The Eyeless ( novel ) The Eyeless was the twenty - fourth Tenth Doctor novel released . It was the first book in the series to have the Tenth Doctor travelling alone . Publisher ' s summary . At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress . It ' s a brutal structure placed here by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic war that ' s long ended . Fifteen years ago , the entire population of the planet was killed in an instant by the weapon housed deep in the heart of the Fortress . Now only the ghosts remain . The Doctor arrives , and determines to fight his way past the Fortress ' s automatic defences and put the weapon beyond use . But he soon discovers he ' s not the only person in Arcopolis . What is the true nature of the weapon ? Is the planet really haunted ? Who are the Eyeless ? And what will happen if they get to the weapon before the Doctor ? The Doctor has a fight on his hands . And this time he ' s all on his own . Plot . The Doctor lands , alone , on an uninhabited , green skied planet in Galaxy Seven , almost exactly 290 , 000 lightyears from Earth , around the year 292009 , near Arcopolis , to disable a weapon that wiped out the population . He wanders through the city , looking at the futuristic technology . A six fingered ghost hand touches the TARDIS . The Doctor encounters a group of children scavenging the city . They seem to think the Doctor is a ghost and try to attack him . While trying to convince them that he is no ghost , the Doctor wishes he could see one . A ghost appears and kills one of the children , making the other ones flee . Moving closer to the heavily guarded Fortress where the weapon is located , two older children , Alsa and Gar , catch up on The Doctor . They ask him if he killed a girl who died a few days ago , which he denies . He then manages to shake them off and makes his way to the Fortress , where he sees a glass - like creature . Alsa and Gar catch up on the Doctor again and knock him unconscious . The Doctor wakes up in a settlement consisting of a group of adults who survived the weapon , and a lot of children . The adults want the Doctor to stay , so he can help them with scientific progress and agriculture , but the Doctor refuses their demands . During his stay in the village , the Doctor befriends a woman named Dela . Recently her daughter Jall was found dead , and her eyes were missing from the body . The Doctor goes to the Fortress again and spots a transparent , six - fingered figure . The figure flees . While the Doctor manages to reach the Fortress , Alsa , Gar , a few other children and two adults followed him . Alsa enters the Fortress with the Doctor . Outside the Fortress transparent creatures approach the remaining people and introduce themselves as the Eyeless . One of them has two eyes embedded inside its body , Jall ' s eyes . A group of Eyeless manages to enter the Fortress and chases the Doctor and Alsa . They manage to convince Alsa that the Doctor is a threat and that she should become one of them . The Eyeless predicted the Doctor ' s landing on Acropolis and his intentions , and they also want the weapon the Doctor is trying to destroy . Eventually the Eyeless lose their influence on Alsa . When the Doctor reaches the heart of the Fortress , he finds the weapon , but the Eyeless fight to gain it . Meanwhile , the Eyeless spaceships attack the Fortress from outside the Doctor and the Fortress ' security kill all the Eyeless inside except the leader . The Doctor offers the leader the TARDIS key if he gets to keep the weapon . While trading , the Doctor unintentionally triggers the weapon , destroying all the remaining Eyeless . The Fortress ' defences are deactivated and the Doctor and Alsa escape . He gives the weapon to Alsa , and gives her the choice to destroy it . Alsa is unsure about the future and the Doctor takes her to the TARDIS . They travel to Acropolis twenty years later . There an adult version of Gar tells them how they destroyed the weapon and Alsa is assured enough . Alsa is returned to her own time and the Doctor leaves . Audio release . An abridged reading of the story was released as an audiobook on 2x CD read by Russell Tovey .