The Edge of Destruction (novelisation)

 was a novelisation based on the 1964 television serial The Edge of Destruction.

Publisher's summary
In a final bid to regain control of the TARDIS' faulty control system the First Doctor is driven to experiment with a dangerous untried combination.

With a violent explosion, the TARDIS blacks out and the crew find themselves trapped inside.

A simple technical fault? Sabotage? Or something even more sinister? Tension mounts as the Doctor and his companions begin to suspect one another.

What has happened to the TARDIS?

Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence which is even now haunting the time-machine's dark and gloomy corridors?

Chapter titles

 * Introduction
 * Prologue
 * 1) Aftershock
 * 2) The Seeds of Suspicion
 * 3) Inside the Machine
 * 4) Trapped
 * 5) 'Like a Person Possessed'
 * 6) The End of Time
 * 7) The Haunting
 * 8) Accusations
 * 9) The Brink of Disaster
 * 10) A Race Against Time
 * Epilogue
 * Conclusion

Deviations from televised story

 * Barbara hallucinates that Ian had too much to drink at the Cricketers.
 * An original scene features the Doctor and Ian in the TARDIS engine rooms. Another original scene has Barbara enter the Doctor's laboratory.

Writing and publishing notes

 * This novelisation was originally offered to Stephen James Walker, but as a two-parter. It was declined and instead written by Nigel Robinson.
 * The inside back cover includes colour Fantastic Doctor Who Poster Offers!-but instead of poster ordering details, the page details how to order Star books!

British publication history
Hardback (May 1988) Paperback (October 1988)
 * W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031386, estimated print run: 1,000, priced £7.95)
 * Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK).

Audiobook
This Target Book was released complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by William Russell.

The audio set of four CDs was released in January 2011 priced £13.99 (UK)