Shakedown, 1995, Terrance Dicks
In this book, Terrance Dicks adapts his script for a direct-to-video Doctor Who spin-off into a novel featuring the characters currently appearing in the “New Adventures” line. Characters who didn’t appear in the video. Which means that the middle half of the book is a straight adaptation of the video, while the rest of it is the regular cast being more or less sidelined by the need to fit in this great big whopping other story that they’re not actually involved in. It’s not quite successful, but I’ve got a soft spot for Sontarans, so I kind of liked it in the end. That it’s really very fanwanky about the Sontaran/Rutan war, and is, as far as I’m aware, the only time that Sontarans and Rutans actually appear in the same story, is somewhat charming.

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