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name= Race Against Time |
name= Race Against Time |
image=Race_against_time_US.jpg|
image=Race_against_time_UK.jpg|
series=[[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who|Make Your Own Adventure<br /><span style=color:#000>''also called''</span> Find Your Fate]]|
series=[[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who|Make Your Own Adventure<br /><span style=color:#000>''also called''</span> Find Your Fate]]|
number=6|
number=6|
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writer= [[Pip & Jane Baker]] |
writer= [[Pip & Jane Baker]] |
publisher= [[Ballantine]] (US edition)<br />[[Severn House]] (UK edition) |
publisher= [[Severn House]] (UK edition)<br />[[Ballantine]] (US edition) |
release date= [[August]] [[1986]] |
release date= [[August]] [[1986]] |
format= Paperback Book, ? Pages |
format= Paperback Book, ? Pages |
isbn= ISBN 0-345-33228-8 (US Edition)<br />ISBN 0-7278-2116-4 (UK edition))|
isbn= ISBN 0-7278-2116-4 (UK edition)<br />ISBN 0-345-33228-8 (US Edition)|
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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 ==
== 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 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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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'''.
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'''.
=== 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]]...


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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== Associated Images ==
== Associated Images ==
This title (and cover) was illustrated throughout by [[Gail Bennett]]. 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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file:Race Against Time 13.jpg|internal illustration<br />by Gail Bennett
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file:Race against time US.jpg|US cover
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is the final book in the Find your fate / Make your own adventures series of novels.
* The Bakers also wrote several teleplays for the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor]] eras of the TV series.
* The Bakers also wrote several teleplays for the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor]] eras of the TV series.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The appearance of the Rani means this story likely takes place at some point between [[DW]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'' and the flashback storyline in [[DW]]: ''[[Mindwarp]]''.
* The appearance of the Rani means this story likely takes place at some point between [[DW]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'' and the flashback storyline in [[DW]]: ''[[Mindwarp]]''.


== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
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* This story occurs before [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/DWM DWM]: ''[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor_of_the_Daleks Emperor of the Daleks]''
* This story occurs before [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/DWM DWM]: ''[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor_of_the_Daleks Emperor of the Daleks]''
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Revision as of 06:59, 19 May 2012

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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:

References

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Notes

  • The Bakers also wrote several teleplays for the Sixth and Seventh Doctor eras of the TV series.

Continuity

Timeline