''Option Lock'' is an original novel written by

Justin Richards Justin Richards (born 14 September 1961) is a British writer. He has written science fiction and fantasy novels, including series set in Victorian or early-20th-century London, and also adventure stories set in the present day. He has written ...

and based on the long-running British

science fiction television Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary ...

series '' Doctor Who''. It features the

Eighth Doctor The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Paul McGann. The character was introduced in the 1996 TV film '' Doctor Who'', a back-door p ...

and

Sam Sam, SAM or variants may refer to: Places * Sam, Benin * Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso * Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso * Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso * Sam, Iran * Sam, Teton County, Idaho, United States, a populated place People and fictional c ...

Synopsis

The Doctor and Sam land in present-day England on the ancestral home of the Silver family. However, the house holds clues to a dangerous centuries-old society and something that drove a man to suicide. Unravelling this will take Sam and the Doctor through time and space to save Earth from nuclear fire.

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* {{Eighth Doctor stories, selected=Books 1998 British novels 1998 science fiction novels Eighth Doctor Adventures Novels by Justin Richards