Falls the Shadow (novel): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|image= NA032 fallstheshadow.jpg  

|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]

|number= 32  

|doctor=Seventh Doctor  

|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]  

|enemy= [[Gabriel and Tanith]]  

|setting= [[Shadowfell]], [[Scotland]], [[1994]]  

|writer= [[Daniel O'Mahony]]  

|publisher= Virgin Books  

|release date= [[17 November (releases)|17 November]] [[1994 (releases)|1994]]

|format= Paperback Book; 19 Chapters, 356 Pages  

|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20427-1  

|prev= St Anthony's Fire (novel)

|next= Parasite (novel)}}

'''''Falls the Shadow''''' was the thirty-second [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel featuring the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]]. It was author [[Daniel O'Mahony]]'s first novel, and his only contribution to the [[Virgin New Adventures]] range.

''"We are deranged. We are psychopaths, sociopaths, up the garden path," said Tanith. "We are mad, and you are trapped with us."''

[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] is imprisoned in a house called [[Shadowfell]], where a man is ready to commence the next phase of an experiment that will remake the world.

A stranger dressed in grey watches from a hillside, searching for the sinister powers growing within the house. A killer appears from the surrounding forest, determined to carry out her deadly instructions. In the cellar, something lingers, observing and influencing events, waiting to take on flesh and emerge. And trapped in alien darkness, the last survivor of a doomed race mourns for the lost planet [[Earth]].

 

A man in grey watches a house called the [[Shadowfell]], encountering a girl named [[Rose (Falls the Shadow)|Rose]], looking for her brother. He sneaks into the basement, tracking an anomaly, and finds her brother just before he dies, having been tortured by two balls of light. They attack and kill the [[Grey Man]]. A woman dreaming in darkness decides to call herself "[[Jane Page]]" this time.

== References ==

* [[Aliases of the Doctor#Theta Sigma|Theta Sigma]] is not the Doctor's name, but identifies him uniquely amongst the [[Time Lord]]s.

* Benny's death caused the Doctor to consider leaving Ace in 1994 and returning home to [[Gallifrey]].

* Ace was born in [[North London]] in the 1970s.

*[[Cathedral]] is a metacultural engine programmed to, essentially, introduce "greyness" into places where the duality of black and white persist. It is ruled by the [[Mandelbrot Set]] after being created by the Grey Man.

* Winterdawn is experimenting with [[interstitial time]] based on notes by a Professor [[Carl Thascales]], who died after driving his car into a wall, his body burned beyond all recognition.

* The title is a reference to "[[The Hollow Men]]", a poem by [[T.S. Eliot]].

* This novel was written based on the rumours surrounding [[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]''.

* Interstitial time was experimented with by [[the Master]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')

* The Doctor has met the Irish playwright and author [[Oscar Wilde]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beautiful Things (audio story)|Beautiful Things]]'')

* "Theta Sigma" is closely guarded secret of the Doctor's, yet he shared it with [[Trevor Sigma]] on [[Terra Alpha]], although telling him may not have been significant, compared to someone like the Grey Man. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol]]'')

* Ace asks the Doctor in the end "We haven't done good, have we?", alluding to her question "We did good, didn't we?" after defeating the [[Dalek]]s in [[1963]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')

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* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whona32p.htm Prelude to '''Falls the Shadow''' as published in DWM #218]

 

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