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== Chapter titles == | == Chapter titles == | ||
#Countdown to Death | # Countdown to Death | ||
#Massacre on J7 | # Massacre on J7 | ||
#Tomb in Space | # Tomb in Space | ||
#Adios, Doña Arana | # Adios, Doña Arana | ||
#Creature of the Darkness | # Creature of the Darkness | ||
#The Bell Tolls | # The Bell Tolls | ||
#The Doctor's Dilemma | # The Doctor's Dilemma | ||
#Company of Madmen | # Company of Madmen | ||
#A Song for Supper | # A Song for Supper | ||
#Shockeye the Donor | # Shockeye the Donor | ||
#Ice Passage Ambush | # Ice Passage Ambush | ||
#Alas, Poor Oscar | # Alas, Poor Oscar | ||
== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
* A scant prologue featuring what is implied to be the [[Time Lord | * A scant prologue featuring what is implied to be the [[Time Lord]]s in yellow robes in a violet, misty garden where the flowers grow as tall as trees is recounted briefly by Jamie. He refers to them as "chieftains" and the reference to [[Victoria Waterfield]] studying graphology is excised. | ||
* Much of the violence and gore has been exacerbated in the novelisation, featuring grisly details of the duty officer's acidulous murder, the bullet-ridden corpses of massacred scientists, the sanguineous method in which Chessene reads the Dona Arana's mind, the Sontarans' merciless deaths, etc. | * Much of the violence and gore has been exacerbated in the novelisation, featuring grisly details of the duty officer's acidulous murder, the bullet-ridden corpses of massacred scientists, the sanguineous method in which Chessene reads the Dona Arana's mind, the Sontarans' merciless deaths, etc. | ||
* The opening scene with the Second Doctor and Jamie's approach to Space Station Camera is mirrored with the Sixth Doctor and Peri. | * The opening scene with the Second Doctor and Jamie's approach to Space Station Camera is mirrored with the Sixth Doctor and Peri. | ||
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* A fire breaks out in the main computer room while the [[Sixth Doctor]] is focussing his mind for [[astral projection]], forcing Peri and Jamie to move him into the corridor as the flames consume the station. He sings "Largo al Factotum" from ''The Barber of Seville'' to himself on the way back to the TARDIS. | * A fire breaks out in the main computer room while the [[Sixth Doctor]] is focussing his mind for [[astral projection]], forcing Peri and Jamie to move him into the corridor as the flames consume the station. He sings "Largo al Factotum" from ''The Barber of Seville'' to himself on the way back to the TARDIS. | ||
* The [[Sixth Doctor]] is notably hesitant to fight Dastari, telling Jamie he was once a champion sampola wrestler. | * The [[Sixth Doctor]] is notably hesitant to fight Dastari, telling Jamie he was once a champion sampola wrestler. | ||
* Chessene's use of [[coronic acid]] inwardly alarms Dastari, as the [[Rutans]] are the weapon's inventors and chief distributors. With it, they decimated the Sontarans at Vollotha. The Sixth Doctor notes that it was specifically tailored to attack cloned tissue and the Sontarans still have no defence against it. When Varne perishes, shielding Stike from the canisters, he notes to himself to recommend his subordinate for the Golden Role of Heroes. | * Chessene's use of [[coronic acid]] inwardly alarms Dastari, as the [[Rutans]] are the weapon's inventors and chief distributors. With it, they decimated the Sontarans at Vollotha. The Sixth Doctor notes that it was specifically tailored to attack cloned tissue and the Sontarans still have no defence against it. When Varne perishes, shielding Stike from the canisters, he notes to himself to recommend his subordinate for the Golden Role of Heroes. | ||
* The Sixth Doctor's dispatch of Shockeye is altered in emphasis. Rather than a postmortem quip of "Your just desserts," he mutters the less ambiguous: "That was for Oscar." | * The Sixth Doctor's dispatch of Shockeye is altered in emphasis. Rather than a postmortem quip of "Your just desserts," he mutters the less ambiguous: "That was for Oscar." | ||
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== British publication history == | == British publication history == | ||
First publication: | First publication: | ||
* Hardback | * Hardback | ||
: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. | : W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK | ||
* Paperback | * Paperback | ||
: Target | : Target | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* | * [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/general/main.htm ''On Target'' a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal] | ||
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