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M3’ a time in all his wander- forth fireballs and coloured rays the Doctor demanded stoutly. “Look,
ings through the labyrinths of which licked round other ships and the inner door is opening and air is
Space and Time, Dr. Who had often disintegrated them into atomic dust. coming in. Wherever we are at least
been accused by Jamie and Victoria, The planet over which they were our jailors breathe the same air that
and the other companions he had being carried was a smoking, riven we do. I can move now, can you?
gathered round him, of appalling desert. No features could be seen, That force is no longer in operation.
carelessness in his navigation of his just flat desert. Huge furrows in the Whoever these creatures are- 7
marvellous Space-Time ship, the surface denoted where disintegration A shrill scream from Victoria was
Tardis. Try as he would he had beams had ploughed through, dis- the first thing that greeted the scene
never been able to plot a course solving soil and rock alike. when the inner air-lock door slid
through the worlds and the dimen- The Tardis was still with them but back and they looked out and saw
sions to arrive at a desired place at a all three of them were held rigid in their captors. There were four of
desired time. The Tardis had landed the grip of the force in the beam. them and although there was a faint
the three of them in many strange The ray shortened and the broad human semblance it was vague and
places at odd times, often into acute under-belly of agigantic space-ship even the tough Dr. Who felt his
danger, but never before into such seemed to swoop down on them. A flesh crawl when he saw what had
terrifying horrors as they saw when square port opened and they found captured them.
they emerged from the door on to the themselves inside. Still they were They stood on two legs and they
ravaged surface of a world with two held immovable. had two short upper limbs. They
suns, closer to the hub of the Milky “Well, well,” observed Dr. Who had long heads with tusked snouts
Way than the Solar System. philosophically. “Here we are and and two eyesanda mouth. After that,
“This, children,” said the Doctor where are we? We've dropped into any likeness to humanity ceased.
heavily, “is where the action is. As one something hot this time.” They were covered with silvery a
might say, it’s all happening here. “World War Three, do you think, scales, there was a most revolting
We've landed in a very hot spot this Doctor?’ asked Victoria, trembling. musky odour about them and their
time. By all the signs we have come “Interstellar War ety-Nine,” huge eyes were lidless and the violet
out into the No Mans’ Land of a grinned Dr. Who, “if appearances pupils stared in at the four beings they
great interstellar war and the sooner are anything to go by. But still it’s had captured.
we get back inside and make our- familiar enough. This is a space-ship The Doctor wiped his forehead
selves scarce the better it will be. and we are now in a very large air- and gripped Jamie’s arm. The lad
Inside again, children!” lock. We have been captured by one was shivering from head to foot.
But he was too late. A narrow side in a tremendous war between “Chin up, Jamie, and you, Victoria,”
violet beam had lanced down over Star systems, or perhaps even a he muttered. “As representatives of
them, Tardis and all; and they galactic war.” mankind we must put a good face
were lifted bodily through the air. Jamie whistled through his clatter- on this. These things look reptilian;
The sky was filled with criss-crossing ing teeth. “You take it calmly, they are Saurians, like the ancient
rays of various colours. They could Doctor,” he said witheringly. “I’m Earth dinosaurs. They are obviously
see space-ships too, but what ships scared stiff, I can tell you. So’s extremely intelligent, as witness their
they were! Vast globes spitting fire Victoria.” ship.” He stepped forward suddenly
and mile-long projectiles spewing “Whatis there to be frightened
of?” with outstretched arms.

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 “We are from the Planet Earth four. “Already the news has been once. This is out of our hands.
he began and even he was flashed round the fleet. Any attempt Where is he now?”
urprised at theeffect his simple words to escape made by any one of you “He is in the Hatchery,”’ was the
had on them. All four of the creatures and you will all be frozen again.” reply, “The next batch are to break
leaped back with a rattling of dry Dr. Who thought that statement the shell today. They are all cosmic-
seales and four taloned paws drew strange. Why frozen and not slain? ray technicians this time. That last
strange-looking hand-weapons from The strange weapons wielded by battle against the Orion Fleet obli-
pouches round their middles. these enormous lizards looked deadly terated many of that caste.”
“Halt at once! Stay where you enough. Why was there no word of Dr. Who felt he must be dreaming
are!” was the command rapped at killing? For a race engaged in a as they were dragged along the steel
them from the gaping, tusked jaws space-war of such evident frightful- corridors of the huge ship. They
one of them. The four conferred ness as they had seen, this looked passed many creatures like the four
together and then they advanced in mewhat odd. and all were busy at mysterious
a body. Victoria screamed as the “The Supreme Lizard!” he said tasks about the great ship. That it
scaly paws ran over her and Jamie loftily. “And who, pray, is this was a fighting space-ship was obvious
struggled fiercely. Only the Doctor creature? We have small lizards on enough, but presently the spare steel
stood firm with an air of dignity he Earth——* walls, floors, and ceilings ve way to
s very far from feeling. g ‘ain that dread word,”’ hissed softer-coloured surroundings and the
“We will take you four spies to the one of them, ‘Come, we must haste, Doctor knew they were approaching
Supreme Lizard,” said one of the the Lord Haxtl must see them at the quarters of the one named as the
Supreme Lizard. Cosmic raysindeed! ‘The Lord Haxtl, Supreme Lizard, blue eggs in racks and with Saurians
That was something new. If these when they saw him, was a breath- attending them.
creatures commanded a method of taker. The four guards were big “What is the meaning of this
harnessing these mysterious emana- enough, about eight feet in height, intrusion?” the creature demanded
tions to warlike purposes, then surely but this being, obviously the admiral, haughtily. “Am I to be bothered by
they must be Lords of the Galaxy, captain, or commander of this giving audience to every insignificant
with none able to withstand them. enormous fighting ship, overtopped animal we take in our triumphant
The source of cosmic rays on Earth, his four underlings by at least two conquest of the Galaxy?” His words
coming from every part of the feet. He was slithering across his stopped and his large eyes devoured
galaxy, had never been determined. throne-room from a side door, the three humans and the Tardis. He
Was he now in prospect of making through which Dr. Who caught a hissed a command and four spouts in
the discovery . . . too late? glimpse of hundreds of rows of large the four upper corners of the great
room shot out beams of energy and
once again the three found them-
selves held rigid in the force-field.
“This is getting monotonous, Doc-
tor,” growled Jamie, and Victoria
looked miserably and longingly at
the others, separated from them only
by a foot or so but for all that she
could do to bridge the distance, it
might have been millions of miles.
“These are arth-creatures
hissed Lord Haxtl. ‘“They are speci-
mens of the legendary race called
Men. Why was I not informed at
once, imbeciles? Am I to be served
always by Saurians with the intellects
of the newly hatched? Where did you
capture these prizes?”
“Highness,” hissed one of the four,
“they appeared on the surface of the
planet we have just destroyed, they
and their robot. We took them
aboard and brought them to Your
Supremacy at once. Lord, they are
from Earth!”
“Fools! Idiots!” hissed Haxtl. He
lurched towards the prisoners and
his great liquid eyes peered into the
eyes of Dr. Who. “‘Doubtless your
frightful weapons of destruction are
in your robot, eh?”
“We have no weapons,” said the
Doctor with dignity. “We are,
indeed, as we told your soldiers, from
the planet Earth. We are- ;
“You are spies!”’ hissed the Sup-
reme Lizard. “And you will be
specimens in my laboratory. In all
the long years in which the war has
been waged throughout the Galaxy,
never before have we Saurians ever
been able to take an Earth prisoner.
You Earthmen, like your accursed
planet itself, seem to have the power
of invisibilit and invincibility.
When your three bodies have yielded
up their secrets to my surgeons and
psychiatrists, we will know all about
 you mysterious things called Men. for a moment to ravage and destroy,
You will not be questioned, but as it then cowers back again into cowardly
seems obvious that you three at invisibility. When we Saurians from
-least do not possess this cursed art our Empire at the Centre started
of invisibility, we shall dissect your launching our deadly weapon, the
frames, still living, to find if we can cosmic ray, we encountered no
discover the secret of your invinci- resistance worth the name until
bility.” Earth suddenly struck back, For
Dr. Who, from the corner of his many thousands of years our cosmic
eye, saw that Victoria had fainted ray batteries at the Galactic Centre
and was being held upright only by had been raying out the deadly
the force-beam. The poor child had beams to soften up the decadent
had all she could take and the last races scattered throughout the Gal-
words of this monster had toppled her axy for our ultimate easy conquest.
senses. The secret of invisibility, developed
“We have been absent from our by Earth and never by us, foils us
Solar System for many centuries,” always so that for centuries now all
he said angrily to the Lord Haxtl. our resources have been spent fruit-
“We have not seen Earth for thou- lessly in warding off the lightning
sands of years. We don’t know what attacks by Earth, darting in and out
you're talking about. We demand of its invisibility screen. And all we
desire is to unite the Galaxy in peace
Nonsense, fool, you demand under our benevolent rule.”
nothing,” hissed Haxtl. “Your words “You hear that, Jamie?” whispered
make no sense. We Saurians from the the Doctor. ““We must be many
Galactic Centre do not fear you thousands of years into the future
fanatical Earthmen except for one from our time. Earth itself, steered
thing, your accursed science of by scientists, is the world-space-ship
invisibility. The pirate planet Earth which is holding out against the
roves the Galaxy invisible, appears filthy monsters. Lords of the Galaxy!
 Pah! It is the Planet Earth and its peace-loving Saurians are being
men which is Lord. We're getting prevented from taking over the
out of here, Jamie fast. Interstellar Galaxy only by these cowardly
war is no place for peaceful wanderers Earthmen, I will help you.”
like us. Now, whatever I say, don’t “Doctor, Doctor,” bawled Jamie.
protest. I have my own reasons for “You can’t do it! You dirty traitor,
everything I say.” He turned to the you can’t let these slimy slugs——”.
towering Supreme Lizard. But Dr. Who did not heed him.
“I can give you the secret of He felt the force-beam release them
invisibility,” he said loudly. “If you and he took a step forward. The
dissect our living bodies, we will die. Lord Haxtl stared at him with eager
You must know that from your long eyes. One half
ofhis strange reptilian
encounters with our race. Now, I nature scorned the Doctor's words
owe no loyalty to Earth. I last saw but the other half longed to find out
it many centuries ago and if you the secret which would make hi:
truly the Lords of the Galaxy.
robot holds the secret,’ said the
Doctor loudly. ‘“You must allow we
three Earthmen to operate our
robot and it will give to you the great
secret you want so much,”
A struggle went on in the great
reptile’s mind, then the Doctor saw
Jamie break free and clutch the
fainting Victoria. All three moved
resolutely towards the Tardis and
with a steady hand he inserted his
electronic key. They would get
away with this only by forthright
human audacity. The door opened.
Trying not to hurry he led the way
inside, feeling all those huge glitter-
ing reptilian eyes on them. The door
closed and he whirled into furious
action, “We'll give’em ‘secret of
invisibility’, children,” he howled.
“Dissect us alive, would they, those
vast earthworms? Get busy
His fingers flew over the controls
and the sound of the marvellous and
mysterious engines rose above the
limit of audibility. In the vision-
plates the throne-room of the Lord
Li Haxtl, Supreme Lizard and would-
9 be conqueror of the Milky Way,
disappeared and the grey nothing-
ness of Non-Space was outside.
“But what about Earth, Doctor?”
yelled Jamie above the whine. “It’s
like leaving Earth at the mercy of
those filthy slugs out there.””
“You must be deaf, Jamie,”
grinned the Doctor. “It is Earth that
s Lord of the Galaxy, not our
intelligent lizards out there. I don’t
think we need to worry about
Earth and its people up in that
tremendous future. We can safely
assume that they can look after
themselves very well indeed.”
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 HE people parading by outside
Tardis were obviously not
human. Humanoid, yes, and ina way
remarkably similar to human beings.
But they were huge and heavily
muscled and with the finely cut
features of the ancient Greeks. Their
eyes had a distinctly Asiatic slant and
were much larger than earthly eyes.
“T say, what a handsome bunch!”
commented Victoria, edging closer
to the vision screen. “They look like
a lot of film-stars. . . And yet ae
She broke off uncertainly.
“There’s something—a bit unreal.

Jamie, her young friend and

travelling companion, nodded agree-
ment. “I know what you mean. They
seem to be marching hard—and
yet they don’t seem to be getting
anywhere. . . . Besides, where can
they be heading for? Is this some
desert we've landed in, Doctor?”
Dr. Who did not reply at once. He
was bent over the control-board
of his amazing Time and Space
vehicle which, from the outside,
resembled a police-boy
“Something wrong?” asked Vic-
toria, her attention drawn momen-
tarily from the vision screen.
The scientist straightened up and
ran a hand thoughtfully through his
short brown hair. “Hm! . . . This is
most puzzling!” he mused.
Jamie frowned impatiently.
“What is?” he demanded. ‘“‘Is it that

PHANTO
detector of yours? Is it on the blink
again!”
Dr. Who turned on him with a
look of distaste. “My boy, I have
told you before how much I dis-
approve of those uncouth expressions
you brought from Earth. . . .I pre-
sume that by ‘on the blink’ you are
implying that my detector is not his arm. “He’s not doing it to annoy It stood out against the deep
functioning? Correct?” you, Jamie... . Not really! It helps purple sky just like any other cloud,
“Yes... . Well, is it or isn’t it?” him to concentrate when he plays his only it lay close to the ground and it
persisted Jamie. pipe.” stretched away from their craft like a
But the only answer he got was a Jamie looked sulky. “He could great, white wall.
few light-hearted trills on the music- answer my question, couldn’t he? The music behind them stopped.
pipe which the scientist had picked nat detector device is his pet “A cloud!” rapped Dr. Who. He
up from his work-desk. invention, and it is supposed to tell sprang to the side of his young com-
Jamie went red in the face and us, without leaving Tardis, what kind panions and stared at the glowing
turned quickly back to watch the of world we’ve landed in, and what screen. “But that’s impossible in this
marching column of men, “Silly the natives are like.” atmosphere. It must be a mirage.”
old. ” he began to mutter under Victoria was staring at the screen “Does that mean we shan’t be able
his breath. again. “Look!” she blurted. “Where to go outside in this atmosphere?”
Victoria came close and squeezed did that cloud come from?” asked Victoria, a trifle anxiously. “I

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 some distance away, and seemed to
be directly in the path of the march-
ing beings.
“Doctor! Look! I’m sure the cloud
is growing!” gasped Victoria.
“Amazing!” murmured the
scientist. “We must get a closer look
to see if there are any fissures or
cracks in the desert floor.”
“You mean the cloud might be
formed by vapours rising from
beneath the planet’s crust, eh?” said
Jamie.
“Exactly,” came the answer.
“Come and help me to get the
Floater out of the Tardis store-room.
I intend to sail into the cloud and
collect a sample for analysis.”
The Floater was another of the
Doctor's inventions. It was a portable
craft designed for exploring. Folded
into a small leather valise, it could be
inflated at the touch ofa button and
became an airborne craft, propelled
by jets.
When the Floater was inflated,
they climbed aboard.
Dr, Who took the controls, and
they rose smoothly into the air and
sped towards the cloud. Below, the
dry sands were whipped up by the
pulsating jets.
“Tve got my camera!” said Jamie
to Victoria as they peered around
through the transparent canopy. “I
want pictures of those marching
soldiers—or whatever they are.”
Perhaps he was overheard by Dr.
Who, for the scientist brought the
Floater down low as they drew
abreast of the marching column.
Now they could see that the
strangers were giants—something
like eight feet tall, Jamie figured.
Their stride was enormous. They
were magnificent, towering speci-
sss really looking forward to getting Tardis. They stood staring about mens.
eetside and stretching my legs a them. “Male, probably!” said the Doctor
bee” “Well, your Cloud Seven doesn’t aloud, “But I can’t be certain.”
Dr. Who stuffed his pipe into his seem to offer much in the way of Each was clad in a sort of tunic
pocket and reached for his shapeless variety of scenery!” commented and harness which left most of his
tall hat. “Of course we can go out, Jamie. chest bare, and all of them supported
wy child. . . . The instruments show It was true enough. The space- objects suspiciously like weapons
that it’s quite safe to explore this craft had landed on the edge of a across their massive shoulders. Their
planet—whatever its name is.” great plain. It was composed of dark brown skins glistened with
Victoria clapped her hands gently undulating hills that resembled perspiration, They marched steadily
excitedly. “I shall call it Cloud dunes more than anything else. The ahead with their eyes fixed on an
Seven—because that’s my lucky landscape gave more the appearance unseen objective far in the distance.
sumber,” she laughed. ofa gently rolling sea. “Why don’t they see us?” Jamie
Dr. Who led the way outside The cloud was still there. It lay asked.

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 “Perhaps they can’t!” suggested ‘We come in peace!” Then he remembered his camera,
Victoria. But the staring eyes of the giant He could see the scientist was quite
Dr. Who touched a switch and the beings did not focus. They seemed to unharmed by his experience, so he
Floater began to descend to the plain stare right through the Doctor and turned and ran after the column.
ahead ofthe column, Jamie. The grim lines of marching figures
“Yes, it’s possible they are blind,” “Great guns! They'll march streamed inexorably past the
he agreed, “In any case I intend to straight over us if we stay here!” Floater. He could see poor Victoria
try and communicate with them.” exclaimed the boy. “Quick, Doctor!” shrinking away in terror inside the
When the Floater touched down, But the scientist seemed to be craft, ...
he spoke over his shoulder: “I sug- rooted by curiosity. He did not Jamie ran beside the marchers
gest that you both stay here until I budge. Jamie dived from under the with his camera clicking. He cap-
have established some sort of com- marching feet. . . . tured the extremes of expressions
munication,” he said. He scrambled to his feet and stared amongst the marching men. He saw
But as he climbed to the ground, in horror-at a sight which made him grief and fear, triumph and disaster,
Jamie came scrambling after him. doubt the evidence of his own anger and determination, hatred and
“You're not leaving me behind! I tyes ns remorse, all mirrored in the enor-
want some pictures!” he said, For Dr. Who still stood there— mous eyes ofthe aliens.
They stood in the path of the while the marchers passed through Suddenly he stopped running. He
marching column. Dr. Who raised him like an army ofghosts! stood frozen with fear at what
his hat and cried out: “Greetings! “They must be ghosts!” gasped happened next. For the head of the
We are travellers. . . . Jamie. column had reached the cloud,
which had become transparent, like
an enormous crystal ball, clouded at
the edges. And as the marchers
entered the cloud they vanished.
Jamie found Dr. Who standing
beside him.
“Astounding!” murmured the
scientist. “It is indeed some kind of
mirage—but not within my experi-
CHCE Fase
He broke off asJamie grabbed his
arm. He was pointing a trembling
finger at the last of the column
marching into the cloud. “Look!
Am I going crazy, or is that a city?”
What they could see was enough
to make them doubt the evidence of
their own eyes. ... It was like looking
into a gigantic crystal-ball. Tall
turrets and gleaming towers of weird
design now filled the cloud.
Dr. Who’s voice was husky with
wonder as he replied: “It’s amazing
. I believe the cloud must be some
sort of displacement from a period
of history that happened long ago on
this planet, .. .”
Jamie was staring at him. “You
mean—something like an echo?” he
asked.
The older man nodded quickly.
“That's it! An echo of some cosmic
events across the corridors of Time
to this moment now. . . . And like all
echoes, it will ultimately fade. . . .”
He broke off as Jamie turned away
towards the cloud. “Where are you
going, boy?” he called.
“To get a closer look at that city
Geside the cloud!” said Jamie over
his shoulder. “If it’s due to fade, I
want to get a few pictures with my
camera.”
The Doctor moved hastily after
him. “No! Come back, Jamie! You
ont realise the dangers! Come
back!”
But the other took no notice. He
Strode resolutely forward. The Doc-
tor and Victoria saw him enter the
Ginges of the white mass—then he
was gone!

