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|image       = dalek generation cover .jpg
|series = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|series       = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|doctor = Eleventh Doctor
|number      = 53
|companions = [[Sabel Blakely|Sabel]], [[Jenibeth Blakely|Jenibeth]], [[Ollus Blakely|Ollus]]
|doctor       = Eleventh Doctor
|featuring =  
|companions   = [[Sabel Blakely|Sabel]], [[Jenibeth Blakely|Jenibeth]], [[Ollus Blakely|Ollus]]
|enemy = [[Dalek]]s, [[Klektid Enforcers]]
|featuring   =  
|setting = [[Gethria]], [[Sunlight 349]], [[Carthedia]]
|enemy       = [[Dalek Time Controller]]
|writer = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|setting     = [[Gethria]], [[Sunlight 349]], [[Carthedia]]
|read by=[[Nicholas Briggs]]
|writer       = Nicholas Briggs
|publisher = BBC Books{{!}}BBC Books (UK)
|read by     = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|publisher2 = Broadway Paperbacks{{!}}Broadway Paperbacks (US)
|publisher   = BBC Books{{!}}BBC Books (UK)
|release date = [[8 April (releases)|8 April]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]
|publisher2   = Broadway Paperbacks{{!}}Broadway Paperbacks (US)
|isbn = ISBN 978-0-385-34674-0
|release date = 8 April 2013
|format = Hardback (UK)<br />Paperback (US)
|isbn         = ISBN 978-0-385-34674-0
|prev = Plague of the Cybermen (novel)  
|format       = Hardback (UK)<br />Paperback (US)
|next = Shroud of Sorrow (novel)}}
|prev         = Plague of the Cybermen (novel)  
'''''The Dalek Generation''''' is one of three [[Eleventh Doctor]] novels published in [[April (releases)|April]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]].
|next         = Shroud of Sorrow (novel)
|cover        = [[Lee Binding]]
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'''''The Dalek Generation''''' was the fifty-third novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was [[Writer|written]] by [[Nicholas Briggs]] and featured the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. It is the second novel in the line to feature the [[Dalek]]s, after ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'' in [[2009 (releases)|2009]].
 
In writing the novel, Briggs included several elements from the [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|audio dramas]] by [[Big Finish Productions]], for which he also worked extensively on many areas of production. Chief among these elements was the [[Dalek Time Controller]], a foe of the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s, though in his earliest chronological appearance.
 
''The Dalek Generation'' was one of the few stories to blend Big Finish and revived series material prior to [[2014 (releases)|2014]], after which the Big Finish license was extended to allow revived series material to feature more heavily in their audio output. ([[BFX]]: ''[[Extinction (audio anthology)|Extinction]]'')


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
"The [[Sunlight Worlds]] Offer You A Life of Comfort and Plenty. Apply now at the [[Dalek Foundation]]."
"The [[Sunlight Worlds]] offer you a life of comfort and plenty. Apply now at the [[Dalek Foundation]]."


[[Sunlight 349]] is one of countless [[Dalek Foundation]] worlds, [[Planet|planets]] created to house billions suffering from economic hardship. The Doctor arrives at Sunlight 349, suspicious of any world where the Daleks are apparently a force for good – and determined to find out the truth. The Doctor knows they have a far more sinister plan – but how can he convince those who have lived under the benevolence of the Daleks for a generation?
[[Sunlight 349]] is one of countless [[Dalek]] Foundation worlds, [[planet]]s created to house billions suffering from [[Economy|economic]] hardship. [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] arrives at Sunlight 349, suspicious of any [[world]] where the Daleks are apparently a force for [[good]] – and determined to find out the truth. The Doctor knows they have a far more sinister plan – but how can he convince those who have lived under the benevolence of the Daleks for a [[generation]]?


But convince them he must, and soon. For on another Foundation planet, [[archaeologist]]s have unearthed the most dangerous technology in the [[N-Space|universe]]...
But convince them he must, and soon. For on [[Gethria|another Foundation planet]], [[archaeologist]]s have unearthed the [[Cradle of the Gods|most dangerous technology]] in the [[N-Space|universe]]...


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
[[Lillian Belle]], a [[journalist]] for ''[[Sunlight 349 Holo-News]]'' living on the [[Dalek Foundation]] world of [[Sunlight 349]], arrives at the sight of a [[train]] crash where two locomotives have collided head on. As Lillian interviews a [[security guard]], [[Daniel Ash]], a [[Dalek]] arrives on the scene to investigate. Some medics with [[Sezman (The Dalek Generation)|Mr Sezman]], one of the drivers, approach the Dalek on the other side of the train — out of everyone's sight — to explain to it what happened. The Dalek [[murder]]s them and leaves before the bodies can be found.
[[Lillian Belle]], a [[journalist]] for ''[[Sunlight 349 Holo-News]]'' living on the [[Dalek Foundation]] world of [[Sunlight 349]], arrives at the sight of a [[train]] crash where two locomotives have collided head on. As Lillian interviews a [[security guard]], [[Daniel Ash]], a [[Dalek]] arrives on the scene to investigate. Some medics with [[Sezman (The Dalek Generation)|Mr Sezman]], one of the drivers, approach the Dalek on the other side of the train — out of everyone's sight — to explain to it what happened. The Dalek [[murder]]s them and leaves before the bodies can be found.


While [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] is in flight through the [[Time Vortex]], [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] receives a [[Hypercube]], a much smaller one that he is used to. He then thinks that maybe he made it himself to send himself a message from his future. He is brought to the [[desert]] [[planet]] [[Gethria]], where he sees a gathering of [[humanoid]]s around a [[stone]] monument. They all depart as the Doctor realises the gathering was a [[funeral]]. An old woman stares at the Doctor as if she recognises him before leaving herself. The Doctor examines the gravestone and sees a toy [[spaceship]] embedded into it. He notes it was "Made in [[Carthedia]]" and then leaves. His departure is watched by the [[Dalek Time Controller]], who declares: "It is beginning..."
While [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] is in flight through the [[Time Vortex]], [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] receives a [[Hypercube]], a much smaller one that he is used to. He then thinks that maybe he made it himself to send himself a message from his future. He is brought to the [[desert]] [[planet]] [[Gethria]], where he sees a gathering of [[humanoid]]s around a [[stone]] monument. They all depart as the Doctor realises the gathering was a [[funeral]]. An old woman stares at the Doctor as if she recognises him before leaving herself. The Doctor examines the gravestone and sees a toy [[spaceship]] embedded into it. He notes it was "made in [[Carthedia]]" and then leaves. His departure is watched by the [[Dalek Time Controller]] from his time ship, who declares: "It is beginning..."


