Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible

written by: Marc Platt

You're on your own, Ace.

The TARDIS is invaded by an alien presence, and is then destroyed. The Doctor disappears.

Ace, lost and alone, finds herself in a bizarre deserted city ruled by the tyrannical, leech-like monster known as the Process.

Lost voyagers drawn forward from Ancient Gallifrey perform obsessive rituals in the ruins.

The strands of time are tangled in a cat's cradle of dimensions.

Only the Doctor can challenge the rule of the Process and restore the stolen Future.

But the Doctor was destroyed long ago, before Time began.

Copyright © Marc Platt, 1992

Originally Published: February 1, 1992

Marc Platt wrote the screenplay of Ghost Light, one of the most recently televised adventures of the Doctor and Ace, and novelized the story Battlefield from the same season. Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible is the first adventure in the three-volume Cat's Cradle series.

Doctor Who series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1963


Cover by Peter Elson

(Virgin edition 1992)
ISBN 0 426 20365 8
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