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* The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of [[Andrew Skilleter]]. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover). | * The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of [[Andrew Skilleter]]. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover). | ||
== | ==Publisher's Cover Blurb== | ||
When the TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 2084, the Doctor meets an old enemy – the Sea Devils. Once the masters of this planet, they are now forced to live in the murky depths of the sea. But their intention is to reclaim their position of domination… | When the TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 2084, the Doctor meets an old enemy – the Sea Devils. Once the masters of this planet, they are now forced to live in the murky depths of the sea. But their intention is to reclaim their position of domination… | ||
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== Deviations from the Televised Story == | == Deviations from the Televised Story == | ||
* In the televised version it is implied the [[Sea Devil]]s are hibernating in a bunker beneath the ocean floor, in the novelisation they are hibernating in the lower depths of the [[Silurian]] craft. | |||
* [[Terrance Dicks]] in his novelisation makes no implication regarding the two sides in the human conflict, clearly referring to them as “East Block” and “West Block”. | |||
* [[Terrance Dicks]]” explains that [[Tegan]]’s foot is undamed when trapped under the heavy door “by a kind of freak accident”. | |||
*[[Terrance Dicks]] paints [[Doctor Solow]] as a sympathetic character, pursuaded by [[Nielson]] that the “East Block” had the solution to banish suffering and injustice from the world. | |||
* [[Icthar]]’s reference to twice having offered the hand of friendship does not fit with shown continuity (possibly explained in the [[Missing Adventures]] novel “[[The Scales of Injustice]]” by [[Gary Russel]]), and is rewritten by [[Terrance Dicks]] as the Doctor having twice tried in vain to make peace. | |||
* [[Icthar]] is clearly identified as the unnamed [[Silurian]] previously encountered by the Third Doctor in the televised [[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)]]. | |||
* [[Terrance Dicks]] retains in his novel a resue attempt by [[Vislor Turlough|Tulough]] and [[Preston]] of the Doctor, cut from the televised version so as to emphasise Turlough cowardice and selfishness. | |||
* On television the [[Sea Devil]]s had been hibernating for hundreds of years, in the novelisation [[Terrance Dicks]] changes this to thousands, but is likely to have been around 40 million years ago! | |||
==Author, Writing and Publishing Notes== | ==Author, Writing and Publishing Notes== | ||
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==External Sources== | ==External Sources== | ||
'' | * '''[[The Target Book]]''' by [[David J Howe]] ([[Telos Publishing]] 2007) | ||
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/general/main.htm ''On Target'' a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal] | |||
[[Category:Target Novelisations]] | [[Category:Target Novelisations]] | ||