Else where in space and time, a young girl has been taken prisoner by the Daleks. A Dalek enters the cell with a tray of food and forces her to eat it. The girl is disgusted but pretends it is her favourite sweet, [[jelly blob]]s, so she can eat it. Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor tries to [[deduce]] the purpose of the hypercube when he receives a distress call from a [[Terrin Blakely]] and his wife [[Alyst Blakely|Alyst]] who claim their ship is under attack. The Doctor sets off to aid them but the Dalek Time Controller fires an energy pulse at the TARDIS, knocking the Doctor off course. He arrives on the ship but too late as he finds a recording showing Terrin and Alyst preparing to throw themselves out of the airlock to protect their knowledge of a certain formula from the Daleks. The Doctor investigates the ship further and finds three children hidden in the escape pod: [[Sabel Blakely|Sabel]], [[Jenibeth Blakely|Jenibeth]] and [[Ollus Blakely|Ollus]] — Terrin and Alyst's children. He tells them of their parents' death and returns the ship to their home planet Carthedia, along the way learning a few things: the children are smart for their age, Ollus has a toy spaceship, that a family friend named [[Hogoosta]] gave Terrin and Alyst the formula and that the Daleks are considered a force for good.
Elsewhere in [[space]] and [[time]], a young girl has been taken prisoner by the Daleks. A Dalek enters the cell with a tray of food and forces her to eat it. The girl is disgusted but pretends it is her favourite sweet, [[jelly blob]]s, so she can eat it. Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor tries to [[deduce]] the purpose of the hypercube when he receives a distress call from a [[Terrin Blakely]] and his wife [[Alyst Blakely|Alyst]] who claim their ship is under attack. The Doctor sets off to aid them but the Dalek Time Controller fires an energy pulse at the TARDIS, knocking the Doctor off course. He arrives on the ship but too late as he finds a recording showing Terrin and Alyst preparing to throw themselves out of the airlock to protect their knowledge of a certain formula from the Daleks. The Doctor investigates the ship further and finds three children hidden in the escape pod: [[Sabel Blakely|Sabel]], [[Jenibeth Blakely|Jenibeth]] and [[Ollus Blakely|Ollus]] — Terrin and Alyst's children. He tells them of their parents' death and returns the ship to their home planet Carthedia, along the way learning a few things: the children are smart for their age, Ollus has a toy spaceship, that a family friend named [[Hogoosta]] gave Terrin and Alyst the formula and that the Daleks are considered a force for good.


Upon arriving on Carthedia, the Doctor is questioned about Terrin and Alyst's disappearance. He is found innocent of any crime and is allowed to depart with the children but he mysteriously loses the recording of the Daleks' part in the couple's death and is unable to prove the Dalek are evil. He tries to explain this to a crowd of journalists who don't believe him. He is then arrested for denouncing the Daleks, which is considered a [[hate crime]]. The children are taken to an [[orphanage]] while the Doctor is put on trial, with the [[Dalek Litigator]] acting as the prosecution. The Doctor pleads guilty to the hate crime in attempts to anger the Litigator and provoke the Dalek into showing its true colours but it stays calm. The Doctor is given a sentence and all his and the Blakely's assets are seized by the Dalek Foundation. The Doctor's state-appointed laywer, [[Hellic Dansard]], appeals for the Doctor to see the children before the sentence is carried out as he displayed some "emotional attachment" to them. Against the Doctor's expectations, the Dalek Litigator holds no objections.
Upon arriving on Carthedia, the Doctor is questioned about Terrin and Alyst's disappearance. He is found innocent of any crime and is allowed to depart with the children but he mysteriously loses the recording of the Daleks' part in the couple's death and is unable to prove the Dalek are evil. He tries to explain this to a crowd of journalists who don't believe him. He is then arrested for denouncing the Daleks, which is considered a [[hate crime]]. The children are taken to an [[orphanage]] while the Doctor is put on trial, with the [[Dalek Time Controller|Dalek Litigator]] acting as the prosecution. The Doctor pleads guilty to the hate crime in attempts to anger the Litigator and provoke the Dalek into showing its true colours but it stays calm. The Doctor is given a sentence and all his and the Blakely's assets are seized by the Dalek Foundation. The Doctor's state-appointed lawyer, [[Hellic Dansard]], appeals for the Doctor to see the children before the sentence is carried out as he displayed some "emotional attachment" to them. Against the Doctor's expectations, the Dalek Litigator holds no objections.


Hellic and some police forces take the Doctor in a [[skimmer]] (a Carthedian police car) to the police station where the Doctor finds the children struggling to sleep in a poorly-treated orphanage. Fortunately, security neglects to relieve the Doctor of his [[sonic screwdriver]] and he uses it to produce an extremely loud sound, stunning Hellic and the police and shattering the wall of the orphanage allowing the Doctor and the children to escape. They take off in a skimmer (which Ollus is able to drive despite his age), Hellic and the police giving chase. The Doctor spots the TARDIS on a landing pad with a Dalek guarding it. The Doctor uses Ollus's toy spaceship to produce [[hologram]]s which the Dalek mistakes for an attack. It panics, firing almost hysterically at the sky, shooting down and scattering the police skimmers. Hellic's skimmer is shot down, crashing into the Dalek and killing them both. Ollus lands the skimmer but more Daleks exit a [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek saucer]] to apprehend them. The Doctor uses the toy again to project more holograms from the TARDIS light, distracting the Daleks long enough for them to escape. The children, upon learning the TARDIS is a time machine, ask the Doctor if they can travel back and save their parents. The Doctor initially refuses, abiding by the [[Laws of Time|laws]] set by the [[Time Lord]]s, but eventually wonders if he could rescue the parents and adjust the controls accordingly. But another energy pulse hits the TARDIS, sending it off course once more.
Hellic and some [[police]] forces take the Doctor in a [[skimmer]] (a Carthedian [[police car]]) to the [[police station]] where the Doctor finds the children struggling to sleep in a poorly-treated orphanage. Fortunately, security neglects to relieve the Doctor of his [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] and he uses it to produce an extremely loud sound, stunning Hellic and the police and shattering the wall of the orphanage allowing the Doctor and the children to escape. They take off in a skimmer (which Ollus is able to drive despite his age), Hellic and the police giving chase. The Doctor spots the TARDIS on a landing pad with a Dalek guarding it. The Doctor uses Ollus's toy spaceship to produce [[hologram]]s which the Dalek mistakes for an attack. It panics, firing almost hysterically at the sky, shooting down and scattering the police skimmers. Hellic's skimmer is shot down, crashing into the Dalek and killing them both. Ollus lands the skimmer but more Daleks exit a [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek saucer]] to apprehend them. The Doctor uses the toy again to project more holograms from the TARDIS light, distracting the Daleks long enough for them to escape. The children, upon learning the TARDIS is a time machine, ask the Doctor if they can travel back and save their parents. The Doctor initially refuses, abiding by the [[Laws of Time|laws]] set by the [[Time Lord]]s, but eventually wonders if he could rescue the parents and adjust the controls accordingly. But another energy pulse hits the TARDIS, sending it off course once more.


