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|name= The Face-Eater  
|range= BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
|image=The Face-Eater.jpg
|number in range = 18
|series=[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  
|series = [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]
|number= 18  
|number= 18  
|doctor=Eighth Doctor  
|doctor = Eighth Doctor
|companions= [[Samantha Jones|Sam Jones]]  
|companions=[[Sam Jones|Sam]]
|enemy= The [[Face-Eater]]  
|enemy= The [[Face-Eater]]
|setting= [[Proxima 2]], [[2132]]  
|setting= [[Proxima 2]], [[2132]]
|writer= [[Simon Messingham]]
|writer= Simon Messingham
|publisher= [[BBC Books]]
|publisher= BBC Books  
|cover=[[Black Sheep]]
|cover = [[Black Sheep]]
|release date= [[4 January (releases)|4 January]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]
|release date= 4 January 1999
|format= Paperback Book, 276 Pages  
|format= Paperback Book;<br/>20 Chapters, 276 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-55569-6  
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-55569-6
|prev= Beltempest (novel)
|prev= Beltempest (novel)
|next= The Taint (novel)}}
|next= The Taint (novel)
'''''The Face-Eater''''' was the eighteenth [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel. It featured the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Samantha Jones]]. It is the first of two novels [[Simon Messingham]] wrote for the EDAs (''[[The Infinity Race (novel)|The Infinity Race]]'' was the second).  
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'''''The Face-Eater''''' was the eighteenth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Simon Messingham]], released [[4 January (releases)|4 January]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]] and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones]].
 
It is the first of two novels Messingham wrote for the EDAs (''[[The Infinity Race (novel)|The Infinity Race]]'' was the second).


== Publisher’s summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
[[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Samantha Jones|Sam]] arrive on [[Proxima II]], one of the earliest planets colonised in humanity’s first big push into space. But instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest.
[[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones|Sam]] arrive on [[Proxima II]], one of the earliest planets colonised in humanity's first big push into space. But instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest.


The native [[Proximan]]s are inexplicably dying out. [[Human]]s too are being killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.
The native [[Proximan]]s are inexplicably dying out. [[Human]]s too are being killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.


Posing as investigators from [[Earth]], the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath [[Proxima City]]. It seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well founded — that the sinister [[Face-Eater]] from Proximan mythology has awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who would defile its world...
Posing as investigators from [[Earth]], [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones|Sam]] must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath [[Proxima City]]. It seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well founded — that the sinister [[Face-Eater]] from Proximan mythology has awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who would defile its world...


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Samantha Jones]]
* [[Sam Jones]]
* [[Helen Percival]]
* [[Helen Percival]]
* [[Lopez (The Face-Eater)|Lopez]]
* [[Ben Fuller]]
* [[Ben Fuller]]
* [[Joan Betts]]
* [[Joan Betts]]
* [[Jake Leary]]
* [[Jake Leary]]
* The [[Face-Eater]]
* The [[Face-Eater]]
* [[de Winter]]
* [[de Winter (The Face-Eater)|de Winter]]
* [[Jeffries]]
* [[Jeffries (The Face-Eater)|Jeffries]]
* [[Pete (The Face-Eater)|Pete]]
* [[Sims]]
* [[Sims]]
* [[Maddy (The Face-Eater)|Maddy]]
* [[Luiz Clark]]
* [[Luiz Clark's father]]
* [[Luiz Clark's grandmother]]
* [[Al (The Face-Eater)|Al]]
* [[Yoss (The Face Eater)|Yoss]]
* [[Phillipe (The Face-Eater)|Phillipe]]
* [[Marlowe (The Face-Eater)|Marlowe]]
* [[Lily (The Face-Eater)|Lily]]
* [[Ricky (The Face-Eater)|Ricky]]
* [[Camilla (The Face-Eater)|Camilla]]
* [[Magda Wolchenka]]
* [[Patrice Kemall]]
* [[Maeve Rupinder]]
* [[Carlos d'Pul]]
* [[Karl Herzog]]
* [[Brendan Hart]]
* [[Sarah Chen]]
* [[Steve Horton]]
* [[Sun (The Face-Eater)|Sun]]
* [[Ballard (The Face-Eater)|Ballard]]
* [[Lee (The Face-Eater)|Lee]]
* [[Chung (The Face-Eater)|Chung]]
* [[Lawrence (The Face-Eater)|Lawrence]]
* [[Akri]]
* [[Rav]]
* [[Sabby]]
* [[Beauty (The Face-Eater)|Beauty]]
* [[Alfie (The Face-Eater)|Alfie]]
* [[Roo (The Face-Eater)|Roo]]
* [[Cheeky Monkey]]
* [[Price (The Face-Eater)|Price]]
* [[Arnold Coors]]
* [[Kishimoto]]
* [[Barr (The Face-Eater)|Barr]]
* [[Casey Burns]]
* [[Casey Burns' mother]]
* [[Pederson (The Face-Eater)|Pederson]]
* [[Muggy (The Face-Eater)|Muggy]]
* [[Johnny (The Face-Eater)|Johnny]]
* [[Tiny (The Face-Eater)|Tiny]]
* [[Spanish woman (The Face-Eater)|Spanish woman]]
* [[Nishi]]
* [[Torres (The Face-Eater)|Torres]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The [[Oceanic-Nippon Bloc]] existed in the [[22nd century]].


