An unabridged reading of the thrilling novelisation of a First Doctor television adventure.

It is ten million years in the future, and the Earth is about to plunge in to the Sunlight. A gigantic Space Ark has been launched, to consider the last of humanity to a fresh life on the planet Refusis II. Associated the humans on their journey will be the Monoids, strange reptilian animals from an alien globe.

When the TARDIS materialises up to speed, the Doctor and his friends are greeted with suspicion, which quickly turns to open hostility when Dodo inadvertently infects the Ark’s crew having a long-forgotten virus. It really is an accident which will have a terrible effect on mankind, an impact that will last for seven-hundred years…