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== Writing and publishing notes == | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||
* [[Terrance Dicks]]' first novelisation for the Doctor Who series was among the first commissioned new titles and arrived one week late. Dicks, who at the time was a member of the TV series production team, would be the most prolific author of the Target Novelisation line, writing dozens of works that would be published between 1974 and the publication of ''[[The Space Pirates (novelisation)|The Space Pirates]]'' in [[1990]], after which Dicks would write | * [[Terrance Dicks]]' first novelisation for the Doctor Who series was among the first commissioned new titles and arrived one week late. Dicks, who at the time was a member of the TV series production team, would be the most prolific author of the Target Novelisation line, writing dozens of works that would be published between 1974 and the publication of ''[[The Space Pirates (novelisation)|The Space Pirates]]'' in [[1990]], after which Dicks would write original novels for virtually every continuation series of original fiction. He would also write two more novelisations: ''[[Shakedown]]'', based upon an independent spin-off film, and the premiere episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', ''[[Invasion of the Bane (novelisation)|Invasion of the Bane]]''. | ||
* The first edition cover includes the face of Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]], making him the first recurring character other than the Doctor to appear on the cover of a Target novelisation. | * The first edition cover includes the face of Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]], making him the first recurring character other than the Doctor to appear on the cover of a Target novelisation. | ||
* The novel was republished in July 2011 by BBC Books. For this edition, an introduction by producer [[Russell T Davies]] was added and the title of the book reverted to ''Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion''. | * The novel was republished in July 2011 by BBC Books. For this edition, an introduction by producer [[Russell T Davies]] was added and the title of the book reverted to ''Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion''. | ||
