Doctor Who: Spore: Eighth Doctor

Alex Scarrow

Aug 2013 · Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Short Stories Book 7 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord.
In a small town in the Nevada desert, an alien pathogen has reduced the entire population to a seething mass of black slime. When the Eighth Doctor arrives, he realises this latest threat to humanity is horrifyingly familiar - it is a virus which almost annihilated his entire race, the Time Lords...
Author Alex Scarrow puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space.

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoyed this. It was a nice, uncomplicated tale.

Perfectly enjoyable little short, should liven up even the dullest commute.

This is the worsted thing ever

About the author

Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist, then he became a graphic artist, then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally, he grew up and became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers and several screenplays, but it's YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas and concepts he was playing around with designing games. Alex lives in Norwich.