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nwhyte's review against another edition
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1073468.html#cutid3[return][return]It starts with "The Secret Invasion", presented as "An Original Story" by Terry Nation (though in fact it's obvious from a crack about it being "Mr Wilson's turn this month" that it dates from the second quarter of 1974, when it was first published in the Evening Standard), in which four children avert the destruction of London (ie the world) by the Daleks. It's a fun little novella, as anyone who has read Rebecca's World would expect, and it's a matter for regret that Nation never tried his hand at any Who novelisations himself. Then there is a factual bit about how the Daleks took the world by storm in the mid-60s (which is interesting reading for us cultists, but must have left the target audience of the book a bit bemused). Finally there is a decent summary of each of the canonical Dalek stories up to Destiny of the Daleks, intermingled with more quizzes, puzzles and the inevitable cut-out Dalek model.
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