Free “Doctor Who” Novel: Lungbarrow

Free online novel, “Lungbarrow” by Marc Platt from Doctor Who: The New Adventures.

‘A gold-coded security dispatch, sir,’ announced the young Chancellery Guard captain and formally handed over the courier pod.

Surveillance Actuary Hofwinter, a veteran of some nine hundred and ninety-six years in the Space/Time Accession Bureau, generation and regeneration, logged the delivery on his cartulary register. The pod buzzed and opened like a black flower, allowing him to extract a single crystal datacube from its heart.

He weighed the device in his hand and sniffed its surface. ‘Classified,’ he observed. The captain, resplendent in his scarlet and white uniform, had not moved.

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