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novel name= Eternity Weeps|
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series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Virgin New Adventures]] |
|image= NA058 eternityweeps.jpg
number= 58 |
|series = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
|range = Virgin New Adventures
companions= [[Chris Cwej | Chris]] |
|number in range = 58
enemy= [[Cthalctose]] / [[Agent Yellow]] |  
|number= 58
year= [[Earth]], [[Turkey]], [[April]], [[2003]] <br> [[The Moon]], [[Tranquility Moonbase]], April, [[2003]] |
|doctor = Seventh Doctor
writer= [[Jim Mortimore]] |
|companions= [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
|featuring = Liz Shaw||featuring2 =Bernice Summerfield
release date= [[January]], [[1997]] |
|featuring3 =Jason Kane
format= Paperback Book, 246 Pages |
|enemy= [[Cthalctose]] / [[Agent Yellow]]
isbn= ISBN 0426204972 |
|setting= {{il|[[Turkey (country)|Turkey]], [[2003]]|[[Tranquility Base]], [[2003]]|[[16 Alpha Leonis One]], [[Distant past|6 billion BC]]}}
previous story= [[Bad Therapy]] |
|writer= Jim Mortimore
next story= [[The Room With No Doors]]}}
|cover= [[Peter Elson]]
|publisher= Virgin Books
|release date= 16 January 1997
|format= Paperback Book;<br/>14 Chapters, 246 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20497-2
|prev= Bad Therapy (novel)
|next= The Room With No Doors (novel)
|team = |main character =
}}{{prose stub}}
'''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.


[[Seventh Doctor|The 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]], 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.


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?
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?


==Characters==
== Plot ==
*[[Seventh Doctor |The Doctor]]
''to be added''
:*Can pilot a helicopter.
:*Kills 600 million humans, in order to save the Earth.


*[[Chris Cwej]]
== Characters ==
:*Can't bring himself to kill Liz Shaw.
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Jason Kane]]
* [[Liz Shaw]]
* [[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]]


*[[Bernice Summerfield]]
== Worldbuilding ==
:*Joins an expedition to find [[Noah's Ark]].
=== Diseases and illnesses ===
:*Gets infected with Agent Yellow, but is cured by the Doctor.
* Bernice gets infected with [[Agent Yellow]], but is cured by the Doctor with the antidote he created called [[Agent Scarlet]].
* Agent Yellow spreads to [[Ankara]].


*[[Jason Kane]]
=== Individuals ===
:*Spends 1000 years in stasis (while mildly aware of events outside of stasis) after messing around with time travel in order to try and change the future, he just makes it worse.
* [[Imorkal]] is a [[Silurian]].
:*Is beginning to think sex with Benny is boring.
* Bernice Summerfield joins an expedition to find [[Noah's Ark]].
* Jason Kane is beginning to think [[sex]] with Bernice is boring.


*[[Liz Shaw]]
=== Music ===
:*Dies from [[Agent Yellow]], she dies cursing Chris for not killing / performing euthanasia on her.
* The Doctor sings "[[Tobacco Road]]".


*[[Imorkal]]
=== Species ===
:*A [[Silurian]].
* 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]].


==References==
=== Time travel ===
* The [[Cthalctose]] are crystal sea...things, that live for a long, long, long time (a performance of art can last 300 years), they live in sulfuric acid seas. The Cthalctose homeworld is [[16 Alpha Leonis One]].
* Jason spends one thousand years in [[stasis]] after messing around with [[time travel]] to try to change the future.


* [[Agent Yellow]] a Cthalctose terraforming virus which turns oxygen into sulfuric acid (including the oxygen in your body).
=== Vehicles ===
* The Doctor can pilot a [[helicopter]].


* Bernice and Jason get divorced following a series of events, they divorce on the moon.
== Notes ==
* 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 (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.]]


==Notes==
== Continuity ==
* 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.
* Benny remembers meeting a [[Liz Shaw (Silurian Earth)|version]] of Liz Shaw from an [[Silurian Earth|alternate Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'')


== External links ==
{{dwrefguide|who_na58.htm|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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==Continuity==
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield sources]]
* Benny remembers the alternate Earth Liz Shaw from [[NA]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]''.
[[Category:NA novels]]
*Liz Shaw previously in [[DW]]: ''[[Inferno]]'', [[MA]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[The Wages of Sin]]''.
 
==External links==
*{{dwrefguide|who_na58.htm|Eternity Weeps}}
*{{whoniverse|NA58.php|Eternity Weeps}}
 
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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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