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Doctor Who – Slipback
Series:	Doctor Who - Target Novelisation
Release Number:
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companions:	Peri Brown
Enemy:
Setting:
Author:	Eric Saward
Publisher:	Target Books, W. H. Allen and Co. Ltd. UK
Publication:	August 1986
Format:	Paperback Book, 144 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20263-5
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Following Story:

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original BBC Radio Drama Slipback which was shown from 1985 and written by Eric Saward. It was the first novelization of a Doctor Who story that had not been produced for television.
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of Paul Mark Tams. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover).

Publisher's Cover Blurb

The TARDIS materialises on board the Vipod Mor, a galactic survey ship captained by the repulsive Orlous Moston Slarn.
Things are not going too well on board the spacecraft: a mysterious killer stalks the ship's infrastructure; a junior officer, whose body is four years older than his brain, commands its bridge; the craft's computer seems to be developing its own distinctive personality; and Slarn threatens to vent his vindictive anger on his crew.
Soon the Doctor and Peri stumble upon a shocking secret, a secret upon which depends the fate of the entire Universe...
THE NOVELISATION OF THE RADIO 4 DOCTOR WHO STORY

Illustrations

• Contains no illustrated pages

Deviations from the Televised Story

• The first 50 pages of the novel does not feature the Doctor and Peri and does not adapt the radio play; instead it provides backstory on the characters and circumstances encountered by the Doctor later.

Author, Writing and Publishing Notes

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Associated Images

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Publishing History (UK)

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First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

None

International Editions

To be added

See also

Other radio plays adapted as novels:

• The Paradise of Death
• The Ghosts of N-Space

External Sources

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