sentences:  Platt later adapted the story as a novel for the Virgin New Adventures range in March 1997.In 1988 writer Marc Platt discussed with script editor Andrew Cartmel an idea inspired by Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace", concerning stone-headed aliens looking for their God-King in Tsarist 19th Century Russia.Before the original "Doctor Who" series reached its conclusion, some tentative plans had been made for a proposed 27th season under the assumption that it would maintain the then-current pattern of two four-part and two three-part stories.