=== Books ===
=== Books ===
* Professor Joan Betts wrote ''The Life and Customs of the Marine Saurians'' after spending three years investigating the [[Sea Devil]] base that was involved in the attack on [[Sea Base 4]] in [[2084]].
* Professor Joan Betts wrote ''[[The Life and Customs of the Marine Saurians]]'' after spending three years investigating the [[Sea Devil]] base that was involved in the attack on [[Sea Base 4]] in [[2084]].


=== Colony planets ===
=== Colony planets ===
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=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor falls down a hole and breaks his leg.
* The Doctor rambles as he talks to Jake Leary, mentioning a number of things. "I've seen it all over the galaxy. [[Werewolf|Werewolves]], [[manitous]], [[shapeshifter|shape-shifters]], [[Rutan]]s, robots. Even [[the Master]] has been known to give it a whirl. And did I tell you about that time at [[Crook Marsham]]? Most memorable."
* The Doctor rambles as he talks to Jake Leary, mentioning a number of things. "I've seen it all over the galaxy. [[Werewolf|Werewolves]], [[manitous]], [[shapeshifter|shape-shifters]], [[Rutan]]s, robots. Even [[the Master]] has been known to give it a whirl. And did I tell you about that time at [[Crook Marsham]]? Most memorable."
* When the Doctor is attacked by the Face Eater, he sees: [[Susan Foreman]] and [[Polly Wright]] laughing, his old diary, a [[Prydonian]] headdress, Sam's face, and a [[Cyberman]] floating through space.
* When the Doctor is attacked by the Face Eater, he sees: [[Susan Foreman]] and [[Polly Wright]] laughing, his old diary, a [[Prydonian]] headdress, Sam's face, and a [[Cyberman]] floating through space.


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* Sam Jones gets blown up while breaking into an office and gets third degree burns, but recovers. She ''then'' gets into a car and crashes it, the crash knocking her out and giving her numerous bruises.
* Joan Betts is a [[xenoanthropologist]].
* Sam ponders what the Doctor's mother must think of his behaviour.
 
=== Individuals by profession ===
* [[Helen Percival]] is colony executive.
* [[Joan Betts]] is a [[xenoanthropologist]].


=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* The [[Rutan]]s gained their shape shifting ability through genetic tampering.
* The [[Rutan]]s gained their shape shifting ability through genetic tampering.
* Mention is made of a Bug Eyed Monster (BEM). This is how [[UNIT]] supposedly classifies such things.
* Mention is made of a Bug Eyed Monster (BEM). This is how [[UNIT]] supposedly classifies such things.
* The [[Proximan]] natives are rodent creatures that can mimic others. They are telepathic and were once intelligent, but lose the telepathy and shared consciousness when the Face-Eater is destroyed.
* The [[Proximan]] natives are rodent creatures that can mimic others.
* The Doctor claims that [[Mars]] has two indigenous species, one of them being the [[Ice Warriors]].
* The Doctor claims that [[Mars]] has two indigenous species, one of them being the [[Ice Warrior]]s.
* Joan Betts is killed by a Face-Eater.
* Joan Betts is killed by a Face-Eater.
* The [[Face-Eater]] is also known to native [[Proximan]]s as F'Seeta; it is a shape shifter.
* The [[Face-Eater]] is also known to native [[Proximan]]s as F'Seeta; it is a shape shifter.
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* Page 215 contains what is possibly the only mention of the Doctor's bladder in a licensed work of ''Doctor Who'' fiction.
''to be added''


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The events of [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' are mentioned.
* The events of [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'' are mentioned.
* The Doctor's imprisonment in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I]]'' is mentioned by the shape shifter.
* The Doctor's imprisonment in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'' is mentioned by the shape shifter.
* There is a flashback sequence to [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]''.
* There is a flashback sequence to [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''.
* Sam no longer has the nanotech in her body she accquired in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]''.
* Sam no longer has the nanotech in her body she accquired in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]''.
* The Doctor tells Leary of the time he met the [[Hoothi]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
* The Doctor tells Leary of the time he met the [[Hoothi]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
* The Doctor mentions that [[the Master]] once had a go at being a [[werewolf]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'')
* The Doctor mentions that [[the Master]] once had a go at being a [[werewolf]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
 
== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|whobbc18.htm|The Face-Eater}}
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* {{whoniverse|ED18.php|The Face-Eater}}
* {{whoniverse|ed18|The Face-Eater}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/faceea.htm The Cloister Library: '''The Face-Eater''']


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The Face-Eater was the eighteenth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Simon Messingham, released 4 January 1999 and featured the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones.

It is the first of two novels Messingham wrote for the EDAs (The Infinity Race was the second).

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II, one of the earliest planets colonised in humanity's first big push into space. But instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest.

The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out. Humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.

Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City. It seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well founded — that the sinister Face-Eater from Proximan mythology has awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who would defile its world...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Books[[edit] | [edit source]]

Colony planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Corporations[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Rutans gained their shape shifting ability through genetic tampering.
  • Mention is made of a Bug Eyed Monster (BEM). This is how UNIT supposedly classifies such things.
  • The Proximan natives are rodent creatures that can mimic others.
  • The Doctor claims that Mars has two indigenous species, one of them being the Ice Warriors.
  • Joan Betts is killed by a Face-Eater.
  • The Face-Eater is also known to native Proximans as F'Seeta; it is a shape shifter.

Spacecraft[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The New Horizon was the first human large-scale colony transporter and arrived on Proxima 2 in 2128.

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Sam Jones is still a little bit paranoid about nanotech being in her body.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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