In this, the first adventure of his third 'incarnation', Doctor Who, Liz Shaw and the Brigadier grapple with the nightmarish invasion of the Autons — living, giant-sized, plastic-modelled 'humans' with no hair and sightless eyes; waxwork replicas and tailors' dummies whose murderous behaviour is directed by the Nestene Consciousness — a malignant, squid-like monster of cosmic proportions and indescribably hideous appearance.

Novelization of the Doctor Who TV series; four episode story "Spearhead from Space" (1970), script by Robert Holmes.