In this, the initial adventure of his third incarnation, Doctor Who, Liz Shaw as well as the Brigadier grapple using the nightmarish invasion from the Autons. Living, giant-sized, plastic-modelled ‘human beings’ with no locks and sightless eyes, they are waxwork reproductions and tailors’ dummies whose murderous behavior is directed with the Nestene Consciousness – a malignant, squid-like monster of cosmic proportions and indescribably hideous appearance. Caroline John, who played Liz Shaw in the initial Doctor Who TV serial ‘Spearhead from Space’, reads Terrance Dicks’ total and unabridged novelisation, first released by Target Books in 1974. ‘BBC Audiobooks provides chosen well with its books and offers taken the proper approach with its readers… they benefit from songs and sound effects’ – Doctor Who Magazine.