What strange attraction lures people to the planet Drebnar? When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find out why He discovers that scientists from the mysterious Frontier Worlds Corporation have set up a base on the planet, and are trying to blur the distinction between people and plants The TARDIS crew plan to prevent a biological catastrophe – but their plan goes wrong all too soon Compassion finds her undercover work so engrossing she risks losing her detachment Fitz seems too distracted by the local population to keep his eye on Compassion So when the Doctor gets trapped in a freezing wilderness, who can stop him falling victim to a lethal experiment in genetic modification? For something else has been lured to Drebnar, something that Frontier Worlds Corporation will ruthlessly exploit without care for the consequences – an ancient alien organism which threatens to snuff out Drebnar’s solar system This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor FRONTIER WORLDS PETER ANGHELIDES Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd, Woodlands, 80 Wood Line London W12 0TT First published 1999 Copyright © Peter Anghelides The moral right of the author has been asserted Original series broadcast on the BBC Format © BBC 1963 Doctor Who and TARDIS are trademarks of the BBC ISBN 563 55589 Imaging by Black Sheep, copyright © BBC 1999 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham Cover printed by Belmont Press Ltd, Northampton For my sons, Adam and Samuel, with love Contents Chapter One ‘What’s Now is Now’ Chapter Two ‘Dancing on the Ceiling’ Chapter Three ‘Here Goes’ 11 Chapter Four ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ 23 Chapter Five ‘Nancy’ 31 Chapter Six ‘Dream’ 37 Chapter Seven ‘The House I Live In’ 43 Chapter Eight ‘I’d Know You Anywhere’ 53 Chapter Nine ‘The Second Time Around’ 61 Chapter Ten ‘High Hopes’ 69 Chapter Eleven ‘What’s New’ 75 Chapter Twelve ‘There Are Such Things’ 85 Chapter Thirteen ‘Softly As I Leave You’ 95 Chapter Fourteen ‘All the Things You Are’ 103 Chapter Fifteen ‘All Or Nothing At All’ 111 Chapter Sixteen ‘I Could Have Told You’ 119 Chapter Seventeen ‘It’s Nice To Go Travelling’ 131 Chapter Eighteen ‘I’m Walking Behind You’ 139 Chapter Nineteen ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’ 149 Chapter Twenty ‘The Tender Trap’ 157 Chapter Twenty-One ‘In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning’ 161 Chapter Twenty-Two ‘Fools Rush In’ 167 Chapter Twenty-Three ‘Come Fly With Me’ 179 Chapter Twenty-Four ‘Stormy Weather’ 183 Chapter Twenty-Five ‘Call Me Irresponsible’ 191 Chapter Twenty-Six ‘A Man AIone’ 197 Chapter Twenty-Seven ‘We’ll Be Together’ 205 Chapter Twenty-Eight ‘Why Try to Change Me Now?’ 217 Chapter Twenty-Nine ‘Who’ 221 Acknowledgements 223 ... adventures for the Eighth Doctor FRONTIER WORLDS PETER ANGHELIDES Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd, Woodlands, 80 Wood Line London W12 0TT First published 1999 Copyright © Peter Anghelides The moral... asserted Original series broadcast on the BBC Format © BBC 1963 Doctor Who and TARDIS are trademarks of the BBC ISBN 563 55589 Imaging by Black Sheep, copyright © BBC 1999 Printed and bound in Great... lures people to the planet Drebnar? When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find out why He discovers that scientists from the mysterious Frontier Worlds Corporation have set