''Synthespians™'' is a

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original novel written by

Craig Hinton Craig Peter Hinton (7 May 1964 – 3 December 2006) was a British writer best known for his work on various Doctor Who spin-offs, spin-offs from the BBC Television series ''Doctor Who''. He also wrote articles for various science fiction m ...

(the author's last) and based on the long-running British

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series ''

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''. It features the

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and Peri, as well the

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Plot

The Doctor and Peri land on Reef Station One, an isolated space station that has modelled itself on 1980s popular culture and encounter Autons.

Notes

The novel's original front cover had to be changed at the last minute due to copyright issues over the image used (a doctored publicity shot from ''

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''). According to this novel, the name of the Auton home planet is Polymos, and the Doctor's people, the

Time Lord The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their Nonli ...

s, attempted to destroy it. Dialogue in the first episode of the new series, "

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", may hint at this occurrence.

References

External links

The Cloister Library - ''Synthespians™''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Synthespians 2004 British novels 2004 science fiction novels Past Doctor Adventures Sixth Doctor novels Novels by Craig Hinton BBC Books books