Doctor Who and the Sunmakers (novelisation)

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Doctor Who and the Sunmakers was a novelisation based on the 1977 television serial The Sun Makers.

Publisher's summary

Everyone knows that Pluto is a barren airless rock. So naturally the Fourth Doctor is surprised when he discovers artificial suns, an ultra-modern industrial city and a group of colonists being worked – and taxed – to dealt in this inhospitable and supposedly undeveloped part of the universe …

With the help of his companion Leela and the faithful K9, the Doctor takes on the mysterious and powerful Company, ruthless exploiter of planets and their people.

Chapter Titles

  1. The Cost of the Golden Death
  2. The Fugitive
  3. The Others
  4. The Collector
  5. The Reprieve
  6. The Trap
  7. The Rebels
  8. The Prisoner
  9. The Steaming
  10. Revolt
  11. The Confrontation
  12. Liquidation

Deviations from televised story

To be added

Writing and publishing notes

  • Last in the range to have a title prefixed by “Doctor Who and …”
  • Although not generally acknowledged as such, this was a rare occasion during the 1980s that the title of a novelisation differed from that of the original series, but barely: the serial spelled Sun Makers as two words, while the novelisation used the single-word form, Sunmakers.

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British publication history

First publication:

  • Hardback
W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK
  • Paperback
Target

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