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Doctor Who: Find Your Fate #1
Search For The Doctor
YOU are the only hope for the salvation of the Doctor in SEARCH FOR THE DOCTOR
The year is 2056. From the Fern Spacelab orbiting above the Fusion Energy Research Network in California, OMEGA has mounted a devastating attack.
OMEGA plans to take over the Doctor's mind and body. By controlling the Doctor's awesome power, OMEGA can take revenge on the Time Lords, who sacrificed him to obtain the secret of Time Travel.
YOU will join forces with DRAX and K9 to free the Doctor and defeat OMEGA. As DRAX uses his secondhand TARDIS (cleverly disguised as a 1956 Cadillac) and K9 uses his impressive electronic skills, YOU must use all your wits to FIND YOUR FATE!
The year is 2056. From the Fern Spacelab orbiting above the Fusion Energy Research Network in California, OMEGA has mounted a devastating attack.
OMEGA plans to take over the Doctor's mind and body. By controlling the Doctor's awesome power, OMEGA can take revenge on the Time Lords, who sacrificed him to obtain the secret of Time Travel.
YOU will join forces with DRAX and K9 to free the Doctor and defeat OMEGA. As DRAX uses his secondhand TARDIS (cleverly disguised as a 1956 Cadillac) and K9 uses his impressive electronic skills, YOU must use all your wits to FIND YOUR FATE!
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First published July 12, 1986
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About the author
Dave Martin
98 books1 followerDavid Ralph Martin was an accomplished television and film writer. He contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979 in collaboration with Bob Baker. Baker and Martin's most notable contributions to the Doctor Who mythos were probably the robot computer K-9 (created for The Invisible Enemy) and the renegade Time Lord Omega (created for The Three Doctors, Doctor Who's tenth anniversary story).Together they were nicknamed "The Bristol Boys" by the Doctor Who production teams with whom they worked. They also worked together on the 1975 children's science fantasy television serial Sky and Into the Labyrinth.
In the early 1980s, Martin wrote a series of 4 small illustrated children's stories starring K9. In 1986, he wrote the Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure book Search for the Doctor.
In the early 1980s, Martin wrote a series of 4 small illustrated children's stories starring K9. In 1986, he wrote the Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure book Search for the Doctor.
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September 13, 2016
The "Find Your Fate" books were a series of books that were mimicking off of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books in the mid eighties. In fact there were many imitators, some actually proved to be better (if memory serves) than what they were imitating while others not so much. This book series takes it up another notch on interactive by having you roll dice on help make your decisions and deciphering messages. This could up the ante on interest or make it a distraction. There are six books in the Dr. Who series that I have made the commitment to read all six. The books are not streamlined in like Choose Your Own Adventure and finding your page that you made your choice on is terribly confusing since numbers are everywhere. I truly got lost.
Of course the most interesting characters are the Doctor and K-9 and to a lesser extent in this book the villian, Omega. He certainly is trying to come across as a highly intelligent villian, indestructible too but manages to get out witted easily. Of course this book is for younger readers and a deeper approach to the characters would probably bore that demographic. Overall I didn't care for the story or how the decision concept was set up as it comes across confusing, congested and convoluted.
Of course the most interesting characters are the Doctor and K-9 and to a lesser extent in this book the villian, Omega. He certainly is trying to come across as a highly intelligent villian, indestructible too but manages to get out witted easily. Of course this book is for younger readers and a deeper approach to the characters would probably bore that demographic. Overall I didn't care for the story or how the decision concept was set up as it comes across confusing, congested and convoluted.
June 28, 2024
Not badly written, but I'm disappointed with the way a 'failure' is immediately directed back to the last option with a "Oh well, now you know what not to do".
A massive part of the charm of the format is the brutal honest of a 'failed' story path. You were GAOLED, you were TRAPPED FOREVER, you DIED. THE END. Go back to the start and do it over again.
I'm afraid this book comes across as lacking the courage of other series of choose you own adventure stories, which is disappointing for a franchise that has always taken great glee in pushing the boundaries of its format and time.
A massive part of the charm of the format is the brutal honest of a 'failed' story path. You were GAOLED, you were TRAPPED FOREVER, you DIED. THE END. Go back to the start and do it over again.
I'm afraid this book comes across as lacking the courage of other series of choose you own adventure stories, which is disappointing for a franchise that has always taken great glee in pushing the boundaries of its format and time.
January 2, 2025
The “main” story and “dead” ends were ok. The format focuses on the reader character as leading the story. Sometimes a Doctor story that doesn’t focus on the Doctor works, but it didn’t work here for me.
I did enjoy Drax. I wish he had more character development in the wider Who universe. And K9 is always entertaining for me.
I did enjoy Drax. I wish he had more character development in the wider Who universe. And K9 is always entertaining for me.
January 5, 2026
A fun read, picked up more for childhood nostalgia than anything.
February 26, 2014
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2274954.html[return][return]The story starts with "you" inheriting K9 from the late Sarah Jane Smith, in the year 2056; you then join forces with Drax from The Armageddon Factor, helping the Doctor to defeat Omega who is threatening to destroy the universe by taking over a nuclear research facility for his own ends. Obviously a lot of elements recycled from TV stories which Martin co-wrote with Bob Baker, and it's actually rather well done - a somewhat improvised team ("you", Drax and K9) trying to rescue the Doctor and thwart Omega. The options for success do tend to be the last in the list for each page, with only two exceptions. But on the whole the "correct" choices are fairly signalled. There are a couple of anagram puzzles which are not terribly well integrated into the plot.
July 31, 2015
This book is an oldy but a goody. I remember getting a copy of the Doctor Who Find Your Fate series over 20 years ago and enjoying it. Recently I found out that there were Doctor Who Decide Your Destiny books and read a few of them and hated them. Basically your choices did not have any real outcomes. In the Find Your Fate Series if you make the wrong decision you're dead. If luck is against you then you're dead. And if you are to cautious then the book calls you out on it and skips to the end stating that you obviously do not want to take an adventure. Basically you have to use your wits and read the clues to get through the story alive, which is nearly impossible.
This book has taught me that if I see a blue box materializing in front of me to run the opposite direction because you have little to no chance living through the adventure.
This book has taught me that if I see a blue box materializing in front of me to run the opposite direction because you have little to no chance living through the adventure.
October 15, 2007
It was a Choose Your Own Adventure-esque book featuring Doctor Who. I'd have liked it even if it wasn't very good. And it probably wasn't, but I don't really remember, so the three star rating is based more on nostalgia than actual memories of quality.
December 10, 2010
I really got into these make-your-own story books
May 27, 2013
I read this before I ever knew about DW, and it got me into it. Great fun, and a must-have for DW fans
11>12>9
11>12>9
January 26, 2024
No matter what choices I made, the book was over fast. I didn't read half the book and it ended.
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