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Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster
Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster
Dec 2, 2025 10:15 PM

Author:Terrance Dicks

Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster

Centuries ago, a Zygon spaceship crash landed in Loch Ness. Now, with their home planet destroyed, the alien creatures plan to take over Earth. Their most powerful weapon is a huge armoured dinosaur-like creature of terrifying power that they brought to earth as an embryo - the Loch Ness Monster.

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry soon discover that the Zygons have another weapon. They can assume the identity of any human they capture. Who knows which of their friends might really be a Zygon?

UNIT faces one of its toughest battles as Broton, Warlord of the Zygons, puts his plan into action and the Loch Ness Monster attacks.

This novel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originally broadcast from 30 August to 20 September 1975.

Featuring the Fourth Doctor as played by Tom Baker, with his companions Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan and the UNIT organisation commanded by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Reviews

A rich and deeply moving tale... Vintage Irving

—— Washington Post

A beguiling tale of love and redemption

—— Time Out

Peerless... Writing without a wasted second

—— Guardian

Articulate, clever, quirky, more than a touch profound and very funny

—— Mirror

Sharp and very, very funny, this is another of Irving's fiercely original meditations of life's inherent strangeness

—— Uncut

Irving has a literary style similar to a snowball effect: with each novel he creates symbols and develops themes to accompany those he has already accumulated. Grief, loss, abortion, amputation, sex, children, America's political history and the power of foresight are all explored here

—— Observer

Richly entertaining reading: part satire, part farce... there's no better - or funnier - reintroduction to the least known truly great American author

—— FHM

A coruscating comedy of sexual manners. In the margins of a hard-hitting satire on the modern media, Irving has produced some of the funniest bedroom scenes of recent years

—— Sunday Telegraph

If you are looking for something light and provocative for the beach this is a great little number

—— Irish Independent

an engaging, warm-hearted novel'

—— Scotland on Sunday

This clever and very funny twist on the traditional zombie novel is exceedingly well executed . . . Great stuff for horror and fantasy fans

—— BOOKLIST(Starred Review)

Logan has a flair for unique description . . . an impressive start for an author who’s going places

—— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Its unhinged, imaginative wit and respect for the genre deserve the attention of any self-respecting fan

—— FANGORIA

Apocalypse Cow treads that rare path between horrific and hilarious, which makes for a very fun read indeed. Give it a go.

—— CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of Lamb, Fool, and A Dirty Job

Logan manages to find a great balance between the dark and disturbing and the quirky and hilarious, all the while intermingling plotlines like a seasoned pro

—— RUE MORGUE

Taylor’s love and understanding of Victorian melodrama is put to good use in this tangibly detailed and deliciously written pastiche centred on an Epsom Derby swindle

—— Sunday Telegraph

This is a fictional world in which daughters are ready to bump off their fathers, husbands to exploit their wives, and everyone is happy to chance their assets on the wheel of fortune. It’s a novel that will keep you gripped until the very last furlong

—— Emma Hagestadt , Independent

It is a detective story as gripping as the Victorian novels that inspired it, and is written with narrative flair and a terrific sense of fun

—— Robert Douglas-Fairhurst , Daily Telegraph

Derby Day will be hard to put down... As ever with Taylor, literary complexities lurk under the smooth surface of a stylish page-turner

—— Conde Nast Traveller
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