The Slitheen Excursion (novel)

The Slitheen Excursion
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	June
Main enemy:	Slitheen
Main setting:	Athens, Greece, 1500 BC
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Simon Guerrier
Release details
Release number:	32
Release date:	16 April 2009
Format:	Hardcover, 237 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84607-640-4
BBC New Series Adventures
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The Slitheen Excursion was the twenty-sixth Tenth Doctor novel released.

Publisher's summary

1500BC - King Actaeus and his subjects live in mortal fear of the awesome gods who have come to visit their kingdom in ancient Greece. Except the Doctor, visiting with university student June, knows they're not gods at all. They're aliens. For the aliens, it's the perfect holiday - they get to tour the sights of a primitive planet and even take part in local customs. Like gladiatorial games, or hunting down and killing humans who won't be missed. With June's enthusiastic help, the Doctor soon meets the travel agents behind this deadly package holiday company - his old enemies the Slitheen. But can he bring the Slitheen excursion to an end without endangering more lives? And how are events in ancient Greece linked to a modern-day alien plot to destroy what's left of the Parthenon?

Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• June
• The Slitheen Family
• King Actaeus
• Aglauros
• Pandrosos
• Cecrops

References

• The Aru are mentioned. This species is said to have several chins and mandibles.
• The Doctor claims to be working for the Mutter's Spiral Herald.
• Mamps Slitheen identifies the Doctor as a time traveller when she smells the nymph glands from Gris on his suit.
• The Kodicek scale measures temporal disturbances.

Notes

• The Slitheen here are said to be silicon-based whereas in TV: Aliens of London/World War Three they were calcium-based.
• This novel continues the series of New Series Adventure novels, set after TV: Journey's End, in which an alien from the TV series returns in print (the others include the Judoon, Daleks, Sontarans, Krillitanes and Autons). Unlike these aliens, however, the Slitheen have previously appeared in another standard PROSE novel in PROSE: The Monsters Inside, although some other aliens listed above do appear in Quick Reads.
• This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

The Audiobook cover.

Continuity

• The Slitheen family debuted in TV: Aliens of London.
• The events of both TV: Aliens of London and TV: Boom Town are mentioned.
• The Navarinos are mentioned. They debuted in TV: Delta and the Bannermen.
• The Osirians are mentioned. They debuted in TV: Pyramids of Mars.

Audio release

• The story was released as an audiobook download read by Debbie Chazen available from the AudioGo website.

External links

• The Slitheen Excursion at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Cloister Library: The Slitheen Excursion