System Shock (novel)

System Shock
Cover Art
Author	Justin Richards
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	11
Subject	Featuring: Fourth Doctor Sarah, Harry
Genre	novel
Set in	Period between The Seeds of Doom and The Masque of Mandragora^[1]^[2]
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	June 1995
Pages	309
ISBN	0-426-20445-X
Preceded by	The Menagerie
Followed by	The Sorcerer's Apprentice

System Shock is an original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry and is followed by the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock, also by Richards.

Plot

It is 1998, and the information age is about to take off. However, mysterious events are plaguing London. A prominent spy is killed. A hostage situation is bizarrely resolved. The Doctor receives a computer disc from a dead man. And to top it all off, it seems that an alien race is planning a takeover using Earth's ever expanding computer technology.

References

↑ The Doctor's Timeline at The Whoniverse
↑ Direct placement confirmed by cover blurb.

External links

System Shock at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
System Shock at The TARDIS Library

Reviews

System Shock reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
System Shock reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Virgin Missing Adventures

First Doctor	Venusian Lullaby The Sorcerer's Apprentice The Empire of Glass The Man in the Velvet Mask The Plotters

Second Doctor	The Menagerie Invasion of the Cat-People Twilight of the Gods The Dark Path

Third Doctor	The Ghosts of N-Space Dancing the Code The Eye of the Giant The Scales of Injustice Speed of Flight

Fourth Doctor	Evolution The Romance of Crime System Shock Managra The English Way of Death The Shadow of Weng-Chiang A Device of Death The Well-Mannered War

Fifth Doctor	Goth Opera The Crystal Bucephalus Lords of the Storm The Sands of Time Cold Fusion

Sixth Doctor	State of Change Time of Your Life Millennial Rites Killing Ground Burning Heart

Seventh Doctor	Cold Fusion

None	Downtime

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