As for Jamie, he wandered about

Seside the fringes of the cloud for a
Sw moments like a fish in an
@quarium. Only faintly could he see
the outline of the mirage-city. All
@round him there was a glow. It
Shone like an incandescent bulb, . . .
Then for the first time he felt fear.
There was a whisper around him. It
ose to a terrifying screech. A great
Geht swept towards him... .
Jamie shouted. The sound was
“aught and twisted by the forces
whipping wildly about him.
He toppled and fell into a howling
gt of sonic madness. Everything
went dark as his senses slipped away.
His awakening was sudden and
Seriling. One moment he was float-
Sg in an echoing nothingness, and
he next he had his eyes open and curiosity but without fear as he rose “Now, see here! I don’t know
Saw that he was lying on a ledge of to his feet. Jamie felt his own exactly how I got here, but it had
Sone surrounded by the giant beings courage ebb as he looked up into the something to do with a sort of
be had followed into the sonic cloud. fierce brown face of the giant who cloud. . . . It was some sort of echo
The voice of one reached him: it had sent for Ziita. from your Time—this time. . . .”
Pebled deep like thunder. “He “T_T seem to have lost my way in Ziita’s helmet flashed as he
wakes! Go and tell Ziita that the Time!” began Jamie. That sounded lowered his head in a deep bow.
en, who fell from nowhere, is so fantastic that he was silent again. “You were sent from Otinogg, the
Gomscious....” The giant’s only reaction was to God of War!” he rumbled. “The
Jamie struggled upright. He stared lean down and lay a massive finger prophecy says that a small creature
@t the circle of solemn faces. These on the side of his cheek, “White with white skin and strange talk will
Seoked like the men he had photo- skin!” he rumbled, be sent. He will lead us into battle
@rephed. They leaned on their “Er—yes. . .. You see, I’m from a against the Scythias. .. .””
Weapons a little wearily, and Jamie different planet and a different Age,” Jamie felt panic clutch at his
Geticed that some were wounded. said Jamie. insides. He tgok a grip of himselfand
As far as he could see they were in There was a sudden stir among the answered: “You expect me to lead
Ge ruins of some building that giants. A tall figure in a glistening you into battle? Sorry, friend! But
@eght have been a temple, to judge helmet strode through their ranks. I’m not the warlike sort. ... Your
@om the vast archways and pon- “Hail, Ziita!’” thundered the prophet must be talking about some-
erous marble steps. greeting. one else—not me!”
Then Jamie became aware of a The leader was an arresting His words seemed to have no effect
Geckeround of noise—the rumbling, figure, with burning eyes and a scar upon Ziita. The leader waved an
whining, and earth-shaking back- that zigzagged his lantern jaw. He imperious hand to his followers.
round that could only denote a stood staring until Jamie could bear “Sound the attack! . . . Two of you
Gettle in full fury. it no longer and felt his hot blood escort the strange one to march
The giants watched him with mounting into flushed cheeks, . . . ahead of our battalions. . . . At the

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sight of him the Scythias will turn Jamie came to his feet with a stopped dead. His stomach heaved
and flee—for they, too, know the bound. He made for a gaping hole with revulsion. . . .
prophecy. . . .”” in the wall and scrambled through. The Scythias were like monstrous
Jamie had been quickly eyeing his He began running fast across the slugs. Their obscene, bulbous bodies,
chances of escape. He wassurtounded flat, featureless ground. He saw the protected by some transparent
by the warlike giants—but one of giants coming after him from the armour, writhed as they wriggled
them stood with his legs apart. Like ruin. towards him at an astonishing rate.
a flash Jamie dived through those He knew where he was now. He Then he spotted their weapons,
straddled legs. recognised the flat expanse before and he guessed that it was not him-
The giants were slow in their him as the plain on which the Tardis self they were interested in, but the
reaction. Before they had rumbled a had landed, and where he had seen giants.
cry of alarm and turned to pursue, the cloud. “Great guns! I’m right in the line
Jamie had reached the cover of a He had no idea where he was of fire when the two sides open up on
carved pillar. As he flung himself heading for. He knew that only each other!” gasped Jamie.
behind it, one of the soldiers levelled desert lay before him on this dying A depression in the ground—some
his strange-looking weapon. . . . planet. But a vague hope that Dr. sort of shell-hole—opened up merci-
Xrr-rr-owee! A splutter of sparks Who might find some way to bridge fully at his feet. He flung himself
left the muzzle. Jamie felt the heat of the Time gap spurred him on. forward and rolled down the slope.
a blistering ray singe the back of his The giants were gaining on him. Behind him the weapons sang
neck. He glanced up to see a He could hear the thunder of their their hissing, sizzling songs of death
smouldering ridge gouged in the feet behind. Then a rumbling cry as the battle began.
solid rock. from behind warned him of a new Jamie lay flat, panting hard. Then
Then came Ziita’s angry voice: danger. . . . “The Scythias!” he scrambled up with a gasp. . . .
“No! Do not harm him! Take him They must have risen from some Five feet away something nebulous
hidden entrenchment, for they were was beginning to materialise. Some-
only fifty yards in front when he thing white . . . misty. . . . It crept
spotted them. . . . out of the ground, or so it seemed,
Horror gripped him anew. He and it swelled into something he
recognised. .. .
“The cloud!”
The next moment a familiar figure
stepped from the edges of the cloud.
“Dr, Who!” yelled Jamie, spring-
ing forward.
The scientist grabbed his hand.
“Quick, my boy! Into the cloud!
Hold my hand and don’t let go!””
Jamie obeyed. He plunged into
the white mass, and felt his head
spin with the ringing of the sonic
changes. ...
For a moment he lost conscious-
ness, When he sat up again, he was
aware of the silence. He stared
around.
Dr. Who stood near by, calmly
playing his pipe... .
And of the cloud there was no

. » . Was it some sort of

dream?” asked Jamie weakly.
“No, it wasn’t!” said Dr. Who
crossly. “You had a very dangerous
experience—and you're lucky I was
able to snatch you back! Next time
perhaps you'll listen to me when I
give you a warning..../
And now
let’s get back to the Floater. Poor
Victoria must be quite worried
about us.”
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 OW Dr. Who was as downcast
and dejected as ever Victoria
and Jamie had seen him. Truly he
had been toppled from the pedestal
on which he always fancied he stood
in relation to common mortals. With
his marvellous Tardisandhisuniverse-
wandering history, his ranging back-
wards and forwards through the
labyrinths of Time, he had always
been sure that his was the greatest
scientific mind of any century. Now,
at last, it seemed he had met his
masters.
That they were, all three of them,
under the influence ofheavy hypnotic
force was quite obvious. He could
tell that from the absent look in the
eyes of his fellow-travellers, Victoria
and Jamie. The Tardis stood close by,
neglected now. They had heard
their captors entering it and obviously
examining it, although they had not
seen them. Then they appeared to
have left it, as one would examine
with interest some ingenious toy of
a child, and then, losing interest,
discard it as of no consequence.
They were not alone. An enormous
corridor contained thousands, per-
haps millions of cubicles. Dr. Who
was in one, Jamie in the next and
Victoria in a third. Electrodes were
sealed to their temples and in front
of each was a round glass screen,
Every thought that passed through
their minds appeared as a fleeting
picture on the screen, and the
Doctor had a shrewd notion that the
cables from the rear of the screens
were transferring an electronic pic-
ture to some hidden recording
device. Their brains were being
picked, all their thoughts and mem-
ories and imaginings would be in
that record, for their captors to
witness, to store, and perhaps to use! It would not make an altogether ever encountered or even heard of
There was no real mystery about complete encyclopedia of Earth, but in his wanderings through Time and
the place itself. In their minds it it would go a very long way towards Space. Their hypnotic grip was as
had been shown telepathically as it. tight as steel and yet it left the mind
soon as they had emerged from the Dr. Who tried to move but found and the brain as free as air.
Tardis into the web of mind-stuff. that his whole body was rigid. Dr, Who hadn’tseen the creatures;
They were prisoners of the Masters There were no bonds of any descrip- he had merely heard low voices and
of Space and Time, and their only tion and he was staggered by the a crackling sound—both directly in
use to their jailors was to record the discovery. His mind was entirely his brain and not through his ears—
history of the times and the worlds free but he was as immovable as if as they had passed behind him.
they had come from, and the ways of he was a stone statue. The invisible He thought with despair oftheyoung-
life of all the inhabitants; the ani- beings which had captured them as sters, of Jamie and Victoria, sitting
mals, insects and plant-life, the soon as they had left the Tardis must like statues in their cubicles, their
buildings, artifacts and technology. be entities quite beyond any he had young minds pouring out all that

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was in them as their spirits writhed inhuman creatures he had come

to escape from the bondage. across in his long life gained a
There was just one way in which renewed if short rebirth in his mind
he could retaliate; he would fill his and on the screen. Then, besides the
Screen with the most bestial and things he had actually seen and
inhuman images he could conceive. experienced, he peopled the screen
He could conjure up many such with all the things with which his
images for in his long years of life wide-ranging imagination had ever
there were few corners of the uni- dealt.
verse into which he had not pene- His mind felt exhausted when he
trated, in all the ages ofthe existences ceased and the screen cleared. For
ofthe planets. that timeless moment he achieved
Deliberately he concentrated on something he had never experienced
the task. Blanking out of his mind before: his mind had been entirely
all the normal things of everyday life, without thought, a thing he had
he let his mind range for a time on always taken to be totally impossible.
mathematical formulae, on binomial Seeing the screen blank he held it
mathematics and quadratics, on for as long as was possible. The one
algebra and trigonometry. He formu- idea in his mind was of the screen
lated in his mind and saw appear on itself and inside the circle of it, a
the screen all the theorems in slightly smaller circle appeared. In-
geometry that he could remember. side that another and inside that yet
Then he switched to horrors and of another. So on and on down to the
these he could recall very many. smallest circle his eyes could detect
The most outlandish, fiendish and and then the screen exploded into a
 maelstrom of lighted colours. Impul- the voice said. “It was that other tored by some one or some thing.
sively, he attempted to move and— thing. In countless ages we have So be as careful as you can. Come,
he stood up! never before encountered a being follow me, we are being led before
The electrodes fell from his head who can think of nothing. This we our captors.”
as he left the chair and moved out must understand, for we thought we The long corridor ended at last
of the cubicle. The screen still were the only intelligent species and then a sudden sickness almost
showed the flaring of those fantastic which could still its mind. This we overcame all three of them. A great
colours, surely many of which the must know and understand for this black hole into nothingness loomed
spectrum of all the galaxies he had is new—new in an old, old universe before them. They were looking out
known did not contain. The colours which knows only continual change through the great hole into Space
moved in a myriad fantastic shapes, and nothing new. You must not fear itself. It was Space without stars,
shapes that had a symbolic meaning us. No harm will come to you. All without galaxies, as far as their eyes
and shapes which were outside of the subjects you have seen are in no could see, ultimate outer Space
mathematical Time and Space and discomfort or pain. Their physical where there could be no light, no
had no meaning in his knowledge. needs are being supplied and when sound, no being.
He stared into the cubicle where their minds have yielded to us all But in this awful gulf there was
Jamie sat and to where Victoria was that they know, they will be released light! Seven things appeared out
and then he moved towards Vic- into their own spheres again.” there at a totally indeterminable
toria. But it was as if he met a solid “Pah!"* thought Dr. Who to him- distance. Seven tiny, glinting objects,
but quite invisible barrier. He fought self. “What utter nonsense all this the shape of which they would never
to pass it, but it was of no avail. is! “Who are these beings who dare remember, if ever they did apprehend
Then stolidly he stood where he was, to do this to their fellow-creatures? it. They shone, if it could be
waiting. Something told him that Wait until I come face to face with described as shining, with a light that

en"
his captors were aware of the situ- them, I'll tell them,” surely was not the electro-magnetic
ation and were doing something “We look forward to that, Man,” radiation of the physical universe
about it. He could not resist minds whispered his mind. “We are releas- they knew.
of such titanic powers as these ing your two companions for we
entities must possess. sense the bond there is between you
“Come,” said a faint voice in his three.”*
head, a voice that came from no At these words Victoria gave a
physical throat and larynx. “Come little scream and Jamie held her up
to us, We would converse with you. to stop her from falling. The wires
The like of you we have never before fell from their heads and they
encountered.” gathered round the Doctor.
Like an automaton he moved and “Doctor, Doctor, where are we?”
passed along the great line of cubicles. clamoured the girl. “What dreadful
As he passed his hair rose on his place is this? My head’s aching so
head as he looked at the things much,”
inside the cubicles. Many were of “We're in no danger, Victoria,”
men of the type with which he was Dr. Who soothed her, and he took
familiar; others were, to his eyes, one of her hands and then one of
monsters, though in their own Jamie's.
spheres they would be normal intelli- “Make no attempt to struggle,
gent creatures. Some were encased children. You, Jamie, try and keep
in globes ofglass filled with water or your mind as blank as possible.”
other fluids, or with gases of various Jamie laughed. “That's a thing
colours. Most were animalsin various I could never do, Doctor. Nobody
shapes and forms, and some were can make their mind blank. Even
more strictly vegetable. when I’m asleep I’m dreaming all
If he had fondly imagined that the while.”
his own fantastic memories would Who looked at him with
interest or startle his jailors he had pursed lips. “Could you imagine you
been sadly mistaken, For here were were thinking of thinking? That would
to be seen creatures which even his be a start. I’ve found that I can
imagination had never even begun blank out all my personal thoughts—
to envisage. He was damp with for a very short time, admitted.
perspiration when the voice spoke That’s why we’ve been released.
again in his mind. One thing I must warn you about.
“Tt was not your total recall that Every smallest thought that passes
drew our attention to you, Man,” through your mind is being moni-
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 “You see us now,” said the voice evolved through all the ages until human voice in their heads. “We
in his mind and, from the expression we were able to discard our physical formed this place and we endowed it
on the faces of the others, he knew forms and dwell in the void without with air and water and the necessary
they were hearing his mind-talk too. form or habitation, bodiless intelli- gases and chemicals needed by the
“You see us because we have gences needing no material vehicle. inhabitants of the worlds of your
affected your retinas so that you can You see seven of us in this place here galaxy. For we havenowrealised that
see us. We have no forms and no and now. We seven are composed of we have reached the ultimate in our
physical bodies; we are composed of the joined together essences of many evolution. There is no further we
raw energy. In your universe you millions of us. The power of our can go. Countless millions of ages
name it electricity. We have another intellects is greater than you can have we dwelt in the void, content.
symbol for it but in reality it is the even imagine. We will give to your We have contemplated our own
raw, basic mind-stuff out of which tiny human minds a demonstration. excellence and power until now we
all material things—the stars, the Look with your human eyes.” grow weary ofitall. We realise that
worlds, the beings that dwell upon Then appeared something which all existence runs in gigantic circles
them—are born.” ever afterwards they would never and that we must retrace our circle
“You speak as though you were believe they had seen. A huge build- of being, back to the beginning. We
Gods,” scoffed Dr. Who scornfully. ing appeared, forming itself in the will again have forms and bodies,
“Such beings as you say you are void before them with no hands or once more we will dwell on planets of
cannot possibly exist.” tools, It vanished and a succession of suns. We will go back to the very
“Once we were much as you are familiar objects grew before their childhood of the order of being, and
now,” came the voice in his head, eyes, grew out of nothing into com- we will start again.”
taking no notice of his interjection. pletion or ed and dissolved “All this is, of course, nonsense,”
“That was a period in the remote when halfway finished. said the Doctor stoutly, speaking into
past of which you could form no “We can create matter out of the the empty void. He could almost see
conception, many, many millions of mind-stuff of the void by the power where the envelope of atmosphere
your years ago, We grew and we of our own minds,’ came the non- ended with the cold non-being of the
 mind flooded pictures of that void
and of the ages during which the
seven had ranged the void searching
for they scarcely knew what. By
chance they had found the galaxy of
matter in which Dr. Who and his
companions dwelt. These entities
were going about the task of building
a galaxy of stars and worlds where
they could again dwell in solid bodies!
That such a thought could come into
his mind of his own will was totally
impossible, of that he was sure. So—
it had been put there by these
nameless, enigmatic seven.
Gathering their specimens by
mind-power they had formed this
place in a million ways different, so
that each kind and species would be
present. The minds of the specimens
were being dredged of allimpressions
and knowledge and the seven would
then put in train the physical
processes which would at some remote
period form a galaxy of stars. And,
to cap it all, these seven beings,
composed of raw energy, called
this physical state of mind-in-matter,
the childhood of a race!
“I’m sorry for you,” stammered
Victoria. “Poor things out there, all
alone. No world to live in. No sun
and moon and stars. No animals to
care for and no flowers to worship.
How have you lived all these many
nel years?”
pe “Eh, now, what’s the game,
Doctor?” muttered Jamie. “These
things must be monsters to do all
this; to steal all these creatures from
void where these millions-in-seven but merely forgotten. We sense that millions of the worlds in the Milky
dwelt. “‘All this is, of course, a emotions spring from the material Way, just to suck their minds dry.”
nightmare and we shall wake up body, the organs, the heart and the “Hush, boy,” said the Doctor
soon in our ship and laugh at our- brain. Without those organs a being sternly. “Victoria is about to do
selves for even thinking of believing is cold and ruthless and blank. Yes, something that no human being has
in it at all.” we were right to turn backwards. ever done before. She is going to call
“T think J believe in it, Doctor,” That one of you who spoke; what is into existence a new human race,
said Victoria in a small voice. ““Those it? It is unlike the other two of you. born this time, if Iknow our Victo-
poor things out there, all alone in It is compassionate; it thinks of us ria, of compassion and pity, of love
this dead, cold emptiness. Doesn’t rather than of itself. Tell us, for we and unselfishness. It will be very
your heart yearn to help them, if we would know more of this. It may many ages before the galaxy that
can?” even be that all our work on the will be born appears and we will
Jamie began to speak hotly but screens may be valueless compared never see it. Of the beginnings of our
Dr. Who gripped him by the arm to this new thing.” own galaxy we know nothing, but
and hissed for silence. There had “Speak, Victoria,” said Dr. Who we know now that the new galaxy
been a change in the seven almost hoarsely for now he was really that will form in this corner of the
invisible lights. beginning to believe that they were universe will at least start on the
“Another new thing to us,” the in the presence of something so new right lines.”’
voice said. “Emotion! Now, that is a and so fantastic that there were “Phew, Doctor,” panted Jamie.
new thing to us, Perhaps not new almost no words to meet it. Into his “That went clean over my head.”

