War of the Daleks

1997 novel by John Peel

This article is about the novel by John Peel. For the audio drama, see Dalek War.

War of the Daleks

Author| John Peel
Series| Doctor Who book:
Eighth Doctor Adventures

Release number

| 5
Subject| Featuring:
Eighth Doctor
Sam
Publisher| BBC Books

Publication date

| October 1997
ISBN| 0-563-40573-2
Preceded by| Genocide
Followed by| Alien Bodies

War of the Daleks is an original novel written by John Peel, published in 1997, based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor and Sam.

This story chronicles the demise of Davros once and for all and the rising of the supreme Dalek force. This also conflicts the destruction of Skaro which has survived thanks to a larger plot played by the Dalek Prime.

## Plot[edit]

The story opens up with the Doctor and Sam in the TARDIS doing some maintenance when they are collected by a ship which holds an escape pod containing Davros. A group of Thals arrive; they want Davros to alter their species so they will be better able to fight the Daleks. A force of Daleks then arrive and take the Doctor and Davros, along with other characters, to Skaro. Before landing on Skaro, the Doctor discovers that the coordinates he believed were Skaro's were actually those of the planet Antalin.

Since Davros's return the Dalek Prime has met considerable resistance with a number of Davros loyalists forming. Initiating a final civil war on Skaro, the Dalek Prime has all the Davros loyalists revealed and exterminated. In the meantime he releases the Doctor to leave Skaro. The Doctor discovers a planted device on board the TARDIS which would allow the Daleks to survive in case the Dalek Prime failed. He jettisons it into the vortex.

With his faction defeated, Davros is sentenced to death by matter dispersal. Prior to his downfall he had implanted a Spider Dalek as a spy amongst the Dalek Prime's forces. Davros is placed in a disintegration chamber and his atoms dispersed. His fate is left open when his data is either erased from the disintegrator or transmatted across space to a safe location.

## Continuity[edit]

* The Dalek Prime states that the planet the Doctor destroyed (in Remembrance of the Daleks) was not Skaro, but Antalin. According to the Dalek Prime, the Daleks had found out about the destruction of Skaro when they found records during their invasion of Earth in the 22nd century (The Dalek Invasion of Earth). To simultaneously save their homeworld and maintain the flow of history, the Daleks reasoned that they needed to make it appear as if Skaro had been destroyed, so they terraformed Antalin to resemble Skaro and placed Davros there after altering his memories so, when revived (Destiny of the Daleks), he would believe he was on Skaro. It is also stated that the Daleks' war with the Movellans was faked to give the Daleks a plausible reason for reviving Davros.
* It is implied that the Dalek factory ship jettisoned from the TARDIS near the end of the book ends up as the capsule seen in The Power of the Daleks.

## External links[edit]

* The Cloister Library - War of the Daleks
* War of the Daleks title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

### Reviews[edit]

* The Whoniverse's review of War of the Daleks Archived 16 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

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* The Daleks
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* The Power of the Daleks
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* Day of the Daleks
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* Genesis of the Daleks
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* Resurrection of the Daleks

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* Remembrance of the Daleks

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* The Curse of Fatal Death
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* "The Last Day"
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* "Destination: Skaro"

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* Dr. Who and the Daleks
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* The Lego Batman Movie

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| The Monthly Adventures|

* The Genocide Machine
* The Apocalypse Element
* The Mutant Phase
* The Time of the Daleks
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* Terror Firma
* Return of the Daleks
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* Plague of the Daleks
* The Curse of Davros
* Daleks Among Us

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* Invasion of the Daleks
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* Project Infinity
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I, Davros|

* Innocence
* The Davros Mission

Other|

* Death and the Daleks
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* Dark Eyes
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* The Tenth Doctor Adventures
* After the Daleks
* Nightmare of the Daleks
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* Resurrection of the Daleks
* Revelation of the Daleks
* Remembrance of the Daleks

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* War of the Daleks
* Legacy of the Daleks

New Series Adventures|

* I Am a Dalek
* Prisoner of the Daleks
* The Dalek Generation
* Engines of War

Other|

* The Dalek Factor

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* The Evil of the Daleks
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Doctor Who: Davros stories

Television|

| Original series|

* Genesis of the Daleks
* Destiny of the Daleks
* Resurrection of the Daleks
* Revelation of the Daleks
* Remembrance of the Daleks

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Revived series|

* "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End"
* "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar"

Audio|

| The Monthly Adventures|

* Davros
* The Juggernauts
* Terror Firma
* The Curse of Davros
* Daleks Among Us

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I, Davros|

* Innocence
* The Davros Mission

Other|

* Masters of War

Other|

* Dalek Attack
* War of the Daleks
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* "Destination: Skaro"

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