescued and taken to a secret command centre in the Dover cliffs. It's May 1940, and Vice-Admiral Ramsay is about to finalise one of the most daring plans of the Second World War: Operation Dynamo.

But something else has got inside the War Tunnels, a parasitic Nemonite from the crashed sphere. Its aim is to possess all humans and spawn millions of young. The Doctor and Donna must fight for their lives in order to save both Operation Dynamo and the world at large.

The Nemonite Invasion features the Doctor and Donna, as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC Television series Doctor Who. Written specially for audio by David Roden, it is read by Catherine Tate.

References

• Donna refers to the Doctor as Joe 90.
• When pressed for identification, Donna says she and the Doctor work for The X-Files.
• Donna compares the Doctor's mind-reading ability to that of Mr. Spock's mind-meld from Star Trek, to which the Doctor replies she watches too much TV.

Timeline

• The Nemonite Invasion occurs after: NSA: The Forever Trap
• The Nemonite Invasion occurs before: DW: Silence in the Library. This can be calculated due to a line of narrative related to Donna feeling romantic feelings for a character and, for the first time in her travels, encountering thoughts of "What if?" Her later experiences as depicted in DW: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead again touch upon "What if?"

Continuity

• The Doctor once again gives his age as 903.

Behind the scenes

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