The Quantum Archangel (novel): Difference between revisions

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|image=Quantum Archangel bbcpdoc38.jpg  

|number= 38

|doctor=Sixth Doctor  

|setting= [[London]], [[2003]]; [[The Moon]], [[2003]]

|writer= [[Craig Hinton]]

|release date= [[8 January (releases)|8 January]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]

|format= Paperback Book; 13 Chapters, 284 Pages  

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the thirty-eighth novel in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Craig Hinton]], released [[8 January (releases)|8 January]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]] and featured the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]].

Five thousand years ago, the Priest-Kings of [[Atlantis]] attempted to enslave [[Kronos]], greatest of the Chronovores. They failed, with catastrophic results. Thirty years ago, {{Delgado}} sought to do the same, and barely escaped with his life.

London, 2003: torn apart by tragedy, the Doctor and Mel have gone their separate ways, only to find their paths crossing once more. While the Doctor tries to stop an old friend from making a terrible mistake, Mel is horrified to learn that her best friend has fallen under the influence of the Master.

As {{Ainley}} desperately tries to defend himself against the power of Kronos, the Doctor and Mel must overcome their differences. If they don't, the [[Quantum Archangel]] will be triumphant. And if she is, nothing in the Universe will ever be the same again.

* {{O'Mara|c}}

* [[Drax]]

== References ==

* The Doctor spent "decades" during the latter part of his second incarnation on the planet [[Darron]], learning the psychic techniques of the [[Mind Monk]]s.

* This is a sequel to the television story ''[[The Time Monster]]'', which is dated as occurring in [[1973]].

* For the Master, this is after the television story ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]''.

* Hinton's own notes for this novel were published in the charity publication ''Shelf Life''. They clarified many details about the [[Guardians of Time|Guardians]], [[Old Ones|the Old Ones]], the [[Eternal|Eternals]], and the [[Chronovore|Chronovores]], and asserted that the "shift in reality" affecting the [[Six-Fold-Realm]] is actually the [[War in Heaven]]. Many of the details of these notes, lost in the finished novel, became important plot points of Hinton and Chris McKeon's self-published ''Time's Champion''.  

* While contemplating places to go to get over his guilt, the Doctor considers returning to the [[Tempus Fugit]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'').

* The Master recalls [[the Deca]], specifically [[the Rani]], [[the Monk]] and [[Drax]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')

* The Doctor considers tractoring a [[neutron star]] to be one of the most ridiculous things he's ever done. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit]]'')

* Mel's alternate timeline features a [[Third Doctor]] who never escaped his [[Exile on Earth|exile]] and makes reference to defeating a Cybermen fleet with a trap in [[1989]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'').

* When contemplating supercomputers that the Archangel might 'recruit', the Doctor tentatively identifies the Matrix, the [[Conscience of Marinus]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]'') [[Xoanon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'') the [[Dalek Emperor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'') and remembers [[Logopolis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')

* The [[Millennium War]] features races such as the [[Dæmon]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]''), the [[Osiran]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]''), the [[Euterpian]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion of the Cat-People]]''), the [[Greld]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass]]'')- the last two using the [[Semquess]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant]]'') engineering and the power of the [[Omnethoth]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Fall of Yquatine]]'')- the [[Kastrian]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''), the [[Exxilon]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]''), the [[Sontaran]]s and the [[Rutan]]s, the early [[Time Lord]]s led by [[Rassilon]], and [[Faction Paradox]].

*{{whoniverse|pd38|The Quantum Archangel}}

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