On Gethria, Hogoosta is working at an excavation site, worrying about Terrin and Alyst, when [[Klektid Enforcers]] arrive and evict everyone off the site. The TARDIS arrives and the children greet Hogoosta, who tells the Doctor about the [[Cradle of the Gods]], a great monument they have discovered with inscriptions meaning it either has the purpose of creation or destruction. The Klektid enforcers chase them back to the TARDIS for venturing too close to the monument. The Doctor materialises the TARDIS closer to the Cradle and they begin to investigate. It seems active for some unknown reason. The Daleks then arrive. The group realises the enforcers must have been working for the Daleks. The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus manage to escape back to the TARDIS but Hogoosta is exterminated and Jenibeth is captured. Ollus promises to rescue her, then the TARDIS dematerialises, the Cradle suddenly becoming inactive at the same time.
On Gethria, Hogoosta is working at an excavation site, worrying about Terrin and Alyst, when [[Klektid Enforcers]] arrive and evict everyone off the site. The TARDIS arrives and the children greet Hogoosta, who tells the Doctor about the [[Cradle of the Gods]], a great monument they have discovered with inscriptions meaning it either has the purpose of creation or destruction. The Klektid enforcers chase them back to the TARDIS for venturing too close to the monument. The Doctor materialises the TARDIS closer to the Cradle and they begin to investigate. It seems active for some unknown reason. The Daleks then arrive. The group realises the enforcers must have been working for the Daleks. The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus manage to escape back to the TARDIS but Hogoosta is exterminated and Jenibeth is captured, revealing she was the young girl who had been taken prisoner from earlier in the story. Ollus promises to rescue her, then the TARDIS dematerialises, the Cradle suddenly becoming inactive at the same time.


Some months after investigating the train crash on Sunlight 349, Lillian Belle is approached by the member of an underground resistance said to be plotting the downfall of the Dalek Foundation. They give Lillian a report exposing the murders at the crash site and give her information in the form of memory cells about the Doctor. She is told to find him. The Doctor ends up finding her first and asking if she knows a way to defeat the Daleks.
Some months after investigating the train crash on Sunlight 349, Lillian Belle is approached by the member of an underground resistance said to be plotting the downfall of the Dalek Foundation. They give Lillian a report exposing the murders at the crash site and give her information in the form of memory cells about the Doctor. She is told to find him. The Doctor ends up finding her first and asking if she knows a way to defeat the Daleks.


Meanwhile, the [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Dalek Supreme]] is becoming impatient and demands that the Dalek Time Controller activate the Cradle of the Gods immediately. The Time Controller refuses, claiming, "The Doctor's course is set. Set by ''me''." Intervention would disrupt the flow of time and harm the Daleks. The Time Contoller forces the Supreme Dalek to obey, and the Supreme Dalek reluctantly complies.
Meanwhile on the time ship, the [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Dalek Supreme]] is becoming impatient and demands that the Dalek Time Controller activate the Cradle of the Gods immediately. The Time Controller refuses, claiming, "The Doctor's course is set. Set by ''me''." Intervention would disrupt the flow of time and harm the Daleks. The Time Controller forces the Dalek Supreme to obey his direct order, and the latter reluctantly complies.


The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus use Lillian to sniff out a resistance member and they are met with success. The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus are taken to a resistance meeting where five dark and mysterious figures are in discussion. The Doctor asks about their course of action but Sabel and Ollus discover Daleks invading the hideout. The Doctor and the children escape but they see the resistance members killed by the Daleks. The Doctor returns to Lillian and interrupts her in the middle of a news report. He takes her camera to a busy shopping centre and then begins transmitting a live message to all the screens on Sunlight 349, urging its citizens to rise up against the Daleks. His revolution fails as people still refuse to believe that the Daleks are evil. Someone changes the channel to the quiz show ''[[How Nice Is Your Brain?]]'' rather than listen to him. The Doctor persists and tries to rally the citizens without the use of a camera but the Dalek Litigator arrives to deal with the situation and subject the Doctor to another trial in public. The crowd's support for the Daleks is huge and Doctor is totally outwitted as the Litigator demands that the Doctor provide proof for his accusations. Sabel and Ollus defend the Doctor but the Litigator makes them question their trust in him, noting that they only have his word to tell them who killed their parents. The resistance members emerge unharmed, the Litigator stating they are care workers. It further declares that Jenibeth will be found and safely returned and the Blakely children will be left under Lillian's care. Four more Daleks arrive with the TARDIS and the Doctor is forced to leave. He is allowed to say goodbye to the children and hands Ollus the hypercube, telling him that if he ever needs the Doctor, he just has to think of him. At last, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS – but he has a plan.
The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus use Lillian to sniff out a resistance member and they are met with success. The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus are taken to a resistance meeting where five dark and mysterious figures are in discussion. The Doctor asks about their course of action but Sabel and Ollus discover Daleks invading the hideout. The Doctor and the children escape but they see the resistance members killed by the Daleks. The Doctor returns to Lillian and interrupts her in the middle of a news report. He takes her camera to a busy shopping centre and then begins transmitting a live message to all the screens on Sunlight 349, urging its citizens to rise up against the Daleks. His revolution fails as people still refuse to believe that the Daleks are evil. Someone changes the channel to the quiz show ''[[How Nice Is Your Brain?]]'' rather than listen to him. The Doctor persists and tries to rally the citizens without the use of a camera but the Dalek Litigator arrives to deal with the situation and subject the Doctor to another trial in public. The crowd's support for the Daleks is huge and Doctor is totally outwitted as the Litigator demands that the Doctor provide proof for his accusations. Sabel and Ollus defend the Doctor but the Litigator makes them question their trust in him, noting that they only have his word to tell them who killed their parents. The resistance members emerge unharmed, the Litigator stating they are care workers. It further declares that Jenibeth will be found and safely returned and the Blakely children will be left under Lillian's care. Four more Daleks arrive with the TARDIS and the Doctor is forced to leave. He is allowed to say goodbye to the children and hands Ollus the hypercube, telling him that if he ever needs the Doctor, he just has to think of him. At last, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS – but he has a plan.
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Approximately 90 years later, [[Gill (The Dalek Generation)|Gill]] is taking care of an elderly Ollus and tells him Sabel is expected to recover from her cold in hospital soon. Gill then finds a white cube and inquires about it, and Ollus begins to remember the Doctor as he goes to sleep.
Approximately 90 years later, [[Gill (The Dalek Generation)|Gill]] is taking care of an elderly Ollus and tells him Sabel is expected to recover from her cold in hospital soon. Gill then finds a white cube and inquires about it, and Ollus begins to remember the Doctor as he goes to sleep.


