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|novel name    = The Glamour Chase
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{{Infobox Story SMW
|series         = [[Doctor Who]] -<br/> [[BBC New Series Adventures#Eleventh Doctor|BBC New Series Adventures]]
|image       = glamour chase.jpeg
|number         = 40
|series       = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|doctor         = [[Eleventh Doctor]]
|number       = 42
|companions     = [[Amy Pond]]<br>[[Rory Williams]]
|doctor       = Eleventh Doctor
|enemy         =
|companions   = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]]
|year          =
|enemy       = [[Tahnn|The Tahnn]], [[Tactical Officer 25463]]
|writer         = [[Gary Russell]]
|setting      = [[Shalford Heights]], [[1936]]
|publisher     = [[BBC Books]]
|writer       = Gary Russell
|release date   = 8th [[July]], [[2010]]
|read by      = [[Arthur Darvill]]
|format         = Hardcover Book, --- Pages
|publisher   = BBC Books
|isbn            =
|release date = 8 July 2010
|previous story = [[The Forgotten Army]]
|format       = Hardcover, 243 Pages
|next story    = [[Nuclear Time]]
|isbn        = ISBN 978-1-84607-988-7
}}
|prev        = The King's Dragon (novel)
==Publisher's summary==
|next        = The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)
‘Why are you here? I mean – who are you, exactly?’
|cover = [[Lee Binding]]
}}{{prose stub}}
'''''The Glamour Chase''''' was the forty-second novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Gary Russell]] and featured the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]].


An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... And – as the Doctor, Amy and Rory realise – another place. Another planet. But if Enola Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilisation, how come she isn’t famous? Why has Rory never heard of her? Added to that, since Amy’s been travelling with him for a while now, why does she now think the Doctor is from Mars?
It saw the second appearance of the [[Glamour]] after ''[[Ghosts of India (novel)|Ghosts of India]]''.


As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be literal fabrications – and very deadly indeed. Who can the Doctor believe when no one is what they seem? And how can he defeat an enemy who can bend matter itself to their will? For the Doctor, Amy and Rory – and all of humanity – the buried secrets of the past are very much a threat to the present...
== Publisher's summary ==
"Why are you here? I mean – who are you, exactly?"


An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... And — as the Doctor, Amy and Rory realise — another place. Another planet. But if Enola Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilisation, how come she isn't famous? Why has Rory never heard of her? Added to that, since Amy's been travelling with him for a while now, why does she now think the Doctor is from Mars?


As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be literal fabrications — and very deadly indeed. Who can the Doctor believe when no one is what they seem? And how can he defeat an enemy who can bend matter itself to their will? For the Doctor, Amy and Rory — and all of humanity — the buried secrets of the past are very much a threat to the present...


An alien spaceship belonging to the Weave crashes, and puts them into hibernation. A young boy, Wulf, touches the craft and his given the burden to live forever. Hundreds of years later, just after the First World War, Olly has just got engaged to his partner Daisy. However, aliens arrive, searching for the Weave and kill everyone, including Daisy, bar Olly, who is their new beacon. Half a decade later, the Doctor finds himself at the bottom of a hill in sheep dip. Rory is there too, and he discovers he fell from the TARDIS down a hill and into some sheep dip. Finally picking himself up, the Doctor rescues Rory from two farmers, Tom Benson and Nathaniel Porter, and Porter offers them a place to stay at the Manse. The village does not have a church, and Nathaniel reveals it is an old name for the large manor. On their way to the Manse, Amy joins the pair after Benson tells her where they are. She tells them that she now knows Benson on a first name basis, which makes Rory jealous. They investigate the Manse, and meets an old friend of the previous Mrs Porter, Olly Marks. The Doctor likes Olly, but he has a fit and says they are coming. The Doctor wants to investigate the town and the archeological dig that is going on on the school field, run by Nathaniel's second wife, Enola Porter. Rory goes to the library, where he meets Nancy Thirman, the mysterious librarian. However, when he looks for her later she is a load of wool. He runs back to alert the Doctor, who is with a man called Old John and Olly. Amy goes to visit Tom Benson (Rory is jealous), but he leads her to a wood where he is blacked out and taken to a mysterious place. The crashed Weave tell her she will go to sleep while a Weave will take her place to find out more about the Doctor and Rory. The Doctor learns more about Olly's past, and Rory arrives and diagnoses him PTSD (Post-Tramatic Stress Disoder). Amy arrives (Weave Amy) and the Doctor susses her out and meets the Weave. They
== Plot ==
''to be added ''


