City at World's End

For the novel by Edmond Hamilton, see Edmond Hamilton.

City at World's End is a BBC Books original novel written by Christopher Bulis and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the First Doctor, Barbara, Ian, and Susan.

City at World's End

Author	Christopher Bulis
Series	Doctor Who book: Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	25
Subject	Featuring: First Doctor Barbara, Ian, and Susan
Set in	Period between The Reign of Terror and The Witch Hunters
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	September 1999
Pages	281
ISBN	0-563-55579-3
Preceded by	The Final Sanction
Followed by	Divided Loyalties

Plot

The Doctor and his three companions travel to Arkhaven. It is one of the last cities on a doomed alien planet. The city has one plan for survival, no backup. However, there are underlying plans threatening to sabotage this as various people vie for power the disaster might bring.

The Doctor then must deal with the 'Creeper', an entity prowling the outskirts of Arkhaven. His companions cannot help him, as one becomes lost and the other becomes mentally ill.

See also

An earlier novel with the same title,[1] written by Golden Age U.S. science-fiction writer Edmond Hamilton, was first published in 1951 and republished in mass paperback in 1957. Hamilton's novel, which inspired Robert A. Heinlein's survivalist novel Farnham's Freehold. Hamilton's novel begins when a distortion of the space-time continuum, caused by a super-atomic bomb explosion, catapults a U.S. midwestern community of 50,000 residents, called Middletown, into the remote future.

External links

• City at World's End title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database