World Game (novel): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|image=World Game cover.jpg

|number= 73

|doctor=Second Doctor  

|companions= [[Serena]]

|enemy=[[Player]]s

|setting= [[France]], [[Belgium]], [[1794]], [[1805]] and [[1815]]

|writer= [[Terrance Dicks]]

|publisher= BBC Books  

|cover=[[Black Sheep]]

|release date= [[6 October (releases)|6 October]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]

|format= Paperback Book; 38 Chapters, 285 Pages  

|isbn= ISBN 0-563-48636-8

|prev= Fear Itself (novel)

|next= The Time Travellers (novel)

}}{{prose stub}}

'''''World Game''''' was the seventy-third novel in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Terrance Dicks]], released [[6 October]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]] and featured the [[Second Doctor]] and [[Serena]].

This novel includes [[psychic paper]], introduced in 2005 in [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', it is one of the few occurrences of the new series being referenced in a [[Past Doctor Adventures|Past Doctor Adventure]]. This narrative also explains how the Doctor obtained his psychic paper.

:''Following the passing of the [[Gallifreyan Freedom of Information Act]], the true story of the Doctor's exile is to be released. The following is an excerpt from the genuine summary of the Doctor.''

The Doctor's trial was near its end. He was accused of breaking two Gallifreyan laws: first, stealing a TARDIS; second, breaking the law of non-interference. The Doctor stated that he was proud of his interference, as he had stopped many foes. The Time Lords understood his plea, but found his interference too great a crime and sentenced him to death.

* [[Fulton]]

== References ==

** The [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] ''[[The Early Adventures|Early Adventures]]'' audio story ''[[The Black Hole (audio story)|The Black Hole]]'' provides an alternative placement for the Second Doctor's involvement in that story which contradicts ''World Game''.

* [[Psychic paper]] was introduced in the [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|2005 season of the revived ''Doctor Who'']] as a device used by the [[Ninth Doctor]]. As the Past Doctor Adventures line was discontinued soon after, this is the only time that an original novel featuring a "classic series" Doctor has made direct reference to a concept introduced in the TV series revival.

* This story features the second significant encounter between the Second Doctor and [[Horatio Nelson]]. However, the Doctor meets him at a much earlier point in his second incarnation's life but at an later point in Nelson's life. At no point does the Doctor mention having met Nelson in the company of [[Ben Jackson]] and [[Polly Wright]], as he did in the short story ''[[H.M.S. TARDIS (short story)|H.M.S. TARDIS]]''.

* The opening prelude is an almost word for word copy of chapter 1 of [[Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion]], except that the doctor is sentenced to death instead of exile.

* Throughout this story, the Doctor uses [[TARDIS (World Game)|a completely different TARDIS]] than normal; although it is "introduced" to him in the shape of a [[police box]] as the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] thought it would make the Doctor more comfortable, it is a [[Type 97]] with a working [[chameleon circuit]]. He doesn't get to keep the 97 at the end of the story, but instead is returned to his own TARDIS afterwards — albeit one that's had a complete overhaul. The overhaul is meant to retcon the fact that the Second Doctor's TARDIS in ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'' seems radically different to versions of the set that existed in the late 1960s.

* The [[Time Lord]]s give the Doctor a [[time ring]]. The [[Fourth Doctor]] would use the ring again on his mission to [[Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'')

* At the end of the novel, the Time Lords send the Doctor on a mission to [[Space Station Camera]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'')

* The Doctor mentions his recent encounter with his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'')

* The [[Third Doctor]] and [[Fifth Doctor]] would later describe Lord Nelson as a "close personal friend" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lions of Trafalgar (audio story)|The Lions of Trafalgar]]'') whereas the [[Fourth Doctor]] claimed to have had breakfast with him the day before the [[Battle of Trafalgar]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eye of Heaven]]'')

* Later in his personal timeline, the [[Sixth Doctor]] would once again be present at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] on [[18 June]] [[1815]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros]]'')

* The [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Charlotte Pollard]] would later befriend the elderly Duke of Wellington in [[1851]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives]]'')

* The Doctor says that an encounter with a [[vampire]] is one of the few things that can make a Time Lord afraid. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'')

* The Doctor says that "in an authoritarian society, people obey the voice of authority." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus]]'', ''[[Blood Harvest]]'', ''[[Deadly Reunion]]'')