Mission to Magnus

This is one of the 'missing episodes' series of books, an story that is not based on an actual episode. It's about the Doctor and Peri landing on a planet ruled by women. All the males on the planet are subservient to the women.

There's also another time lord there, and both he and the Doctor are captured by the women who want to learn how to use the Tardis in order to deal with a threat to their planet from the men from a nearby planet. What they don't know is that Martian Ice Warriors are on their planet, working to move the planet's orbit and establish their own control over the entire planet.

In the end, the Ice Warriors are defeated and the women find out that they might not object to the men from the other planet as much as they thought. In other words, it's an all-women-in-control plot where the women find their 'proper' place in the end, and that they need men in their lives.

The story itself would be good, but the underlying theme is not, and that damages the over-all quality of the story.

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