Post by Zone Fighter on Nov 5, 2004 21:54:24 GMT -8
From Fanderson:
The worlds of Gerry Anderson collide with those of Doctor Who, the long-running cult BBC SF series, in a new novel from BBC Books. Published this month, The Indestructible Man by Simon Messingham sees the second incarnation of the Gallifreyan Time Lord teaming up with the indestructible agent of a secret government-sponsored organisation to combat alien invaders who are using terrorist tactics in a war of nerves against the people of Earth.
Set in a future world modelled closely on the concepts of Gerry Anderson's various television productions, The Indestructible Man both pastiches and pays homage to Anderson's work while questioning what might have happened if the Utopian ideals of Anderson's future worlds had gone horribly wrong.
In the year 2069, the agents of the secret international organisation PRISM are enmeshed in a doomed interstellar war against the Myloki, mysterious alien invaders armed with the power to possess, duplicate and destroy from within. Only one man stands in their way, Captain Matthews, a man destiny has made indestructible. But victory comes at a price as the world economy collapses, governments crumble and PRISM itself is torn apart by a best-selling exposé.
30 years later, the SILOET organisation, headed by Commander Bishop, maintains a series of early warning devices in space to defend the Earth should the Myloki return. Arriving on Earth to find a population controlled by drugs, the Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe are joined by Captain Matthews, the indestructible war hero, to discover the truth about the war with the Myloki...
Filled with multi-fuctional vehicles, gravity-defying headquarters and even a secret base hidden beneath BBC Television Centre, The Indestructible Man promises to be unusual and entertaining reading for Anderson fans - particularly those who grew up in the late 1960s watching both Doctor Who and the Anderson programmes. Author Simon Messingham is a regular contributor to the BBC's range of Doctor Who novels and his previous works include The Face Eater, Zeta Major, Tomb of Valdemar and Infinity Race.
The cover of this latest book features Patrick Troughton (a guest star in Anderson's The Protectors and Space:1999 series) as the second Doctor and Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot. The latter is seen sporting a purple wig that has been digitally transplanted from a photograph of Antonia Ellis as Moonbase space tracker Joan Harrington in UFO.
The worlds of Gerry Anderson collide with those of Doctor Who, the long-running cult BBC SF series, in a new novel from BBC Books. Published this month, The Indestructible Man by Simon Messingham sees the second incarnation of the Gallifreyan Time Lord teaming up with the indestructible agent of a secret government-sponsored organisation to combat alien invaders who are using terrorist tactics in a war of nerves against the people of Earth.
Set in a future world modelled closely on the concepts of Gerry Anderson's various television productions, The Indestructible Man both pastiches and pays homage to Anderson's work while questioning what might have happened if the Utopian ideals of Anderson's future worlds had gone horribly wrong.
In the year 2069, the agents of the secret international organisation PRISM are enmeshed in a doomed interstellar war against the Myloki, mysterious alien invaders armed with the power to possess, duplicate and destroy from within. Only one man stands in their way, Captain Matthews, a man destiny has made indestructible. But victory comes at a price as the world economy collapses, governments crumble and PRISM itself is torn apart by a best-selling exposé.
30 years later, the SILOET organisation, headed by Commander Bishop, maintains a series of early warning devices in space to defend the Earth should the Myloki return. Arriving on Earth to find a population controlled by drugs, the Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe are joined by Captain Matthews, the indestructible war hero, to discover the truth about the war with the Myloki...
Filled with multi-fuctional vehicles, gravity-defying headquarters and even a secret base hidden beneath BBC Television Centre, The Indestructible Man promises to be unusual and entertaining reading for Anderson fans - particularly those who grew up in the late 1960s watching both Doctor Who and the Anderson programmes. Author Simon Messingham is a regular contributor to the BBC's range of Doctor Who novels and his previous works include The Face Eater, Zeta Major, Tomb of Valdemar and Infinity Race.
The cover of this latest book features Patrick Troughton (a guest star in Anderson's The Protectors and Space:1999 series) as the second Doctor and Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot. The latter is seen sporting a purple wig that has been digitally transplanted from a photograph of Antonia Ellis as Moonbase space tracker Joan Harrington in UFO.
