Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowman

The Doctor has been to Det-Sen Monastery before, and expects the welcome of a lifetime. But the monastery is a very different place from when the Doctor last came. Fearing an attack at any moment by the legendary Yeti, the monks are prepared to defend themselves, and see the Doctor as a threat. The Doctor and his friends join forces with Travers, an English explorer out to prove the existence of the elusive abominable snowmen. But they soon discover that these Yeti are not the timid animals that Travers seeks. They are the unstoppable servants of an alien Intelligence.

First thing to say is I liked the Stephen Baxter's introduction. It's probably the most exciting thing he's ever written!

Sooner or later a novelisations written by Terrance Dicks was going to appear. Aside from being Doctor Who's script editor from the late Troughton to the end of the Pertwee era, Terrance wrote the majority of the Target Doctor Who novels.The influence he had on today's Doctor Who writers is profound (Paul Cornell, for one, is a huge fan). For me, one of the earliest novels I can remember reading from cover to cover was his adaptations of Robots of Death and The Invisible Enemy.

Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen was one of the his first novelisations. Alas I can't compare it to the TV original as only one out of the six episodes exits in the BBC's archives. But the novelisation itself is vintage Dicks; well-written and a joy to read.