Doctor Who And The Cybermen

Aug 23, 2025 10:05 PM

Author:Gerry Davis,Anneke Wills,Nicholas Briggs

One by one, their limbs became diseased - they were replaced by plastic and steel! Little by little, their brains tired - computers worked just as well! With metal limbs, they had the strength of ten men. They could live in the airless vacuum of space. They had no heart, no feelings, no emotions, and only one goal - power! In the year 2070, a small blue planet caught their attention. They would land on its satellite and, from there, attack, ransack, destroy and finally abandon...The satellite was the Moon. The helpless planet - Earth. Their names? The Cybermen! Can the Doctor defeat an enemy whose threat is almost as great as that of the mighty Daleks? Anneke Wills, who played the Doctor's companion Polly in the original TV serial The Moonbase, reads Gerry Davis's complete and unabridged novelisation, with specially composed music and special sound.

Reviews

Mankell is a vivid and compelling storyteller

—— Independent

As with the the best of crime fiction, Mankell deals not only in character, plot and action, mystery and revelation, concealment and discovery, but also creates a world with its own mental and emotional atmosphere

—— Irish Times

Mankell has always been an ambitious writer... This novel transcends the limits of his earlier work

—— Sunday Times

Authoritative plotting and well-defined characterisation... An examination of the boundless human capacity for making the wrong decisions and a recognition of the challenges posed by ageing

—— Barry Forshaw , Daily Express

Mankell's words fall like snowflakes, building up to make even the most ugly thing something of beauty... The strength of women, the bestiality some men are capable men, and the impermanence of life are some of the themes that Mankell once again spins into a quiet masterpiece

—— Kieran Meeke , Metro

As stark as anything he has written...an unflinching emotional honesty

—— Joan Smith , Sunday Times

Mankell is lyrical about the frozen landscape he knows so well

—— Carla McKay , Daily Mail

A fine meditation on love and loss

—— Sally Cousins , Sunday Telegraph

Mankell carefully maps the changing seasons in beautifully stark prose

—— James Urquhart , Financial Times

The cool, enigmatic tone is reminiscent of Paul Auster

—— Brandon Borshaw , Independent on Sunday

Vivid prose...translated beautifully

—— Ian Thompson , Evening Standard

Present a spare tale of metaphors and symbols to argue that, in the middle of life, we are in death but occasionally, and happily, the opposite too

—— Tim Pashley , Times Literary Supplement

Yoko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.

—— Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize Winning author of A Personal Matter

Each well narrated and haunting novella, about love, obsession and dark humour, has an unpredictable twist of viciousness coupled with compassion

—— The Hindu

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