Sick building

Sick building / by Paul Magrs ; read by Will Thorp. -- [Bath] : BBC Audiobooks, 2008.—
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(Doctor Who)
ISBN: 9781405646925 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)

1. Doctor Who (Fictitious character) – Fiction. 2. Dwellings – Fiction. 3. Life on other planets – Fiction. 4. Robots – Fiction. 5. Science fiction.

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The Voracious Craw an omnivorous mountain-sized predator is about to gobble up everything on Tiermann's World: saber-toothed tigers, plant life, the landscape itself and even Tiermann himself, his family and his deluxe Dreamhome. The Tiermanns own their own planet and live in such luxury because Professor Ernest Tiermann invented most of the automated furnishings in Dreamhome and the Domovoi, the artificial intelligence that guides them. Professor Tiermann still rules the roost, dominating his wife and their teenaged son, the only human inhabitants of the planet, and he does not like an unannounced time lord and his companion dropping in unannounced. He already knows about the Voracious Craw, and he already has his own plans for evacuation, thank you very much, and he plans to do it his way without outside interference. What Tiermann doesn’t know is that it won’t be outsiders who will foil his escape plans. He considers the furnishings, which he has endowed with human characteristics and consciousness, as expendable bits of machinery that must be abandoned to the Craw, does not sit well with the Domovoi.