The Eighth Doctor is a bit of a challenge, of course. He has two definitively canonical appearances, and one of those post-dates this book, and yet there is a wealth of deuterocanonical novels, comic strips and audio plays to muddy the waters. Scarrow opts to keep it simple, and the Doctor thus appears without a companion on this occasion.
A mysterious object has landed in Nevada, and now the entire area is going out of contact. The Doctor has a nasty suspicion that he knows what is going on, and there's an easy way to stop it. Unfortunately, the Planet Earth won't have that knowledge for about fifty years, and if he's right then it certainly doesn't have fifty years in which to find it.
Spore is a disaster movie with the Doctor in it, more than an invasion story, but Scarrow's limited hard science is actually better than in most such tales, covering aspects of quantum theory as well as the nature of von Neumman machines. The Doctor is pretty solidly portrayed, and has an good foil in the form of a plucky Army scientist, which is important.
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