The Doctor lands on Gethria not long after he left the funeral. Ollus' funeral. The old woman he saw returns. Due to the family resemblance, the Doctor mistakes her for Sabel but it is really Jenibeth. The Doctor takes Ollus' toy spaceship off the gravestone and explains that Terrin and Alyst placed the formula to activate the Cradle of the Gods inside the toy, which is why the Cradle was so active when they investigated it. He is about to smash the toy when Jenibeth takes him hostage. She is a [[Dalek puppet]]. Another Dalek ship arrives with a captive Sabel and Ollus who explains the Daleks faked his funeral. The Dalek Litigator is with them and reveals that the Daleks have been manipulating the Doctor since they sent him the hypercube so that he could lead them to the Cradle and activate it. The purpose of the 400 Sunlight Worlds was to have them transformed by the Cradle into "a billion [[Skaro]]s". The Litigator then turns into the Dalek Time Controller and demands the Doctor activate the Cradle or the Blakelys will die. The Doctor examines it and then finds it is almost ready to turn the Sunlight Worlds into jelly blobs because Jenibeth, having been a Dalek prisoner for decades, had no education and still has the mind of a child and the Cradle is feeding off her mental power. To save the worlds' inhabitants, the Doctor sets the Cradle to self-destruct. The Time Controller moves to kill the Doctor but Jenibeth, able to resist the Daleks' control, attacks it. The other Daleks fight back but Jenibeth destroys them. The Time Controller and a remaining drone retreat but not before shooting Jenibeth.
The Doctor lands on Gethria not long after he left the funeral. Ollus' funeral. The old woman he saw returns. Due to the family resemblance, the Doctor mistakes her for Sabel but it is really Jenibeth. The Doctor takes Ollus' toy spaceship off the gravestone and explains that Terrin and Alyst placed the formula to activate the Cradle of the Gods inside the toy, which is why the Cradle was so active when they investigated it. He is about to smash the toy when Jenibeth takes him hostage. She is a [[Dalek puppet]]. Another Dalek ship arrives with a captive Sabel and Ollus who explains the Daleks faked his funeral. The Dalek Litigator is with them and reveals that the Daleks have been manipulating the Doctor since they sent him the hypercube so that he could lead them to the Cradle and activate it. The purpose of the 400 Sunlight Worlds was to have them transformed by the Cradle into "a billion [[Skaro]]s". The Litigator then morphs into the Dalek Time Controller and demands the Doctor use the rocket toy to activate the Cradle or the Blakelys will die. The Doctor examines it and then finds it is almost ready to turn the Sunlight Worlds into jelly blobs because Jenibeth, having been a Dalek prisoner for decades, had no education and still has the mind of a child and the Cradle is feeding off her mental power. To save the worlds' inhabitants, the Doctor sets the Cradle to self-destruct. The Time Controller moves to kill the Doctor but Jenibeth, able to resist the Daleks' control, attacks him. The other Daleks fight back but Jenibeth destroys them. The Time Controller and a remaining drone retreat but not before shooting Jenibeth.


