Exterminate!

The Library holds many culturally important taonga that inform our identity as Cantabrians. This is not one of them, but it is the coolest thing I’ve seen in Store since an old edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, opens a new window:

Doctor Who and the Daleks omnibus, opens a new window is a 1976 TV tie-in. It includes two novel-length stories and vital information on Dalek anatomy:

The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) was the Doctor du jour when this was published, and he (and his scarf) feature prominently:

Levity aside, never forget that “beyond the beyond of beyond at the dark endless edge of eternal space, exists a life force that has neither form nor substance.”

Look to the skies…