Doctor Who: Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles

Author:Lawrence Miles
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563405771
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Americas
Published: 1997-11-15T10:00:00+00:00

23:42; four cans down, going beyond “relaxed” and into the realms of “introspective”.

Qixotl had picked up another couple of cans on the way back from the toilets, and he’d already downed one, even though he hadn’t gone back to the cubicle yet. He stopped off in one of the club’s relaxation lounges, where Professionals huddled together in suspicious little clusters, discussing the latest developments in narcotics science. The lounge was designed to make the Professionals feel at home, with a black-and-white Bakelite TV mounted on the wall in one corner, and the skinned corpses of undercover policemen dangling artistically from the ceiling on meat hooks. All very tasteful, really.

Qixotl made his way across to the TV. Someone else was already standing in front of the screen, drink in hand. The Professional was young, dressed in the obligatory black suit, with an unconvincing frown on his face. Another Gabrielidean, Qixotl judged.

The TV station – Dronid only had the one – was running a news bulletin. Qixotl watched a piece of footage that had presumably been taken by one of the surveillance satellites the off-worlders had put into orbit. Half a dozen spaceships were moving through the vacuum in close formation. The craft were plain black cuboids, utterly smooth and featureless, but you knew, you just knew, that at a moment’s notice they could open up their gunports and reveal a whole host of nasty weapons systems.

‘Gabrielidean warships,’ Qixotl murmured.

The Professional turned to face him. The man would have looked worried, if his facial software had been subtle enough.

‘The Time Lords,’ he said. ‘They’re coming for us, aren’t they?’

‘Yeah, right,’ said Qixotl. He tried his best to sound cynical about the whole thing.

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