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 “I think it was a little over my “There are three of us here,” she “Eh, eh,” shouted Jamie irritably.
head too, Jamie,” whispered the said with a tremble in her voice. “Who's calling names?””
Doctor. “‘Let’s leave it to Victoria. “You must let us all go, we two and But Victoria was speaking out-
She’s in command now, I think.” the Doctor, who is our guide and wards again. “Have you so entirely
“We recall now those things you friend. If you keep me here alone, forgotten your own origins?” she
speak of, strange small one,” the your new universe will begin falsely. asked gently. “I am Woman and
voice was saying. “We recall but The first rule you must learn is Jamie is Man. We two are the proto-
we cannot imagine what you name as that no being ever should force types of the bricks out of which you
emotions, so long a time is itsince we another being to do or say or think will build your new cosmos,”
had organs ofliving. We would learn anything it does not want to do
ef these new emotions. We can or say or think, Start on that one Then they were back in the Tardis
fabricate stars and worlds from rule and everything will be all and the void around them was now
protons and electrons, and we can right.” quite featureless and empty.
take on forms again, the forms we “We understand,” replied the “To think of anew galaxy named
grew out of millions of ages gone. voice and already Dr. Who thought Victoria!” said Dr. Who mischiev-
Will these emotions be capable of he could detect a small warmth in ously. “Peopled with millions and
reproduction as the material sphere the voice which before had been millions of Victorias and Jamies. But
will be?” completely passionless. “We will you both look blank. I’m a foolish old
“I...1... don’t know,” stam- learn of you. But—this other small man. What nonsense am I babbling?
mered the girl. “They’ve always been one with you. Why do you hold its You know, I’ve been having the most
present in the human race. I remem- limb with your limb? It is of very astounding dreams lately. It’s high
ber reading . . . oh, there were wise much baser flesh.” time I woke up.”
men who tried to find the soul in the
brain, in the heart, in almost every
part of the body. To me there always
have been such emotions. Life with-
out them is to us quite unthinkable.
To us, on our Earth, Love is the
most powerful force of all. To us
Love is what you seem to us, the
energy that made everything go
right.”
“We have learned enough,” said
the voice. “Our recordings are
completed and we will disband this
enterprise of learning. All the sub-
jects will be returned to their own
worlds in their own times and none
will remember what has happened
here save maybe in dreams which
then they will forget. The small one
we will keep with us for she will be
a model for our new species in the
mew nebulae of stars which we will
mame Victoria, for we perceive that
is her name.”
“Come now,” said the Doctor
angrily. ‘‘You cannot do that. Vic-
teria must go with us. You cannot
keep her prisoner for ever. Her life-
span is short mn
“Let me tell them, Doctor,”
said Victoria and he could sense that
she was fighting the cold terror in
her heart at the mere idea of being
alone in this empty void with these
enigmatic creatures of energy. “I
will make them understand.” She
turned out again to the void and her
hand reached for Jamie’s.
THE UNKNOWN WORLD UNDER
THE SEAOver 70 per cent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, Yet for all we know
about the oceans they might just as well be another planet. If man has tamed the
land then he has yet to start controlling the oceans, with their savage storms
and weird sea creatures.
Remarkable though it may seem there are probably creatures in the deep of
which we know nothing. An illustration of this ignorance is the case of a fish
called the coelacanth, brought up in the net ofa fishing-boatin the Indian Ocean.
Scientists were astonished when they heard of the netting ofthis fish, which was
thought to be extinct millions of years ago.
Occasionally, gigantic inhabitants of the very deepest waters pay a visit to the
surface. The giant sea squid, a brother to the octopus, with tentacles up to
37 feet long, has been sighted in all parts of the world, and instances have been
recorded of these awesome creatures actually attacking boats. The fictional
battle with the giant squid in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was possibly based on
such an incident. In 1861 a French warship had a long battle with one of these
creatures, firing cannonball after cannonball at it until the squid was finally
killed,
Sea serpents of an estimated length of 90 feet have been sighted in many
waters, and of course we are all familiar with our own Loch Ness monster,
‘Nessie’ as it is affectionately called. This is thought to have bred in the Loch for
countless centuries, living off the hordes offish which swarm in the cold waters,
As well as monsters in the flesh, seamen have to contend with the monsters
created by the weather itself, such as a water-spout, which often occurs in
tropical waters. This is a whirling column of air and water vapour extending from
the cloud base to the ocean surface and it is extremely dangerous to any small
ship caught in its path. One was recorded in 1898 as being over 5,000 feet high.
Giant waves are another frequent hazard and, seemingly springing up for no
apparent reason, they have devoured many ships. The highest officially recorded
sea wave was measured from a U.S. warship in the Pacific in 1933; a fantastic
height of 112 feet from trough to crest. Waves set in motion by an earth tremor
on the sea bed can be even higher. In 1737, a seismic wave hit Cape Lopatka in
the U.S.S.R., standing at 210 feet, and waves caused by other earth tremors have
travelled at the amazing speed of 490 miles per hour.
Millions of dollars and roubles are being spent on the exploration of space,
yet only a fraction of these amounts are being devoted to the other world which
lies on this very planet, the unknown world under the sea.
 WHERE ON EARTH HAVE
VOU BROUGHT US THIS
TIME, DOC?

NOWHERE ON EARTH, DEAR BOY.

BUT COME, LET'S FOLLOW THAT
PATH ANB SEE WHERE /T TAKES.

| They stroll through the dense jungle and eventually come toa large
clearing

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deserted
WELL NOW WE KNOW
WHY THE PEOPLE OF THAT Eventually 'ithey-come to a large lake
VILLAGE WERE SCARED AWAY. LETS GET OUT OF,
HERE SECORE ANYMORE OF THEM COME.
 VOU ARE WELCOME, STRANGERS, WE HAVE LITTLE FOOP LEET BUT WE SHALL BE HAPPY TO
BUT HOW O10 YOU JOURNEY THROUGH J) OFFER YOU SOME. EXCUSE US IE WE SEEM CURIOUS BUT
THE WUNGLE WITHOUT BEING EATEN fa WE HAVE NOT SEEN SUCH WELL -FEO PEOPLE,
FOR SOME TIME,
BY THE KRAALS 7

A SUDDEN FANCY TO VOU.

Ay

Over a sparse meal of fruit and vegetables they learn how the
Kraals are man-eating plants which have come down from the THEY ARE DESTROYING US. WE DIE OFHUNGER
high mountains and are terrorising the people. Originally, the BECAUSE WE CANNOT GROW OUR CROPS. EVERY,
plants were smail and lived off insects but for some reason TIME WE ATTEMP? 70 TILL THE GROUND THE
they developed a liking for human flesh. They grew to huge KRAALS
APPEAR AS IfFROM NOWHERE AND
proportions and then came into the jungles in search of food ATTACKUS.THANKFULLY, THEY CANNOT
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 ‘or from the flame

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NEED 70 DEVELOP HEAT. THEY
ARE ALSO VEGETARIANS AND
Ye THEREFORE HAP NO CALL TO
MAKE MEAT MORE PALATABLE
BY COOKING (7, 1 THINK WE
HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
70 THE KRAALS.

© (WE CAN BEAT THEM, LOOK

HOW IT SHRIVELS UP IN:
THE FLAME,

The death throes of the Kraal attracts more of the horrible

creatures until scores of them are gathered at the edge of
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THIS 1S VOUR ONLY HOPE ,

MY PEOPLE ARE
BEING KIHLEC.
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the mount V] Many LEFT 7 wowLeBE
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WE HAVE RIP ONLY ONE SMALL SECTION OF

THE PLANET FROM THESE CREATURES. BUT
THE KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE GWEN TO THESE
PEOPLE WILL SPREAD TO OTHER VILLAGES
ANP SOON THE KRAALS With BE EXTINCT.
 HOW CAN WE THANK YOULNOUGH ?
WOW WEARE FREE TO PLANT OUR
CROPS WE SHALL SOON BE
STRONG ANPFIT BUT WE
MUST HAVE THE WONDERFUL (aah
SECRET OF WHO DO VOU THINK
THIS THING GAVE THE IDEATO
YOU CALL BADEN-POWELL
AT MAFEKING.

USE THIS SECRET WELL. IN THE WRONG.

HANDS IT CAN BE DANGEROUS,
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NICE QUIETFLANET NEXT,

/ WONDER IF I'VE DONE THE RIGHT THING. WHEN

EARTHMEN DISCOVERED FIRE THEY DISCVVERED
 AMIE came out of the Tardis
and, open-mouthed, stared round
him. Victoria followed him and they
both joined the Doctor, who was
standing regarding their surround-
ings quizzically.
“Well, Doctor,” snorted Jamie,
“Ye've, landed us in some queer
places, but this looks like being the
daddy of them all. What under the
sun is this place, wherever it is?
Have we landed in the Toy Depart-
ment of Harridges at Christmas? Or
maybe it’s the property room of a
theatre at pantomime time? Or
else perhaps it’s the Santa Claus’
Workshop, though it doesn’t feel
cold enough to be at the North Pole.
At least there are no monsters: z
Just then a loud snapping noise
was heard and he yelped. Victoria
held on to him tightly as, from a
large box close by, a large red serpent
leaped out, a serpent with a fright-
fully ugly face topped by a clown’s
hat. It leaped up and gave a loud
rattling “brrrr”, then fell limply
ever the edge of the box. Dr. Who
uttered a loud braying laugh at
Jamie’s dismay.
“You've hit the nail right on the
head, Jamie, my boy,” he chuckled.
“This is a toy-shop, of that there can
be no possible doubt. A little on the
formidable side, I'll admit. That
Jack-in-the-Box must be ten feet
high and its box is as big as a
garage. This is all most interesting.
I look forward to some very curious
experiments here, wherever it is.”
“Oh, look at those pretty dolls,”
cried Victoria. “But how big they
are! They must be six feet high.

TOd-SHOP
Who'd ever think of a six-foot doll?”
“Someone did,” muttered Jamie.
“Or some thing,” he added darkly.
“Children,” laughed the Doctor.
“Perhaps it's a magic toy-shop.
There’s room for magic “in an
 infinite universe, you know. I’m in There was an enormous vividly Doctor thought, as he stood on the
the mood for magic. Let’s explore coloured spinning-top, far too big strip of green paint that represented
this place. It’s a place to play in, for them to spin, and a long box of grass in front of the door.
children. Positively fascinating, upon toy soldiers, each about four feet “It’s big enough to go into,”
my word, positively fascinating. Who tall, with tin muskets and vivid red cried Victoria in delight. “Oh, can
knows what we might find. Can’t you blobs of paint on their fat cheeks. we go in? I always used to long to be
feel the sheer happiness all round? There were sets of metal erector toys, able to go into my dolls’ house when
I feel like a boy again, a boy on and as the Doctor saw at once, the I was a little girl. It used to look so
Christmas morning, eager to see sets had been used! Models stood half- cosy and homely inside there, while
what Father Christmas has brought finished on the floor! He scratched I used to feel so big and clumsy and
him.” his head. This was a fine puzzle. A awkward outside, peering in through
It seemed as though the particular toy-shop in the middle of infinite the tiny windows. Can we go inside,
“Father Christmas” who owned this Space, large cnough for a very Doctor? Oh, do say we can!”
remarkable toy-shop had provided large child, and all fresh and new, “T don’t see any harm in that,”
just about everything the heart of just as if it had been used only a smiled the Doctor, and he put out
any child—or any grown-up—could short time ago. a hand and opened the door. Jamie
desire. There was a toy railway, Victoria gave a tiny scream before and Victoria went through easily
almost big enough for the Doctor to she realised that the enormous bear but he had to stoop:a little. They
squat in the coal-tender. It had was only, after all, a cuddly teddy stood inside and looked around. They
taken the united strength ofall three bear, while Jamie was entranced by were in a living-room and in the
of them to turn the massive key a huge box containing a junior chairs were sitting life-size dolls.
which set the clockwork going and chemical outfit, with apparatus al- There was Father and Mother and
then it only went a few yards on its most large enough for a grown-up a girl and a boy. They sat immobile
track and then whirred to stillness. experimenter. But the best thing of in their chairs with those insipid
But by then their eager attention had all was the dolls’ house! Now that smiles that all dolls wear. Victoria
turned to something else. was a beauty and no mistake, the shivered a little and Jamie shifted
from one foot to the other, staring
at the toys lying around on the floor,
“All this,” he blurted out, “must
belong to someone, you know. It
gives me the heebie-jeebies to think
what sort of creature would have a
dolls’ house of this size. Suppose he—
she—or IT came back while we’re
here!”

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The Doctor made no immediate

comment. He was staring round him
and then he took a step towards the
staircase. He looked back at them.
“I’m going upstairs,” he said stead-
ily. “You two wait here for me to
come back. If there’s danger 43
Then he saw Victoria’s face and he together sternly and took a step strange sound had ceased. Then he
stopped. towards the table. But the table was heard Jamie’s voice and his heart
Upstairs there was a small landing gone and the front door of the house rose. They were safe and all right.
and a room at either side. He took looked very welcoming. He took hold It was his own imagination, that
the right-hand door and went inside. of the knob and went inside. Had he strange sound. He was in such a
What he saw rooted him to the dreamed all this or was it really curious frame of mind that he
floor. On a table stood a replica of happening? couldn’t tell whether he was dream-
the house they were now inside. As he went through the door he ing or not.
The original dolls’ house seemed, by thought he heard a strange sound, Some sixth sense told him what to
now, as big as any normal house, and dry and crackling, like something expect now and yet when it came,
this small model was a true dolls’ huge and scaly crawling along the the hair rose on his neck and he
house, As far as he could recall, it floor. The sound came from outside, stood frozen in his tracks. This time
was an exact replica. Scattered round from the room aboye where Victoria the new dolls’ house stood on the
the room were other children’s and Jamie were waiting for him. He floor of the downstairs living-room.
toys, of the correct size this time and spun round and took hold of the Here, likethe others, were dolls
not so huge and daunting. The knob. It would not move and by no sitting in chairs staring vacantly
atmosphere was dream-like and the effort could he open the door. He through painted eyes. The house
Doctor felt a wave of drowsiness put his ear to the door and listened. was again an exact replica of the
creep over him. He pulled himself He could hear nothing at first: the others—how many were there now?

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The one he went into with the thing at all to get away from that inside him also. This place radiated
children. Then one inside that and knocking. active happiness, serenity, content~
now this one. Had he missed one? Now he was in a different atmo- ment, peace—like no other spot in
This was truly fantastic and could sphere altogether. That ecstatic feel- the universe.
only be explained by a strange theory ing of true happiness returned, now The dolls’ house this time was on
he had long clung to. How was he a thousand-fold. The light was very the floor at his feet and he stood over
to prove that theory? brilliant now, and the dolls in their it and the dream deepened and his
He never gave a thought as to chairs looked even more lifelike. spirit wavered. The door came up
how he was able to walk into the That haunting impression that they and the knob seemed to insinuate
houses, even though each was inside were moving or just about to move, itself into his hand. He twisted it
the last. It happened that way and was very strong. He craved for the and the door opened. His eyes hallf-
he took it for granted. He was now courage to go over to one of the closed instinctively at the radiant
certain he was in a dream, but it figures and actually touch it. But he light that filled that tiny house in
was a pleasant, jolly sort of dream knew that never would he dare to do which he, a full-grown man, stood,
and he wasn’t anxious to wake up. that, his heart filled with wonder.
Inside this house it was subtl The light all around and inside There were no sounds here, no
different. The dolls in the chairs the house was a flood of glory and actual physical sounds that would
were there but they looked different now he heard again that strange affect his eardrums. Yet there were
this time. There was a wrongness sound like a distant mighty laughter. thought-impressions, so vague and so
about the expressions on their china Now it was like the laughing voices magical to his earthbound spirit that
faces that made him shudder. He of children playing. There were no by no chance could he interpret
could almost fancy these dolls could words, just the happy laughter, the them. This was a place of infinite
move—were alive! In fact, when he sound of pure joy. But, if creatures wonder but it was no place for him.
turned his head, he fancied that, were making the sounds, where were He felt gross and mechanical. His
from the corner of one eye, he saw they? What were they? The sounds joints seemed to creak and his flesh
one of them move. Turning his head seemed to be all round him and yet seemed to be made of some base
quickly, he decided it was his fancy.
By now, he had quite lost count of the
number of dolls’ houses inside each
other which he had penetrated.
In this house there were also
sounds, Creakings and whistlings, as
though timbers were settling, and
draughts were coming through slits
in windowsills. And, from far away
came a sound almost like a laugh.
But it was also like distant thunder,
and impulsively he turned back
towards the door to go back, But
his insatiable curiosity, that curios-
ity that had lured him round half
the cosmos in his hunger to find out,
to know, and to experience all of
infinity, stopped him. There would
be yet another dolls’ house inside this
one if his theory was correct.
The house was again in the up-
stairs room and when he came to it
he heard a sound again, not this
time the slithering sound ofscales on
the floor or the creaking and
whistling natural to a house of wood,
but a sound like knocking. It seemed
to come from all round him and
from nowhere in particular. It kept
on with insistent monotony until he
was driven half-crazy by it and when
he saw the dolls’ house this time, he
did not hesitate but plunged through
the door eagerly—anything, any-

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clayey stuff. This place was all
Light, even the tiny dolls’ house
that stood on the table round which
the dolls sat in their chairs, hovering
on the brink of life and movement.
Ifthey moved and spoke, their speech
would be that of song, he was sure
of that. All vibration in this sphere
would be song.
That house glowed like a jewel,
its brightness so great that he half-
closed his eyes. It remained small
and he towered over it, trying to
see in through the tiny windows. But yi
the light that shone out from the growing fainter and fainter as he The first house in that enigmatic
interior was quite unbearable to his plunged through door after door in toy-shop had been the focus point or
human eyes and he closed them his frantic search for reality. He fell hinge of an infinite pivot, about
completely and turned blindly to- through a door, almost exhausted, which turned the multi-dimensions
wards the door of the house by which and he heard the scaly slithering of the entire infinite cosmos. He
he had entered, away from that noise again. But it did not frighten must get back there before he died.
glittering small jewel which seemed him now. All his will and mind In the intra-dimensional flux there
to radiate all the Light in the Uni- and strength were fixed on finding was no place for flesh-and-blood men.
verse. Jamie and Victoria again, seeing He had seen no loathsome mon-
He dared not look behind and the their faces and hearing again their sters and no intellectual super-
door seemed to stick, and he put fond, familiar voices. creatures, All he had seen were
forward all his strength. An influence He had lost all reckoning of how dolls’ houses and toys. He had heard
from behind him seemed to be many of the interlocking houses he strange, but quite identifiable noises,
restraining him and, like a maniac, had gone into and from which he was and he had seen Light—yes, that
he pulled and tugged. He fell out of now escaping. In his search for the was it, the Light! It had drawn him
that house with a groan and saw in first of the dolls’ houses, in his own and he had retreated. No human
front of him another door. Through universe, he was plunging through could face that Light!
this he plunged and came on to a the multi-dimensions of Space and He was shaken and sweating now,
landing, The sounds of faraway Time, without a thought but the for random thoughts swept through
singing and laughter followed him, search for reality. his mind as he tore up and down the
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staircases of those interlinked houses. He burst out through an open “Doctor, Doctor!” she cried. “You
When he found the children they door on to a green-painted floor and look frightful. Wherever have you
might be old, ancient and not remem- he stared round him wildly, He saw been and what has happened?
bering him at all. They might be the toy train on its track where the You're ill! When you didn’t come
dead and gone for ever. They might clockwork had given out. He saw the back we were a bit worried, but when
still be waiting to be born. If he was great grotesque head of the Jack-in- you didn’t call we thought you were
truly in an intra-dimensional flux, the-Box lolling over the edge of its all right and we came out of that
heaven alone knew at what point in box. But he saw no Jamie and no funny house and left the door open
Space and at what moment in Time, Victoria! Yet this was the starting for you. What happened?”
he would emerge, if indeed he did point in that strange unearthly “Nothing has happened, child,”
emerge. journey down through the dimen- he muttered thickly. “Nothing, and
His mind was numb and wretched. sions. Or had it been up through the yet again, maybe everything has
He was torn into two creatures. One dimensions? When you thought of happened.” He peered into their
of them yearned to go back and multi-dimensions, relative space had faces and he touched their cheeks
wander through the multi-dimensions no longer a meaning. and their hands and glorified in
to see what wonders lay invisible and He was sobbing miserably when their warmth. Gradually, peace re-
unheard all around him. But Fear, he heard the sound of music. They turned to him, and without looking
raw, naked Fear, swept him back to were playing with a toy dulcimer and back at the door from which he had
see and hear and feel the comforts Jamie had the hammer raised to hit emerged, he led them back to the
of the known and the familiar world. the note. The Doctor fell into Tardis, which stood there as solid and
His strong spirit was not strong Victoria's arms and she looked at substantial as ever despite its millions
enough for that ineffable Light. him amazed. of miles of journeys and its millions
== of years of relative life. They went
al tA!
I inside and the door closed.
The Doctor slept for hours and not
a dream disturbed him. That strange
and utterly unearthly place where
the dimensions had overlapped, at
last, ceased to trouble him. But it left
behind a tiny, nebulous regret that
he could never afterwards under-
stand. Eden is lost every moment of
our lives.
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Aurora: the rosy tint in the sky before the sun rises.

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Cosmic rays: radiations of great penetrating power, coming to Earth from outer
space,

G-force: a force an ascending rocket exerts on its crew, many times the force
of gravity.

lonosphere: layer of ionised molecules in the upper atmosphere.

Milky Way: a galaxy which shines with the light of innumerable stars.

Retro-rocket: a rocket used to brake the descent of a space-craft as it lands on a

planet.

Stratosphere: upper part of atmosphere, six miles or more above Earth.

Space-walk: a trip into space outside a space-craft, wearing a pressurised suit.

Sputnik: name Soviets give to orbiting satellites.

Splash-down: the drop into the sea for a space-craft and its occupants.

Troposphere: lower layer of atmosphere below stratosphere.

Universe: all galaxies are part of the universe, which is immeasurable. Scien-
tists cannot estimate its size.