Sabel and Ollus begin to comfort the dying Jenibeth, telling them stories of their parents and childhood. The Doctor tries to get them into the TARDIS before the Cradle explodes but he is forced to leave them. He takes cover in the TARDIS himself, fearing the worst for the siblings. But when the danger passes, he searches for them and finds them as children, the way they were when he first met them. The Cradle has also converted the rest of the Sunlight Worlds accordingly — all has been reverted by the Cradle to the way it was when the Blakelys were children because of the stories making so huge an impact in Jenibeth's mind for the Cradle to feed on. Another spacecraft arrives, piloted by Terrin and Alyst Blakely, also recreated by the Cradle and Jenibeth's mind. The Doctor leaves in the TARDIS before he can witness the reunion. For a moment, he is ecstatic about how the Daleks' plans for destruction instead had the opposite effect, but he then thinks about what could have been if the Daleks had succeeded. How many people could have died because the Daleks were able to manipulate the Doctor and his reputation for meddling with the affairs of others all throughout time? How many lives had already been lost due to his meddling? Finally, the Doctor decrees: "No more meddling. No more."
Sabel and Ollus begin to comfort the dying Jenibeth, telling them stories of their parents and childhood. The Doctor tries to get them into the TARDIS before the Cradle explodes but he is forced to leave them. He takes cover in the TARDIS himself, fearing the worst for the siblings. But when the danger passes, he searches for them and finds them as children, the way they were when he first met them. The Cradle has also converted the rest of the Sunlight Worlds accordingly — all has been reverted by the Cradle to the way it was when the Blakelys were children because of the stories making so huge an impact in Jenibeth's mind for the Cradle to feed on. Another spacecraft arrives, piloted by Terrin and Alyst Blakely, also recreated by the Cradle and Jenibeth's mind. The Doctor leaves in the TARDIS before he can witness the reunion. For a moment, he is ecstatic about how the Daleks' plans for destruction instead had the opposite effect, but he then thinks about what could have been if the Daleks had succeeded. How many people could have died because the Daleks were able to manipulate the Doctor and his reputation for meddling with the affairs of others all throughout time? How many lives had already been lost due to his meddling? Finally, the Doctor decrees: "No more meddling. No more."
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* [[Judge (The Dalek Generation)|Judge]]
* [[Judge (The Dalek Generation)|Judge]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Daleks establish the [[Dalek Foundation]] and the 400 [[Sunlight Worlds]] after the worst galactic recession on record, "About thirty or forty years" before the novel takes place, and plan to use the [[Cradle of the Gods]] to transform the planets into [[Skaro]]s.
=== Various ===
* The [[Dalek Time Controller]] outranks the [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Dalek Supreme]].
* [[Jelly blob]]s are [[Jenibeth Blakely]]'s favourite sweets.
* [[Jelly blob]]s are [[Jenibeth Blakely]]'s favourite sweets.
* Four Daleks are able to carry the TARDIS with their [[manipulator arm]]s.
* Four Daleks are able to carry [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] with their [[manipulator arm]]s.
* The Doctor and the Blakelys know and talk about the short story ''[[A Sound of Thunder]]'' by [[Ray Bradbury]] about [[time travel]].
* The Doctor and the Blakelys know and talk about the short story ''[[A Sound of Thunder]]'' by [[Ray Bradbury]] about [[time travel]].
* The [[translation circuit]] of the TARDIS does not translate the ancient inscriptions of the Cradle of the Gods.
* The [[translation circuit]] of the TARDIS does not translate the ancient inscriptions of the Cradle of the Gods.
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* ''[[KS55NZ/4]]'' is a charter ship.
* ''[[KS55NZ/4]]'' is a charter ship.
* [[Gesela]] is a town on Gethria.
* [[Gesela]] is a town on Gethria.
* Stella offers a [[cyro-charge]] to Scrum.
 
