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Doctor Who Target 2022 The Fires of Pompeii

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“My masters will follow the example of Rome… our mighty empire bestraddling the whole of civilization!”

It is AD 79, and the TARDIS lands in Pompeii on the eve of the town’s destruction. Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt and bury its surroundings in molten lava, just as history dictates. Or is it?

The Doctor and Donna find that Pompeii is home to impossible things: circuits made of stone, soothsayers who read minds and fiery giants made of burning rock. From a lair deep in the volcano, these creatures plot the end of humanity – and the Doctor soon finds he has no way to win…


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17 comments

  • Robert Sienicki

    June 17th, 2022 - 5:25am

    Shame they didn’t kept the logo they used on previous ones. More shame because I believe that logo will be retired in few months, cause RTD marketing will probably introduce new one for 60th and Ncuti.

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  • Ben Miller

    June 15th, 2022 - 8:17pm

    I hope we get New Earth gets a target novelisation treatment

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  • Robbie

    June 15th, 2022 - 3:38pm

    please change the Doctor who logo back as its going to look out of place now 🙁

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    • Anon

      June 15th, 2022 - 6:13pm

      Doesn’t matter what the logo looks like. The target books never had set logo, they always used whichever current doctor logo was around. So you get hartnell, troughton, pertwee with the davison/colin Baker logo and you get doctors 1-7 with McCoy’s logo. It really doesn’t matter.

    • Nick

      June 15th, 2022 - 7:11pm

      Yes but the logo looks sooooo lost on the covers. It’s just not bold enough in font style….

    • Robbie Martin

      June 15th, 2022 - 7:19pm

      yeah the last one was perfect and like something you want on your self this one looks really lame and less bold

    • bryan

      June 15th, 2022 - 9:16pm

      I think there is too much cream showing which does’nt help with the whole image overall. I love the Current logo, when its all on one line.

      There is the black banner with one of the David Fisher novels image and the logo look fantastic,on two levels. There was a design sheet,with the Current logo, and it was designed to do both sibgle line and stacked. But not on cream. Stark white works and dark works.

      As i say, not sure if this image works either. The fire creature is lost and too small.

    • simon.ss1

      June 16th, 2022 - 9:52am

      I have first editions of all of the original Target paperbacks. (Am old enough to have bought each one from when they started coming out during the 1970s.) The Target book logos, cover styles, and typefaces always changed over the years. Never bothered me. Was just glad each time to get the novelisations…

  • The Fishmonger

    January 21st, 2022 - 9:49pm

    Good job we didnt waste unnecessary time trying to work out what those codes were.

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    • Jason Z

      January 24th, 2022 - 4:33pm

      To judge from some of the older comments, the codes mostly seem to refer to authors’ names.

  • Phil Newman

    January 18th, 2022 - 7:18pm

    It’s James Moran, The Fires of Pompeii

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  • Dave Raz

    November 4th, 2021 - 7:07pm

    Most target books have been re prints in recent years and all are novelisations of episodes, so Robot and Romans are plausible.

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  • Doctor What

    November 4th, 2021 - 10:43am

    Another speculation, could the JM mean Jo Martin? Not as the writer but a Target book of Fugitive of the Judoon or The Timeless Children? Or even another near-future episode of Flux that has her as one of the main characters? Probably is more likely to mean the author but we can always speculate

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  • The Fishmonger

    November 4th, 2021 - 10:39am

    Hopefully Forbidden Planet will be doing signed versions at some point. I’m loving everyone speculating about the codes.

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  • Dave Raz

    November 3rd, 2021 - 11:51am

    P could be Praxeus. R could be the Romans, Robot, Rosa or Resolution. No JMs spring to mind but could be the New Year Episode?

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    • The Flying Shark

      November 3rd, 2021 - 7:04pm

      JM could be the author? Jamie Mathieson, James Moran or Jonathan Morris?

    • Anonymous

      November 4th, 2021 - 7:12am

      Why would it be the Romans or Robot? They’ve already had releases back in the 70 and 80s

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