 | Edition: | UK (hardback) | | | Released: | April 1977
| | | Publisher: | Allan Wingate | | | ISBN: | 0-85523-181-5 | | | Format: | hardback | | | Owned: | | | | Buy: |  |  | (Not currently available) |
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Cover blurb:
No blurb on back cover. Inner cover flaps read as follows: ‘Axos calling Earth, Axos calling Earth...’
The creatures stood before them, beautiful golden humanoids, offering friendship and their priceless Axonite, in return for — what? Only DOCTOR WHO remains suspicious. What is the real reason for the Axons’ sudden arrival on Earth? And why is the evil Master a passenger on their spaceship? He very soon finds out...
Terrance Dicks was born in 1935 and educated at East Ham Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge.
After a spell in advertising the author became a full-time scriptwriter, first for radio, then television where for five years he was Script Editor of the ‘Doctor Who’ series. He is now a free-lance author and writes many of the highly successful ‘Doctor Who’ books, as well as an adventure series for boys and girls about the Canadian Mounted Police Force. Terrance Dicks lives in Hampstead, London, is married and has three children. He is an obsessive reader and likes ‘messing about in boats’. | 
