Synthespians™

Author	Craig Hinton
Series	Doctor Who book: Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	67
Subject	Featuring: Sixth Doctor Peri
Set in	Period after Vengeance on Varos
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	July 2004
Pages	276
ISBN	0563486171
Preceded by	The Eleventh Tiger
Followed by	The Algebra of Ice

Synthespians™ is a BBC Books original novel written by Craig Hinton (the author's last) and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Peri, as well the Autons.

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 Dynasty).^[1]

According to this novel, the name of the Auton home planet is Polymos, and the Doctor's people, the Time Lords, attempted to destroy it. Dialogue in the first episode of the new series, "Rose", may hint at this occurrence.^[2]

References

External links

• The Cloister Library - Synthespians™
• Synthespians™ title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database