Free “Doctor Who” Novel: The Well-Mannered War

You can read “The Well-Mannered War” by Gareth Roberts online for free.

The Darkness turned slowly through the Metra system, its bulk blotting out the stars as it passed. An observer would have taken it for another piece of cosmic jetsam, an asteroid adrift, that might spin through the galaxies for ages until snared or crushed by some natural force. Its strangely regular shape – it resembled a rough-edged, inverted pyramid – might have drawn speculation; but this could be explained away as simply a simulacrum. As for the curious directness of the path it took, that was quite probably the result of local planetary gravities.

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