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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* | * Sarah refers to the planet [[Karn]] and the encounter with [[Morbius]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') | ||
* The Doctor mentions [[Metebelis III]] and [[Argolis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', ''[[The Leisure Hive (TV story)|The Leisure Hive]]'') | * The Doctor mentions [[Metebelis III]] and [[Argolis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', ''[[The Leisure Hive (TV story)|The Leisure Hive]]'') | ||
* Sarah compares the moors to [[Karn]] and observes the effect that adventure has had on the Doctor's mood. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') | * Sarah compares the moors to [[Karn]] and observes the effect that adventure has had on the Doctor's mood. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') | ||
* Sarah refers to her first trip in the TARDIS to [[13th century]] [[England]] and her encounter with [[Sutekh]] in [[1911]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') | * Sarah refers to her first trip in the TARDIS to [[13th century]] [[England]] and her encounter with [[Sutekh]] in [[1911]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') | ||
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Evolution was the second novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by John Peel. It featured the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.
Publisher's summary
"Someone is tampering with the fabric of the human cell," the Doctor said darkly, "perverting its secrets to his own dark purposes."
Sarah Jane wants to meet her fellow journalist Rudyard Kipling, and the Doctor sets the co-ordinates for England, Earth, in the Victorian Age. As usual, the TARDIS materialises in not quite the right place, and the time travellers find themselves pursued across Devon moorland by a huge feral hound.
Children have gone missing; at the local boarding school, the young Rudyard Kipling has set up search parties. Lights have been seen beneath the waters of the bay, and fishermen have been pulled from their boats and mutilated. Graves have been robbed of their corpses. Something is going on, and Arthur Conan Doyle, the ship's doctor from a recently berthed arctic whaler, is determined to investigate.
The Doctor and Doyle join forces to uncover a macabre scheme to interfere with human evolution — and both Sarah Jane and Kipling face a terrifying transmogrification.
Plot
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Characters
- The Fourth Doctor
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Rudyard Kipling
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sir Edward Fulbright
- Sir Alexander Cromwell
- Josh Anders
- Ben Tolliver
- Edmund Ross
- Abercrombie
- Percival Ross
- Billy
- Tobias Breckinridge
- Captain John Gray
- Roger Bridewell
- Alice Fulbright
- Lucy
- Cherry
- Brogan
- Raintree
- Jen Walker
References
- Sarah swims in the "tub" in the "bathroom" of the Doctor's TARDIS. The merchildren also stay in the "tub" on the trip to Andromeda.
- Colonel Ross claims to be a special agent working directly under the command and authority of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and it is his job to investigate those matters that lie outside of the conventional.
- The Doctor can speak fluent dolphin.
- Zoe Heriot had a low-cut bathing suit, which she left in the TARDIS.
Notes
- The Doctor is the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (and, possibly, Professor Challenger, as mentioned in the novel's coda). Specifically referenced are Holmes's choice of dress (the Doctor wears a deerstalker cap and long cloak), his methods of deductive reasoning and close reading of footprints to determine events at a crime scene.
- The relationship between the Doctor and Doyle, himself a ship's surgeon, parallels that of Holmes and Dr Watson.
- There are numerous references to The Hound of the Baskervilles, especially in the early parts of the novel, concerning a great, dog-like beast claiming victims on the moors.
- This novel directly contradicts All-Consuming Fire, published only a few months earlier, by strongly implying that Holmes and Watson are fictional characters, created by Arthur Conan Doyle, based on the Doctor and Doyle himself. Fire, by contrast, treats Holmes and Watson as real people, fictionalised slightly by Doyle. Well after this novel's publication, other stories agreed with Evolution, flatly stating that Holmes was a fictional character whose adventures, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, were published in The Strand. (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers, TV: The Snowmen)
Continuity
- Sarah refers to the planet Karn and the encounter with Morbius. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)
- The Doctor mentions Metebelis III and Argolis. (TV: Planet of the Spiders, The Leisure Hive)
- Sarah compares the moors to Karn and observes the effect that adventure has had on the Doctor's mood. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)
- Sarah refers to her first trip in the TARDIS to 13th century England and her encounter with Sutekh in 1911. (TV: The Time Warrior, Pyramids of Mars)
