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Doctor Who - Earthshock
Series:	Doctor Who- Target Novelisation
Release Number:	78 (shown inside only)
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companions:	Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka
Enemy:	Cybermen
Setting:	Earth, 2526
Author:	Ian Marter
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co
Publication:	May 1983 (hardcover) August 1983 (paperback)
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-19337-6
Previous Story:	Doctor Who - Black Orchid
Following Story:	Doctor Who – Time-Flight

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial (DW): Earthshock which was shown from 8th March 1982 and written by Eric Saward
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured a photographic cover. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover).

Publisher's Cover Blurb

1983 edition

A group of palaeontologists have been savagely attacked while carrying out a study of a fossilised cave system on twenty-fifth-century Earth.
A party of troopers and Professor Kyle, the only survivor of the attack, are investigating the death of her colleagues when they discover the Doctor and his companions at the site of the massacre. The time-travelers are immediately suspected.
In trying to establish their innocence and find out who-or what-was responsible for the killings, the Doctor is confronted by an old enemy…

Illustrations

• None

Deviations from the Televised Story

To be added

Author, Writing and Publishing Notes

• To be added

Associated Images

1992 edition; Cover by Alister Pearson

Publishing History (UK)

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

International Editions

To be added

External Sources

• The Target Book by David J Howe (Telos Publishing 2007)
• On Target a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal