Shadow of Death was the second release of the Destiny of the Doctor audio series, produced by Big Finish Productions for AudioGO.

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Publisher's summary Edit

Following an emergency landing, the TARDIS arrives on a remote world orbiting a peculiar star – a pulsar which exerts an enormous gravitational force, strong enough to warp time.

On further exploration the Doctor and his friends, Jamie and Zoe, discover a human outpost on the planet surface, inhabited by scientists who are there to study an ancient city. The city is apparently abandoned, but the scientists are at a loss to explain what happened to its sophisticated alien architects.

The Doctor discovers that something dark, silent and deadly is also present on the world - and it is slowly closing in on the human intruders...

PlotEdit

The Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe find themselves on a planet orbiting a pulsar in the year 2724. The pulsar's gravitational pulses are strong enough to the drag the TARDIS out of its flight, leading it to be at least temporarily stuck on the planet.

Things are not as they seem. They find themselves in a human base built near an ancient city. Looking out onto the surface, the Doctor and his companions see what appear to be statues of figures in spacesuits. The Doctor and his companions are quickly captured by more humans, who prove to be part of a galactic survey expedition, led by Dr Sophie Topolovic. Although there is mutual suspicion at first, it quickly turns to an alliance of necessity when it becomes clear that