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Cover of the Target Novelisation of The Daemons by Barry Letts. A painting of the Daemon Azal, arms upraised. Behind him is a crypt of pillars and arches. He surrounded by a steam effect.

The Cover of Twice Upon a Time by Paul Cornell drawn in the style of Chris Achilleos. It depicts the heads and shoulders of the twelfth doctor, David Bradley as the first Doctor and Bill againt a background of blue and red planets and red and black swirls. The silvery head of testimony is also shown.

The randomiser seems to be on a bit of a "book covers" streak here

Target Book Cover of The Destiny of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks. The Fourth Doctor surrounded by images of Daleks.

Cover of the Attack of the Cybermen Target Novelisation by Eric Saward. Novelisation number 139. Images of a Cryon holding a gun, a Cyberman with its fist raised, a planet and a fiery stripe in the background that is presumably supposed to be Halley's Comet. General blue/pink colour scheme.

Book Cover for the Target Novelisation of The Mind Robber. Predominantly pink with a circle motif. Images of The Tardis, a Knight in armour on a horse, a unicorn, a cavalier with a fencing sword and the head of Medusa. It is by Peter Ling and is No 115.

Target Book cover for Dalek Invasion of Earth. A roboman stands centre, with a Dalek to the right and the Dalek spaceship destroying London to the left. Big Ben is in the background.

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Fury from the Deep book cover. An oil rig in the background with bright green seaweed in the foreground. The writing proclaims this is a classic adventure of the second doctor now a bumper volume!

Given all the moving of books currently taking place, this was the most accessible Target novelisation when the random picture generator said "Target Book Cover". I feel it has the potential to be quite an atmospheric image but the seaweed is a little unconvincing.

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Target Book Cover for Enemy of the World by Ian Carter. Shows Astrid in her futuristic spy security gear and, I think, Giles Kent, at a desk full of switches and monitors with volcanos erupting in the background.

Incidentally, my Facebook Connect link from LJ keeps failing. I keep re-enabling it and fiddling with settings but without success - the last failure was complaining about permissions. It's not a big deal since only public posts get cross-posted, those are mostly random Dr Who pictures, and I'm not sure my facebook friends are all that interested in them, but it is annoying so I was wondering if anyone was experiencing anything similar and, if so, if they had a fix.

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MORE ZARBI!!

Book cover of Doctor Who and the Zarbi by Bill Strutton. It is one of Chris Achilleos' covers so features the first doctor and a Menoptera in black and white while the Zarbi are in colour. There is a backdrop of planets and stars and more appear in colour in the black of the Doctor's coat.

Book cover of Doctor Who and the Zarbi by Bill Strutton. It is one of Chris Achilleos' covers so features the first doctor and a Menoptera in black and white while the Zarbi are in colour. There is a backdrop of planets and stars and more appear in colour in the black of the Doctor's coat.

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Also I ain't dead, in case any of you were wondering about the minimal posting for the last two weeks.

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Target put out three novelisations of stories that were commissioned for the cancelled series 23 of which this is the only one by an unknown writer/producer and not featuring an returning villain. Wally K. Daly has a minimal wikipedia entry which nevertheless suggests he was an interesting writer of Radio plays. I recall almost nothing about the book beyond it was the weakest of the three stories (all of which were weak, suggesting somewhat that they were quickly written up from half-finished ideas or at least early drafts rather than adapted from completed scripts) and that the alien villain seemed to be something of a duplicate of the popular Sil character from the previous season (and who appeared in the third of these novelisations).

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Survival has always felt like a thoughtful story that the show, at the time, didn't have the resources to do justice to.

I'll be interested to see in a few (10?) weeks' time how, nearly 30 years later, Rona Munro's next script fares.

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This was one of the first novelisations I ever bought (though I already had The Abominable Snowman - IIRC I bought this one because I recognised the yeti on the cover) and it completely terrified me. I seem to recall setting it aside because I couldn't continue it, and eventually got through it by reading backwards from the end in chunks.

It doesn't seem that scary these days.