Search for the Doctor (novel)
Search for the Doctor is the first 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 and Australian editions
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?
Search for the Doctor The year is 2056, and the Doctor is trapped in toroidal stasis by arch enemy Omega. But help is at hand from the Doctor's old friends Drax and K9 — and you! Now open the covers and join the Doctor in an adventure through Time and Space...
US edition
YOU are the only hope for the salvation of the Doctor in SEARCH FOR THE DOCTOR
The year is 2056. From the Fern Spacelab orbiting above the Fusion Energy Research Network in California, OMEGA has mounted a devastating attack.
OMEGA plans to take over the Doctor's mind and body. By controlling the Doctor's awesome power, OMEGA can take revenge on the Time Lords, who sacrificed him to obtain the secret of Time Travel.
YOU will join forces with DRAX and K9 to free the Doctor and defeat OMEGA. As DRAX uses his secondhand TARDIS (cleverly disguised as a 1956 Cadillac) and K9 uses his impressive electronic skills, YOU must use all your wits to FIND YOUR FATE
Characters
References
- Drax's TARDIS has a faulty Chameleon Circuit and is presently disguised as a 1956 Cadillac Eldorado convertible. Sometime ago, it broke down in Brixton due to a fault in the crystals in the hyperbolic laser drive. An ideal replacement could be found in the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, but he was caught before he could make his escape and was sentenced to ten years in the Scrubs. The Doctor and K9 broke him out and his appearance in Los Angeles, 2056 was to return the favour.
- The Second Law of Time is never to rematerialise in mid-flight while inside the vortex. The consequence of this is a vortex crisis that shakes the TARDIS to pieces, Drax likens it to "falling downstairs inside a wardrobe. Only worse."
- The Doctor possesses enough concentration to alter the TARDIS's relative dimensions. First, he removes the outer door, then returns it, only for it to lead in from the interior door on the opposite side of the console room.
- Omega has since mastered the power of Singularity and can appear at will in the normal universe. He traps the Doctor in toroidal stasis in an effort to extort his TARDIS from him.
- Spacelab is an installation in low-orbit above the Fusion Energy Research Network, accessible by high-speed elevator linking one with the other. Personnel believe Spacelab to be haunted, but keep it to themselves to avoid being sent to Psychology.
- Rolph Arnop, a physicist in anti-matter research on Spacelab, was studying environments capable of stabilising both forms of matter so they could exist without mutual destruction. A lightning storm affected their equipment and allowed an anti-matter surge that eventually manifested Omega. He's killed when Omega makes his first confrontation with the Doctor.
Continuity
- Omega is aware that the Doctor's knowledge of space-time travel has been restored. (TV: The Three Doctors)
Notes
- There is a brief explanation of fission in the back of the novel.
Alternative covers
US cover
Australian cover
