The hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful White Guardian wants the Doctor to find the pieces.
With the first segment successfully retrieved, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 trace the second segment of the Key to the planet Calufrax. But when they arrive at exactly the right point in space, they find themselves on exactly the wrong planet Zanak.
Ruled by the mysterious Captain, Zanak is a happy and prosperous planet. Mostly. If the mines run out of valuable minerals and gems then the Captain merely announces a New Golden Age and they fill up again. Its an economic miracle so obviously somethings very wrong...
Daugiau informacijos
The classic Doctor Who adventure by Douglas Adams, novelised at last
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Chapter One The Sky with Diamonds |
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9 | (8) |
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Chapter Two The Dead Planets |
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17 | (4) |
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21 | (12) |
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Chapter Four Have You Ever Seen an Arcturan Mega-Chicken? |
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33 | (18) |
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Chapter Five Mourning Sickness |
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51 | (10) |
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Chapter Six That New Planet Smell |
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61 | (16) |
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Chapter Seven Has Anyone Seen Calufrax? |
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77 | (6) |
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Chapter Eight There Are No Other Worlds |
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83 | (18) |
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Chapter Nine The 5,000-Mile Teacup |
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101 | (12) |
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Chapter Ten The Kings of Alderbaran III Make a Decision |
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113 | (14) |
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Chapter Eleven The Fastest Corridor |
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127 | (12) |
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Chapter Twelve The Astromobile Association |
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139 | (12) |
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Chapter Thirteen Try Not to Think of Anything Annoying |
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151 | (18) |
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Chapter Fourteen The Waters of Calufrax |
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169 | (18) |
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Chapter Fifteen Bad Omens |
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187 | (12) |
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Chapter Sixteen Guilt Futures |
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199 | (16) |
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Chapter Seventeen Nothing Like a Plan |
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215 | (14) |
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Chapter Eighteen The Sky Demon Can Wait |
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Chapter Nineteen Memento Mori |
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Chapter Twenty-One A Leap of Faith |
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265 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Two Journey to the Centre of the Earth |
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277 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Three Playing the Queen |
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289 | (16) |
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Chapter Twenty-Four Small Print Is Not for Eternity |
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305 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Five Newton's Revenge |
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317 | (18) |
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Chapter Twenty-Six A Spanner in the Works |
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335 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Seven Mr Fibuli Gets His Wish |
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347 | (8) |
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Chapter Twenty-Eight The Heart of Zanak |
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355 | (6) |
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Chapter Twenty-Nine The Captain's Plan |
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361 | (10) |
Epilogue |
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Afterword |
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377 | (18) |
Doctor Who Blanket Theme: The Six Keys -- Notes |
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Doctor Who and the Perfect Planet -- Original Treatment |
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Acknowledgements |
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Douglas Adams (Author) DOUGLAS ADAMS was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He is best known as the creator of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. The book went on to be a No. 1 bestseller. He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); Mostly Harmless (1992) and many more. He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia. Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 at the age of 49.
James Goss (Author) James Goss is the author of the novelisation of Douglas Adams City of Death, as well as several other Doctor Who books. While at the BBC James produced an adaptation of Shada, an unfinished Douglas Adams Doctor Who story, and Dirk is his award-winning stage adaptation of Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency. He won Best Audiobook 2010 for Dead Air and his books Dead of Winter and First Born were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards. His novel Haterz has been optioned as a movie.