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Ten Little Aliens (novel)

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Ten Little Aliens was the fifty-fourth novel in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Stephen Cole, released 3 June 2002 and featured the First Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright.

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Publisher's summary

2002 BBC Books edition

Far out in space, on the ragged edges of Earth's bloated empire, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollowed-out planetoid that forms their battleground, a chilling secret waits to be discovered: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death.

The bodies are those of the empire's most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth?

When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy out there in the darkness, or somewhere among them?

2013 BBC Books edition

Deep in the heart of a hollowed-out moon the First Doctor finds a chilling secret: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of their death. They are the empire's most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that killed them still lurking in the dark? And what are its plans for the people of Earth?

Plot

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Characters

Soldiers

Schirr

References

Locations

Culture

Species

  • Earth's empire annexed the Schirr homeworld.
  • Schirr terrorists use Morphiean magic against the empire.

Technology

  • Imperial soldiers use websets and Kill-Droids in their training.
  • the Schirr use crystals with cartographic information in them to pilot their ships.

Notes

 
The cover of the 2013 edition.
  • This adventure is set between The Smugglers and The Tenth Planet. It is the only novel in a very small number of stories to feature the First Doctor travelling with Ben and Polly. The Three Paths, a 2006 short story, establishes a solid narrative gap between the two TV serials which allows for this.
  • The novel's title is based on the Agatha Christie story Ten Little N*ggers.
  • The book was re-released with a new cover on 7 March 2013 for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary.
  • The story is set in May '90, but the millennium and century are unspecified. The reference book aHistory places the year as circa 2890, as it is set during a time when Earth's empire is strong.
  • The spacesuits worn here are the ones later seen in the television story The Moonbase.

Continuity

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