January 21st, 2019
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Resurrection/ Revelation of the Daleks Novelisations
Both books are available to pre-order now from www.amazon.co.uk
Official Press release…
After the success of the new-era Target novelisations in 2018, which included books by Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, BBC Books are proud to announce the publication of Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks, novelisations of two iconic Doctor Who adventures by Eric Saward, one of the show’s longest serving script editors. Written by Saward himself, these novels are the only two classic-era Doctor Who adventures yet to be novelised, and their publication more than three decades after their first TV transmission will fill a long-held gap in fans’ collections the world over.
Albert DePetrillo, Publishing Director at BBC Books, acquired world rights in both titles from the author directly. Each book will be published as a £12.99 hardback in 2019, with paperback editions, as part of the Target range, to follow in 2020.
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
The universe is at war. Action takes courage… The TARDIS is ensnared in a time corridor, catapultingit into derelict docklands on 20th century Earth. The Doctor and his companions, Tegan and Turlough, stumble on a warehouse harbouring fugitives from the future at the far end of the corridor – and are soon under attack from a Dalek assault force.
The Doctor’s oldest enemies have set in motion an intricate and sinister plot to resurrect their race from the ashes of an interstellar war. For the Daleks’ plans to succeed, they must set free their creator, Davros, from a galactic prison – and force the Doctor to help them achieve total control over time and space. But the embittered Davros has ideas of his own…
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
Beware the hands that heal… The Doctor and Peri land on the planet Necros to visit the funerary home Tranquil Repose – where the dead are interred and the near-dead placed in suspended animation until such time as their conditions can be cured.
But the Great Healer of Tranquil Repose is far from benign. Under his command, Daleks guard the catacombs where sickening experiments are conducted on human bodies. The new life he offers the dying comes at a terrible cost – and the Doctor and Peri are being lured into a trap that will change them forever.
Of the two novelisations, Eric Saward says “’Resurrecting’ these tales may turn out to be a greater ‘Revelation’ than you’d expect!” Eric Saward has written for both radio and television, script edited Doctor Who for five years and also written four original stories for the show. During this time he also novelised four scripts and wrote the first ever Doctor Who radio serial. Recently he has completed a graphic novel based around the adventures of Lytton.
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Derek Hicks
January 25th, 2019 - 11:28amAT LAST!!
Anonymous
January 22nd, 2019 - 11:02amThey wouldn’t need to make the mcgann novel shorter for a target release. The one thing that annoyed me about the city of death target version (which I enjoyed just as much as the full novel) was the fact that day of the doctor at 230 pages has a much higher word count than the city target version and is close to the length of the original city novel. The mcgann novel is 223 pages with larger print than day of the doctor. It could just be reprinted as is. Would they cut down power and evil of the daleks? They shouldn’t they should just make some of the target range “bumper” volumes!
Steven Taylor
January 21st, 2019 - 7:09pmI hope more will be released, LOVED the ones last year
R1ch1e
January 21st, 2019 - 6:29pmI hate these covers. Excited about the books though
Who rules
January 21st, 2019 - 2:56pmBoth great and disappointing news! Great that they are coming out, great that they are going to be target paperbacks, disappointing that there seem to be no new targets planned for this year. Still, early days, so I’m still hoping for target releases later this year. Reprints and new new who please!
Who rules
January 21st, 2019 - 3:04pmOops, sorry meant to add this and forgot! I don’t normally buy in hardback and paperback, if I have the hardback I don’t buy it in paperback as well. City of death was an exception to this because of the cover, the fact it was in the target range but mainly due to it being a different version to the hardback. These however I think will be bought as targets regardless of whether they are the same. Why? Simple really, I started my target collection 42 years ago I can’t not have them as those little paperbacks in pride of place on my shelves. Now I must remember to save up some money for 2020…
Anonymous
January 21st, 2019 - 5:16pmThis is just a theory, and don’t take it as an official announcement, but I think that there’ll be more Target novels in 2020: the press release mentions that the two novels are going to be published as Target novels, but maybe there’ll be some other New Series Target novels to accompany them…
Who rules
January 21st, 2019 - 6:22pmOh I think that is likely from the press release, they won’t just do these two as target books they will be in a set. Whether that set is comprised of reprints or new series stories is the question. Much as I would love to replace my old target collection I’d love to get more new adaptations. Eccleston to Whittaker would be good. Mind I’d love a target version of the mcgann movie!
The Flying Shark
January 21st, 2019 - 7:36pmThere’s already a novelisation of the McGann movie, and a script book, so I don’t think a new version is needed, but I’d adore a reprint with matching cover (if that’s what you meant)
Who rules
January 21st, 2019 - 8:47pmDidn’t mean a new version, just the Gary Russell novel reprinted as a target book
Jay Dragonarc
January 21st, 2019 - 9:23pmActually, a new novelisation of TV Movie would be beneficial – both the scriptbook and the original novelisation are actually not the final draft of the movie. Not even close, so there’s a fair bit of difference. A new version would be a chance to put out a more accurate story (that could perhaps tie-in or nod to Big Finish at the end)
Anonymous
January 21st, 2019 - 9:49pmI don’t see the point of new versions. One of the most enjoyable things about the target books was the differences. The mcgann movie book was great.
The Outcast
January 22nd, 2019 - 5:46amI think it would be cool if all the books were done in the traditional Target style, so we get like a shortened version of the TV Movie novel with a Target style cover, and other reprints of the 80s books, but with new, more traditional style covers. Alongside these could be NuWho novelisations.
Doctor What
January 23rd, 2019 - 11:59pmWould love them to republish the original novel of the film as a Target book but at the end either end it the same way as the novel does anyway (as it is the same as the ending of the film but links with the first book in the BBC Eighth Doctor range as at the start of the Eight Doctors, Eight has just finished his cup of tea and puts down the Time Machine) or have the book have a new ending where the TARDIS goes wrong (like it does in the film at the end (“Oh no, not again!” *cue titles*) and then have Eight start looking for the TARDIS manual (which he was looking for at the start of Storm Warning, his first Big Finish story)