The Janus Conjunction

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Doctor Who book

The Janus Conjunction
Series	Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	16
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Sam
Writer	Trevor Baxendale
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-40599-6
Release date	October 1998
Preceded by	The Scarlet Empress
Followed by	Beltempest

The Janus Conjunction is an original novel written by Trevor Baxendale and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor and Sam.

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

The planets Janus Prime and Menda are diametrically opposed in orbit round a vast red giant star. When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Janus Prime, they find themselves in the middle of a war between rival humans colonising the area. The Doctor and Sam have to figure out the mysteries surrounding the actual planets and then they must discover the agents which are inflaming both sets of colonist's to the point of almost total war. They discover the answers are to do with the indigninous population of spiders and their connection to the planets.