038 - Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus

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MARINUS

a remote force-shielded island set in a sea

of acid, governed by

THE CONSCIENCE

the ultimate computer which rules and

balances the gentle life of Marinus,

guarded by

ARBITAN THE KEEPER

ruthless protector of a peace-loving race

threatened by

YARTEK

Warlord of the brutal sub-human Voords,

sworn enemy of Arbitan and of Marinus,

who has within his grasp

THE KEYS OF MARINUS

the Conscience’s vital micro-circuits, the

doors of good and evil.

Can the Doctor find the hidden circuits in

time? Arbitan’s command was ‘Find them,

OR DIE!’

Distributed in the USA by Lyle Stuart Inc,

120 Enterprise Ave, Secaucus, New Jersey 07094.

UK: £1.35 USA: $2.95

*Australia: $3.95

*Recommended Price

Science Fiction/TV tie-in ISBN 0426201256

DOCTOR WHO

AND THE

KEYS OF MARINUS

Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who and the Sea

of Death by Terry Nation by arrangement with the British

Broadcasting Corporation

PHILIP HINCHCLIFFE

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Target Book

Published in 1980

by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd.

A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB

Enterprises Ltd

British Broadcasting Corporation

Printed in Great Britain by

Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading

ISBN 0 426 20125 6

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not,

by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out

or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior

consent in any form of binding or cover other than that

in which it is published and without a similar condition

including this condition being imposed on the

subsequent purchaser.

CONTENTS

1 The Sea of Death

2 The Marble City

3 The Velvet Web

4 The Brains of Morphoton

5 The Screaming Jungle

6 The Whispering Darkness

7 The Snows of Terror

8 The Demons

9 Sentenced!

10 The Mystery of the Locked Room

11 The Missing Key

12 Arbitan’s Revenge

13 Final Goodbyes

The Sea of Death

The day—like every day on Marinus—started clear and

bright. The walls of the Great City shimmered in the

early morning heat and, a mile away, the dazzling green

sea washed gently against the silver shore. Between the

two lay a terrain of twisted, gleaming rock, as if molten

glass had spilled from the ground and solidified before

reaching the sea. This desolate, burnished landscape was

devoid of life. Only the sun, throwing creeping shadows

into the numerous rock pools, lent movement to the

scene.

At 701 zeniths (Inter Galactic Time) precisely, three BXV

sub-oceanic assault craft penetrated Marinian territorial

waters at a depth of fifty sonars. Fitted with anti-

metradar devices, they sped undetected to within one

hundred yards of the shore before surfacing and

slithering onto the wide beach. For several minutes the

BXV’s lay there, glistening in the sun like giant slugs.

Then, one of the outer casings was pushed open and a

shiny black hand emerged, its webbed fingers clawing the

air for support.

The Voord invasion of Marinus had begun.

Barbara Wright, a pretty, dark-haired English teacher

from Coal Hill School, North London, clenched her fists

bravely and held her breath. A whining noise pierced her

ears and her stomach floated to the ceiling. She reflected

miserably on her inability to cope with Space-Time travel.

Human bodies were not built for it, she told herself, at

least not hers.

She glanced across the Control Room at Ian

Chesterton, her fellow teacher from Coal Hill. He

appeared to be enjoying himself, staring wide-eyed at the

jumble of flashing lights which charted their spaceship’s

descent. They were inside a large hexagonal-shaped

control room with white hexagonal-patterned walls. A

hexagonal console in the middle of the room supported a

transparent cylindrical column which moved slowly up

and down when the ship was in flight.

Next to Ian, deep in concentration, was the owner

of the spacecraft. He was an old man with an upright,

alert stance, and a dignified expression. He had flowing

white hair and mischievous blue eyes. He was dressed

like an eccentric Victorian professor (dark frock-coat,

winged collar and tie, checked waistcoat and trousers).

He carried a wooden walking stick which he shook

vigorously in the air when arguing, which was often. He

was known as ‘the Doctor’.

There was one other person in the spaceship, a

young girl of about fifteen. This was Susan, the Doctor’s

grand-daughter. She was a petite, chirpy girl with short,

black hair (cut like a boy’s), wide saucer eyes and an

infectious grin. A pupil at Coal Hill School, she had

always been extremely clever, and ‘different’ from the

other girls. Intrigued, Barbara and Ian had investigated

her home life and discovered she was living with her

grandfather in a London police box! The police box,

however, was far from ordinary. For a start, it was larger

inside than out, a phenomenon accounted for by the

Laws of Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, as

Barbara and Ian subsequently learned. The interior of

the police box resembled a spaceship, capable of

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