This excerpt is primarily from the Doctor Who novel, Apollo 23 by Justin Richards, focusing on a contemporary adventure involving the Eleventh Doctor and his companion, Amy Pond. The narrative centers on a quantum displacement anomaly connecting a shopping center in England with a secret moonbase, Base Diana, resulting in catastrophic events like the sudden deaths of civilians and the appearance of an astronaut, Captain Garrett, in the mall. The Doctor and Amy arrive on the moonbase via the TARDIS to investigate, encountering General Walinski and his team, who are secretly using the moonbase for ethically questionable experiments involving mind-wiping "Blanks" like Liz Didbrook and transferring Talerian alien consciousnesses into human hosts. The text details the Doctor's successful plan to use the base’s water-based data storage system to restore the human minds and foil the Talerian invasion. Additionally, the source includes a backlist and forthcoming list of other BBC Books releases, confirming the text'

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