I Am a Dalek (novel)

I Am a Dalek by Gareth Roberts was the inaugural Doctor Who Quick Reads novella.

Publisher’s summary
Equipped with space suits, golf clubs, and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up, Apollo mission-style, on the Moon. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens. Until now...

An archaeological dig has turned up a Roman mosaic, circa 70 AD, depicting mythical scenes, grapes - and a Dalek. A few days later a young woman, rushing for work, is knocked over and killed by a bus, then comes back to life. It's not long before all hell breaks loose, and the Doctor and Rose must use all their courage and cunning against an alien enemy - and a not-quite-human accomplice - who are intent on destroying humanity.

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Planning to confuse future explorers by planting a Women's Institute flag on the moon.
 * Rose Tyler
 * Planning to be the first woman to walk on the moon, but the TARDIS takes an unexpected detour.
 * Kate Yates
 * Hit by a car but resurrected, her latent Dalek Factor activated
 * Hair changes from red to blonde, gains enhanced strength and intelligence
 * Is possessed by a Dalek
 * Convinced by Rose and the Doctor to turn on the Dalek, goes back to normal
 * Frank Openshaw
 * Befriends the Doctor
 * Is Exterminated
 * Though they cannot save his life, Rose and the Doctor meddle in history a bit so that Frank meets his wife Sandra years earlier than in the original timeline
 * Serena
 * Annoying boss of Kate, nearly strangled by Dalek-hybrid Kate
 * Sandra Openshaw
 * Wife of Frank Openshaw

Continuity

 * This is the Tenth Doctor's first encounter with the Daleks. He would later encounter them in TV: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, COMIC: Carnage Zoo/Flight and Fury/The Living Ghosts/Extermination of the Daleks, and PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks.
 * This isn't the only time the Daleks attempted to use modified humans as puppets: The Fifth Doctor had already faced Dalek duplicates in Resurrection of the Daleks; The Dalek Emperor had managed to produce pure-blood Daleks from human DNA in Parting of the Ways; Dalek Sec had turned himself into the first Dalek-human hybrid as an experiment to convert all humans to Daleks in Daleks in Manhattan; and the Eleventh Doctor was captured by a Dalek puppet and met Oswin, an echo of Clara Oswald, who had suffered a complete Dalek-conversion in Asylum of the Daleks.