Spore (short story)

 was the eighth Puffin eshort released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Publisher's summary
In a small town in the Nevada desert, an alien pathogen has reduced the entire population to a seething mass of black slime. When the Eighth Doctor arrives, he realises this latest threat to humanity is horrifyingly familiar — it is a virus which almost annihilated his entire race, the Time Lords...

Plot
to be added

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Major Platt
 * Captain Evelyn Chan

Continuity

 * The Doctor remembers visiting the nearby town, Roswell. (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
 * When Major Platt looks at his clothes, the Doctor mentions that he was called away from the opera. This mirrors what happened to Grace Holloway in TV: Doctor Who.