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  • Published: 1 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781445867922
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 59 min
  • Narrator: Michael Maloney
  • Pages: 359

Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

50th Anniversary Edition




Michael Maloney reads this original adventure by Dan Abnett, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory.

For centuries the Maintainers have worked. With no help from other worlds, they subsist on the food they can grow and that’s little enough. But their purpose, their whole life, is to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth. Life used to be hard. Now as crops fail, livestock sicken, and the temperature drops, it’s becoming impossible. This year’s Winter Season Feast won’t be the usual celebration. It’s no time for optimism or hope – or to welcome unexpected guests. The Doctor, Amy and Rory find a society breaking apart – and then the Doctor’s old enemies the Ice Warriors make their move. With the cold-hearted threat of invasion, the real battle for survival begins. Or does it? The Doctor suspects that behind everything lies a deadlier, even more chilling danger... A thrilling adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.

  • Published: 1 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781445867922
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 59 min
  • Narrator: Michael Maloney
  • Pages: 359

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About the author

Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett lives and works in Maidstone, Kent. Well known for his comic book work, he has scripted everything from the Mr Men to the X-Men in the last two decades. He is also the author of twenty three novels, including the acclaimed Eisenhorn and the best selling Horus Rising. He was voted 'Best Writer Now' at the National Comic Awards 2003.

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Praise for Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

Like a hunting Martian ploughing remorselessly, effortlessly through freshly fallen snow of an ice world, the novel skilfully establishes its target and never fails to relinquish it; intrigue, scares, uncompromising adventure and all important character development.

Matthew Walter, http://www.eyeofhorus.org.uk