Van Allen belt: a layer of radiation circling the Earth many miles up.
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“\OCTOR! What's happening!
Why are we swaying?” cried
Victoria.
Tardis was in trouble. For the
smooth motion of flight by which the
ship transferred its loose pattern of
protons and electrons through the
inter-dimensional flux had suddenly
given way to an unpleasant pitching
motion.
“Hold on to the rails!” rapped Dr.
Who. “I'll switch on the sight-
screen.”*
The screen glowed with light.
Then they could see that Tardis had
materialised upon the huge, broad
back of some giant creature, Its neck
rose upward like a pitted column of
green rock, and the great flanks were
gnarled and ridged.
“We've landed on the back of a
dinosaur!” gasped Jamie. “Just look
at its armour-plated skin.”
“Never mind admiring it,” said
Victoria anxiously. “Get us off
before the monster dashes us to
pieces!”
Dr. Who gave her a whimsical
look. “I suppose you're right,” he
he agreed. “‘But it’s a shame to leave.
According to my reckoning we have
materialised on one of the minor
planets in the deep galactic environs,
and I have been looking forward to
visiting here for a long time.”
Tardis was now shaking violently.
Something was obviously about to
happen. Perhaps the monster was
about to rise up. . . or roll over. . . .
“Quick!” screamed Victoria,
hanging on to the guard-rail des-
perately. “Throw the switches!”
The polished floor had already
begun to tilt. Dr. Who made a
valiant effort to reach the controls,
but he had left it too late. The time-
space craft was already tilting too
steeply for him to regain the panel of
gleaming switches, flickering dials
and pulsing lights.
“Look out!” yelled Jamie. “We're
going over!”
With a sickening lurch Tardis top-
pled from its fantastic perch. Merci-
fully for the three occupants it did
not plunge sheer to the ground, but
rolled down the armour-plated
flanks. . . .
They fetched-up with a jarring
crash upon the ground . . . or was it
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solid ground? For, even as they “It's—it’s some kind of sea Victoria stared at him. “A
struggled to regain their feet, the monster!” exclaimed Victoria. “‘Isn’t dragon!” she whispered.
trio could sense a movement—slower it, Doctor?” Her eyes returned to the screen.
and more sluggish than the pitching Dr. Who was bending over the She was in time to see the great
on the creature’s back, but quite screen, peering closely at the monster. green bulk of the monster slide away
noticeable. “Ah yes... Now I remember . . . out of sight.
They were relieved to find the This is Reptileanus Hesperides from “Good grief!” exclaimed Jamie.
ship in an upright position. A quick the Ozilean Era. .. .” “Did you see that? Where did it go
check showed that there seemed to Jamie blew out his cheeks in nto the ground?”
be no major damage, merely some exasperation: “Oh, spare us the “Into thesea!” retorted the Doctor.
minor breakages. Latin names, will you, Doctor?” he “We appear to be on an ice-floe of
“Amazing!” remarked Dr. Who. begged. “Is it a sea monster or not?” some kind.”
“But then, of course, I constructed His companion gave him a cold His long, slender fingers moved
the Tardis of materials that were look. “It may loosely be called a sea about the dials and another picture
intended to take shocks such as this.” monster, I suppose. Although more swam into view on the screen. It
Jamie was staring at one of the truly it is evolved from the dragons showed their position in long shot,
vision-screens. “Great ghosts!” he that once rampaged this planet.” and now it was plain that the Tardis
gasped. “Will you look at what we
had landed on?”
Now they could see the entire bulk
of the monster, The fifty-foot body
was grotesque and bulbous, thick
but sinuous and clad in overlapping
scales that were coated with a green
slime.
was adrift in some kind of ice-pack up in time to see Jamie kneeling on the air, The others followed. Side by
that stretched away to a distant blue the edge of their floating island, and side they sped towards the land.
line of land. about to dip his hands into the sea. As they approached, a flicker of
“Is it safe to go outside and look “Stop!” yelled Dr. Who. He orange light drew their attention. It
around, Doc?” queried Jamie. jumped to his feet and hurried to the seemed to come from behind a ring
Dr. Who frowned at the boy’s side of the startled boy. ‘‘You must of balsitic rocks which rose like
familiar tone. He showed his annoy- never take risks on an unknown jagged fangs from a rolling plain of
ance by picking up his music-pipe planet!” he chided. grass.
and trilling a whimsical tune as he “What do you mean?” asked Dr. Who changed direction and
wandered away from the controls. Jamie, colouring. “It’s only water.” adjusted his belt so that he soared
“Now you've annoyed him,” “How do you know?” frowned the high to clear the peaks, The others
whispered Victoria. scientist. “I can recall other liquids followed suit... .
Jamie shrugged. “He’s very on other worlds I have visited where Now they could hear a din that
touchy!” he grumbled. “Well, as far there have been seas of acid, seas of grew louder as they approached.
as I can tell from these instruments liquid gases even.” “Tt sounds like trumpets,” shouted
of his, it should be okay to step out- Jamie rose hurriedly to his feet. Victoria.
side. . . . Stand by! I’m going to open “Sorry!” he muttered. “And cymbals,” added Jamie.
the doors.” Dr, Who took a test-tube from his The Doctor had checked in his
He did so, and Victoria watched pocket. He took a specimen of flight and was hovering. He pointed
him step jauntily through the great the liquid and tested it. Then he downward with an exclamation:
doors... . nodded, satisfied: “Just as I thought! “Great galaxies! It’s a dragon fight!”
‘The first breath he took in left him This has a high acidic content. . An incredible scene lay below
gagging and gasping like a fish out Only Reptileanus Hesperides with them. In a vast amphitheatre, ringed
of water. He leaned weakly against its scaly body could survive in by the jagged peaks, were thousands
the great door of the Tardis, his lungs this sea.” of black, mantis-like creatures wear-
dragging up the breath like a man “Then how can we get to the land ing multi-coloured cloaks. They
in a vacuum. Then, with a titanic . if it is land,” said Victoria, were watching a group of soldiers
struggle, he managed to stagger back pointing to the distant blue line. deployed around the arena below,
into the ship. Victoria caught him by The Doctor was already turning intent on killing one of the huge
the arm and helped him to a chair. back to the Tardis. “Simple, my dragons like the one that the Tardis
The great doors slid shut behind him, child,” he said. “We shall put on had landed on.
and they glanced round to see their contra-gravity belts. . . . We can fly Unnoticed, Dr. Who and his
companion back at the controls. to land.” young companions dropped lower
“Very foolish, my boy!” sighed A few moments later they stood to watch the contest... .
Dr. Who. “If you had checked the outside the ship again, wearing the The soldiers were remarkably like
density gradation reading, you would bulky belts. Dr. Who touched a birds: red-brown in colour, com-
have seen that the world outside control button and rose lightly into pletely hairless, with long necks,
those doors is not a hospitable one.” er
Before either could reply the
Doctor vanished inside one of the
store-rooms. He returned, carrying
three garments that looked like bulky
waistcodts.
“Here, put these on,” he said.
“They are the Atmospheric Density
Jackets which will make it safe for
us to venture out.”
They strapped the jackets to their
shoulders. Dr. Who reactivated the
great doors, and led the way outside.
Now they were able to breathe
normally in the air of this strange
new planet.
Victoria pointed excitedly to the
freshly made deep grooves in the
whitish calcified soil. “Look at the
marks made by that dragon,” she
said.
The Doctor bent over the marks,
measuring them carefully. He glanced
 almost .chinless lower jaws and red and scattered. The dragon plunged They were being drawn to the
crests, like roosters’ combs, on the on, bellowing. Suddenly the war- centre of the arena where an
tops of their heads. They wore heads of the missiles exploded inside instrument like a searchlight had
uniforms of » close-fitting silver the vast armoured body. Blood been hurriedly wheeled on. A ray
material which was surely metal but gushed forth in a great arched tor- from it had caught the intruders,
which moved and flowed like fabric. rent, And the dragon stretched out neutralising the effect of their contra-
Evidently the battle had reached its paws and talons, showed its huge gravity belts.
a crucial stage. At a signal from the and harrowed teeth in a scarlet ring, They landed gently on their feet.
leader, the trumpets ceased to sound, sounded its harsh death-cry; and fell At once they were seized by guards.
and the cymbals were silent. face forward on the ground.” A bird-faced officer strode forward,
The dragon seemed to crouch in The mantis-like audience rose and holding a weapon that looked like
its place at the far side of the area, waved their feelers in salute, and a a highwayman’s pistol of old. He
crest quivering. The great head droning wail of triumph rose to the wore a tunic emblazoned with an
moved a trifle, uncertainly, and the ears of the hovering trio. emblem incorporating circling
gem-like eyes rolled in their hooded “Oh, it’s horrible!” sobbed Vic- planets and birdlike crests.
sockets—blue, green and orange. . . . toria. “Let’s go away from this ‘Who are you?” The voice was
Suddenly it hissed with a force place.” like the gobbling of a turkey and
that made the eardrums tingle. The But even as she turned to fly back yet the Earth people understood it
long jaws opened, and a tongue of over the peaks, they found them- perfectly.
orange flame reached out towards selves being drawn downward by “We are travellers. . . . Our-er-
its tormentors, . . . a gentle but irresistible force. spaceship landed in the middle of
Two of the soldiers fell with a “We've been spotted!” exclaimed your sea,” began Dr. Who.
shriek of pain. Instantly the silence Jamie. “Look!” ‘The officer turned away. He raised
was shattered. The baiters trotted
left, clashing their cymbals and
howling. The dragon went for them,
head down and neck out-thrust, each
immense leg placed with care.
At the same moment a rank of
spearmen darted forward from the
right and flung their weapons. In
another instant the spears were
buried in the scaleless underside of
the rearing monster.
The dragon hissed again. A spasm
passed along the great, pierced flank,
and tiny runnels of dark blood began
to trickle from the wounds.
The great head turned from side to
side in search of the tormentors, The
cheek-nodules swelled with rage.
The wind shifted, bringing a rank,
bitter odour to the watchers in the
sky.
Flame flickering from the open
jaws sent the spear-throwers running
like birds, With one sudden, tre-
mendous movement the dragon
reared up on its hind legs and came
bounding forward upon the centre
ranks, who stood ready to launch a
volley of slender missiles from a
cross-bow type of weapon.
Wham! Wham! Wham! The deadly
barrage struck home, stitching the
now-exposed chest. The dragon
screamed and tore at the barbs. It
plunged in the direction from which
they came.
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 three prisoners were dragged towards
these and forced to look over the
parapets. The thick dark odour of
dragon caught them sharply. Vic-
toria flinched. Jamie grew pale. . . .
Below them a dragon came rush-
ing out of an enclosure. Trumpets
blared and cymbals clashed as it
came beating down the ground, But
it ignored these distractions. Its
attention was riveted on three dum-
mies fastened to stakes—dummies
that were dressed to resemble Dr.
Who, Jamie and Victoria!
Bellowing its hatred and rage, the
dragon flung itself upon the dummies,
tossing them high and low as a
terrier worries a rat.
“And that’s what happens to our
enemies!” said the Manti from
above. “Throw the leader to the
dragon first!”
Dr. Who found himself pushed
a three-toed claw and they saw a by the gold trimmings and other violently towards the pit. Victoria
midget communicator strapped to finery of his cloak. screamed and Jamie struggled. But
the bony wrist. This time when he His drone reached the prisoners as it was no use. The Doctor was
gobbled, the trio did not understand a whispering voice: “We do not wish bundled through an opening. . . .
a word. Yet when he turned back to to torture you, strangers. Will you He stood there facing the dragon,
them again they heard him say: tell the truth?” which was hissing menacingly as it
“Our masters, the Manti, do not “We have already told your looked around for a new victim.
believe your story. Do you wish to officer here that we are travellers . . . Then its gaze fell on Dr. Who. The
change it?”” strangers to this planet,” said Dr. great jaws opened, and a flicker of
“Certainly not!” retorted Dr. Who stiffly. flame sprang into the air.
Who, annoyed. “It happens to be “Yes, it’s true! We've only just “Qh, poor Dr. Who!” gasped
true. We are peaceful travellers, and landed,” put in Victoria. Jamie, struggling in his captors’
I demand: a “Our ship landed on a kind of grasp. “I never thought he’d end his
His words were cut off by a curt floating island in the bay,” added amazing travels like this. . . . But
shout of command from the officer. Jamie. wait a bit—what’s he up to?”
Sharp-toed claws seized the prisoners The Manti leader waved a negat- Victoria was staring down over the
by the arms, and they found them- ing feeler: “That is a lie! Our scout parapet. “He’s taking out his music
selves being marched out of the ships have just returned from scour- pipe,” she said. “‘He’s going to play
arena. The audience, who they ing the bay. . . . They found no it!”
realised must be the Manti, leaned spaceship! Nothing!” Jamie snorted. “‘He must be mad.
forward in their seats for a closer Dr. Who stepped forward. “But . .. This is no time for——”
look at the captives, and waved their perhaps they didn’t recognise it as a His voice trailed off as the first
feclers about excitedly, making a spaceship. It looks like—like a notes of music trilled from the pit.
droning sound that filled the air. wooden box or a hut from the out- The effect was electrifying, for the
Beyond the arena was a honey- Oe aise dragon’s head came up and cocked
comb of trenches. The road ran Rough claws pulled him back. to one side—for all the world as if it
between them and came at last to a The Manti’s drone rose a pitch was enjoying the music. Then the
steep-walled pit. Asthey approached, higher: “They found nothing! You massive head began to sway solemnly
the rank, bitter odour of dragon are Imiga pirates! Admit it!” from side to side in time to the
assailed the nostrils of the captives “I don’t know what you are talk- melody. . . .
again. ing about,” said Dr. Who. The Chief Manti leaned forward
The soldiers halted before an The Manti’s feelers waved im- and droned shrilly: “Stop him! Do
observation platform erected above periously. “‘Set up another dummy so something! He’s leading the dragon
the pit. It was covered with a plastic that they can see the fate that faces out of the pit! Sound the trumpets!
half-dome. Seated on a throne of them,” he droned. Beat the cymbals!”
glitteringcrystal was one of the There were several huge openings But the blare of the trumpets
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disturb the great creature from the mayed to find that their contra- pirates of Imiga!” he whispered over
acid sea. Enthralled by the Doctor's gravity belts no longer allowed them his shoulder. “‘No wonder the others
music, it followed him like an out to soar above ground. “Apparently couldn’t find our ship where we had
size lapdog as he made straight for they have blanketed the whole area left it. These pirates captured it and
the observation platform. . . . with a force field to stop us escaping,” brought it here. .. . But they haven’t
The soldiers had already released mused Dr. Who. been able to open it!”
their grip on Jamie and Victoria, They began to climb upwards, “That’s all very well, but how do
and were turning to flee. The officer hoping to find a path over the peaks we get them out of the way long
tried to rally them, but it was no use. and back to the shores of the acid enough to get back into the ship?”
Within a few seconds the platform sea. But half-way up they were Jamie asked.
was empty except for the travellers. exhausted. The Doctor glanced round at the
Tt was then that Dr. Who ceased “Oh, I can’t go on!” wept Vic- piles of loose boulders on the slopes
to play. He scrambled up to join his toria. “I’m not able to climb high near by. “We'll start an avalanche,”
young companions, leaving the places, anyway... .” he said. “That ought to fetch them
dragon to wander round hunting She broke off as Dr. Who raised running.”
pathetically for the trill of the music- his hand for silence. “Listen!” he It proved easier than they ex-
pipe. whispered. pected. The boulders were loose and
“Doctor, you're a marvel!” From somewhere close at hand the slope was steep. As they heaved
grinned Jamie, helping the older there came a gobbling like that of three big boulders down the slope,
man to his feet. turkeys. Cautiously they moved to- the whole mountainside seemed to
“Hm. ... Well, there’s no time to wards the sound. It came froma cave shake itself. . . .
lose,” said the other. ““We’ve got to whose mouth was cleverly screened With a tremendous rumble the
get out of here before they feed us by vegetation. avalanche gathered speed. And as
to another dragon—without music!” Crawling closer, the trio peered the pirates of Imiga came running
Moving cautiously they followed inside. out, the three fugitives dashed into
the Doctor away from the pits. “The Tardis!” gasped Victoria. the cave.
Apparently the news of adragon on The familiar blue police tele- Safe inside the Tardis, Victoria
the loose had caused a panic phone-box stood in the centre of the flopped into a chair trembling with
evacuation of the area, for the trio cave, surrounded by a band of bird- fright, while the Doctor drove home
saw not a soul to give the alarm at like creatures. They were dressed in the switches that would remove them
their escape. motley, torn uniforms and were from this strange and hostile planet.
Once outside the arena, they bristling with weapons. “How did you know your music
headed for the rocks. They were dis- Dr. Who had an inspiration. “The would distract that dragon, Doctor?”
she asked.
He frowned over his shoulder.
“Distract? Nonsense! The Rep-
tileanus Hesperides is obviously a
lover of good music! . . . It wasn’t
distracted by my playing, it was
enthralled!”
Our SoLAR SYSTEM
The sun is the nearest star to Earth, and round it revolve the nine planets
comprising the Solar System, including our Earth. Our sister-planets are
Strange and varied.

MERCURY
This is the smallest of the planets and also the
nearest to the sun. It has no atmosphere because
of its low gravity and because of its high tempera-
ture on one side and deadly cold on the other.
This comes about because Mercury rotates at the
Same speed as it circles the sun, 225 days for a
revolution, and consequently one side of the planet
‘continually faces the sun.

VENUS
This planet is the same size as Earth, but
because it is continually shrouded in cloud
little is known about it. The American space-
craft Mariner II tells us some facts about it. The
planet rotates slowly, and consequently a
Venusian day is equivalent to 225 Earth days.
Speculation as to the planet's surface ranged
from suggestions that it was a burning desert,
swept by fiery winds, to suspicions that it was
a vast ocean dotted with islands. Mariner II
tells us that the surface is, in fact, of dry
reddish soil and that there is little likelihood of
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 EARTH
This, of course, is our planet. There are many
extremes in the solar system, in heat and cold,
and in size, but itis the moderate temperature and
gravity which make life on earth possible. The
atmosphere stops intense heat and intense cold,
enables us to breathe and plants to grow, and
stops showers of meteorites striking the surface
of the planet.

MARS
This is our nearest neighbour and is about half the size of
Earth. It is known as ‘the red planet’, because it is covered
with large brown deserts and scattered heaps of rocks.
There is a polar ice-cap on Mars during its winter, and when
it melts during summer the brownish areas turn green. It is
thought that this is moss and fungi, but this is believed to
be the only form of life on the planet. Mars has two tiny
moons, not spherical but merely jagged hunks of rock.
They are Phobos, 10 miles in diameter, and Deimos 5
miles in diameter.

JUPITER
The largest of the planets, it is also the fastest
rotating, taking only ten hours to rotate once.
_ Life on Jupiter, in fact even a landing on Jupiter,
seems impossible, partly because of the par-
ticularly dense and poisonous atmosphere, partly
because of its tremendous gravitational pull and
partly because the planet is covered in ice,
thousands of miles deep. Jupiter has no less
than twelve moons, and although eight of them
are only about 100 miles in diameter, two are as
large as our moon, and two as large as Mercury.
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SATURN
This, the second largest planet in the solar
system, is also perhaps the most beautiful. It is
famous for its rings, which circle the planet like a
disc, without touching it. These rings throw vast
shadows across the planet's surface, which is
probably, like Jupiter, covered in ice. Saturn
circles the sun once every 29 years, but rotates
on its axis quickly—Saturn's day is ten hours
long. Ten moons circle Saturn; Titan, the largest,
is the size of our moon.

URANUS
Discovered by William Herschel, the German
astronomer, in 1781, Uranus glows with a strange
green light. It is 1,782 million miles away from the
sun and revolves around the sun once in eighty-
four years. Unlike the other planets, Uranus’ axis is
almost horizontal, so instead of spinning through
space like a top, it travels along its path with a
corkscrew motion. Uranus has five moons, all of
them tiny.

NEPTUNE
Studying the movements of Uranus astronomers noted
that there were certain irregularities about it. They
suspected this was due to the gravitational pull of some
other planet. Scientists calculated that there must be
another planet and telescopes eventually found Neptune,
less than a minute from where calculations had plotted it,
The icy surface of Neptune is about —200°C, and the planet
is invisible to the naked eye. It has two moons, Triton and
Nereid, and it revolves around the sun, which seems to be
no more than a small circle of light, in 165 years.

