The novel “Shining Darkness” by Mark Michalowski was published for the first time in 2008.

The Tenth Doctor brings Donna Noble to the Andromeda galaxy, where the two travelers go to visit an art gallery. When Donna ends up in the range of a transmat that also beams away one of the exhibits, the Doctor is forced to find a way to follow her. Soon, he realizes that the theft had a purpose that goes far beyond art.

The Doctor chases the spaceship that transports Donna on another spaceship with a crew of sentient machines – mechanicals – and discovers that they’re chasing a group belonging to an anti-machine organization. For centuries in the Andromeda galaxy organic beings and mechanicals have been coexisting peacefully but the Cult of Shining Darkness would radically change the situation.