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|image = IAmaDalek.jpg | |image = IAmaDalek.jpg | ||
|name = I | |name = I Am a Dalek | ||
|series = [[Quick Reads]] | |series = [[Quick Reads]] | ||
|number = 1 | |number = 1 | ||
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|next = Made of Steel (novel) | |next = Made of Steel (novel) | ||
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'''''I | '''''I Am a Dalek''''' by [[Gareth Roberts]] was the inaugural ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Quick Reads]] novella. | ||
== Publisher’s summary == | == Publisher’s summary == | ||
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** Is Exterminated | ** Is Exterminated | ||
** Though they cannot save his life, Rose and the Doctor meddle in history a bit so that Frank meets his wife Sandra years earlier than in the original timeline | ** Though they cannot save his life, Rose and the Doctor meddle in history a bit so that Frank meets his wife Sandra years earlier than in the original timeline | ||
* [[Serena (I | * [[Serena (I Am a Dalek)|Serena]] | ||
** Annoying boss of Kate, nearly strangled by Dalek-hybrid Kate | ** Annoying boss of Kate, nearly strangled by Dalek-hybrid Kate | ||
* [[Sandra Openshaw]] | * [[Sandra Openshaw]] | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This short novel (or novella) was the first release under a subsidiary banner of BBC Books, [[Quick Reads]], an initiative to promote literacy. Quick Reads novellas are considerably shorter than the usual releases in the [[BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures]] line, roughly equivalent in word count to some of the shorter [[Target Books]] novelisations. ''I | * This short novel (or novella) was the first release under a subsidiary banner of BBC Books, [[Quick Reads]], an initiative to promote literacy. Quick Reads novellas are considerably shorter than the usual releases in the [[BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures]] line, roughly equivalent in word count to some of the shorter [[Target Books]] novelisations. ''I Am a Dalek'' was released exclusively in paperback format, the first New Series Adventure to not be published in hard cover. | ||
* This novella was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store. | * This novella was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store. | ||
* 69,000 copies have been sold.<ref>http://www.quickreads.org.uk/content/doctor-who-silurian-gift</ref> | * 69,000 copies have been sold.<ref>http://www.quickreads.org.uk/content/doctor-who-silurian-gift</ref> | ||
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* This is the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s first encounter with the Daleks. He would later encounter them in [[TV]]: [[Army of Ghosts|''Army of Ghosts'']]/[[Doomsday|''Doomsday'']], [[Daleks in Manhattan|''Daleks in Manhattan'']]/[[Evolution of the Daleks|''Evolution of the Daleks'']], [[The Stolen Earth|''The Stolen Earth'']]/[[Journey's End|''Journey's End'']], [[COMIC]]: [[Carnage Zoo|''Carnage Zoo'']]/[[Flight and Fury|''Flight and Fury'']]/[[The Living Ghosts|''The Living Ghosts'']]/[[Extermination of the Daleks|''Extermination of the Daleks'']], and [[PROSE]]: [[Prisoner of the Daleks|''Prisoner of the Daleks'']]. | * This is the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s first encounter with the Daleks. He would later encounter them in [[TV]]: [[Army of Ghosts|''Army of Ghosts'']]/[[Doomsday|''Doomsday'']], [[Daleks in Manhattan|''Daleks in Manhattan'']]/[[Evolution of the Daleks|''Evolution of the Daleks'']], [[The Stolen Earth|''The Stolen Earth'']]/[[Journey's End|''Journey's End'']], [[COMIC]]: [[Carnage Zoo|''Carnage Zoo'']]/[[Flight and Fury|''Flight and Fury'']]/[[The Living Ghosts|''The Living Ghosts'']]/[[Extermination of the Daleks|''Extermination of the Daleks'']], and [[PROSE]]: [[Prisoner of the Daleks|''Prisoner of the Daleks'']]. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* {{dwrefguide|whobbcqr1.htm|I | * {{dwrefguide|whobbcqr1.htm|I Am a Dalek}} | ||
* {{whoniverse|NS10.php|I | * {{whoniverse|NS10.php|I Am a Dalek}} | ||
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