War of the Daleks

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Doctor Who book

War of the Daleks
Series	Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	5
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Sam
Writer	John Peel
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-40573-2
Release date	October 1997
Preceded by	Genocide
Followed by	Alien Bodies

War of the Daleks is an original novel written by John Peel and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor and Sam. This novel was the first appearance of the Daleks in an original Doctor Who novel; they had not appeared at all in either the Virgin New Adventures or the Virgin Missing Adventures — although War of the Daleks was originally announced by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society as being published as a New Adventure around the time of The Left-Handed Hummingbird.^{[citation needed]}

This story chronicles the demise of Davros once and for all and the rising of the supreme Dalek force. This also conflicts the destruction of Skaro which has survived thanks to a larger plot played by the Dalek Prime.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity