009 - Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters

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All is not well at the Wenley Moor underground atomic

research station: there are unaccountable losses of

power-output; nervous breakdowns amongst the staff;

and then—a death!

UNIT is called in and the Brigadier is soon joined by

DOCTOR WHO and Liz Shaw in a tense and exciting

adventure with subterranean reptile men—SILURIANS—

and a 40 ft. high Tyrannosaurus rex, the biggest, most

savage mammal which ever trod the earth!

'DOCTOR WHO, the children's own programme which

adults adore...' Gerard Garrett, The Daily Sketch

ISBN 0 436 11471 X

DOCTOR WHO

AND THE

CAVE-MONSTERS

Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who and the Silurians by

Malcolm Hulke by arrangement with the British Broadcasting

Corporation

MALCOLM HULKE

Illustrated by Chris Achilleos

CONTENTS

1 Prologue: The Little Planet

2 The Doctor Gets a Message

3 The Traitor

4 Power Loss

5 The Fighting Monster

6 Into the Caves

7 Quinn Visits His Friends

8 Into an Alien World

9 The Search

10 Man Trap

11 The Doctor Makes a Visit

12 Goodbye, Doctor Quinn

13 The Prisoner

14 Man from the Ministry

15 Attack and Counter-Attack

16 The Itch

17 Epidemic

18 A Hot World

19 The Lie

First published simultaneously in Great Britain by

Universal-Tandem Publishing Co., Ltd, and

Allan Wingate (Publishers) Ltd., 1974

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

A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London WIX 8LB

1974

Target Books are published by Tandem Publishing Ltd.,

14 Gloucester Road, London, SW7 4RD

A Howard & Wyndham Company

Printed in Great Britain by The Anchor Press Ltd., and bound by

Wm. Brendon & Son Ltd., both of Tiptree, Essex

ISBN 0 426 11471 X

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.

Here you see the hilly countryside, with a part cut away to

show what is to be found beneath the surface. (1) the reptile people's

shelter (2) the research centre (3) lift shaft going down to the

research centre (4) the caves (5) road leading from the main road to

the top of the lift shaft (6) the main road (7) the main entrance to the

caves.

Horizontal section of Wenley Moor showing cave system and

research centre complex

Prologue: the Little Planet

Okdel stood watching as the last of the young reptile men and

women took their turn to go down to safety in the lift. The gleaming

metal doors of the lift were set in rock; the doors slid open and shut

soundlessly, taking another group of Okdel's people to safety below

the ground. Across the valley the sun was already setting, and its last

light made the green scales of the young people shine brilliantly.

Okdel wondered when he would see the sun again.

'Look, the planet!' K'to the scientist had come up to Okdel and

was pointing to the eastern horizon where the sky was already dark.

The little rogue planet stood out as a white disc in the sky, lit by the

sun. A month ago the planet had been a dot in the night sky. Now

Okdel could see it clearly: there were patterns on the surface as

though it too, like Earth, had seas and mountains. The little planet

was travelling at an enormous speed towards Earth.

Okdel asked, 'Could there be life on it?'

'It's been travelling through Space for millions of years,' said

K'to. 'Life is only possible on a planet if it goes round a sun and gets

warmth.'

'You are sure it will not collide with Earth?' said Okdel.

'Our astronomers calculate that it will sweep by Earth,' said

K'to patiently. 'Our seas will rise up in great waves and for some

days the air will be drawn up from the surface of our planet. But the

air will come back, and the seas will settle down again.'

Okdel had heard all this before, but he was old enough to know

that even scientists could make mistakes. The planet was first seen

two years ago. Once the scientists had made the Earth government

understand the danger, the government ordered the building of these

deep shelters. All over the planet Earth shelters had been built deep

under the ground. The scientists could not say how long the

population must stay in the shelters—it could be days, or even

weeks. So, to save taking down huge amounts of food and water and

oxygen, the scientists had invented a system that would put everyone

into what they called 'total sleep'. It meant that the people would

actually stop breathing. On the ground above each shelter was a

device to detect the return of the Earth's atmosphere. Once

everything was back to normal, these devices would automatically

trigger huge amounts of electricity to wake up the sleeping reptile

people.

K'to said, 'Are all the animals safe?' It had been decided to take

a male and female of all the more useful reptile animals.

'What?' said Okdel, lost in thought.

'Our animals,' said K'to, 'are they in the shelter?'

'They went down first,' said Okdel, 'I made sure of that.' He

paused. 'A pity we are taking none of the little furry animals.'

'You are a strange man,' said K'to. 'The little furry animals are

dirty. Insects live in their fur. In any case, this event will rid our

planet of the mammal vermin. When the planet draws away our

atmosphere, even only for a few minutes, all creatures on the surface

will suffocate and die.'

Morka came up beside them. 'Okdel keeps one of the furry

animals as a pet,' he said. 'Is that not true, Okdel?'

'It amuses me,' said Okdel.

'Your pet will have to die with the others,' said Morka. 'We

shall be better off without them.'

'They raid our crops,' said K'to. 'Our farmers will be glad to see

the end of them. But I am sorry about your pets, Okdel.'

'You only say that because Okdel is the leader of this shelter

group,' said Morka. 'The little furry animals revolt me! They grunt,

they have families, and they are fond of each other.'

'It is that quality which makes them interesting,' said Okdel. 'In

the zoo I have noticed how they touch each other, and put their limbs

round each others' necks.'

'Yes,' said Morka, 'and press their lips to each other's faces! It

is disgusting!'

Okdel turned to K'to. 'But as a man of science, do you not find

it interesting that a species exists so different from ourselves?'

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