a question of vital importance...

[adelaidesean]

At mondyboy's instigation, I recently re-read Terrance Dick's Target novelisation of The Destiny of the Daleks . I enjoyed it, too, and was reminded of how much I loved them as a kid. Given I'm moving more and more in that direction, creatively, why not read more? So I asked myself--leading to my question for you, dear friends, or at least the sad old Who fans* among you:

Which Target novelisation should I read next?

I asked this question on Facebook and was guided in the direction of The Time Warrior. It's tempting, but I remain open to suggestion...

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Comments

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

As well as TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN, I used to really like the Abominable Snowmen stories, so we're definitealy on the same wavelength there.

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

I also loved the two Great Intelligence novels. They're great stories and when you're a kid the ideas are even more potent. 'Hang on, the yetis are Robots?!'

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Was it destroyed at the end of the second story? (Perhaps I should read the bool to find out.) It's too great a name not to bring it back, I reckon.

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

There was a theory going round that the Great Intelligence was also Fenric, but that was mere fan tidying.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I also note in its Wikipedia entry that the New Adventures link it to Yog-Sothoth. Bizarre!

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

It wasn't destroyed.

There was a third Yeti story done as a fan production called Downtime. While the production has some serious issues (the Yeti look like little kid Yetis) the book (one of the Virgin Missing Adventures) I remember as being reasonable, and I like the basic concept - the Great Intelligence is starting to use the World Wide Web to come through into our world.