The Taking of Planet 5

The Taking of Planet 5

Author	Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham
Series	Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	28
Subject	Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Compassion
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	October 1999
Pages	273
ISBN	0-563-55585-8
Preceded by	The Blue Angel
Followed by	Frontier Worlds

The Taking of Planet 5 is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion. It is, in part, a sequel to the television serial Image of the Fendahl. It also features references to many elements from the Cthulhu Mythos stories of H. P. Lovecraft, in particular the Elder Things and their ancient Antarctic city from At the Mountains of Madness.

External links

Eighth Doctor Adventures

Faction Paradox

Doctor Who novels	Alien Bodies (1997) Dead Romance (1999) Unnatural History (1999) Interference – Book One (1999) Interference – Book Two (1999) The Taking of Planet 5 (1999) The Shadows of Avalon (2000) The Ancestor Cell (2000) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (2001) The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005)

Spin-off novels	The Book of the War (2002) This Town Will Never Let Us Go (2003) Of the City of the Saved... (2004) Warlords of Utopia (2004) Warring States (2005) Erasing Sherlock (2006) Newtons Sleep (2008) Against Nature (2013) The Brakespeare Voyage (2013) Head of State (2015)

Anthologies	A Romance in Twelve Parts (2012) Burning with Optimism's Flames (2013) Liberating Earth (2015)

Characters	Chris Cwej Compassion The City of the Saved Grandfather Paradox Sabbath

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