Frontier Worlds

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Doctor Who book

Frontier Worlds
Series	Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	29
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Fitz and Compassion
Writer	Peter Anghelides
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-55589-0
Number of pages	273
Release date	November 1999
Preceded by	The Taking of Planet 5
Followed by	Parallel 59

Frontier Worlds is a BBC Books original novel written by Peter Anghelides and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion.

Frontier Worlds was named "Best Eighth Doctor Novel" in the annual Doctor Who Magazine poll of its readers.

[edit] Plot

The Doctor goes undercover to investigate a company's genetic experiments on an alien plant.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity