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|image= NA058 eternityweeps.jpg
name= Eternity Weeps|
|series = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
image= NA058 eternityweeps.jpg |
|range = Virgin New Adventures
series=[[Virgin New Adventures]] |
|number in range = 58
number= 58 |
|number= 58
doctor=Seventh Doctor |
|doctor = Seventh Doctor
companions=  [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] |
|companions=  [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
featuring = [[Bernice Summerfield]], [[Jason Kane]] and [[Liz Shaw]]|
|featuring = Liz Shaw||featuring2 =Bernice Summerfield  
enemy= [[Cthalctose]] / [[Agent Yellow]] |  
|featuring3 =Jason Kane  
year= {{il|[[Earth]], [[Turkey]], [[April]], [[2003]]|[[The Moon]], [[Tranquility Moonbase]], April [[2003]]}} |
|enemy= [[Cthalctose]] / [[Agent Yellow]]
writer= [[Jim Mortimore]] |
|setting= {{il|[[Turkey (country)|Turkey]], [[2003]]|[[Tranquility Base]], [[2003]]|[[16 Alpha Leonis One]], [[Distant past|6 billion BC]]}}
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
|writer= Jim Mortimore
release date= [[January]], [[1997]] |
|cover= [[Peter Elson]]
format= Paperback Book, 246 Pages |
|publisher= Virgin Books
isbn= ISBN 0-426-20497-2 |
|release date= 16 January 1997
prev= Bad Therapy (novel) |
|format= Paperback Book;<br/>14 Chapters, 246 Pages
next= The Room With No Doors (novel)}}
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20497-2
'''Eternity Weeps''' is the fifty-eighth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej]], [[Bernice Summerfield]], [[Jason Kane]] and [[Liz Shaw]].
|prev= Bad Therapy (novel)
|next= The Room With No Doors (novel)
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'''Eternity Weeps''' is the fifty-eighth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej]], [[Bernice Summerfield]], [[Jason Kane]] and [[Liz Shaw]]. It ultimately led to the divorce between Bernice and Jason.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
"The flood is come! Oh God save us all; the day of judgement is come!"
"The flood is come! Oh God save us all; the day of judgement is come!"


[[Turkey]], [[2003]]: [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] and [[Jason Kane|Jason]] join two rival expeditions attempting to find [[Noah's Ark]]. While one team follows the [[Bible]] and its own beliefs, the other relies on a more exact science - but both paths lead to the same revelation. And, as the region moves ever closer to war, they uncover the key to a timeless mystery and a terrible secret.
[[Turkey (country)|Turkey]], [[2003]]: [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] and [[Jason Kane|Jason]] join two rival expeditions attempting to find [[Noah's Ark]]. While one team follows the [[Bible]] and its own beliefs, the other relies on a more exact science - but both paths lead to the same revelation. And, as the region moves ever closer to war, they uncover the key to a timeless mystery and a terrible secret.


The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] are called in to a situation fast getting out of control, as countless numbers flee a biological terror. The world is about to undergo a new genesis. While Chris gets himself a job with [[NASA]], the Doctor must unravel the ties between [[Mount Ararat]], [[the Moon|the moon]], and an ancient exodus.
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] are called in to a situation fast getting out of control, as countless numbers flee a biological terror. The world is about to undergo a new genesis. While Chris gets himself a job with [[NASA]], the Doctor must unravel the ties between [[Mount Ararat]], [[the Moon|the moon]], and an ancient exodus.
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
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* [[Liz Shaw]]
* [[Liz Shaw]]
* [[Imorkal]]
* [[Imorkal]]
* [[Astronomer Royal (Eternity Weeps)|Astronomer Royal]]
* [[Ahadi]]
* [[Bill Raelsen]]
* [[Candy DuFries]]
* [[Dilaver]]
* [[Ed Levinson]]
* [[Ellie Noble]]
* [[Goddard Schofield]]
* Captain [[Imrud Tammuz]]
* [[James Edward Allen]]
* [[Janice Tanner]]
* [[Jeremy Fielding]]
* [[Jules Noorbergen]]
* [[Kazan]]
* [[Kuresh]]
* [[Mehmet Ozer]]
* Major [[Raykal]]
* [[Sam Denton]]
* Colonel [[Samran]]
* [[Terry Sehna]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Diseases and illnesses ===
=== Diseases and illnesses ===
* [[Agent Yellow]] a Cthalctose terraforming virus which turns [[oxygen]] into sulphuric acid (including the oxygen in your body).
* Bernice gets infected with [[Agent Yellow]], but is cured by the Doctor with the antidote he created called [[Agent Scarlet]].
* Bernice gets infected with Agent Yellow, but is cured by the Doctor.
* Agent Yellow spreads to [[Ankara]].
 
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor kills six hundred million humans to save the Earth.


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* Chris can't bring himself to (mercy) kill Liz Shaw.
* [[Liz Shaw]] dies from [[Agent Yellow]]. She dies cursing Chris for not euthanising her.
* Bernice and Jason get divorced following a series of events. They divorce on the moon.
* [[Imorkal]] is a [[Silurian]].
* [[Imorkal]] is a [[Silurian]].
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] joins an expedition to find [[Noah's Ark]].
* Bernice Summerfield joins an expedition to find [[Noah's Ark]].
* [[Jason Kane]] is beginning to think [[sex]] with Bernice is boring.
* Jason Kane is beginning to think [[sex]] with Bernice is boring.


=== Music ===
=== Music ===
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=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* The [[Cthalctose]] are crystal sea...things, that live for a long, long, long time (a performance of art can last three hundred years), they live in sulphuric acid seas. The Cthalctose homeworld is [[16 Alpha Leonis One]].
* The [[Cthalctose]] are crystal sea things that live for a long, long, long time (a performance of art can last three hundred years). They live in sulphuric acid seas. The Cthalctose homeworld is [[16 Alpha Leonis One]].


=== Time travel ===
=== Time travel ===
* Jason spends one thousand years in stasis (while mildly aware of events outside of stasis) after messing around with [[time travel]] to try and change the future. He just makes it worse.
* Jason spends one thousand years in [[stasis]] after messing around with [[time travel]] to try to change the future.


=== Vehicles ===
=== Vehicles ===
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* With this book, the ''Virgin New Adventures'' series undergoes a cover format change; the [[Doctor Who logo]] is no longer featured on the front cover.
* With this book, the ''Virgin New Adventures'' series undergoes a cover format change; the [[Doctor Who logo|''Doctor Who'' logo]] is no longer featured on the front cover.
* Liz's death here is contradicted by the [[2010]] ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' serial ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'', where she is mentioned to be alive and well, and working in UNIT's Moon Base.
* Liz's death here is contradicted by the 2010 ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' serial ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'', where she is mentioned to be alive and well, and working in [[UNIT]]'s Moon Base, as well as ''[[When to Die (home video)|When to Die]]'' which sees her still working for [[P.R.O.B.E.]]


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Benny remembers the alternate Earth Liz Shaw from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]''.
* Benny remembers meeting a [[Liz Shaw (Silurian Earth)|version]] of Liz Shaw from an [[Silurian Earth|alternate Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'')
* Liz Shaw previously appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wages of Sin]]''.
 
* In [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'' Liz was still alive in 2010 or so the official records say.
== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|who_na58.htm|Eternity Weeps}}
{{dwrefguide|who_na58.htm|Eternity Weeps}}
* {{whoniverse|NA58.php|Eternity Weeps}}
* {{whoniverse|na58|Eternity Weeps}}
 
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/eter.htm The Cloister Library: '''Eternity Weeps''']
* [http://www.sorddin.com/broadsword-old/issue11/interview11d.html Interview with Jim Mortimore, in issue 11 of ''Broadsword'']
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Eternity Weeps is the fifty-eighth Virgin New Adventures novel. It features the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej, Bernice Summerfield, Jason Kane and Liz Shaw. It ultimately led to the divorce between Bernice and Jason.

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

"The flood is come! Oh God save us all; the day of judgement is come!"

Turkey, 2003: Bernice and Jason join two rival expeditions attempting to find Noah's Ark. While one team follows the Bible and its own beliefs, the other relies on a more exact science - but both paths lead to the same revelation. And, as the region moves ever closer to war, they uncover the key to a timeless mystery and a terrible secret.

The Seventh Doctor and Chris are called in to a situation fast getting out of control, as countless numbers flee a biological terror. The world is about to undergo a new genesis. While Chris gets himself a job with NASA, the Doctor must unravel the ties between Mount Ararat, the moon, and an ancient exodus.

Mankind faces apocalypse. But can the aid of a far older race, alongside companions past and present, prevent the planet being twisted into the image of a long-dead world?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Diseases and illnesses[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Imorkal is a Silurian.
  • Bernice Summerfield joins an expedition to find Noah's Ark.
  • Jason Kane is beginning to think sex with Bernice is boring.

Music[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Cthalctose are crystal sea things that live for a long, long, long time (a performance of art can last three hundred years). They live in sulphuric acid seas. The Cthalctose homeworld is 16 Alpha Leonis One.

Time travel[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Jason spends one thousand years in stasis after messing around with time travel to try to change the future.

Vehicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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