An unabridged reading of this novelization of a classic 1984 TV
adventure for the Fifth Doctor. Far into the future, the TARDIS hovers
over the planet Frontios, refuge of survivors from Earth who escaped the
disintegration of their home planet. The Doctor is reluctant to land,
not wishing to intervene in a moment of historical crisis; the colonists
are still struggling to establish themselves, and their continued
existence hangs in the balance. When the TARDIS is forced to crash land
by an apparent meteorite storm, however, the Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough
are marooned on the hope-forsaken planet. And somewhere, beneath the
surface, the Tractators are waiting.