PLUTO
It was irregularities in Neptune’s path which led to the
discovery of Pluto. It is a small planet and so far from the
sun that little is known about it. We do not know, for
instance, if Pluto has any moons. The planet circles the
sun in complete darkness, and the sun appears as a bright
star, Pluto's path is very erratic, so sometimes—for example,
in 1989—it will be nearer to the sun than Neptune. These
irregularities in Pluto's path have led astronomers and
mathematicians to suspect that there may even be a
further planet, as yet undiscovered, in our Solar System. If
this is so, what mysteries will it hold, what wonders will it
possess?
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‘S HEY’RE all dead, Doctor,” out of the dead cold void in between
whispered Jamie, as the three the galaxies, The only light that has
travellers from the Tardis tiptoed shone upon it for a very long time
through the aisles of the great has been this one lone star and the
vault that looked as though it very faint light emitted by the very
had originally been intended as a distant galaxies. This is a wild
cathedral. “Will ye just look at planet, children, a runaway, rogue
them: hundreds, thousands of them, world, without a proper sun or
all dead, cold and stiff. My word, fellow-planets, It may have been on
this place fair gives me the creeps. its journey for millions of years!”
How about you, Victoria?” “Ye don’t say, Doctor,” said
“Downright spooky,” the girl Jamie with scorn. “You will talk
agreed, with a shiver. “To think of about millions of years and so on.
all these people lying here in glass How d’ye know, I’d like to know?”
cases, for who knows how long.” “Don’t bother me, Jamie,” said
“We can guess a little about the the Doctor absently. “I’m thinking.”
length of time, Victoria,” said Dr. “Well, while you're thinking,
Who, and he stood with arms folded Doctor,” grinned Jamie, ‘Victoria
and one hand stroking his chin. and I will do a bit of exploring. It
“When Tardis landed on this world looks like an altar up there. Come on,
we saw few stars in the sky except Victoria.”
that big one, which looks to be a Abstractedly, he watched them go.
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 afraid of. We are all together and
the Tardis is just outside.”
“Oh, let’s leave this awful place,”
the girl begged. ‘‘Let’s go back into
the Tardis and get away from this
dreadful place. It’s like a great
tomb!”
“These people aren’t dead,
Victoria,” said Dr. Who, with a
twinkle. “They are merely in sus-
pended animation. They’ve lain
like this for ages, waiting for us to
come along and——”
He broke off, for he had seen a
bright lever beneath the Ankh on the
altar. The lever was set against
another symbol HTP and the Doctor
knew that this was another Ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphic and that this
one signified peace or rest. The
lever lay against an arc and was
positioned at the HTP sign. At the
top of the arc was engraved the
symbol of Life, the Ankh.
A wild idea came to him and he
went closer. A faint line of grey dust
led almost up to the lever and from
it downwards to the faint outline of
what might actually be, as Jamie
had said, a human skeleton.
“T’m going to wake them up,
children,” he said cheerfully and he
stepped up to the altar.
“For the love of heaven, Doctor,”
yelled Jamie, and Victoria let out a
shrill scream.
Jamie’s hand was on his wrist but
his curious, inquiring mind presented glittering and without corrosion. it was already too late. The lever
by this very weird planet on which The symbol itself he knew. It was the had moved and pointed now to the
they had landed. It was very dark Ankh, that sign of a tall cross with a sign of Life. He stepped back,
and the great building in which they circle in place of the top post. It wasa breathing a little more quickly, and
stood seemed to be the only structure symbol once used on Earth, in they all three stood on the altar
on this continent, surrounded by the Ancient Egypt, for Life itself. The looking outwards towards the long
salt valleys which had obviously sign of Life! If this was an altar and rows of glass coffins.
ence been oceans. The creatures, if the vast building was, in truth, a The hairs were prickling on all
very manlike, who lay in the many cathedral, then these people sleeping their necks as their eyes swept over
glass cases in rows all round them, round them had been Life- the rows ofcaskets. For the lids were
were not, as Jamie had said, dead. worshippers! moving! The movement of all those
No, the Doctor felt certain that they “‘There’s a skeleton here,” said thousands of glass lids was like a
were still living, but in suspended Jamie with a gasp, and Victoria drew sparkle in that dim place. They
animation! back, her hand darting to her mouth stood motionless, Dr. Who in the
A cry from Jamie drew his to suppress a scream. “It’s just a centre and Jamie and Victoria on
attention and he strode swiftly up few lines of grey dust but you can see either side of him, and they
the aisle towards the pile of metal it’s been a skeleton. It looks as though watched with staring eyes. They saw
blocks that did somehow look like an it—that is the person who—how do the sleeping people rise in the
altar. you put it about a skeleton, Doctor?** caskets, step out and stare all round
“Look, Doctor,” said Jamie with “It’s all right, Jamie,” said the them.
excitement. ‘Look what we found.” Doctor and he put an arm round the The sound began as a murmur,
In the middle of the altar stood a shoulders of the girl. ‘“‘Now, now, grew into a louder wail and ended
tall symbol, in bluish metal, still Victoria, child, there’s nothing to be in a keening high note, and the three

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 standing under the Ankh saw that down on the metal floor and Dr. The Salonian jumped to his feet.
every member of that vast throng had Who sat down with him. The whole His face was angry. “At first we
dropped to his knees and was thing was so very unusual that he thought you were gods. Now we
wailing out what sounded very was fascinated to hear the story. He know you to be demons. If what you
suspiciously like a hymn! didn’t realise that he was alone and say is true why did you waken us?
“My goodness,” exclaimed Dr. that Victoria and Jamie had vanished Why did you not leave us to sleep
Who. “This won't do at all, you behind the altar, The girl had been in peace?”
know, These creatures think we are scared almost out of her wits when “T thought you people claimed to
gods and they are worshipping us. the caskets had opened, and she had worship the Life Principle,” said
Never do at all. My goodness, must backed fearfully round to the rear the Doctor with sarcasm. ‘Doesn't
stop this right away.” of the altar, Jamie by her side. look much like it when you skulk
He jumped down from the altar “There was a great war,” sighed away forages, sleeping your cowardly
and the other two followed him, The the man. “The greatest war of all sleep of unconsciousness. What's
result of their movements was quite time. We Salonians lived in the your problem? You have air here and
extraordinary. The ranks of the Western Hemisphere of our world, you obviously have food, for your
kneeling people were scrambling to which we called Axal, and the sleeping bodies would need air and
their feet and crowding backwards, Colonians lived in the Eastern sustenance. What made you do this
away from the altar. Hemisphere. Our star went nova thing to yourselves?”
Dr. Who halted and raised a and exploded and our world was “T told you why we did it,” said
hand. “Do not fear us,” he called hurled into outer space.” the other mournfully. “‘We had
out. ‘We are human beings, as you “Guessed that,” interjected the sinned against Life. We had destroyed
are. We found you sleeping and we Doctor. “Hardly any stars to be half of Axal and we feared the wrath
awakened you. That is all.” seen now, just the one and at a of the Life God, so we laid ourselves
A small knot of the people had great distance. Your world is almost down to sleep, for ever, if necessary,
detached themselves from the main in the void,” rather than face his anger. One brave
throng and were coming forward,
hesitantly and fearfully. They were
very thin but they were quite
human in all respects. Their garments
were loosely styled and obviously of
metallic origin. One came forward
and stood not six feet away.
“You are the gods we never
believed in,” he said. “Woe to us
that we did not believe. You have
come now to destroy us.””
“Fiddlesticks!”? snorted Dr. Who
angrily. “Why should I want to
destroy you? What’s all this talk of
destruction?”
“All life wishes to destroy other
life,” came the reply. ‘That is the
great Law of Nature. We worshipped
the Life Principle and because we
had destroyed our enemies, we knew
that a great retribution would fall
on us. So we sealed ourselves into
our caskets for the long sleep. How
long have we been sleeping,
strangers?”
“How should I know?” said Dr.
Who, with a wide grin. “All we
know is that we are travellers
through Space and Time, and we
arrived on your world and found you
like you were, in those glass cases. We
know nothing. It’s up to you to
figure it out”.
The face of the man looked more
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man pressed the lever which activates Dr. Who, energetically. “How this Dr. Who ran after him. “Hey,
the cabinets and remained to die one big structure remains standing, there, wait a minute, you can’t do
alone in this great temple.” I can’t tell. Why hasn’t it been that!” he shouted. “For a worshipper
“You know, we aren’t getting very eroded away by time, like the rest of of
the Life Principle, you people have
far with this,’ said Dr. Who. the city you were talking about?” an odd way of serving your god. We
“Come outside and take a look at “Our city was not eroded!” came three came here——”. He stopped
your world. What do you expect to the sharp reply. “It was destroyed! and, looking round him, for the
Seer So we had not accounted for all first time he missed his two compan-
“Why, we expect to see our great those dastardly Colonians after all. ions. “Victoria! Jamie! are Where
city, in the centre of which is this After we had lain down in our you? Now don’t play games, there’s
mighty tower,” said the other in caskets, they came back and good children.”
surprise. “This city is the most destroyed our great city. The The great crowd of people were
wonderful marvel of the modern age. temple is built of impervious metal, surging towards the altar and the
It is. ” with compacted atoms. No force in Salonian chief was haranguing them
He stopped, for they had come out the universe can destroy it. But they, as he walked at their head. Dr. Who
on to the platform outside the great those Colonian animals, they levelled was lost in the dense mob and they
metal door. The Salonian staggered our great city. Now, at last, you have took scant notice of him, their
where he stood and he stared out given us a reason for our awakening. newly awakened eyes filled with hate
with a tragic face at the wilderness We will fly north and we will punish and vengeance. He was swept along
that lay everywhere around the those cruel Colonians. Not enough with them helplessly and was taken
enormous temple-tomb. “It is all that we send our missiles; we must behind the altar and down a long
—", he stopped, shuddered and see and enjoy the punishment of flight of wide steps. He was like a
tears came into his eyes, “it is all like those infidels. We will make of their matchstick caught in a wild torrent
this?” land a desert like this.” He turned and he realised it was futile to
“Not a thing standing,” replied quickly and strode inside. struggle.
Below the floor-level there were
many glittering machines and,
on, rows ofgiganticrockets. Dr.
heart trembled. Had he, by his
impulsive act of awakening these
people, precipitated a new and more
frightful renewal of the war between
these two races? What could he do to
stem the tide of hate?
Then he spied Jamie and Victoria
and they were far above his head.
They were clinging to the top of a
tower crane that bore in its cradle a
great torpedo. The Salonians had
reactivated the automatic machinery
and were loading up their war
rockets, “What on earth are you
doing up there?” he bellowed.
“We got lost, Doctor,” came
Victoria’s shrill voice. “We were
tired and we sat down, Next thing
we knew this thing was going up.
What’s happening?”
The Salonian king was by his side.
*Your two younger friends seem to
be of the same opinion as ourselves
about those brutal Colonians. They
are helping to load our rockets. You
shall all travel with me in the lead
passenger craft. You shall see how
we retaliate against them. How dare
they come and obliterate our lovely
Hemisphere?”
“T’ve told you,” said Dr. Who
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 and the girl put her arm round
his shoulder.
“Don’t cry, Doctor,” she soothed
him. “‘There’s nothing we could do
to stop them now.”
“Stop them!” he said wildly. “If
we—rather I—had not been the
criminal fool I was to reawaken these
bloodthirsty fiends, this mission of
destruction wouldn’t now be setting
out. J am responsible—I alone—for
this, the destruction of all the people
in the Eastern Hemisphere. Let me
weep, I am a lost man, the most
wicked man in the universe.”
“We'll use the cobalt bombs,”
the Salonian king was saying to his
crew. “They gave excellent results
last time. As he spoke the words, a
shadow came over his face and he
looked momentarily worried. Some
vague memory had come to him.
But he shrugged it away and went on
detailing his men to their duties,
their first activity for many centuries.
High in the air the rocket flew, at
a tremendous speed which the
Doctor estimated must be in the
thousands of miles per hour range,
A new and very strange and horrible
thought had come to him and he
began to study more closely the
Salonian men around him. Many
thousands of years had, of course,
passed since the Twentieth Century
and there could be many evolution-
ary changes, But how strange to
find the Egyptian symbols for Life
and Rest here on this planet
millions of miles from the Solar
System? Astronomers on Earth had
often speculated on what would
happen if the Sun should go nova
and explode. ....
But he could no longer think along
those lines, for now the Salonians
were becoming excited. Already the
j Eastern continent was coming into
i
view. And—it shone like ice or like
é rad
‘te a mirror! The rocket sped on over
gre nu aa a the great globe of glass, extending
continent. It was age, man, the crew followed them. A great hole as far as the horizon. The great fleet,
thousands of years of erosion that appeared in the roof
ofthe place and in formation, traversed that glass
did it.” then flame belched from the rear of half-globe, swerved and swept back
But the Salonian would not listen the rocket and it hurtled out into the over it, and the faces of the Salonians
and the tower crane brought Victoria dim light. showed a marked change.
and Jamie down. Now almost Suddenly Dr. Who felt very, very For the half-globe of glass was
prisoners, they were thrust into the old, and all the weight of his long quite unbroken. All round the
control room of a large passenger centuries fell upon him and horizon it glittered, with never a
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buildings and no hills, mountains after they had reported the success of the king addressed the waiting
and rivers. Not a foot of soil was to the multiple strike. We did not dare multitude.
be seen. to go and see for ourselves, but we Dr. Who saw the Tardis where
“Where now are the Colonians, went into our glass capsules, long they had left it and he nudged
your enemies?” asked Dr. Who prepared as a war measure. We Jamie and Victoria. “Go tothe ship,”
sharply. “‘Where are those ‘fiends’ were ashamed to live, yet fearful to he said in a low voice. “Have her
you claim destroyed your continent die and face the god against whom we ready for take-off.”
so long ago. Who has destroyed had committed the unforgivable sin. “Why are we leaving, Doctor?”
them?” He stared with horror at the We will return now. Our cobalt demanded Jamie. “These .people
great round hump of glass that was bombs were here before us, so many must be most wonderful people,
the Eastern Hemisphere, the result long and weary centuries ago.” with all the technology of ages at
of many thousands of
nuclear explo- ‘What does he mean, Doctor?” their disposal. We could learn lots
sions in saturation attacks. whispered Victoria, timidly. She was from them, Doctor.”*
The Salonian king made no reply, as frightened as could be, and even “Yes, Jamie,” said the Doctor
but his haggard eyes stared from the the irrepressible Jamie was, for once, heavily. “They learned everything but
window at the glinting landscape. stricken dumb in the face of such a the one main thing. They have
“T never saw it,” he muttered. universal disaster. forgotten how to live in peace
“None of us ever saw it . . . like this! ‘Perhaps I'll tell you, sometime,” together. They have no solution to
It comes back to me now. After said Dr. Who slowly. “I may even that problem, so they are taking the
that long, long sleep I had forgotten. never tell you. It’s a dreadful story, only way out they know. They fear
We pressed the buttons and this— children. Men on Earth used to to die and face their Life God. So.
this was the result. We sent one foretell that something like this “I remember,” said Victoria.
manned rocket to see and when it would happen if they did not learn “People on Earth used to say that
came back the crew shot themselves to live in peace.” mankind might some day destroy all
“But this isn’t Earth, Doctor,” living things if anuclear war came.”
protested Jamie. “And mankind did that very
“Isn’t it, Jamie?” asked the thing, Victoria,” said the Doctor
Doctor absently, steadily. “We are back on Earth
The rockets turned and sped again, children, millions of years into
back across the miles to the West. its future. The old sun became nova
Like a flight of wild geese, they and, in the explosion, Earth was cast
wheeled and flew at a tremendous away into Space to be caught up by
speed back. Then they turned in the this new pale star, Mankind, even in
air and settled down on their tail- the face of such a cosmic disaster,
fins. The Salonian crew got out and could not unlearn the lesson taught
him by cruel evolution. Mankind
must always fight against itself. Look!
The Salonians—which branch of
humanity on Earth they descended
from, we will never know—are
going back again to the only thing
left to them short of race suicide.”
In the doorway of the great
temple they watched the people, so
recently awakened, lie down again
in their glass caskets and pull the
lids over them. Then History
repeated itself exactly. Their friend,
the Salonian king, went up to the
altar and they saw him throw the
switch to ‘Rest’. A shot rang out and
he fell across the altar, dead.
“To the Tardis, children,” said
Dr. Who solemnly. “‘I feel as though
someone is walking over my grave.
These sad, lonely people are our own
descendants. Who knows what they
will find when next they wake up, if
indeed they ever do wake up again
on this unhappy planet.”

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 NDOWLES the room Dr. Who looked over the console woodenly away to a small ante-room,
was in darkness except for the of the complex control-panel. He where he exchanged his silver work-
glow from a half-dozen TV screens spoke to the Controller. “Master, my suit for the rainbow-hued Plistra, an
placed at what seemed to be random report shows that the Omega wave- outfit consisting of tights and cloak,
angles. band is dissipating at speed—except favoured by most of the working
Dr. Who, in a close-fitting silver for the south-west Ovoidian group, class on the Planet Krill,
uniform, paced up and down before where the build-up registers forty But he felt no excitement at the
the screens. He had a notebook in his ohms.” thought of going back to his cubicle.
hand, in which he made notes as he The Controller did not look up. Strangely enough he felt nothing at
checked the shifting pictures on the He did not have to, for he was a all. He thought of the job he had just
sets. There were pictures of stars and robot with a single cyc-beam that left; he thought of the Controller,
space-ships, paramecia and people. swivelled from a protruding shaft Robot X; he thought how lucky he
His task completed, he crossed The flat, electronic voice of the was to work for such a Master. . .
briskly to where a bank of instru- robot answered: “You have done But there’ his thoughts ended. His
ments blossomed with winking lights well, Hegg. You may go.” brainwashed mind had no past and
and pulsing valves. Dr. Who bowed. He walked no future... .

