City of Death
By: Douglas Adams & James Goss
Contributors: Goss, James, 1974- author
Edition: Ace hardcover edition.
Series: BBC Doctor Who series
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: October 6, 2015
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780425283905
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: FICTION / Humorous; FICTION / Science Fiction / General; Extraterrestrial beings; Fiction; Time travel; FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure
Other titles: Doctor Who; Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989)
First sentence: It was Tuesday and life didn't happen.
Description: "Based on the beloved Doctor Who episode of the same name by Douglas Adams, the hilarious and brilliant author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes City of Death...  "A nasty, savage race, the universe was glad to see the back of them..."     4 billion BCE: The Jagaroth, the most powerful, vicious, and visually unappealing race in the universe disappears from existence. Few are sad to see them go.  1505 CE: Leonardo da Vinci is rudely interrupted while gilding the lily by a most annoying military man by the name of Captain Tancredi.  1979 CE: Despite his best efforts not to end up in exactly the right place at exactly the wrong time, the Doctor, his companion Romana, and his cybernetic dog, K-9, arrive for a vacation in Paris only to discover that they have landed not only in one of the less romantic periods in Parisian history, but in a year in which the fabric of time has begun to crack.  It is once again up to the Doctor to uncover an audacious alien scheme filled with homemade time machines, the theft of the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the Jagaroths, and the beginning (or possibly the end--it is all quite complicated, you see) of all life on Earth.  Some holiday indeed.."--
Notes: "From an original story by David Fisher."
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