Twenty-First-Century London (feature)

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Main setting:	London, 21st century
Key crew
Publishers:	Puffin Books, BBC Children's Books
Writer:	Steve Cole
Artist:	David Buisán Ryan Quickfall János Orban John Ross James Offredi
Release details
Genre:	Science fiction
Release number:	8
Printed in:	Doctor Who Atlas
Release date:	2 September 2021
Format:	Annotated map
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Twenty-First-Century London was the eighth feature exclusively published in Doctor Who Atlas on 2 September 2021 by Puffin Books and BBC Children's Books. Written by Steve Cole, with illustrations collectively attributed to David Buisán, Ryan Quickfall, János Orban, John Ross and James Offredi, this feature was an annotated map of 21st century London.

Summary

London seems to be a "focal point" for alien threats, being faced by the Doctor and their friends, sometimes at a cost.

In Trap Street, Central London, Mayor Me presides over the alien refugees. It is also the location where Clara s killed by a Quantum Shade.

Gallifrey Falls No More is displayed in the National Gallery, where it is attended by the "mysterious" Curator.

As part of her plan to create a deadly army of Cybermen, Missy transforms St Paul's Cathedral into a dimensionally transcendental space to locate the Nethersphere.

The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler prevent the Slitheen from accessing Britain's nuclear weapons, who had infiltrated 10 Downing Street.

The Nestene Consciousness brought the Autons to life from its base underneath the London Eye, using it as a transmitter.

Elizabeth Tower is destroyed by crash-landing spacecraft seemingly piloted by a space pig, but this turns out to be part of a hoax orchestrated by the Slitheen to initiate World War Three.

The Krillitane used children's brains and imaginations in Deffry Vale High School to attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.

In Richmond, the Rattigan Academy, while initially a place for good purposes, soon becomes a front for the invasion of the Sontarans.

Four Weeping Angels use Wester Drumlins to send humans back in time to feed on the temporal energy left behind.

Coal Hill School, the same school that the First Doctor's granddaughter Susan attended in 1963, is now the workplace of both Clara and her boyfriend Danny Pink. With the Twelfth Doctor, they fight the Skovox Blitzer.

The Isolus is launched back into space by the Tenth Doctor and Rose, using the Olympic torch, in 2012.

Characters

(In order of appearance)

• The Doctor
• Mayor Me
• Clara Oswald
• The Curator
• Missy
• Ninth Doctor
• Rose
• Nestene Consciousness
• Space pig
• Rattigan
• First Doctor
• Susan
• Danny Pink
• Twelfth Doctor
• Tenth Doctor

References

• Trap Street is hidden by a misdirection circuit.
• The Quantum Shade takes the form of a raven.
• The National Gallery is located in Trafalgar Square.
• The Nethersphere is a "storehouse" for the minds of the recently deceased.
• Elizabeth Tower holds the Big Ben bell.
• The Nestene Consciousness is a hive mind.
• Deffry Vale is in West London.
• The Rattigan Academy was originally a place to advance science and technology.
• Waster Drumlins is seemingly haunted.
• Coal Hill School is a secondary school with connections to multiple Doctors.
• The Isolus went back into space go look for love and freedom.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• This map covers prominent locations from Face the Raven, The Day of the Doctor, Dark Water/Death in Heaven, Aliens of London/World War Three, Rose, School Reunion, The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky, Blink, The Caretaker, Fear Her, The Bells of Saint John, The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion, and Spyfall.

Gallery

to be added