The Last Sontaran, based upon the televised story of the same name, is the first novelisation of a story from Series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Publisher's summary
Life on Earth can be an adventure, too. You just need to know where to look.
Sarah Jane and her friends go to investigate some strange lights seen over a radio telescope research centre. What they find is sinister and frightening — a Sontaran Warrior, out for revenge. Can Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria defeat this soldier of the tenth battle fleet and save the world again?
Characters
Worldbuilding
- Sarah Jane, Alan, Luke, Maria and Clyde celebtrate the Rylixian Festival.
- Before Maria leaves Ealing, she thinks about all the aliens she has met; the Bane, the Slitheen family, the Arcateenians, the Gorgons, the Graske and the Verrons.
- The Tycho Project was named after Tycho Brahe.
- Alan takes a job offer from CapitolSys Technologies.
- Clyde wants to look for Kaagh's weapon's and says that the bad guy's get Schwarzeneggered.
- Clyde calls Kaagh Gollum.
- Chrissie has Jimmy Choos.
- Clyde tells Maria that, if she would run into Vanessa Hudgens, she should give Clyde her number.
- Meta Vorka 6 is the place where the Vorkazians come from.
- Sarah Jane possesses two futuristic controllers which she got from a Wallarian trader.
- Luke speaks French perfectly.
- Chrissie Jackson and Ivan plan to come to Washington DC during their honeymoon.
- Goblin's Copse is on the Buckinghamshire/Berkshire border.
- Maria and Alan fly from Heathrow Airport to Washington.
- Clyde refers to The Invisible Man.
Deviations from the televised story
- The novelisation features a specially written prologue. It describes how Kaagh went off the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet and crashed on Earth.
- The Bannerman Road gang's experience with ATMOS is depicted.
Continuity
- Sarah Jane remembers her encounters Linx (TV: The Time Warrior) and Styre. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment)