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The Sergeant blinked again. Three lights were moving towards him through the murk of the blizzard. Even as he looked, the lights changed into three tall, straight figures, clad in silver-armoured suits, advancing across the ice with a slow, deliberate step. Horror-struck, the Sergeant reached for his gun, and a stream of bullets sprayed across the marching figures. BUT THEY

CONTINUED MARCHING . . .

The CYBERMEN have arrived. The first invasion of Earth by this invincible fearless race – and the last thrilling adventure of the first DOCTOR WHO.

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DOCTOR WHO AND

THE TENTH PLANET

Based on the BBC television serial by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation

GERRY DAVIS

A TARGET BOOK

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Target Book

Published in 1976

by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB

Novelisation copyright © 1976 by Gerry Davis Original script copyright © 1966 by Kit Pedler

‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © 1966, 1976 by the British Broadcasting Corporation

Printed in Great Britain by

Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex

ISBN 0 426 11068 4

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

CONTENTS

The Creation of the Cybermen

1 The Space Tracking Station

2 Disaster in Space

3 The New Planet

4 Mondas!

5 The Cyberman Invasion

6 Ben into Action

7 Battle in the Projection Room

8 Two Hundred and Fifty Spaceships

9 Z-Bomb Alert!

10 Prepare to Blast Off

11 Cybermen in Control

12 Resistance in the Radiation Room

13 The Destruction of Mondas!

The Creation of the Cybermen

Centuries ago by our Earth time, a race of men on the far-distant planet of Telos sought immortality. They perfected the art of cybernetics—the reproduction of machine functions in human beings. As bodies became old and diseased, they were replaced limb by limb, with plastic and steel.

Finally, even the human circulation and nervous system were recreated, and brains replaced by computers. The first cybermen were born.

Their metal limbs gave them the strength of ten men, and their in-built respiratory system allowed them to live in the airless vacuum of space. They were immune to cold and heat, and immensely intelligent and resourceful. Their large, silver bodies became practically indestructible.

Their main impediment was one that only flesh and blood men would have recognised: they had no heart, no emotions, no feelings. They lived by the inexorable laws of pure logic. Love, hate, anger, even fear, were eliminated from their lives when the last flesh was replaced by plastic.