Sick Building

Sick Building

Author	Paul Magrs
Series	Doctor Who book: New Series Adventures
Release number	17
Subject	Featuring: Tenth Doctor Martha Jones
Genre	novel
Set in	Period between "The Family of Blood" and "Utopia"
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	6 September 2007
ISBN	1-84607-269-7
Preceded by	Forever Autumn
Followed by	Wetworld

Sick Building is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Magrs and based on the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. This book had the working title The Wicked Bungalow^[1] before changing to Sick Building, at the request of Russell T Davies.^[2]

Sick Building was shortlisted for the 2008–2009 Doncaster Book Award.^[3]

Plot summary

The TARDIS arrives on Tiermann's World. Professor Tiermann and his family live alone here in a futuristic, fully automated Dreamhome, protected by a supposedly impenetrable force shield. An enormous alien creature called the Voracious Craw is heading towards their home with the intent to devour everything. But the Craw is not the only enemy - outside sabre-toothed tigers roam a frozen landscape, and the Dreamhouse itself turns against its occupants.

Reception

Sick Building won Best Book in the 2007 Jade Pagoda Awards.^[4]

Audiobook

An abridged Audiobook version was released in March 2008 by BBC Audiobooks and read by Will Thorp, who played Toby Zed in the TV series two-part story, "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit".

See also

• Whoniverse

References

1. Doctor Who Magazine No. 379
2. SFX: the leading science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine
3. "Sick Building". Doncaster Book Award. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
4. Henry Potts (13 February 2008). "Jade Pagoda awards". The Worlds of Bondegezou. Retrieved 17 September 2010.

External links

• Sick Building title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Sick Building at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Sick Building at The TARDIS Library
• The Cloister Library - Sick Building