Doctor Who: The War Machines

By (author): "Ian Stuart Black"
Doctor Who: The War Machines
ISBN0426203321
ISBN139780426203322
AsinDoctor Who: The War Machines
CharactersThe First Doctor, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Dorothea 'Dodo' C
Original titleDoctor Who: The War Machines (Target Doctor Who Library, No. 136)
SeriesDoctor Who Library (Target) #136, Doctor Who Novelisations #27, Adventures of the 1st Doctor #86 ,
Novelization of the Doctor Who TV episodes/story of the same name.London, 1966. The TARDIS materialises in the shadow of the newly-completed Post Office Tower in London and the Doctor senses a strange energy in the air. He instinctively knows that evil is at work nearby.Posing as a scientist, the Doctor and his 'secretary' Dodo gain access to a suite at the top of the tower, and meet the driven Professor Brett. His life's work, the thinking computer WOTAN, is about to be linked up in a problem-solving network with many other machines around the world.But the Doctor is concerned. How can WOTAN possibly know the meaning of the word TARDIS and about the Doctor's travels through time and space? What is the strange control that WOTAN can exert over humans via a mere telephone call? And what is the computer's link with the deadly robots being assembled in a Covent Garden warehouse? Soon, London will face an army of war machines, ruthlessly programmed to eliminate all who stand in their way...