==Characters==
== Characters ==
*[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
*[[Amy Pond]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
*[[Rory Williams]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
*[[Enola Porter]]
* [[Enola Porter]]
*[[Nathaniel Porter]]
* [[Nathaniel Porter]]
*[[Oliver Marks]]
* [[Oliver Marks]]
*[[Daisy Conlan]]
* [[Daisy Conlan]]
*[[Nancy Thirman]]
* [[Owain (The Glamour Chase)|Owain]]
* [[Nancy Thirman]]
* [[Commander 128]]
* [[Executive Officer 3]]
* [[Tactical Officer 25463]]
* [[Counsellor 6011]]


==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
*When listing the greatest archeologists, the Doctor mentions Howard Carter, Indiana Jones, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny Summerfield]], and Enola Porter.
* The Doctor describes a "[[manse]]".
*When seeing a drawing of himself the Doctor says that the old brown suit that appears in the picture he's "not fitted into for a while". Which is probably a reference to the outfit worn by his [[Tenth Doctor|previous incarnation]].
=== Archaeologists ===
* When listing the greatest archaeologists, the Doctor mentions [[Howard Carter]], [[Indiana Jones]], [[Marcus Scarman]], [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Enola Porter]].


==Notes==
=== Species ===
*The original title was ''Adorable Illusion'', but the previews in the books ''[[Apollo 23]]'', ''[[Night of the Humans]]'' and ''[[The Forgotten Army]] ''confirmed that the title was changed to ''The Glamour Chase''.
* The Doctor once saved the [[Weave]].
*[[Glamour]]s previously appeared in [[Ghosts of India|''Ghosts of India'']].
* The [[Shadow Proclamation]], [[Shadow Architect]] and [[Dalek]]s are referred to.


==Continuity==
=== Games from the real world ===
*The last pages contain references to [[Rio de Janeiro]] where [[The Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] planned to go to at the beginning of'' [[The Hungry Earth]].''
* Rory and Oliver Marks play [[chess]] in [[the Manse]] garden.


==Timeline==
=== Foods and Beverages ===
*This story occurs after: [[DW]]: ''[[Vampires of Venice]]''
* Amy dislikes dried [[date]]s. When she was thirteen years old, Darren Cotham told her that Pernod was all aniseed and no [[alcohol]].
*This story occurs before: [[DW|DW:]]''[[The Hungry Earth]]''


==External links==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* The original title was ''Adorable Illusion'', but the previews in the books ''[[Apollo 23 (novel)|Apollo 23]]'', ''[[Night of the Humans (novel)|Night of the Humans]]'' and ''[[The Forgotten Army (novel)|The Forgotten Army]] ''confirmed that the title was changed to ''The Glamour Chase''. Gary Russell later reused the former title for his [[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]] [[Adorable Illusion (novel)|novel]].
* This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.


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== Continuity ==
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* The Doctor, Amy and Rory are still trying to get to [[Rio de Janeiro]] as they were in [[TV]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]''. So far while trying to get there they have visited [[Tibet]] and the world of [[Dragon]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King's Dragon (novel)|The King's Dragon]]'')
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* [[Glamour]]s previously appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghosts of India (novel)|Ghosts of India]]''.
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* Amy refers to "[[Prisoner Zero|universal criminals]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') "[[Saturnynian|alien vampires]]" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'') and "[[Dream Lord|strange nightmares]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'')
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== Editions published outside Britain ==
* Published in France by Milady in 2012 as a paperback edition.
* Published in Italy by Asengard Edizioni in 2015 as a paperback edition.
 
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== Audiobook ==
* This novel was released as an audiobook in [[July (releases)|July]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Arthur Darvill]].
 
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== External links ==
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* {{whoniverse|ns42|The Glamour Chase}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/glamourchase.htm The Cloister Library: '''The Glamour Chase''']
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Latest revision as of 19:19, 5 March 2024

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prose stub

The Glamour Chase was the forty-second novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Gary Russell and featured the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

It saw the second appearance of the Glamour after Ghosts of India.

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

"Why are you here? I mean – who are you, exactly?"

An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... And — as the Doctor, Amy and Rory realise — another place. Another planet. But if Enola Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilisation, how come she isn't famous? Why has Rory never heard of her? Added to that, since Amy's been travelling with him for a while now, why does she now think the Doctor is from Mars?

As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be literal fabrications — and very deadly indeed. Who can the Doctor believe when no one is what they seem? And how can he defeat an enemy who can bend matter itself to their will? For the Doctor, Amy and Rory — and all of humanity — the buried secrets of the past are very much a threat to the present...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor describes a "manse".

Archaeologists[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Games from the real world[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and Beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Amy dislikes dried dates. When she was thirteen years old, Darren Cotham told her that Pernod was all aniseed and no alcohol.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Editions published outside Britain[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Published in France by Milady in 2012 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in Italy by Asengard Edizioni in 2015 as a paperback edition.
  • French edition

    French edition

Audiobook[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Audiobook cover

    Audiobook cover

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

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