Dark Planet (novel)

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Dark Planet
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AuthorDavey Moore
Series Doctor Who book:
Decide Your Destiny
Release number
7
SubjectFeaturing:
Tenth Doctor
Martha
Publisher BBC Books
Publication date
4 October 2007
Pages128
ISBN 978-1-4059-0379-0
Preceded by War of the Robots  
Followed by The Haunted Wagon Train  

"Dark Planet" is a BBC Books adventure book written by Davey Moore and is based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha. This one was set on a future version of Earth where society was split in half and some people stayed underground and the rest high above on land dangerously close to the Sun.

This is part of the Decide Your Destiny series which lets the reader choose what happens in the books.

Reception

The book has received a cautiously positive review [1] that highlights it as one of the series' best.

It was part of a second set of four books, which were successful enough to allow the range to continue.

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