num_pages: 288
description: It is 3123, and traveling in the Tardis into deepest space, the Doctor and Sam find three spacecraft. One is a Ximosian warship, the other an Emindaran civilian starliner, and the third a ship of strange allen design. Both Ximosian and Emindaran crews want to discover what cargo this strange structure holds.In attempting to discover where these vessels come from, the Doctor and Sam unearth a terrible truth. The aden ship is caught in a closed loop of time, being neither created nor destroyed, constantly circling the vortex. The Doctor wants the ship to be destroyed, but the Ximosian and Emindarans are caught in a wrestle for power, and both desire to possess the spacecraft and transform its power into a source for their own political ends.
language: English
title: Doctor Who: Vanderdeken's Children
titlecomplete: Doctor Who: Vanderdeken's Children
characters: Samantha "Sam" Jones, The Doctor, The Eighth Doctor
genres: Science Fiction, Media Tie In, Doctor Who, Time Travel, Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 215
series: Eighth Doctor Adventures
publisher: Bbc Pubns