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 you?”’ asked Jamie. “We waited for
hours after you'd left Tardis to ex-
plore the planet. Then we put on the
ray-foil helmets and began to hunt
for you.”
Victoria took up the tale: “We
hunted for days. We had almost
given up in despair when we came
across your music-pipe in the sand.
We realised you must have dropped
it on purpose, to point the way that
the robots had taken you... .”
“So we followed. We sneaked into
the city. We—er—borrowed a couple
of robot ‘skins’ so that we could walk
around unobserved. And then we
spotted you!” added Jamie.
Dr. Who stared at them with un-
comprehending gaze.
“T am as happy as Queeg!” he
said again.
Jamie snorted impatiently. “And
who is Queeg?” he began. “Why
don’t you =
He broke off as Victoria grabbed
his arm. She drew him to one side
and whispered: “Don’t you see—he
doesn’t know us! He stares like an
automaton! Something must have
happened to him!”
Jamie looked closer at their com-
panion, “Great guns—you’re right!”
he exclaimed. “Poor old Dr. Who!
The robots have brainwashed him!”
Dr. Who was fidgeting about un-
easily. “May I go now, Masters?” he
asked. “I must report back for duty
to the Controller, Robot X, soon.”
“Now take it easy, Doctor!” said
Jamie soothingly. “We'll get you
back to normal. What you need is
a ray-foil helmet. . . . Here, have
ure mine!”
He slipped the plastic hood from
He stepped out of the building on sadly. “I am happy to work for the his head. With the help of Victoria
to the moving sidewalk. It was teem- robots . . . as happy as Queeg.” he then fastened the helmet over
ing with Plistra-clad beings like him- The robot police let go of his arms. Dr. Who’s head.
self, moving silently and staring They reached up steel feelers and They stepped back and watched
before them with vacant eyes. unscrewed their glistening metal anxiously. A puzzled expression
At every corner a robot police heads, As the “heads” came away spread over the other’s features.
guard scanned the workers with from the figures, the heads-and- Then he looked at his companions
high-frequency Truth beams, Sud-. shoulders of Jamie and Victoria were and said: “Victoria! . .. Jamie! .. .
denly there were two of the squat revealed. I—where—what’s been happening?
steel figures waiting for Dr. Who in The two young faces were wreathed I remember leaving Tardis, and
the shadows of a tall building. Before in smiles. meeting some robots . . . but I can’t
he could protest they had grabbed “Oh, Doctor! It’s marvellous to recall anything that happened since.”
him by the arms and hustled him find you safe and well!” sobbed Victoria bounded forward and
away down a service tunnel. Victoria, her voice somewhat muffled hugged him impulsively. “Oh, thank
He did not struggle much. “‘Mas- by the plastic helmet she wore. heaven you're all right, Doctor! The
ters—what is wrong?” he asked “What in the world happened to robots must have been using some

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 kind ofaslave-ray on you... . Look
at your clothes! You've been living
in the robot city, and working for
someone called the Controller.”
Dr. Who clasped his hands X=
citedly. . . . “The Controller! Y
It’s coming back to me now! He's
the robot who has control of the
slave-beams. . . .”
“And Queeg?” queried Victoria.
“You kept saying you were ‘as happy
as Queeg’!”
“Did 1?” said Dr. Who. “Perhaps
Queeg is the very top robot.”
‘Jamie picked up his robot-head,
glancing uneasily down the service
tunnel. ‘Come on! We mustn’t waste
time,” he urged. “We've got to get
you back to Tardis. We'll march you
out of the city as if we are robot
police taking a prisoner away
“No!” The word exploded from
Dr. Who’s lips with such force that
the other two stared. “I can’t leave
here without freeing these wretched
slaves,” he went on. “Somehow I’ve
got to get my hands on the control-
board, and smash the control that
these monsters have gained.”
Jamie and Victoria glanced at
each other and shrugged. They knew
better than to argue with the Doctor
when he spoke in that crusading tone
of voice. ...
A few moments later Dr. Who
emerged from the service tunnel. He
rejoined the mindless masses on the
sidewalks . . . but this time he was
moving back the way he had come.
Around him lay the capital city of
the Planet Krill. Metal trees lined its
roads. Towers rose splendidly to-
wards the skies, with thousands of
less ambitious structures in between.
He stepped off the moving side-
walk into the vast Control Building.
He paused to glance behind. Two
robot police were stalking at his
heels. The Doctor allowed himselfa
little grim smile before turning to
check through the Security Robots
with their delicate sensitisers.
He got through all right, and a
few moments later he was standing
before the doors of the control-room.
He stood in front of it until an
electro-encephalograph inside recog-
nised his distinctive brain-wave pat-
tern. Then it slid open,and he walked
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 “Any At the end of the passage lay an
The Controller robot eyed him wanted to know. clues,
uncertainly with its single eye-beam. Doctor?” opening which led to a vast hall,
Dr. Who walked steadily across the He shook his head. “No clues. . . lit by flickering flames of hidden
gleaming metal floor, enjoying the But I have a hunch Queeg is some- torches. It had the atmosphere of a
confusion that his sudden reappear- where close at hand. . . . Come on!” place of worship.
ance was causing in the robot’s He led the way out of the room Dr. Who walked fearlessly across
electro-neuronic circuits. by an inner door. It led down a the hall. Then he stopped short, and
“Hegs Hegg?” The flat corridor, Dr. Who hurried ahead. stared.
electronic voice kept repeating the The others, hampered by their robot “Merciful heavens! So you are
mame that had been given to the suits, shuffled after him. . . . Queeg!” he exclaimed.
brainwashed Dr. Who after he had
emerged from the Slave Brain
Cubicle.
Dr. Who came closer. “I am no
longer your mindless slave,” he said.
“I am going to smash the rule of the
robots.”
The Controller touched an alarm
button. Red lights blossomed on the
control-board and a high-frequency
alarm sliced the air.
Now the robot had something
definite to feed to its computer-
brain. “Stop! I am doubling the
strength of the slave-ray. You are
Hegg and you cannot resist!”
“No!” said the other firmly. “I
am not Hegg, and I can resist because
lam wearing a ray-foil helmet.”
The Controller lumbered to its
feet. A panel slid open in the wall of
its chest, revealing a bulbous
weapon....
Zz-zzpt! The deadly ray hit Dr.
Who at close range. He was en-
veloped in an eerie, eldritch aura of
silvery light. . . . Yet he walked on!
When he came close to the robot,
he raised his hands and thrust.
Caught off-balance, the ungainly
figure staggered sideways, then
pitched across the control-panel.
There was a blinding flash as the
metal body caused short-circuits. .. .
For a few seconds the Controller
twitched in a spray of sparks—then
lay still amid the smouldering
remains of the control-panel.
Dr. Who nodded, satisfied. Behind
he heard the heavy footsteps of
Victoria and Jamie in their robot
police disguise. As they entered the
room he said jubilantly: “Success!
The controls are smashed! The
people are no longer slaves!”
“Is that the Controller?” shud-
dered Victoria, staring at the twisted
and blackened heap of metal slumped
over the control-board.
“What about Queeg?” Jamie
 It was a grotesque sight, to rival Queeg communicated by telepathy. centrating all the power of his mighty
any that he had witnessed in his “You could have been happy if brain. . Then began a fantastic
countless voyages through Time and you had remained a slave . . . as duel of the Brains. With the power
Space. . happy as Queeg!” spoke the Brain of thought alone, they dealt each
Queeg—the master-mind of the in his head. “But you chose to rebel other blow after mighty blow.
robot rule—was nothing more than —and now I must destroy you! Suddenly a dreadful wail escaped
Brain . . . a huge shapeless mass of Farewell!” the juddering mass inside the con-
it, grey matter that pulsed with The grey mass suddenly shud- tainer. ‘Aa-aa-aah!”
movement and seemed to be con- dered and glowed with vital energy. The Thing began to thresh about
stantly in motion. Yet it was con- Dr. Who staggered and fell as if he wildly—but Dr. Who held out,
tained within the confines of a had been dealt a wicked blow. pouring on the brain pressure.
transparent container whose sides “Ah!” he panted. “So you are Then, quite suddenly it was all
rose to the very ceiling. . . . trying to kill me with Brain Power. over. The Brain shrivelled into an
“Ts that you, Hegg?” . Well, two can play at that inert mass.
The question burned in the game.” Dr. Who raised a hand to his fore-
Doctor’s brain, and he realised that He crouched, his face grim, con- head, and would have fallen but for
the helping arms of Victoria and
Jamie.
“Tt—it’s all right,” he reassured
them, “I—I’m just a bit giddy. after
that mental tussle. But I think we’ve
seen the last of Queeg. . . . Now,
come outside and help me to spread
the news to these poor slaves, eh?
We've got to tell them that robot
tule is all over!”

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The sun is many times bigger than the earth
and is the centre of the solar system, but it is
only avery tiny speck in the Milky Way Galaxy.
In turn, this galaxy is but one in possibly a
billion other galaxies, each comprising
billions of stars, so the sheer immensity of
the universe is almost beyond human
comprehension.
 Venus is the nearest planet to earth, but
because of dense cloud layers covering its
surface astronomers can only guess at what
lies underneath. The light of the sun reflects
off these cloudbanks, with the result that
Venus appears as the brightest star in the
heavens, sometimes even visible during the
day.

dust as the earth's gravity pulls at the moon,

so the moons gravity pulls at earth. It is this
pull that causes the tides—the rising and
falling of the oceans’ level, As the moon
travels round the earth it causes the oceans
to bulge towards it, and when the bulge
reaches the seashore it is known as high tide

Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) was the

first great modern astronomer, He put for
ward the theory that the planets, including
the earth, revolved round the sun, and that
the sun was therefore the centre of the
universe. This was not published until aft
his death because he knew it would create a:
uproar
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ICTORIA was tired of looking But Dr. Who had other plans. His she had brought with her from Earth,
at the snow drifting down across instruments showed that this was the and she was just about to put some
the vision screens of the Tardis. Planet Pendant—a place he had on when her eye fell on the nearest
She was lonely too—and a bit always wanted to explore. So he and vision screen. She gave a glad cry:
scared. She had every reason to be Jamie had ventured outside to look “Oh! Thank goodness! They’re
all of these things. For she was all around. ... back!””
alone in Dr. Who’s wonderful Time- “Three hours they’ve been gone,” The untidy figure of Dr. Who
and-Relative-Dimensions-in-Space said Victoria aloud. “This is could be seen standing outside the
craft. Tardis, as it was called, had ridiculous. . . . They promised they Tardis. There was snow on his tall
materialised upon the snow-clad would just go a short distance and hat, and his face was half hidden in
slopes of a mountain chain. Both be right back!” the Arctic jacket. Jamie stood
Victoria and Jamie, the Doctor’s two The sound of her own voice only beside him, hunched inside his
young fellow-travellers, had been in made it worse. “I wish they’d come jacket and looking rather miserable.
favour of shipping out at once. For back,” she thought. “Why doesn’t he come inside?”
wherever they might materialise It was no use looking at the vision thought Victoria. She ran to the
next time, it could not fail to be more screen. The snow-bound peaks only control-panel and pulled the switch
promising than the ice-bound wilder- made the outlook seem bleaker. So that operated the doors of the ship.
ness that showed in the vision she decided to bolster up her spirits. They opened slowly, for snow had
screens. She still had a little of the perfume piled high against them in drifts. She
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 yenture out into that blizzard? Why, drew further and further ahead.
it was you who suggested I had “Now!” thought Victoria.
better wait here until you and Jamie She turned and ran to the shelter
got back.”* of a snow ridge. Quickly she scooped
Dr. Who shrugged. “Yes, but now out an alcove, and squatting in it she
that I am sure the planet is friendly, pulled her hood over her face,
I want you to come with us and meet A moment later she heard the
the inhabitants. They're called Cog- shouts of Dr. Who: “Victoria!
wens, and they are a charming, Where are you?”
friendly race of beings.” Jamie was shouting too, and the
Victoria glanced at the vision noise drew nearer and nearer. Peep-
screen and shivered. “You call it a ing out from under her hood she saw
friendly place? I never saw any place her companions only a few feet away.
as bleak and unwelcoming,” she They had halted in a peculiar stiff
protested, pose. ... “As if they were listening
Jamie gave a short laugh, “Stop to some signal I can’t hear!”
arguing, Vicky, and put your out- thought Victoria.
door clothes on,” he said. “It's great Then she gasped with terror and
fun—honest!”” amazement. For Dr. Who had pulled
Unwillingly she did as they asked. aside his cloak and his shirt—but
When she was wrapped in the warm instead of flesh beneath, there was
Arctic suit designed by the Doctor, the glowing bulbs and intricate
they stepped outside into the snow. wiring of a robot! She saw that
“Aren't you going to lock the Jamie had done the same. . . .
doors?’ asked Victoria in surprise, “They're robots!” she marvelled.
seeing the others turn and plod away. “Robots made to resemble the
“No! Leave them!” snapped Dr. Doctor and Jamie exactly—even to
Who over his shoulder, “Come!” their voices!”
Victoria hurried after them. The Then she saw why the two robots
blizzard had ceased and there was had bared their electronic chests. For
now unfolded below an awe-inspir- in the centre of each complex mass
ing vista of snow plains, ravines and of wires and bulbs there was a device
peaks. But she had no thought for like a radar-detector. Victoria recog-
the grandeur of this bleak scene. nised it at once: “They're equipped
Victoria was worried. There was with a device for homing-in on me!”
something about the behaviour of she guessed. “I’ve got to get out of
her two companions which struck an here!”
oddly disquieting note. With a quick movement she left
They walked on in silence. That, her hiding-place and began to run.
in itself, was unusual. Dr. Who She heard the robots calling after
always kept up a running com- her. Looking back she saw them
shivered as the icy blast swept inside. mentary when he brought his young following, their homing devices
“Oh, do come in—quickly, before friends to places he had visited pointing directly at her.
I freeze to death!” she cried, as her before in space or time. It was a frantic chase, but fear lent
companions came slowly inside. “I wonder. . . . Could something Victoria extra speed. She was almost
Dr. Who looked around in a have happened to the Doctor and fifty yards ahead of her pursuers
searching way. It was almost as if he Jamie while they were away?” she when she reached the foot of an ice-
was seeing the inside of the Tardis thought. “Could they have been cliff. A glacier wall offered a handy
after a long absence. Jamie was captured . . . and perhaps brain- screen, She dodged round it—and
staring around him, too. washed?” let out a piercing scream, . . .
“Oh, for goodness sake!** The long The idea frightened her. But she Towering over her was a ghastly
wait had exasperated Victoria. “Take knew that she had to do something elongated creature with a long
off your things and get warm. Then to prove it right or wrong. pointed snout. Its mangy fur was
you can tell me where you’ve been “I know! I'll drop behind and crusted with ice and it snarled and
and what you found.” hide!” she thought. raised a single fore-leg to slash at the
Dr. Who spoke for the first time. The Arctic suit she wore was all- girl with razor claws.
“We can do better than that! We'll white, and she could vanish from *Fugh-eugh-awww!? The monster’s
take you and show you!” sight by dropping into the snow and shattering roar was still in Victoria’s
She looked at him aghast. “Oh covering her head. ears as her hand closed upon an
no! You don’t really want me to She shortened her steps. The others object in her pocket. She drew it out

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and flung it into the creature’s because he’s drenched in my per- Suddenly Victoria found one of
face. fume!” them speaking to her by telepathy.
“Braw-aw-aw!” With a howl of The robots did not seem to realise . - “Don’t be afraid! You have
pain and fear the monster staggered the impossible task of following the killed two of the Cogwens! You must
back, clawing at its face. Then ice monster. Suddenly the Dr. Who- be our friend!”
Victoria realised that she had flung robot, which was in the lead, lost its She answered by thinking her
her bottle of scent, and it had spilled balance. As it plunged down, it hit words clearly: “The Cogwens are
into those gleaming red eyes. thesecond robot. The two mechanical your enemies?””
The creature turned and fled, still figures hurtled to the hard-packed “Yes. We are the Morogs, the out-
howling with pain. It clawed its way ice and shattered into several pieces. casts of the Planet Pendant. We are
straight up the wall ofice. But before Victoria rose to her feet. She was always hunted by the robot race of
it reached the top, Victoria heard trembling a little. Gingerly she went Cogwens, so we must live deep in
the sound of
the pursuing robots. She closer to the shattered robots, But the ice.”*
flung herself into hiding, just as her as she bent to examine the pieces, a Victoria began to like these little
pursuers came into sight. faint sound made her whirl. . . . nodding creatures. “It’s a shame,”
*‘Now I’m trapped!” she thought. Four squat figures—all smaller she said. “‘Can’t you fight them . . .
“They're bound to find me with than herself—stood watching her. after all, they’re only robots!””
their detectors.” They wore uniform suits of pro- The voice in her head answered:
But to her amazement the two tective covering that was highly “Do you not think we have tried? I,
robot figures hurried past her hiding- polished yet pliable. In their hands Ylit, have led my warriors many
place. They began to try and climb they cradled strange tubular times against the citadel of the Cog-
the sheer ice-face after the monster. weapons. . . . wen. But it stands in an impregnable
Then Victoria realised what had Yet there was nothing menacing in position on the Mountain of Ice.”
happened. “Good gracious! They their attitude, As the girl stepped Another of the Morogs stepped
weren’t depending on vision to back in fear, they began to nod their forward, grunting and lifting up his
home-in on me. .. . they were using badger-like heads and make soothing tubular weapon. “Our heat-rays are
my scent to track me down! And grunting sounds that seemed to be no use against the metal men, unless
now the monster is their target—just reassuring. we fight them at close-quarters,””
= came his voice. “If you succeeded in
destroying two of them, perhaps
you can help us find a way into their
fortress?”
Victoria nodded. She was sure
that Dr. Who and Jamie were
prisoners of the robot race. She was
sure also that the robots had sent
out the two replicas of her friends to
lure her to the fortress, and to locate
the time-and-space craft.
“Yes, I believe I’ve got a plan that
might help,” she said in her mind,
“Can you send a message to the
Cogwens’ fortress so that it seems to
come from these two,” she added,
pointing to the shattered robots at
her feet.
“That will not be difficult,”
agreed Ylit. “What do you wish the
message to say?”
Victoria pondered. “I want it to
seem as if the message is being sent
by these two, just before they fall. It
must give the location of the Tardis

“The what?” asked Ylit.

“Our time-and-space craft,” she
explained. “Come, I'll show you
where it is.”

Across the frozen slopes of Pendant

marched a squad of heavily armed
Cogwens, They marched in an un-
swerving line, looking neither to left
nor right. Those at the rear of the
column were carrying the shattered
remains of the robots which had
impersonated the travellers.
Suddenly a warning signal came
from the leader, a massive four-
armed robot. “There is the space-
ship of our prisoners. . . . Surround
it!”
“Yes, Jort!”? boomed the others.
Tardis lay half-buried in snow. It
appeared to be an ordinary, homely
blue police telephone-box with its the terrific battering. . . . Then Jort strange, shabby trophy in the centre
familiar flashing top light. The turned his ray-gun upon the lock in of their great courtyard. From the
Cogwens looked at it doubtfully as an effort to force it open. Again he laboratories came robot-scientists
they closed in. This was the most failed. with tools to try and open the
unlikely spacecraft they had ever Impatiently the robot leader doors of the Tardis. . . . Electronic
encountered. They were not to know moved back. “Pick up the strange saws, galactic-hammers, sonic-deci-
that the interior of Tardis did not box and carry it back to the fortress!”” mators. .. .
exist in any normal world of size. he ordered. When all these things failed, the
The small square box contained a The squad swarmed forward to Cogwens seemed to be baffled. They
great spaceship laboratory, store- hoist the time-spaceship on to their retired inside their fortress to consult
rooms and other quarters large broad metal shoulders, Then, led by their computor brain-machines.
enough to accommodate a small Jort, they marched back to their The courtyard had been empty for
army, if necessary... . citadel... . barely a minute when the doors of
Jort stood in front of the doors. the Tardis opened. Out poured a
There were no handles. It was a fortress that reached to- column of Morogs, led by Ylit. They
“J shall break it open!” boomed wards the planet’s three red moons fanned out quickly and rushed
the robot leader. with fifty sinister spires of glittering through the doorways into the
His four jointed arms began to metal. Set as it was on top of the Ice laboratories of the stronghold.
move like trip-hammers. . . . Thud Mountain it offered complete isola- Boom! Blam! Zzzst! The crash of
++. thud... thud... thud! tion, complete protection, complete their weapons rang out as the out-
The doors remained as solid as mastery of Pendant. casts closed in mortal struggle with
ever. There was not evena mark from The Cogwens set down their their robot conquerors.