=== Daleks ===
* The [[Dalek]]s establish the [[Dalek Foundation]] and the 400 [[Sunlight Worlds]] after the worst galactic recession on record, "about thirty or forty years" before the novel takes place, and plan to use the [[Cradle of the Gods]] to transform the planets into "a billion [[Skaro]]s".
* The [[Dalek Time Controller]] outranks the [[Supreme Dalek (The Dalek Generation)|Dalek Supreme]] in temporal plans.
* According to ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'', the failure of the Dalek Generation scheme was the final straw for the [[New Dalek Paradigm]]'s control over the Daleks. Subsequently, the New Paradigm was [[Reinvention of the Dalek Empire|kicked out of leadership]] and the [[resurrected Dalek Empire]] was established. That [[Bronze Dalek]]s already appear throughout the ''Dalek Generation'' can thus be seen as the Paradigm already losing influence in its own empire.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is the second appearance of the Daleks in a [[BBC New Series Adventure]] novel, the first being ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]'', which mentions an unrelated [[Dalek Generation]]. A single Dalek also features in the [[Quick Reads]] novella, ''[[I Am a Dalek (novel)|I Am a Dalek]]''. Their appearances in pre-revived series print include the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor Adventure]] novels ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'' and the [[Telos Publishing|Telos]] [[Telos Doctor Who novella|novella]] ''[[The Dalek Factor (novel)|The Dalek Factor]]''. ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'' would follow in [[2014 (releases)|2014]].
* This is the second appearance of the Daleks in a [[BBC New Series Adventure]] novel, the first being ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]'' (which mentions an unrelated [[Dalek Generation]]). A single Dalek also features in the [[Quick Reads]] novella, ''[[I Am a Dalek (novel)|I Am a Dalek]]''. Their appearances in pre-revived series print include the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor Adventure]] novels ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'' and the [[Telos Publishing|Telos]] [[Telos Doctor Who novella|novella]] ''[[The Dalek Factor (novel)|The Dalek Factor]]''. ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'' would follow in [[2014 (releases)|2014]].
* As in the comic story ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]'' and the novels ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'' and ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'', the Doctor is travelling without a regular [[companion]] for this story. The Blakely children assist the Doctor as one-off companions.
* As in the comic story ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]'' and the novels ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'' and ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'', the Doctor is travelling without a regular [[companion]] for this story. The Blakely children assist the Doctor as one-off companions.
* Unlike most standard novels in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] line, all chapters in ''The Dalek Generation'' have individual titles. This has happened before with deluxe novels ''[[The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)|The Coming of the Terraphiles]]'' and ''[[The Silent Stars Go By (novel)|The Silent Stars Go By]]'' but not in any other standard books, with ''[[Dead of Winter (novel)|Dead of Winter]]'' being a slight exception.
* Unlike most standard novels in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] line, all chapters in ''The Dalek Generation'' have individual titles. This has happened before with deluxe novels ''[[The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)|The Coming of the Terraphiles]]'' and ''[[The Silent Stars Go By (novel)|The Silent Stars Go By]]'' but not in any other standard books, with ''[[Dead of Winter (novel)|Dead of Winter]]'' being a slight exception.
* The standard bronze 2005 design of Dalek introduced in ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' is featured prominently throughout this story, similar to ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[The Dalek Project]]'', where drones appear as such instead of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] design introduced in ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]''. However, the [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Supreme Dalek]] does make an appearance along with some other "high ranking" Daleks.
* The standard bronze 2005 design of Dalek introduced in ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' is featured prominently throughout this story, similar to ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[The Dalek Project]]'', where drones appear as such instead of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] design introduced in ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]''. However, the [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Supreme Dalek]] does make an appearance along with some other "high ranking" Daleks.
* The novel features several elements from the [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|audio dramas]] by [[Big Finish Productions]], for which author [[Nicholas Briggs]] has also worked as a writer, director, voice actor, music and sound designer, and executive producer. Elements include the Dalek Time Controller, [[skimmer]]s and the [[Earth Alliance]]. Thus, the novel is one of the few times Big Finish and revived series elements have been able to directly intertwine, prior to Big Finish striking a deal allowing them to work with revived series material.
* The Doctor's last line of dialogue in the novel is "No more." Coincidentally, this would later become a line often used by the [[War Doctor]] who was introduced later in [[2013 (releases)|2013]]. ''Engines of War'', the next Dalek novel after ''Generation'', ends on the War Doctor saying those same words. The other two novels released on the same day as ''The Dalek Generation'' also contain connections to ''[[Doctor Who]]''<nowiki/>'s then-upcoming 50th anniversary: ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'' contained a reference to [[Karn]] before the premier of ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'', and ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'' is set on [[23 November]] [[1963]].
* The Doctor's last line of dialogue in the novel is "No more." Conicidentally, this would later become a line often used by the [[War Doctor]] who was introduced later in [[2013 (releases)|2013]]. ''Engines of War'', the next Dalek novel after ''Generation'', ends on the War Doctor saying those same words.
=== Audio release ===
The story was released as an audiobook read by Nicholas Briggs. As with his reading of ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'', he uses his voice modulator whenever a Dalek speaks. As a result of him being both the writer of this story and the current voice of the Daleks, Briggs becomes one of the few authors of ''Doctor Who'' fiction to read the audio release of their own story.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Daleks send the Doctor a [[hypercube]], reminding the Doctor of the previous times he used one: a long time ago, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') and just recently. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* The Daleks send the Doctor a [[hypercube]], reminding the Doctor of the previous times he used one: a long time ago, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') and just recently. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* This is the Dalek Time Controller's first encounter with the Doctor, and it is told that they will meet many times in the future. At later points in its personal timeline, the Dalek Time Controller encountered the [[Sixth Doctor]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'') and the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'', ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Traitor (audio story)|The Traitor]]'', ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', ''[[The Monster of Montmartre (audio story)|The Monster of Montmartre]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Eye of Darkness (audio story)|Eye of Darkness]]'')
* This is the Dalek Time Controller's first encounter with the Doctor, and he is told that they will meet many times in the future. At later points in his personal timeline, the Dalek Time Controller encountered the [[Sixth Doctor]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'') and the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'', ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Traitor (audio story)|The Traitor]]'', ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', ''[[The Monster of Montmartre (audio story)|The Monster of Montmartre]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Eye of Darkness (audio story)|Eye of Darkness]]'')
* Daleks previously pretended to help [[human]]s in order to further their own objectives in [[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|The Power of the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]'' and [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]''. They also lured the [[Thal]]s into a trap by offering them friendship and food in [[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]''.
* Daleks previously pretended to help [[human]]s in order to further their own objectives in [[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|The Power of the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]'' and [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]''. They also lured the [[Thal]]s into a trap by offering them friendship and food in [[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]''.
* The Daleks know of the Doctor, despite [[Oswin Oswald|Oswin]] erasing him from the memories of the [[Dalek Asylum]] and the [[Parliament of the Daleks|Dalek Parliament]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''.
** The Daleks later regain their memories of the Doctor from [[Tasha Lem]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') but in that story, the Doctor is surprised that the Daleks know who he is while he does not question it here. Where these two stories fit into the Dalek timeline is also unknown.
* The Doctor calls the TARDIS "sexy thing". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* The Doctor calls the TARDIS "sexy thing". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* The Doctor remembers witnessing the Daleks' "[[Creation of the Daleks|birth]] in the [[Thousand Year War|fires of war]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor remembers witnessing the Daleks' "[[Creation of the Daleks|birth]] in the [[Thousand Year War|fires of war]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')
* After informing the Blakely children about the death of their parents, the Doctor allows them to have whatever fun they want, knowing they need the happiness. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'')
* After informing the Blakely children about the death of their parents, the Doctor allows them to have whatever fun they want, knowing they need the happiness. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'')
* Ollus asks if the Doctor's [[sonic screwdriver]] is a magic wand. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'')
* Ollus asks if [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]] is a magic wand. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'')
* The Doctor mentions Dalek [[Slavery|slave labour]] camps. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (audio story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor mentions Dalek [[Slavery|slave labour]] camps. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (audio story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor suggests it is wise to be afraid of [[Vashta Nerada|the dark]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Shadows of the Vashta Nerada (video game)|Shadows of the Vashta Nerada]]'')
* The Doctor suggests it is wise to be afraid of [[Vashta Nerada|the dark]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Shadows of the Vashta Nerada (video game)|Shadows of the Vashta Nerada]]'')
* The Doctor says the Daleks want to get their "protuberances" on the Cradle of the Gods. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor says the Daleks want to get their "protuberances" on the Cradle of the Gods. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor uses his [[psychic paper]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'' et al.)
* The Doctor uses his [[psychic paper]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'' et al.)
* References are made to [[Robomen]], and people disguising themselves as one to raid a [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek ship]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') [[Dalek duplicate|Duplicates]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'') and Dalek [[nanogene]]s reanimating the dead. [[Dalek puppet]]s make another appearance. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
* References are made to [[Robomen]], and people disguising themselves as one to raid a [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek ship]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') [[Dalek duplicate|Duplicates]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'') and Dalek [[nanogene]]s reanimating the dead. [[Dalek puppet]]s make another appearance. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
* At the end, the Doctor thinks about the lives his actions put in danger and decides "No more meddling". This is highly implied to be the event in which he made his decision to [[retire]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Great Detective (TV story)|The Great Detective]]'') Numerous continuity points support this:
* At the end, the Doctor thinks about the lives his actions put in danger and decides "No more meddling". This is highly implied to be the event in which he made his decision to [[retire]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Great Detective (TV story)|The Great Detective]]'') It eventually backfires with the [[Great Intelligence]]'s near-victory; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') similarly to the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s refusal to join the [[Last Great Time War]] led to many dying including [[Cass Fermazzi]], thus why he allowed [[Eighth Doctor's regeneration|his own death]] and the [[War Doctor]]'s birth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
** The reference to Dalek nanogenes and the appearance of a Dalek puppet places this story after ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''.
 
