Sky Pirates! By Dave Stone

Wow, this book is strange and zany, comparable to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. Written by Dave Stone all the information that you get about him is that he has written three Judge Dredd novels and is on medication. The Seventh Doctor along with companions, Benny, Roz and Chris have a strange adventure that involves one of my all time favorite race of aliens in all science fiction,The Sloothes these guys are really gross and for some reason to me completely fascinating. Maybe it is because they are truly alien with no human like traits or emotions making communication with them is almost impossible. Their ships are made from the dead, bloated bodies of  their own species, They collect everything with no idea of anything's value, they just pile up in their ships all the things the take from other races they have attacked including living people. They have no idea how to deal with their living captives and sometimes feed them and sometimes not and some of what they try to feed captives is rotten or not even food. Poor Chris and Roz end up on one of the Sloothes ships. Roz gets addicted to the body fluids that one of the Sloothes feeds her, hilarious . The Doctor and Benny fly around with some space pirates that are trying to save the galaxy from the Sloothes, I cannot even due justice to explain the craziness of this book. I also love the cover which unlike some Doctor Who New Adventures books has a pretty good likeness of  Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. If you look behind the Doctor on the cover you see that he is inside a sickening pepto pink Sloothe ship. One of my favorite New Adventure books I have read so far. 

Doctor Who New Adventure Books

The Doctor Who Adventure Books were published by Virgin Books between 1991 and 1999, most of these books featured the Seventh Doctor and his companions starting with Ace. I personally really enjoyed the on screen relationship between the Seventh Doctor and Ace, so when I had watched all these episodes I wanted more. I started collecting the New Adventure books. The covers of the early books in the series have a wonderfully pulp feel to them. 

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The craziest one is the cover of "Head Games" by Steve Lyons, I have not read this book yet, but it is one of my favorite book covers of all time. The usually nonviolent Seventh Doctor is leering out creepily from the cover wearing his silly, yellow and blue question mark sweater is pointing a huge gun at Mel who is wearing the funky pink outfit that she wore in "Time and the Rani". You can almost hear Mel screaming, the whole thing is horrible. I love it. I think that it shows why these books to many Who fans are so appealing, you get all the fun of Doctor Who but with a much more adult feel. With the books we get to explore areas of the Doctor Who universe that you could never get away with on TV.