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 Victoria listened anxiously as she everywhere. The battle itself seemed lumbered out. Its great metal arms
crouched inside the doorway of the to be in progress deep inside the made a grab for the girl, but she
Tardis. Would her plan succeed? The gleaming citadel. She went cautiously ducked and dodged between the
idea had come to her as she remem- down a corridor, stepping over the straddled legs into the room. Like a
bered the story of the Trojan fallen figures of several Cogwens, flash she slammed the door. She saw
Horse.
.. . their electronic innards spilling from a bolt, and dropped it into its socket.
“The Morogs have surprise on their metal bodies. “Victoria! Thank goodness to see
their side—but are they strong Suddenly Victoria stopped. Her you!””
enough to overpower the Cogwens?”’ skin tingled with excitement. Some- She whirled with a gasp of relief
she thought. where close by two voices were at the familiar voice. “Dr. Who!”
At last she could bear it no longer. shouting: “Help! Come and get us!” He and Jamie were strapped into
Ignoring the instructions of Ylit that Victoria knew those voices. “It’s couches set amid tall opaque pillars
she should stay in the ship till the the Doctor and Jamie!” she cried. that pulsed with light. As she rushed
battle was over, she slipped out into She flew towards the door from towards them, Dr, Who cried out:
the courtyard and ran for one of the which the shouts seemed to be “Careful! Don’t come near!”
doors. coming. As she reached it, the door As Victoria stopped, he went on:
The stench of the ray-guns was flew open and a Cogwen guard “This devilish device is able to read
the brain and memory, and copy the
body tissues.”
“That’s why the Cogwens were
able to turn outrobots that resembled
us exactly,” added Jamie.
“Then—what can I do to get you
out?” wondered Victoria.
The scientist motioned with his
head. “The control-panel is over
there. . . . I’ve been studying it, and
I think I know how it is operated. . . .
If you deflect the centre dial to zero
left, and at the same time push
forward the three switches. . . .”
Victoria followed his instructions.
A few seconds later the opaque
pillars ceased to pulse with light.
Then she was able to mount the dais
and unstrap her companions from
the couches.
At that moment the Cogwen
guard outside began to batter down
the door.
“Quickly!” cried Dr. Who.
“There’s another exit behind these
screens,”
They reached the courtyard and
ran for the Tardis. The great doors
closed behind them and Dr. Who
began to operate the controls.
“T wonder if the Morogs will con-
quer the robot master-race,” said
Jamie, sprawling gratefully in a
chair.
Victoria smiled. She was watching
one of the vision screens, and just
before it began to fade she saw Ylit
emerge from one of the doors in the
citadel, jubilantly waving his arms
in the air.
“Don’t worry, Jamie!” she mur-
mured. “The Morogs are the masters
now.
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The first manned space flight took and just as quickly broke them. danger. The Gemini-8 mission with
place on 12 April 1961. On that day a In 1963, Gordon Cooper completed David Scott and Neil Armstrong
young Russian, the late Yuri Gagarin, twenty-two orbits. succeeded in docking with another
orbited the earth for one hour and But the Russians bettered this by a rocket, but the two craft went into a
forty-eight minutes, and ascended toa flight of eighty-one revolutions by violent spin which could not be con-
height of 205 miles. Since that break- Colonel Walerie Bykowsky. This epic trolled. An emergency landing had to
through, the emptiness of space has flight also witnessed the first woman be made.
seen many more spacecraft, both in space, Valentina Tereshkowa, who Remarkable though the story of
Russian and American, piloted by men was launched two days after Bykow- space flight has been, it has also
who are prepared to risk their lives in sky. They achieved another great suffered disasters which all the careful
this new form of exploration. success when Alexei Leonov became planning could not prevent. A Russian
Shortly after Gagarin’s historic the first man to walk in space. was killed when his craft crashed on
flight, an American naval officer, Alan The Americans were amazed but landing. Three Americans died in a
Shepard, was blasted into the sky fora not dismayed: they soon had their own fire in their Apollo spacecraft, more
trial shot of over 115 miles. He did not space-walker in the form of Ed White, tragic because they were only training.
make an orbit; the first American to who broke Leonoy's record by eleven But the training programme still
actually do so was Colonel John minutes, continues.
Glenn, who circled the earth three Joining two spacecratt in orbit has None of these brave men died in
times at a height of 162 miles. been the most difficult operation so vain. Earlier mistakes in design have
Now the space race was on. far. The Americans seem to have now been rectified and if all goes well
Orbit followed orbit, as the two mastered the art, but their experiments the first man from earth will set foot on
nations set up records in space flight— have not been without trouble and the moon within three years.

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 Like a giant ear, the Jodrell Bank radio telescope is ‘cocked’ to listen to the sounds from Space.

LISTEN TO
Did
THE STARS
you know that the stars send earth-satellites are answering more These are ‘signals’ received from the
messages to earth? You can listen and more of our questions about the stars, and they are being used to build
to these signals at Jodrell Bank in world beyond. up detailed maps of the heavens.
Cheshire. Radio Astronomy is another im- The astronomer was once the guide
Not many places remain unexplored portant source of information. In the to this universe. He depended on his
on this earth of ours. But we have control room of the radio telescope at eyes, But eyes, however powerfully
scarcely begun to explore the vast Jodrell Bank in the Cheshire country- aided by optical telescopes and photo-
areas of Space. side, a never-ending flow of tiny graphic plates, can receive only the
Carried aloft by powerful rockets, sounds echoes from the loudspeakers. very short light-waves emitted by stars.

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 These light-waves are moreover, inter- In high winds this giant's saucer has
fered with in their passage to earth by to withstand huge buffetings. The
interstellar dust and gas, by dust and answer to this is a great circular
cloud in the earth's own atmosphere stabilising girder or ‘bicycle wheel’,
and even by common daylight. whose centre lies at the axis of rotation
The foundations of radio astronomy of the bowl.
were laid almost accidentally in the
early 1930s by an American engineer THE SEEING EYE
called Jansky. He found that radio The telescope must move smoothly
signals were emitted from regions in and exactly, so that it can aim con-
space where no visible objects could stantly at a given point in space regard-
account for them. less of the earth's rotation and orbit.
When the war broke out in 1939, It usually creeps even less perceptibly
radio and radar techniques became of than the hour-hand of a watch. Thus
great importance. The result was that it can follow the track of the moon,
radio astronomy quickly became re- the planets, or a man-launched earth-
cognised as a powerful tool for the satellite.
exploration of space. Suspended beneath the centre of
the bowl is a small laboratory. To
reach it, the operators must walk along
KEYHOLE TO SPACE catwalks. It is in this airborne labora-
The bigger the radio telescope the tory that the incoming radio signals are
better. The need for great size arises amplified.
because it is difficult to achieve sharp But the main control room lies in a
focus in ‘scanning’ very long wave building about 200 yards away. All
lengths. At Jodrell Bank has been motions of the radio telescope can be
built the latest, largest and most pene- controlled by a single operator at a
trating astronomical instrument of its desk studded with dials and switches.
kind in the world. Through the window facing him he
The telescope is built entirely of commands a full view of the telescope,
stéel. The engineers who built it had which is floodlit at night.
to tackle several big problems. The The aiming and movement of the
entire structure, with over an acre of telescope are electronically controlled.
wind-catching bowl area, must be A computer decides just what it ought
steady in storms. It must withstand to be scanning, and in which direction
accumulations of snow and ice, and it should point.
rain must drain safely and without But the radio telescope not only
nuisance from the bowl in any posi- scans but also transmits. It sends out
tion. It must be accurate in the hottest radio signals aimed at the Moon and
summer and the keenest winter, and the planets, and receives them as they
the bowl when pointing at the sun must bounce back.
neither absorb so much heat as to, The tracking of meteors is another
distort the steelwork, nor reflect so important field of study. Radio echo
much heat as to melt the aerial at the work has already established that
focus. meteors, whether sporadic or in
The Jodrell Bank telescope rotates streams, are localised in the solar
on a double circular rail track. It is system. Some of the major streams are
‘steered’ from the control-room, and certainly associated with comets.
the steerable part weighs over 2,000 It is not yet known how radio-waves
tons. are generated in space. Of the thou-
The bowl is a paraboloid of 250 feet sands of established radio sources
diameter, made of welded steel plates only fifteen or twenty are thoughtto be
and carried in a lattice steel cradle. in the local galaxy. One of the most
At the centre of the bowl is a lattice intense of all radio sources lies in the
steel tower 55 feet high, and mounted constellation Cygnus. This source is
at the top of the tower is the aerial to extragalactic, and has been identified
which are concentrated the radio- as two great nebulae in collision about
waves received and reflected by the 700 million light years away.
bowl. Jodrell Bank is now world famous.
The bowl and cradle add up to a Its success in tracking the Russian
staggering 800 tons. The whole sputniks and the American space
assembly is rotated in elevation by probes won it distinction in the Inter-
electric motors. The pinions and racks national Geophysical Year.
for this huge structure were taken from Britain has entered the Space Age
the gun-turrets of the dismantled exploration as an active participant—
battleship Royal Sovereign. thanks to this amazing radio telescope.
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 R. WHO stood outside the Already it was taller than they were,
Tardis and called for Victoria then it went on growing until soon
and Jamie to join him. “This is a the tops of the blades were out of
lovely place, children,” he crowed. sight.
““My computer has at last come up. “What’s happening, Doctor?”
trumps and has landed us on a cried Jamie. “It’s going dark. The
world where all Nature is mild and Tardis is so big you can’t see the
benign. Come on out, you two.” edges at cither side; it’s filling the
They came out hand-in-hand and whole world. It’s getting so dark I
joined him. Looking to the right can hardly see anything.”
and left and all round they saw that Dr. Who stood entranced as the
it was indeed a most beautiful whole landscape shot up and up
world, The grass was green and thick until now everything was out of
and the trees all looked like gigantic their sight. “*
flowers. They looked back at the land’,” he said gaily. “Everything
Tardis and then Victoria gripped growing so big all of a sudden.
the Doctor's hand in quick dismay. What a peculiar thing :
“It’s growing, Doctor, the Tardis is Then Victoria screamed and
growing. It’s over a hundred feet high pointed. In the dimness a gigantic
now and still growing.” ant was standing looking at them
“Nonsense, child,” snapped Dr. throughits enormous compound eyes.
Who. “Trick of the light, my dear. It was as big as an elephant and
But ”* He stroked his chin and growing bigger every second. Another
stared up as the Tardis, still joined it then they grew too big
apparently growing, now filled the even to be seen by the travellers.
whole of their vision, The grass Now it was quite dark and they
around them was growing too. held to each other's hands.
 “Keep up your courage, children,” “Those aren’t suns, boy,” said a from Earth here and they haven’t
came Dr. Who’s voice, “This must dignified white-bearded old man. been able to come up with anything
be some quite natural thing we are “How could we live if the light of constructive yet.”
experiencing. I’m beginning to hundreds of suns was shining on us?” it of all,” said the Doctor
wonder whether it isn’t a case of “You've got something there,” firmly. “Before you go on insulting
everything growing bigger round us said Dr. Who puckishly. “But, if us suppose you tell us just where we
but rather of us growing smaller and they are not suns, what are they? are, just who you people are, and
smaller and smaller.” They look like suns to me, just like the nature of this bafiling problem
Then his voice ceased and they our old Sol.” you say the best brains of Earth
all held their breaths. There came “This time clowns have got cannot solve.””
asound like a gigantic wire twanging through,” said the whitebeard in The other smiled pityingly. “You'd
and the darkness rolled back and contempt and he turned away. “I never understand,” he said more
they were in a place ofblazing lights. will return to the Glass, Hrad, and gently. “Come, you must eat and
“Another batch has come keep watch. Do what you can for rest awhile. I am named Hrad. We
through,” said a voice, and they these three. It is too much to hope know where you have come from.
found themselves in the middle of a that they will be able to join in the We all came from the same place.
crowd of people all staring at them Project.” Brun, our present leader, came three
and all dressed in a very wide “Help!” said the Doctor, pricking months ago. He was then a strong
variety of old and tattered costumes, up his ears. “Of course we'll help. young man. I myself arrived only
some even made of leaves. What is it you want us to do? Are three weeks ago. At one time there
“Great Scot, Doctor,’ came you in trouble of some kind?” were hundreds of us. They died very
Jamie’s agitated voice. “Will you “Forget it, strangers,” said a quickly, of course. Others came and
just look at that sky! There’s dozens man with a gloomy face, younger we grew again. But we have long
—hundreds—of suns shining up than the other. “It doesn’t matter. realised that life is too short here for
there, not just one like our old There’s nothing you can do to help the solving of long-term problems.”
Earth,” us. We have some of the best brains There were caves in a hillside and

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in one of them the three from the “Aye, Doctor,” laughed Jamie. waking hours. There is food to grow
Tardis were given food and drink. “Ye can say that again.” and animals to tend and the glass
These were vegetables and water, “The glass, the glass, what did furnaces to watch and the grinding
the vegetables raw and unsalted. you mean by that?” demanded the caves. They are where we are
Victoria made a face as she struggled Doctor when Hrad came back trying to form and grind the new
with a big root like a turnip. But it after they had eaten. ‘‘What is it six hundred inch Glass. The grinding
was food, and for that they had to be and where is it?”* of this lens is such a gigantic task
thankful. Also, they had been left “Of course you don’t know,” said that already twelve generations have
alone for a while. the other. ‘We, in our time, have been exhausted by it and it is still
Dr. Who had his chin in his hand called it the Glass because in the not done.”
and was brooding heavily, Jamie legends of this place, many genera- “When you speak of five and six
and Victoria looked at him and tions ago, a nephew of one of the hundred inch lenses,” said Dr.
Victoria giggled. Ancients of our world, a man Who firmly, “you are talking abso-
“You wait,” she whispered to called Galileo, called it a Glass. The lute nonsense, my dear sir. You
Jamie. “Any minute now he’ll be Glass is—well, it’s just everything. It must forgive my bluntness but I am
coming up with some strange and stretches across the whole of the a scientist and I know about such
impossible theory as to where we are heavens from horizon to horizon in things. There is the wavelength of
and how the Tardis got here and every direction. No man can see the light to be considered. That is
how we're going to get away.” outer edges if indeed there are any. constant and you will never get i
“Aye,” chuckled Jamie. “He gets It is far beyond our stars. How far He stopped and pursed his lips. A
worse every time.” above us is the Glass our wise men most tremendous theory was forming
“Hush, children,” snapped the are still trying to calculate. Some say in his mind. But this was no time to
Doctor. “I’m thinking! If Iwere to hundreds of miles, some thousands bring it out. These people with
tell you what I really think has and some, though these are thought their odd talk of generations passing
happened you’d never believe me to be crazy, many millions of miles.” like clock-ticks weren’t in any sort
in a million years.” “Take us to this Glass of yours,” of mood to listen to his theories
demanded Dr. Who. about nuclear physics.
Hrad looked uncomfortable. “Well,” said Hrad judicially. “If
“Only those amongst us with any you are truly a wise man and a
claim to knowledge are allowed to scientist, there is no need to keep
use the Glass. Time goes so fast here you away from the Glass. Maybe,
that not a moment must be wasted. although it seems too much to hope
Our present Glass is a five-hundred for, you may be able to help us in
inch reflector and that is not large this gigantic dilemma in which we
enough.” find ourselves. No one in all the
Dr. Who stared at him doubting generations that can be remembered
what he had heard. Five hundred has ever been able to tell us where
inches! “What in the name of heaven we are, how we got here, what we
are you talking about, sir?” are here for, and how we can
“You asked me about the Glass,” regain our lost lives.”
said Hrad frowning. “Not so very different a situation
“Are there, then,” asked the from that of the world we all seem to
Doctor astutely, ‘two Glasses, one have come from,” said the Doctor
you spell with a small letter and one sarcastically. “Tell me, what is the
with the capital letter?” normal life-span in your world?”*
The other smiled. “A quaint “Well, now,” was Hrad’s reply.
conceit, But, oddly, true. There is “Normally, a life-span is about six
the great glass that covers the whole months. When I say months, of
world and far beyond it, way past course, it is by our primitive reckon-
our limit of vision, and there is our ing. There is no day and night here.
own Glass, tiny by comparison with no weeks, months, years, as we recall
the original. It is a mere five dimly. With all those stars in the
hundred inches in diameter and sky how can we develop any sort
now quite useless. It may be many of astronomy?”
generations before we can grind a “You said they were not stars,”
glass large enough to give us a protested the Doctor accusingly.
glimpse of what lies beyond the glass “Tf they aren’t stars, what are they?
in the sky. But come, enough of this, And how many of them are there?”
you must get to work. Here everyone “They are not stars, as the stars
works, hard and long and all the were in our skies back home,” said

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 “Oh, I can solve it,” said Dr.
Who promptly and loftily. “It'll
have to be solved quickly too.
Jamie and Victoria have less than a
year to live, at your rate, in this
place. I have to think of them. I’m
all right, of course, I’m beyond all
these temporal changes and I’m
already so long lived that the
normal processes of ageing have
passed me by. But although I
would dearly love to stay here for
the purposes of scientific curiosity,
I must return these two children to
their own world where things are
normal.”
“Look, Doctor,” protested Jamie.
“We haven't got the least idea of
what ye’re havering about. Victoria
is seared. What are you going to do?
I don’t think it’s right to raise the
hopes of these people. Just where are
we, for instance?”
“We are in the same place where
the Tardis landed,” said the Doctor,
with a whimsical look in his eyes.
“In one sense it’s millions of miles
from us now and in another sense
it’s just a few yards away.”
“Och awa’,” scoffed Jamie. ‘“Ye’re
off your rocker, Doctor. Why don’t
ye tell us in plain English?”
“And what, pray, my bonny Scot,
would you understand of plain
English?” chuckled the Doctor and
he turned to Hrad. “Now, my friend
of the Microtron Men, where is this
Glass you talk about and where are
your wise men?”
“T’ll take you there,” said Hrad.
“What was that word you called us
—Microtron Men? That’s not true:
we're all good Britons.”
“Just so, just so,” said Dr. Who
the man glumly. “There are over saying they are not stars. But they soothingly. “Just a prank of mine.”
two hundred of them as far as we are sending down just as much The Glass, when they came to it,
have been able to count.” energy or electro-magnetic radiation totally amazed Dr. Who. It really
“Quite impossible,” stated Dr. in relation to the size of this ‘world’ was a five hundred inch reflecting
Who firmly, ‘“There can be no more as the old stars did on Earth.” telescope and the gigantic size of the
than ninety odd. You evidently “All this is quite beyond me, mirror upset all his preconceived
have no accurate method of identi- indeed beyond any of our wise men. notions. It was erected in a frame-
fying these ‘stars’ in your ‘sky’, If But it seems that you are a scientist work of tough vegetable stalks and
you think you see so many as two and I mustytake you to those of us at the platform where the object
hundred, this simply is that you are who theorise about such profound glass was located there was a small
seeing many of them several times.” matters. The Glass, too, will be of grass hut which they approached
He thought for a moment, “The interest to you. It would indeed be by ladders.
speeds will be very great. If you see the miracle of all time if you, our There were several white-bearded
two hundred this means one of the latest arrival, could find some way men in the hut and one of them was
radioactive elements of high atomic of solving the ancient riddle of our Brun, the leader they had already
weight. Indeed you are right in unhappy existence.” met. Hrad explained to him about

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 this remarkable new arrival and
Brun nodded his head sombrely and
waved his hand.
“Nothing to lose by letting him
see the Glass,” he said, “if it will
amuse him. They need something to
settle their minds after the great
shock of arriving here. I well
remember when Iarrived I thought
I'd died and come to Heaven.
Very shortly I decided I was in the
very reverse place.”
“Hush, hush,” warned Dr. Who.
“There’s movement out there. Has
anyone else seen it? Vast unformed
shapes moving about. Only frag-
ments of them appear, like clouds
surging very slowly all over the lens.”
“Old stuff,” said one thin-faced
old man. “This five hundred incher
Swot! A
first showed the effect and we are
all quite certain they are natural
phenomena, clouds of gas. The
many speckles in the sky show no
sign of discs, just like the dear old
stars seen from the Earth.”
“Anyone here know anything
about nuclear physics?” snapped Dr.
Who and there was a general
shaking of the white heads.
“We all seem to come from farm-
ing parts,” he was told. “We found
cows and sheep and pigs here and
that was our only comfort. Nuclear
physics, well. One or two of our
very latest arrivals did seem to have
heard ofit. Why?”
“The answer to your problem,”
said the Doctor, “lies in nuclear
physics. Don’t any of you see what
has happened?”
“We were hoping you could tell
us, O fabulous wise man,” said
another of them with a cynical
twist of his mouth. “We've exhausted the whole universe,” said Dr, Who. talking in riddles to them. The
all our resources in building this “Jamie and Victoria, children, we've gigantic task lay with him alone. The
lens and the next one bigger. We are got to do something quickly. We've theory that had formed in his mind
here and it’s all solid and actual, got to induce this solar system we began to grow and take shape and
There’s the ground and there’s the are in to explode this whole world in many ways it made complete
sky. What else?”” outwards. How far away are the nonsense of all that he knew of the
“How long have you been here?” specks of light in your sky?” he theories of space and matter in
the Doctor demanded of the thin asked of Brun. the universe. He went down the
man. “Millions of miles away,” was steps and rejoined Jamie and
“Oh, I was born here,” was the the reply. Victoria. He took no notice of the
astonishing reply. “My father before “Just a few miles behind the glass,” people he had named as the Micro-
me was born here. His father before laughed another. “Those are the tron Men and they all sat down on
him remembered nothing of what two opposing theories, You take the grass while the Doctor lay on his
was before. This nuclear physics you your pick.” stomach with his chin in his hands,
talk of, is it some potent magic then?” He looked round at the row of thinking of impossible things.
“Indeed the most potent magic in blank faces and he knew he was “It’s quite impossible and yet

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it’s happening,”* he muttered. “How man of my size can do to help them, in sizes and time-rates in the world
to alter it? Those beings up there, to get them and us out of this they had come from or—even more
who are they and what are they like? hideous situation.” startling thought—a world in-
Why are they doing this thing to “What’s your size got to do with comparably vaster, and the sub-
their fellow-creatures.”” it, Doctor?” asked Victoria. microscopic world they had been
“What are ye talking about, “T am as small as ”’ Dr. Who plunged into by the whim of some
Doctor?” asked Jamie. “They're stopped and was baffled by the need unthinkably vast scientific experi-
people just like you and me, aren't of new words. “A grain of dust would menter? For, in his own mind, he
they? There’s men and women and be a mountain compared to my size was convinced that this whole world
bairns. There’s cows and sheep and in relation to the world we came lay under the glass of a slide on
pigs, dogs and cats?” from. In the world of the sub- some unthinkable microscope, that
“Children,” said the Doctor sitting microscopic, time goes far faster and the whole world they were on was
up suddenly and there was despair up there a moment might pass while a pinch of dust, part of the nucleus
in his voice. “I’ve got to tell these a whole generation lived and died of an atom with the electrons
people that I am totally powerless to in this sphere.” Was there any better whirling round it like planets round
aid them. There is nothing that a way to tell them of the relationship a sun.
“One chance and one chance
remains,”’ he said talking to himself,
“The natural radioactivity of this
atom, which must be, by the number
of its electrons, an unstable radio-
active atom. It’s never happened yet
in all the ‘generations’ in this world,
but some time it is bound to happen.
That is the collision of one of those
electrons with another, or with an
invisible neutron. A nuclear flash
of energy released and radiated
outwards and maybe we might find
ourselves back where we came from.”
“Now I do believe you are getting
really old, Doctor,” laughed Jamie.
“But, I say, something is happening.
The speckles in the sky are going
faster, they’re getting smaller and
it’s growing darker.”
“Hold on to each other,” shouted
the Doctor. “The law of inevitable
chance has brought this world to its
end and if we stand firm we may
survive. This world, children, is a
world in the nucleus of an atom
maybe of radium or uranium. The
speckles in the sky are the whirling
electrons, relatively’as far from us
here as the planets were on Earth. It
is all exploding —”
Then there was the Tardis again
and the beautiful landscape. Dr.
Who dragged them to the Tardis
and as they entered he shook his fist
up at the sky. “That great glass the
Microtron Men spoke of would be
nothing but the lens of amicroscope
in some unimaginably larger and
vast world, far beyond our ken, where
creatures are experimenting by
reducing us to a size far, far smaller
than atoms. Let’s get away from this
haunted place as fast as we can.”