** This means it also occurs after ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'' as [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] continued to travel with the Doctor from ''Asylum'' until ''Angels'' and they are absent here. It could have taken place in the gap between ''Asylum'' and ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'', or in other gaps before ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'', but then the Doctor's decision to stop interfering would be ignored.
== Editions published outside Britain ==
** The interior of the TARDIS gives an "orange" glow like its [[2010 (production)|2010]] design, rather than a blue glow following its [[2012 (production)|2012]] redesign in ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''.
* Published in the USA by Broadway Books in 2013 as a paperback edition.
* Published in Italy by Asengard Edizioni in 2014 as a paperback edition.
* Published in the Czech Republic by Jota in 2015 as a hardback edition. The novel incorrectly credits [[Tommy Donbavand]] as the author on the cover.
 
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== Audiobook ==
* This novel was released as an audiobook on [[6 June (releases)|6 June]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Nicholas Briggs]].
 
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The Dalek Generation was the fifty-third novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Nicholas Briggs and featured the Eleventh Doctor. It is the second novel in the line to feature the Daleks, after Prisoner of the Daleks in 2009.

In writing the novel, Briggs included several elements from the audio dramas by Big Finish Productions, for which he also worked extensively on many areas of production. Chief among these elements was the Dalek Time Controller, a foe of the Sixth and Eighth Doctors, though in his earliest chronological appearance.

The Dalek Generation was one of the few stories to blend Big Finish and revived series material prior to 2014, after which the Big Finish license was extended to allow revived series material to feature more heavily in their audio output. (BFX: Extinction)

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

"The Sunlight Worlds offer you a life of comfort and plenty. Apply now at the Dalek Foundation."

Sunlight 349 is one of countless Dalek Foundation worlds, planets created to house billions suffering from economic hardship. The Doctor arrives at Sunlight 349, suspicious of any world where the Daleks are apparently a force for good – and determined to find out the truth. The Doctor knows they have a far more sinister plan – but how can he convince those who have lived under the benevolence of the Daleks for a generation?

But convince them he must, and soon. For on another Foundation planet, archaeologists have unearthed the most dangerous technology in the universe...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lillian Belle, a journalist for Sunlight 349 Holo-News living on the Dalek Foundation world of Sunlight 349, arrives at the sight of a train crash where two locomotives have collided head on. As Lillian interviews a security guard, Daniel Ash, a Dalek arrives on the scene to investigate. Some medics with Mr Sezman, one of the drivers, approach the Dalek on the other side of the train — out of everyone's sight — to explain to it what happened. The Dalek murders them and leaves before the bodies can be found.

While the TARDIS is in flight through the Time Vortex, the Doctor receives a Hypercube, a much smaller one that he is used to. He then thinks that maybe he made it himself to send himself a message from his future. He is brought to the desert planet Gethria, where he sees a gathering of humanoids around a stone monument. They all depart as the Doctor realises the gathering was a funeral. An old woman stares at the Doctor as if she recognises him before leaving herself. The Doctor examines the gravestone and sees a toy spaceship embedded into it. He notes it was "made in Carthedia" and then leaves. His departure is watched by the Dalek Time Controller from his time ship, who declares: "It is beginning..."

Elsewhere in space and time, a young girl has been taken prisoner by the Daleks. A Dalek enters the cell with a tray of food and forces her to eat it. The girl is disgusted but pretends it is her favourite sweet, jelly blobs, so she can eat it. Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor tries to deduce the purpose of the hypercube when he receives a distress call from a Terrin Blakely and his wife Alyst who claim their ship is under attack. The Doctor sets off to aid them but the Dalek Time Controller fires an energy pulse at the TARDIS, knocking the Doctor off course. He arrives on the ship but too late as he finds a recording showing Terrin and Alyst preparing to throw themselves out of the airlock to protect their knowledge of a certain formula from the Daleks. The Doctor investigates the ship further and finds three children hidden in the escape pod: Sabel, Jenibeth and Ollus — Terrin and Alyst's children. He tells them of their parents' death and returns the ship to their home planet Carthedia, along the way learning a few things: the children are smart for their age, Ollus has a toy spaceship, that a family friend named Hogoosta gave Terrin and Alyst the formula and that the Daleks are considered a force for good.

Upon arriving on Carthedia, the Doctor is questioned about Terrin and Alyst's disappearance. He is found innocent of any crime and is allowed to depart with the children but he mysteriously loses the recording of the Daleks' part in the couple's death and is unable to prove the Dalek are evil. He tries to explain this to a crowd of journalists who don't believe him. He is then arrested for denouncing the Daleks, which is considered a hate crime. The children are taken to an orphanage while the Doctor is put on trial, with the Dalek Litigator acting as the prosecution. The Doctor pleads guilty to the hate crime in attempts to anger the Litigator and provoke the Dalek into showing its true colours but it stays calm. The Doctor is given a sentence and all his and the Blakely's assets are seized by the Dalek Foundation. The Doctor's state-appointed lawyer, Hellic Dansard, appeals for the Doctor to see the children before the sentence is carried out as he displayed some "emotional attachment" to them. Against the Doctor's expectations, the Dalek Litigator holds no objections.

Hellic and some police forces take the Doctor in a skimmer (a Carthedian police car) to the police station where the Doctor finds the children struggling to sleep in a poorly-treated orphanage. Fortunately, security neglects to relieve the Doctor of his sonic screwdriver and he uses it to produce an extremely loud sound, stunning Hellic and the police and shattering the wall of the orphanage allowing the Doctor and the children to escape. They take off in a skimmer (which Ollus is able to drive despite his age), Hellic and the police giving chase. The Doctor spots the TARDIS on a landing pad with a Dalek guarding it. The Doctor uses Ollus's toy spaceship to produce holograms which the Dalek mistakes for an attack. It panics, firing almost hysterically at the sky, shooting down and scattering the police skimmers. Hellic's skimmer is shot down, crashing into the Dalek and killing them both. Ollus lands the skimmer but more Daleks exit a Dalek saucer to apprehend them. The Doctor uses the toy again to project more holograms from the TARDIS light, distracting the Daleks long enough for them to escape. The children, upon learning the TARDIS is a time machine, ask the Doctor if they can travel back and save their parents. The Doctor initially refuses, abiding by the laws set by the Time Lords, but eventually wonders if he could rescue the parents and adjust the controls accordingly. But another energy pulse hits the TARDIS, sending it off course once more.

