Millennium Shock

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Millennium Shock
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Author Justin Richards
Series Doctor Who book:
Past Doctor Adventures
Release number
22
SubjectFeaturing:
Fourth Doctor
Harry
Publisher BBC Books
Publication date
May 1999
Pages283
ISBN 0-563-55586-6
Preceded by Players  
Followed by Storm Harvest  

Millennium Shock is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Fourth Doctor and Harry, and is a sequel to Richards' Virgin Missing Adventures novel System Shock .

Premise

In 1999, the Doctor and Harry deal with a plot by the Voracians hybrids of alien reptiles and malevolent office equipment to take advantage of the Y2K problem to conquer the Earth.

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