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AQUI RAY
A glimpse of our ancestors, as they started and as they developed

The trio of time and space travellers animal skins into long robes to protect
have met many strange and fearsome themselves from the bitter weather,
races of people in their journeys to and strung shells and teeth together
different ages and galaxies in the to make necklaces.
Tardis. They have seen primitive beings Later in the Stone Age, in the Meso-
on lost planets, and humans of the lithic and Neolithic periods, men
future, evolved far beyond the boun- gradually lost their apish features
daries of the present. and looked very similartomodern man.
Let's take a trip back through the The name given to men of these
ages to see our ancestors, the people periods is Cro-Magnon. Their brains
who inhabited this earth hundreds of were much larger than their predeces-
thousands of years ago. sors in Paleolithic times, and they
Man has only been living on earth progressed much further culturally.
for about 500,000 years, a short time They taught themselves to paint and
compared to the life-span of the earth decorated their caves with skilful
itself, about 3,000 million years. illustrations of their hunting ad-
The earliest human beings re- ventures.
sembled large apes, but had more Men now began to cook their meat
intelligence than any monkey. These properly, understanding the benefits
early men were only about 5 feet in of fire, and stone and bark containers
height and probably walked with were made to boil water.
stooped backs. They were essentially The primitive stone tools gradually |
humanin form, with sloping foreheads, gave way to more refined, better shaped
large teeth and chinless jaws, but their flint tools. Arrow and spear heads were
brains were less than half the size of fashioned, and hunting became easier.
those of modern man. The Neolithic period of the Stone
The period from 500,000 B.C. to Age, from about 6,000 B.C., heralded
about 6,000 B.C, is generally known as the beginning of a new civilisation and
the Stone Age, and is divided into the end of prehistoric ideas.
three sections—Paleolithic or Lower, Gradually men learnt to grow crops:
Mesolithic or Middle, and Neolithic wheat, corn, rice and beans. Smaller
or Upper. animals appeared on the earth, the
In Paleolithic times, people instinc- larger, more ferocious types having
tively lived in groups, giving them become extinct, and Neolithic men
protection from the wild animals that captured herds and bred them,
abounded at that time. Their tools were In these ways, men were assured of a
primitive: pebbles split off at one end, constant supply of food, and most
or broad flat pieces of stone used for people ceased their nomadic exist-
scraping animal skins or digging. ences and set up permanent villages
Their food would be berries, roots and settlements.
and the raw meat of the animals they Fences were erected to keep in the
hunted with simple wooden spears. animals,and stockades built {o keep out
Fire was discovered in this period, marauding wild animals. Wild dogs
probably when lightning struck a tree, wandered into the villages and gradu-
but early men did not know how te use ally became domesticated. Man dis-
it to its full advantage. covered how to make pottery and also
Most people lived a nomadic life, the arts of ket-making and weaving.
wandering around until they found This was the end of the prehistoric
plenty of food and game and moving era of the Stone Age. After this time
when the supply was exhausted. events were recorded—the beginnings
They lived in caves in the hillsides, of history—and metals were dis-
but sometimes they would dig pits to covered, taking the place of stone.
live in, roofed over with branches. It had taken man nearly halfa million
Though primitive, the people years to evolve from a wild, ape-like
were still proud of their appearance, creature with little intelligence to his
grotesque as it was. They made present form,
“TT’S a pity to waken them, “I will have a look at this new Despite his countless journeys
thought Dr. Who. planet myself,” he thought. He was through Time and Space, Dr. Who
He tiptoed across the gleaming staring at his vision screen that found everything of absorbing inter-
floor of the Tardis, so as not to disturb showed a landscape of strange vege- est. First, he was struck by the spiny
his two young friends, Jamie and tation and a background of tall grey blades of the plants that covered the
Victoria, They were sleeping soundly mountains, ground, Then his attention was
after a rather disturbing adventure He rammed on his tall, battered caught by the three moons that hung
on a nge planet in the dark hat, pulled bis cloak about him and like lamps in the velvet blackness of
dimensions of Galaxy “G”. turned a little black switch. Lights the sky.
They were sleeping so soundly glowed; there was a buzzing sound, “Amazing!” murmured Dr, Who.
that not even the lurch which the and the two great doors of Tardis Then with a yell he plunged down
spaceship had given as it slid swung open. into a yawning hole that he had
through the trans-dimensional flux He closed them behind Then failed to notice.
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realised with a shock that he was not
accelerating as he fell. In fact, his
fall was gradually slowing down.
Within a minute he was floating
gently past the rocky walls of the
shaft into which he had dropped.
He found time to muse aloud upon
his odd predicament. “It’s almost
exactly like the story that Victoria
was telling me the other day. . . .
Some favourite book of hers on
Earth. . . Now what was the name?
Ah, yes—Alice in Wonderland! And a
little girl had just such a fall as
PhS. .07”
But unlike Alice he did not land
on a bed of dry leaves. The strange
force that had controlled his fall now
gently lowered him to a standing
position.
Immediately he was the centre of
a circle of menacing ray-guns held
by ten soldiers, commanded by a tall
officer. The officer was almost human
in appearance, except for his amber
eyes and forehead antennae, But his
platoon was scarcely human. They
wore helmets, emblazoned with a
golden sun and superimposed black
cogwheel, and red kilts and black
ankle-boots, but for the rest their
bodies were covered with a stiff mat
of black hair and their faces were
slightly like terriers,
“I am a space traveller who comes
in peace,” said Dr. Who loudly.
The officer made a few chirping
noises. He waved a thin white hand,
and two of the soldiers dragged for-
ward a piece of equipment mounted
on a small trolley.
A moment later Dr. Who realised
that it was a translator device, for
now the officer’s chirping reached
him plainly in clipped English: “You
are another sent by Kanulf to try
and kill Mufl—admit it!”
“I’m afraid you are quite mis-
taken,” Dr, Who assured him. ‘I am
what I say—a traveller! I carry no
weapons. You may search me if you
wish!”
The officer gave an order and two
of the soldiers began the search. One
of them stepped back sharply with a
grunt, holding the musical pipe in
his hairy paw.
“Ah!” said the officer,
Dr. Who shrugged. “‘I assure you
it is not a weapon, as you seem to

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think. It is a pipe. You know? The flight gave Dr. Who a sense have been terrifying enough. But Dr.
Music!” of instant weightlessness. He scarcely Who experienced it with a good deal
“Music?” echoed the other blank- had time to ponder how his two more scientific interest than fear. He
ly. “What is that?”* young companions in Tardis would guessed that these strange beings
Dr. Who could not restrain a react to his disappearance, when the were about to examine his brain for
smile. He held out his hand: “‘Well, trip came to an end. the secret mission of which they
the only way I can answer that is to As the transporter glided in to a suspected him—to kill Mufl, whoever
play some. . . . Give me the pipe, landing platform, he found himself he might be!
please.” looking down at a complex of tunnels A tingling sensation warned him
The officer's reply was to snatch and underground highways busy that the process had begun. He
the pipe from the soldier and push it with the purposeful passing of beings steeled his mighty mental powers for
into his belt. “No!” like the tall officer. Now and then the test... .
He motioned a command: “Take there passed, in well-drilled ranks, Through the transparent hood he
him to the answer room!” units of the dog-faced soldiers. saw a screen light up on the wall. A
Hustled along by the dog-faced Led by the officer, Dr, Who was flickering pattern of silver light began
soldiers, the doctor found himself taken down from the platform. A few to shoot across it. He knew it was his
trotting down the sloping floor ofa moments later he was walking into own brain pattern reproduced elec-
smooth-walled tunnel, Concealed the answer room. tronically. He also knew that the
lighting cast a gentle glow around The place was very sterile, very silver-uniformed attendants who now
him, but he did not miss the un- clean, very bright and shining with sat at a control-desk could translate
winking gaze of television monitor its polished metal, gleaming crystal the flickering pattern back into the
cameras in the roof. and ceramics. Dr, Who was handed thoughts that flowed from the inner-
The soldiers who went ahead now over to two silver-uniformed atten- most recesses of his mind.
stood on a landing platform, ready dants. They led him to a cubicle. “Peace!” thought Dr. Who, trying
to push their captive into the rear “Now, I really must protest. . . . to shout it aloud in his mind. “I
seat of a snub-nosed transporter. This is against all the rules of inter- COME IN PEACE...I1 AMA
When they were all seated in it, a stellar hospitality began the TRAVELLER IN TIME AND
kind of plastic hood closed sound- doctor. SPAGE. .. .”
lessly over their heads, Then, pro- But nobody was listening, He was Suddenly he saw the officer who
pelled by an unknown power source, fastened inside a cubicle, while a had captured him step forward. He
the transporter leaped forward into plastic hood closed around him with appeared to dismiss the attendants,
the black mouth of another down- a faint purr. . .. who turned and left the room. The
ward-leading tunnel. To any ordinary person this would soldiers also marched out. Now the
answer room was empty save for the
officer and Dr. Who in his cubicle. ...
The officer bent and touched a
switch. Immediately the tingling
sensation became more intense. Dr.
Who felt his senses recede. He seemed
to be floating remotely between
heaven and earth.
At the same time the officer’s voice
reached him, whispering insistently:
“IT am Captain J’nk . . . you will
listen to me . . .you will remember
what I say . . .you will obey. . . .”
It was several minutes before the
whispering ceased. The tingling
faded away. Dr. Who came to his
senses to find himself stepping out of
the cubicle,
Captain J’nk bowed and saluted.
“Our tests prove you speak the truth,
Dr. Who. . . . Forgive this reception
—but we must be careful of assassins
sent by Kanulf to try and kill
Mufl, ...”
The doctor bowed in return. “I
gather that Mufl is your ruler?”
“Exactly!” said J’nk. “And Kanulf
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 rules the rebel race of Hiinds destined
to live on the arid surface of our
planet Vegan.”
“I should like to meet Mufi,”
remarked Dr. Who.
J’nk turned away. “Our ruler has
already expressed a wish to meet
you,” he said. ““Come!”*
On the point of following the
captain, Dr. Who spotted his music-
pipe lying on the control-desk. He
picked it up and slipped it into his
pocket.
The soldiers now formed a guard
of honour for him as he walked beside
Captain J’nk. He found plenty to
rouse his interest as they proceeded
to the palace of Mufl. The buildings
of the underground complex were
strange but very beautiful, carved
from solid crystalline rock.
The palace was made from the
same dazzling rock. It was heavily
guarded by more of the dog-faced
soldiers. J’nk and the doctor were
subjected to a close scrutiny by a
robot-guard before being ushered
into the palace.
There J’nk saluted. ou are to
see Mufl alone,” he said. “Nobody
else sees our ruler. . . . It is too risky,
since so many attempts have been
made on his life.”
He marched away. Another robot-
guard was waiting to escort Dr. Who
to a door. The door popped open in
response to the robot’s distinctive
wave pattern, and the visitor was
propelled by a steel-fingered hand
into the room. . . -
It was a big oval room, lighted
from overhead by a great star-map “Thank you, Mufl lam glad Mufl spoke quietly beside him.
in the ceiling. There was a desk with to have the opportunity to meet ‘Not all... . Watch!”
view screens and reading screens and you,” he replied. “Your under- His hand moved to a control
communication screens around it. ground kingdom intrigues me,” button on his chair arm, and a red
Behind the desk sat the ruler of the The ruler smiled. “Thank you. . . . patch, roughly the shape of a pork
planet Vegan. But of course this is only the centre chop, appeared on the western side.
He was a small compact person of the Empire. . . . Come, sit here “That is the Empire,” said Mufl.
with the same forehead antennae as and I will show you,” “Every one of eight hundred and
the captain. But his amber eyes were Dr. Who accepted the invitation, forty-three inhabited worlds . . . a
not, as intense or searching; they and took a leather-padded seat close billion and a half intelligent beings
seemed to Dr. Who to be the eyes to Mufl’s. At a touch ofa button the ..- fourteen races. . . and all faithful
of a deeply thoughtful and kindly two seats tipped backwards, and the to me except Kanulf and the Hiinds.
creature. lights dimmed. Their attempts to assassinate me
“Dr. Who? I am Mufl. . . . You Looking up at the glowing swirl of have driven me into this seclusion.”
are welcome to our planet.” The lights in the ceiling, Dr. Who figured The lights came on again and the
voice was the same chirping twitter there must be billions. He knew that chair tilted upright. Dr. Who
as the officer, but through the hidden each light must represent a star or a frowned thoughtfully. “What kinds
translator machine it reached Dr. planet. It made him gasp, ““This— of attempts?” he asked.
Who as a gentle voice. this is your Empire?” Mufl leaned forward. “Once my

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robots discovered loose strontium-go His keen brain soon sought out the Dr. Who turned to find the ruler
in the upholstery of the Audience hidden answer. “He gave me a rising from his chair and passing a
Throne. Another time a ray-gun was weapon! In my pocket!” thin hand weakly over his eyes.
hidden in the view screen in my bed- He dipped into his pocket. His Dr. Who hurried to help him. “I
chamber. And again a fission bomb fingers closed on the smooth handle thought you were in a trance induced
was flung at a space-car in which I ofaray-gun, and he drew it out. by the music,” he said.
was thought to be travelling. . , In At that moment the door opened “And so I was,” admitted Mufl.
each case Captain J’nk has dis- and Captain J’nk entered. He stood “But it soon passed. Then I heard
covered it to be the work ofassassins gloating over the sprawling figure of what happened when J’nk came in.
sent down by Kanulf,. . .” Mufl. Then he turned to Dr. Who. . . So he is the traitor who has
The ruler paused. He stared at his “You have done well! You have engineered all these attempts on my
visitor who was suddenly leaning rid the Empire of Mufl—a goal life! I have falsely accused Kanulf
forward with his head buried in his which I have sought for many years. and the Hiinds.
hands. “What is the matter? Are you .. . Come, give me the weapon.” When the robot-guards had carried
feeling unwell?” he asked. He took the ray-gun from Dr. away the stupefied body of the false
“I—I am trying to remember Who’s hand and turned away, captain, Mufl put a thin hand upon
something.” The doctor’s voice was apparently convinced that the other Dr. Who’s shoulder.
vague and hesitating. “It was some- was still under his hypnotic influence. “The whole Empire has cause to
thing that happened in the answer Like a flash the doctor raised his be grateful,” he said. “I shall call for
room.” music-pipe to his lips. As the notes a great celebration, and you will be
He looked up. The strain of con- trilled out across the room, J’nk the guest of honour.”
centration showed in his lined face. whirled with a snarl. The ray-gun ‘““Well—er—that is very kind,
“Do you mind if I play my music- pointed directly at the visitor’s Mufi,” replied Dr. Who. “But my
pipe, Mufl? It helps me to concen- chest....,.. immediate aim is to return to the
trate,” But the trigger was never pulled. surface of your planet where my
The ruler signified his permission. J’nk suddenly slumped: a glazed space machine has landed. . . . Un-
“TI shall be quiet,” he promised. look came into his amber eyes; he less I am mistaken, the two young
“You must try and remember what crumpled sideways over the control- friends I left there must be very
happened.” panel in a hypnotic trance. .. . worried right now. . . . 1 wonder if
Softly Dr. Who blew into the pipe. You have done us a great service, they will ever believe the strange
The wistful notes echoed through my friend!” It was Muft’s voice. story I have to tell them?”
the study. But suddenly he snatched
his instrument from his lips and
leaped to his feet.
“T’ve got it! .. . Now I remember
what happened! . . . Your Captain
Jnk sent the attendants and the
soldiers out of the answer room. . . .
Then he must have put me under
deep hypnosis and instructed me to
—to kill you when we were alone in
here!”
Dr. Who paused. His amazing
news had aroused no flicker of move-
ment in Mufl. The ruler was leaning
forward on his desk. He appeared to
be asleep. The doctor touched him
on the shoulder, and then exclaimed
in surprise: “Great galaxies! He's in
a sort of trance. . . . But how—
what——?”
He broke off, staring at his music-
pipe. “Mm . . . yes! That must be it!
From what J’nk said, music is un-
known to these people. And it proves
to have a hypnotic effect on them!”
He stepped away, frowning. “But
I must try and remember J’nk’s
hypnotic suggestion. . . . How did he
instruct me to kill Mufl?”
 Most of the
early attempts
at flight were
brave but
misguided

In the sixteenth century

Leonardo da Vinci, the
Italian painter and inventor,
made drawings and models
of flying apparatus.

3
But it was three
hundred years before man
took to the air. The Montgolfier
brothers of Paris made the first
ascent in a hot-air balloon.
5
4 Adapting their own
glider design and fitting it
However balloons with their own lightweight
were cumbersome, engine, the two brothers
unreliable and Wilbur and Orville Wright made
dangerous, Attention history in December 1903.
was once more focused Orville made the first powered
‘on heavier-than-air flight—it lasted twelve seconds.
machines and
successful glider flights
were made.
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On 4th October, 1957,
the first man-made satellite
was fired into space and a new
dimension in aviation was opened.
Four years later Major Yuri Gagarin !
became the first man in space| |
when he made a single
orbit of the earth.

9 Jet engines were improved and in

1947 Major Charles Yeager became
the first man to travel faster than sound.
His specially designed Bell X-1 aircraft
was released from a large bomber
at a height of 30,000 feet.

8
The Second World War saw the
development of the jet engine, pioneered
by Sir Frank Whittle, and the first
7 rocket, the German V.2, was used
In 1919 Alcock and saemat London:
Brown, Englishmen, became
the first men to fly the
Atlantic non-stop. Seven years
later Charles Lindbergh, a young
American, made the first solo crossing
in his aircraft The Spirit of St. Louis. The
6 trip took 33 hours.
It was the
First World War
which led to new
innovations in
aircraft design
and by 1918
amazing advances
had been made.

n Now pioneering ‘
has gone further.
Rockets have been sent to the
moon and Venus to send back
information. It seems incredible that
it is only sixty-four years since
the Wright Brothers’ historic
flight at Kitty Hawk.
Who knows what the next
sixty years hold
in store?

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