Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks

By Terrance Dicks,

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The Time Lords have a mission for the Doctor. Together with Sarah and Harry, he finds himself stranded on the war-torn planet Skaro where the conflict between the Thals and the Kaleds has been raging for a thousand years. Chemical and biological weapons have started a cycle of mutation among…

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1 author picked Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It was Star Trek, Star Wars, and, most of all, Doctor Who that first made me fall in love with science fiction.

Some will think it an odd choice to include this novelization of Terry Nation’s television story, The Genesis of the Daleks, but Terrance Dicks is a much-underrated writer, and this portrait of war-devastated Skaro offers a fantastic image of humanity and inhumanity. Just as much as C. S. Lewis in Perelandra, the book has the Nazis on its mind, and the bunker where Davros creates his army of autonomous half-machine warriors replays the Berlin bunker…

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