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{{Infobox Novel|

novel name= The Year of Intelligent Tigers |

image=[[Image:The_Year_of_Intelligent_Tigers.jpg|250px]]|

series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] |

number= 46 |

doctor=[[Eighth Doctor]] |

companions= [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Anji Kapoor]] |

enemy= Hitchemus Tigers / Hitchemus Colonists |

year= [[Hitchemus]], [[Port Any]], [[22nd century]] |

writer= [[Kate Orman]] |

publisher= [[BBC Books]] |

release date= June, 2001 |

format= Paperback Book, --- Pages |

isbn= ISBN 0-563-53831-7|

previous story= [[Eater of Wasps]]|

next story= [[The Slow Empire]]}}

==Publisher’s Summary==

''‘Doctor!’ said Anji. This couldn’t be happening, he couldn’t just walk out on them! ‘Look, give them a chance, they’re frightened, they’re only --’ ''

''‘Human?’ The Doctor took a deep breath, as though to stop himself from saying anything more. ‘Now, stay!’''

The island world of Hitchemus is home to a colony of musicians and seemingly harmless alien animals. When the storms and the tigers break loose, the Doctor tries to protect the humans -- but the humans don’t want him. When he ventures into the wilderness in search of the tigers’ secrets, Fitz and Anji find themselves on their own, trying to prevent a war.

With both sides eager for blood, and hurricanes on the horizon, the Doctor must decide whether this time he’s on the side of the human race.  

==Characters==

*[[Eighth Doctor | The Doctor]]

**Is described as a violin virtuoso, and is fixated upon a musical rhythm he hears in his head (dum-de-dum, dum-de-dum).

**Can also play the harpsichord, flue, transverse cello, harp, banjo, theremin, and wobbleboard.

**Is said 'to have only two speeds, ''presto'' and stop.'

**Holds several dinner parties and always carried food in his pockets for his friend, having a 'maternal impulse' to feed them and be kind.

**Sets up the weather-changing technology in such a way it forces the Tigers and humans to work together.

**Enjoys the bohemian lifestyle with his band, Jam Tomorrow, but worries that he's better now then he was before the TARDIS "fiddled" with his head.

**Turns out to be the writer of the aforementioned rhythm the Doctor fixated on Hitchemus and throughout the entire Earth Arc.

**Is told by Anji the role of "fearless agent for La Resistance, masquerading as a concerned citizen,' really suits him.

*[[Anji Kapoor]]

:*Anji finds it easier to tell people, ‘Dave died after a long illness’, rather than ‘Dave got stabbed and charred to death by a rocket engine’.

:*Is warned by Fitz when talking to Besma that "everyone's bi in this time period."

*[[Karl Sadeghi]]

:*Has romantic desires for the Doctor.

:*Drinks chocolate martinis with the Doctor.

:*Joins the Doctor, Fitz, and Anji on picnics and worries if he will be seen as taking the Doctor away from his friends.

*[[Quick]]

[[Hitchemus Tiger]]s:

:*[[Chew You]]

:*[[Bounce]]

:*[[Longbody]]

:*[[Big]]

==References==

*[[Sonic Screwdriver]]

*[[Vocoder]], used by the Hitchemus tigers to enable them to create speech.

 

 

==External links==

[http://www.drwhoguide.com/whobbc46.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: The Year of Intelligent Tigers]

[http://www.whoniverse.org/discontinuity/ED46.php Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for The Year of Intelligent Tigers]

{{BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Series Box | before = [[Eater of Wasps]] | after = [[The Slow Empire]]}}

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[[Category:2001 novels|Year of Intelligent Tigers]]