On Gethria, Hogoosta is working at an excavation site, worrying about Terrin and Alyst, when Klektid Enforcers arrive and evict everyone off the site. The TARDIS arrives and the children greet Hogoosta, who tells the Doctor about the Cradle of the Gods, a great monument they have discovered with inscriptions meaning it either has the purpose of creation or destruction. The Klektid enforcers chase them back to the TARDIS for venturing too close to the monument. The Doctor materialises the TARDIS closer to the Cradle and they begin to investigate. It seems active for some unknown reason. The Daleks then arrive. The group realises the enforcers must have been working for the Daleks. The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus manage to escape back to the TARDIS but Hogoosta is exterminated and Jenibeth is captured, revealing she was the young girl who had been taken prisoner from earlier in the story. Ollus promises to rescue her, then the TARDIS dematerialises, the Cradle suddenly becoming inactive at the same time.

Some months after investigating the train crash on Sunlight 349, Lillian Belle is approached by the member of an underground resistance said to be plotting the downfall of the Dalek Foundation. They give Lillian a report exposing the murders at the crash site and give her information in the form of memory cells about the Doctor. She is told to find him. The Doctor ends up finding her first and asking if she knows a way to defeat the Daleks.

Meanwhile on the time ship, the Dalek Supreme is becoming impatient and demands that the Dalek Time Controller activate the Cradle of the Gods immediately. The Time Controller refuses, claiming, "The Doctor's course is set. Set by me." Intervention would disrupt the flow of time and harm the Daleks. The Time Controller forces the Dalek Supreme to obey his direct order, and the latter reluctantly complies.

The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus use Lillian to sniff out a resistance member and they are met with success. The Doctor, Sabel and Ollus are taken to a resistance meeting where five dark and mysterious figures are in discussion. The Doctor asks about their course of action but Sabel and Ollus discover Daleks invading the hideout. The Doctor and the children escape but they see the resistance members killed by the Daleks. The Doctor returns to Lillian and interrupts her in the middle of a news report. He takes her camera to a busy shopping centre and then begins transmitting a live message to all the screens on Sunlight 349, urging its citizens to rise up against the Daleks. His revolution fails as people still refuse to believe that the Daleks are evil. Someone changes the channel to the quiz show How Nice Is Your Brain? rather than listen to him. The Doctor persists and tries to rally the citizens without the use of a camera but the Dalek Litigator arrives to deal with the situation and subject the Doctor to another trial in public. The crowd's support for the Daleks is huge and Doctor is totally outwitted as the Litigator demands that the Doctor provide proof for his accusations. Sabel and Ollus defend the Doctor but the Litigator makes them question their trust in him, noting that they only have his word to tell them who killed their parents. The resistance members emerge unharmed, the Litigator stating they are care workers. It further declares that Jenibeth will be found and safely returned and the Blakely children will be left under Lillian's care. Four more Daleks arrive with the TARDIS and the Doctor is forced to leave. He is allowed to say goodbye to the children and hands Ollus the hypercube, telling him that if he ever needs the Doctor, he just has to think of him. At last, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS – but he has a plan.

Approximately 90 years later, Gill is taking care of an elderly Ollus and tells him Sabel is expected to recover from her cold in hospital soon. Gill then finds a white cube and inquires about it, and Ollus begins to remember the Doctor as he goes to sleep.

The Doctor lands on Gethria not long after he left the funeral. Ollus' funeral. The old woman he saw returns. Due to the family resemblance, the Doctor mistakes her for Sabel but it is really Jenibeth. The Doctor takes Ollus' toy spaceship off the gravestone and explains that Terrin and Alyst placed the formula to activate the Cradle of the Gods inside the toy, which is why the Cradle was so active when they investigated it. He is about to smash the toy when Jenibeth takes him hostage. She is a Dalek puppet. Another Dalek ship arrives with a captive Sabel and Ollus who explains the Daleks faked his funeral. The Dalek Litigator is with them and reveals that the Daleks have been manipulating the Doctor since they sent him the hypercube so that he could lead them to the Cradle and activate it. The purpose of the 400 Sunlight Worlds was to have them transformed by the Cradle into "a billion Skaros". The Litigator then morphs into the Dalek Time Controller and demands the Doctor use the rocket toy to activate the Cradle or the Blakelys will die. The Doctor examines it and then finds it is almost ready to turn the Sunlight Worlds into jelly blobs because Jenibeth, having been a Dalek prisoner for decades, had no education and still has the mind of a child and the Cradle is feeding off her mental power. To save the worlds' inhabitants, the Doctor sets the Cradle to self-destruct. The Time Controller moves to kill the Doctor but Jenibeth, able to resist the Daleks' control, attacks him. The other Daleks fight back but Jenibeth destroys them. The Time Controller and a remaining drone retreat but not before shooting Jenibeth.

Sabel and Ollus begin to comfort the dying Jenibeth, telling them stories of their parents and childhood. The Doctor tries to get them into the TARDIS before the Cradle explodes but he is forced to leave them. He takes cover in the TARDIS himself, fearing the worst for the siblings. But when the danger passes, he searches for them and finds them as children, the way they were when he first met them. The Cradle has also converted the rest of the Sunlight Worlds accordingly — all has been reverted by the Cradle to the way it was when the Blakelys were children because of the stories making so huge an impact in Jenibeth's mind for the Cradle to feed on. Another spacecraft arrives, piloted by Terrin and Alyst Blakely, also recreated by the Cradle and Jenibeth's mind. The Doctor leaves in the TARDIS before he can witness the reunion. For a moment, he is ecstatic about how the Daleks' plans for destruction instead had the opposite effect, but he then thinks about what could have been if the Daleks had succeeded. How many people could have died because the Daleks were able to manipulate the Doctor and his reputation for meddling with the affairs of others all throughout time? How many lives had already been lost due to his meddling? Finally, the Doctor decrees: "No more meddling. No more."

Sabel tells her family she thought she saw a man but Ollus and Jenibeth saw nothing. Her parents tell her she must have imagined him and they prepare to leave. As they do, Sabel hears and faint groan in the distance but it quickly fades to nothing.

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  • Published in the USA by Broadway Books in 2013 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in Italy by Asengard Edizioni in 2014 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in the Czech Republic by Jota in 2015 as a hardback edition. The novel incorrectly credits Tommy Donbavand as the author on the cover.
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    US edition

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    Italian edition

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    Czech edition

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    Audiobook cover

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