Top Trumps (book)

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Top Trumps (book)
Written by:	Moray Laing
Release date:	7 December 2006
Publisher:	Haynes Publishing
Format:	Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84425-427-5
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Top Trumps (book) was the first Top Trumps book published by J. H. Haynes & Co. Ltd. in December 2006.

It covered 44 characters, four pages per character, and like the cards each character had a description paragraph and statistics. The statistics were: Debut, Played by, Home, Status, Height, Scare Rating, Special Features, Weapons, Likes, Dislikes, and Talk.

Publisher's summary

You've seen the show, you've played the game... ...now read the book!

All you need to know about 44 key characters from the hugely successful television show in one pocket-sized guide.

• Stunning photographs
• Fascinating facts
• All the vital statistics

Even more facts, even more fun!

Contents

• Introduction
  • About Top Trumps
  • Now read the book!
• The Doctor _{The Last of the Time Lords}
• The TARDIS _{The Doctor's time and space machine}
• Rose Tyler _{Shop assistant turned time traveller}
• Mickey Smith _{Defender of the Earth}
• Captain Jack Harkness _{Rogue Time Agent}
• Sarah Jane Smith _{Journalist and former time traveller}
• K-9 _{The Doctor's old robot dog}
• Jackie Tyler _{Rose's mum}
• Pete Tyler _{Rose's dad}
• Adam Mitchell _{Unreliable travelling companion}
• Harriet Jones _{Prime Minister}
• Charles Dickens _Writer
• Gwyneth _{Servant girl}
• Reinette _{Madame de Pompadour}
• The Face of Boe _{Mysterious alien friend}
• The Moxx of Balhoon _{Alien solicitor}
• Daleks _{Evil menace}
• Emperor Dalek _{Supreme Dalek leader}
• The Cult of Skaro _{Secret group of Daleks}
• Cybermen _{Powerful steel giants}
• Cyber Controller _{Cybermen creator}
• Cyber Leaders _{Cybermen with extra control}
• Autons _{Living Plastic creatures}
• Cassandra _{The last surviving human}
• Chip _{Cassandra's servant}
• Robot Spiders _{Murderous robots}
• Adherents of the Repeated Meme _{Strange cloaked figures}
• Forest of Cheem _Treeforms
• Gelth _{Bodysnatching gas aliens}
• Slitheen _{A family of alien criminals}
• The Jagrafess _{The boss of Satellite Five}
• The Editor _{Corrupt employee of the Jagrafess}
• Reapers _{Time predators}
• The Empty Child _{Gas-mask zombie}
• Sisters of Plenitude _{Misguided cat nuns}
• Sycorax _{Bone-faced warriors}
• Pilot Fish _{Scavenging aliens}
• The Werewolf _{Howling alien}
• Clockwork Robots _{Confused droids}
• Krillitanes _{Bat-like creatures}
• The Wire _{Face-robbing alien}
• Ood _{Servant race}
• The Beast _{Enslaved demon}
• The Isolus _{Scared young alien}
• Checklist

Notable features

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Notes

• It was priced £4.99, its reference number was H4427, and was classified as Children's Non-Fiction.
• It complimented the first Doctor Who Top Trumps pack released earlier the same year.
• The main colour scheme for the book was blue.
• It contained advertisements for other Top Trumps books.

External links

• Haynes.co.uk (7 December 2006)