Doctor Who and the Cybermen
- greatbigquiveringp
- Feb 19, 1975
- 1 min read
Right, let's look at this one in a bit of detail:
'One by one, their limbs became diseased - they were replaced by plastic and steel!
Little by little, their brains tired - computers worked just as well!
With metal limbs, they had the strength of ten men. They could live in the airless vacuum of space. They had no heart, no feelings, no emotions and only one goal - power!
In the year 2070, a small blue planet caught their attention. They would land on its satellite and, from there, attack, ransack, destroy and finally abandon...
THE SATELLITE WAS THE MOON
THE HELPLESS PLANET - EARTH
THEIR NAMES? THE CYBERMEN!
Can the Doctor defeat an enemy whose threat is almost as great as that of the mighty Daleks?'
This is easily the hardest sell on the Target novelisations yet, though that does rather idiosyncratically include the phrase 'almost as great as ... the Daleks' so it's not quite flowing free with the hyperbole, though i do wonder what reason applying the adjective 'airless' to 'vacuum' could have except to big it up. I also wonder why, trumping 'attack', 'ransack' and 'destroy' as the terrible things the Cybermen have planned for the Earth, is 'abandon'.
All that said, the rather lovely first two lines are far more indicative of what's inside than the easily nit-picked second half. This is a lovely one to end on before the arrival of Tom Baker and a new Target cover format.
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