The Slitheen Excursion

Doctorwhobook
title=The Slitheen Excursion
series=New Series Adventures
featuring=Tenth Doctor


ISBN=978-184607640-4
writer=Simon Guerrier
publisher=BBC Books
set_between=
pages=256
date= 2 April, 2009
preceding=Prisoner of the Daleks
following=Judgement of the Judoon|

"The Slitheen Excursion" is an upcoming BBC Books original novel written by Simon Guerrier and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Tenth Doctor without a companion, most likely following on from the fourth series finale Journey's End. It will be released in April 2009.

Plot

1500 B.C. – King Actaeus and his subjects live in mortal fear of the awesome gods who have come to visit their kingdom in ancient Greece. Except the Doctor, visiting with university student June, knows they’re not gods at all. They’re aliens.

For the aliens, it’s the perfect holiday – they get to tour the sights of a primitive planet and even take part in local customs. Like gladiatorial games, or hunting down and killing humans who won’t be missed.

With June’s enthusiastic help, the Doctor soon meets the travel agents behind this deadly package holiday company – his old enemies the Slitheen. But can he bring the Slitheen excursion to an end without endangering more lives? And how are events in ancient Greece linked to a modern-day alien plot to destroy what’s left of the Parthenon?