As'll become clear if you click here, I don't have very much to say about this one. It feels like the archetypal Target novelisation, the sort of thing that feels like the mean of all my dim memories of the range. And, other than the fact it's written by Terrance Dicks, I think this might be thanks to the arrival of Troughton's Doctor. There've been hints in a few books now that Troughton is much closer to how the writers imagine the Doctor than Pertwee and it suddenly seems even true of the cover artists - Troughton will be untroubled by the bizarre 'likenesses' that plague both Pertwee and Baker around him - with one of the best composed covers in the range so far. I'd have to go looking for evidence to actually say it with any confidence, but surely this novelisation, as well as its being so early in the range, is the chief reason that the Yeti were ever considered one of Doctor Who's big monsters rather than just the returning henchmen in two Professor Travers stories confined to one television season..?
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