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{{Infobox Story | {{Infobox Story | ||
|image= Edge of Destruction novel.jpg | |image = Edge of Destruction novel.jpg | ||
|series=Publication Order | |series = Publication Order | ||
|number= 132 | |number = 132 | ||
|novelisation of=The Edge of Destruction (TV story) | |novelisation of = The Edge of Destruction (TV story) | ||
|doctor=First Doctor | |doctor = First Doctor | ||
|companions= [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] | |companions = [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] | ||
|enemy= | |enemy = | ||
|setting= [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] | |setting = [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] | ||
|writer= [[Nigel Robinson]] | |writer = [[Nigel Robinson]] | ||
|read by=[[William Russell]] | |read by = [[William Russell]] | ||
|publisher= Target Books | |publisher = Target Books | ||
|publisher2= W.H. Allen | |publisher2 = W.H. Allen | ||
|cover= [[Alister Pearson]] | |cover = [[Alister Pearson]] | ||
|release date= [[20 October (releases)|20 October]] [[1988 (releases)|1988]] | |release date = [[20 October (releases)|20 October]] [[1988 (releases)|1988]] | ||
|format= Hardcover and paperback editions; 14 Chapters, 120 Pages | |format = Hardcover and paperback editions; 14 Chapters, 120 Pages | ||
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20327-5 | |isbn = ISBN 0-426-20327-5 | ||
|prev= The Ultimate Foe (novelisation) | |prev = The Ultimate Foe (novelisation) | ||
|next= The Smugglers (novelisation) | |next = The Smugglers (novelisation) | ||
|series2 = [[List of Doctor Who television stories|TV series order]] | |series2 = [[List of Doctor Who television stories|TV series order]] | ||
|prev2=Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation) | |prev2 = Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation) | ||
|next2= Marco Polo (novelisation) | |next2 = Marco Polo (novelisation) | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a novelisation based on the 1964 television serial ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]''. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a novelisation based on the 1964 television serial ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]''. | ||
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* The Doctor and Ian investigate the TARDIS's power rooms, which are contained in a complex of fifteen separate rooms containing power stacks capable of powering every aspect of the TARDIS. Ian is sealed in with the internal scanner - a piece of equipment designed to survey the other fourteen rooms - and nearly suffocates to death before he can get the door open. | * The Doctor and Ian investigate the TARDIS's power rooms, which are contained in a complex of fifteen separate rooms containing power stacks capable of powering every aspect of the TARDIS. Ian is sealed in with the internal scanner - a piece of equipment designed to survey the other fourteen rooms - and nearly suffocates to death before he can get the door open. | ||
* Barbara explores the TARDIS laboratory, where she is assaulted by books, boxes and various bits of equipment from the benches. The storeroom door in the shadow of the bookcase is lead-lined against its stock of radioactive isotopes. If she'd have entered without a protective suit, as Susan explains, she'd have been dead within thirty seconds. | * Barbara explores the TARDIS laboratory, where she is assaulted by books, boxes and various bits of equipment from the benches. The storeroom door in the shadow of the bookcase is lead-lined against its stock of radioactive isotopes. If she'd have entered without a protective suit, as Susan explains, she'd have been dead within thirty seconds. | ||
* The blinding flash is qualified to be not the Big Bang, for not even the TARDIS could survive such an event, but instead the birth of the Milky Way Galaxy. | * The blinding flash is qualified to be not the Big Bang, for not even the TARDIS could survive such an event, but instead the birth of the [[Milky Way]] Galaxy. | ||
* Susan and Ian are having breakfast when the TARDIS materialises. The transition into ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'' exists, but is more vague than its televised counterpart and lacks the cliffhanger ending. | * Susan and Ian are having breakfast when the TARDIS materialises. The transition into ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'' exists, but is more vague than its televised counterpart and lacks the cliffhanger ending. | ||
