Vanderdeken's Children is an original novel written by Christopher Bulis and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

There are two other ships in the area as well, from rival star-systems, the Emindarian passenger liner, Cirrandaria, and the Nimosian warship, Indomitable.

Narrowly avoiding destruction by the Indomitable, the Doctor and Sam land on the Cirrandaria.

He pictures the monsters from his childhood reaching up for him, lets go of the pylon and falls to his death.

The Cirrandaria sends its own expedition down to the derelict, including the Doctor and Sam, and all hell breaks loose...