Doctor Who Books: BBC Classic Series Books

'Those people that die must die. It's history, it's already happened and there's nothing we can do to prevent it, Sarah.'

The Doctor's not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy - Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists - is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too...

'My view,' said the Doctor, ' is that you can run - in fact it's often by far the best option - but you can't hide. I'll see myself out.'

Banquo Manor - scene of a gruesome murder a hundred years ago. Now history is about to repeat itself.

The people of Belannia II see their sun, Bel, shrouded in night for a month following an impossible triple eclipse. When Bel returned to them a younger, brighter, hotter star, it is the beginning of the end for the entire solar system...

What lurks in the electronic labyrinth?

'You're not the Doctor I knew.'

'There are many beasts and monsters in the universe, it is true. But the worst of them is Man.'

The late nineteenth century - the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the centre of the Empire.