The Ark (novelisation)

Novelisation

 * This novelisation is based on the original television serial generally referred to as DW: The Ark which included individual episode titles. It was written by Paul Erickson and Lesley Scott and shown from 5 March 1966.
 * The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel. It featured the artwork of David McAllister. (See below for information on editions with different covers).

1987 edition
It is ten million years in the future and the Earth is about to plunge into the Sun. A gigantic Space Ark has been launched to take the last of humanity to a new life on the planet Refusis II. Accompanying the humans on their journey are the Monoids, strange reptilian creatures from an alien world.

When the TARDIS materialises on board, the First Doctor and his friends are greeted with suspicion which soon turns to open hostility when Dodo inadvertently infects the Ark’s crew with a long-forgotten virus.

It is an accident which will have a terrible effect on mankind, an effect which will last for seven hundred years…

Illustrations
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Deviations from televised story
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Writing and publishing notes
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British publication history
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First Publication:
 * Hardback
 * W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK


 * Paperback
 * Target

Re-issues:
 * Paperback: Target / Virgin Publishing Ltd. UK December 1992 Cover by Alistair Pearson (£2.50 UK)

Editions published outside Britain
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