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novel name= So Vile A Sin|
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{{Infobox Story SMW
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Virgin New Adventures]] |
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number= 56 |
|range          = Virgin New Adventures
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
|number in range = #56
companions= [[Roz Forrester | Roz]], [[Chris Cwej | Chris]] |
|number         = 56
enemy= the [[Brotherhood]] |
|doctor         = Seventh Doctor
year= 2nd, January, [[2982]] - September, [[2982]] |
|companions     = [[Roz Forrester|Roz]], [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
writer= [[Ben Aaronovitch]] and [[Kate Orman]] |
|featuring      = Bernice Summerfield
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
|featuring2      = Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
release date= |
|featuring3      = Jason Kane
format= Paperback Book, 400 Pages |
|enemy           = [[Brotherhood of the Immanent Flesh]]
isbn= ISBN 0426204840 |
|setting        = {{il|[[Earth]]|[[Io]]|[[Aegisthus]]|[[Iphigenia]]|[[Cassandra (So Vile a Sin)|Cassandra]]|[[Janus (moon)|Janus]]|[[Tethys]]|[[Callisto]], [[2 January]] - [[1 September]] [[2982]]}}
previous story= [[Damaged Goods]] |
|writer         = Ben Aaronovitch, Kate Orman
next story= [[Bad Therapy]]}}
|cover          = [[John Sullivan]]
|publisher       = Virgin Books
|release date   = May 1997
|format         = Paperback Book; 18 Chapters, 318 Pages
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20484-0
|series          = ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]''
|prev            = Damaged Goods (novel)
|next           = Bad Therapy (novel)
}}
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'''''So Vile a Sin''''' was the fifty-sixth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel in the series. However, due to writing and completion difficulties it was the last novel in the series featuring the Doctor to be published in [[May (releases)|May]] [[1997 (releases)|1997]]. It was also the last novel in the series to feature [[Roz Forrester]], depicting her death on a battlefield.


==Publisher's summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
''''If you step into history,' said [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], 'I won't be able to protect you.'<br />'''
''"If you step into history," said [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], "I won't be able to protect you."''
''''This isn't history,' said [[Roz Forrester | Roz]]. 'This is family.''''


The [[Earth Empire]] - the [[Imperium Humanum]], upon which a thousand suns never set - is dying.
''"This isn't history," said [[Roz Forrester|Roz]]. "This is family."''


The Great Houses of the Empire manoeuvre and scheme for advantage; alliances are made; and knives flash in the shadows. Out among the moons of [[Jupiter]], another battle is just beginning, as an ancient brotherhood seeks limitless power and long-overdue revenge.
The [[Earth Empire]] — the Imperium Humanum, upon which a thousand [[sun]]s never set — is dying.
 
The Great Houses of the Empire manoeuvre and scheme for advantage; alliances are made; and [[knive]]s flash in the shadows. Out among the moons of [[Jupiter]], another battle is just beginning, as an ancient brotherhood seeks limitless power and long-overdue revenge.


The Doctor returns to the [[30th century|thirtieth century]], searching for the source of a terrifying weapon. He fears a nightmare from his own past may be about to destroy the future. Nothing must be allowed to get in his way.
The Doctor returns to the [[30th century|thirtieth century]], searching for the source of a terrifying weapon. He fears a nightmare from his own past may be about to destroy the future. Nothing must be allowed to get in his way.


But the Doctor has reckoned without the power of history - which has its own plans for the wayward daughter of the House of Forrester.
But the Doctor has reckoned without the power of history which has its own plans for the wayward daughter of the [[House of Forrester]].
 
== Plot ==
''to be added''
 
== Characters ==
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Roz Forrester]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
* [[Leabie Forrester]]
* [[Armand]]
* [[Walid]]
* [[Martinique]]
* [[Emil Zatopek]]
* [[Iaomnet]]
* [[Somezi Forrester]]
* [[Gugwani Forrester]]
* [[Mantsebo Forrester]]
* [[Thandiwe Forrester]]
* [[Helen Kristiansen]]
* [[Simon Frederson]]
* [[Genevieve ap Gwalchmai]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Dates ===
* In [[2980]], the ''[[Catherine the Great (ship)|Catherine the Great]]'' set off for Iphigenia.
* The Imperial Palace on [[Io]] was built by the Fifth Baron in [[2870]].
 
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor suffers a one sided [[heart attack]], and has a vision of [[Death (mythology)|Death]] tormenting him about his coming demise.
 
=== Gallifreyan technology ===
* Roz flattens an [[N-Form (Damaged Goods)|N-Form]] with [[dwarf star alloy]].
 
=== Individuals ===
* Leabie's youngest daughter [[Thandiwe Forrester|Thandiwe]] was actually a [[clone]] of Roz created shortly after she disappeared following the collapse of [[INITEC]].
* After killing [[Fenn Martle]], Roz thought about becoming an acolyte at the [[Temple of the Goddess]].
* Roz is buried in the [[Umtata Reclamation Zone]] on a sunny day. She is buried next to her [[Somezi Forrester|nephew]] and [[Mantsebo Forrester|niece]].
* Chris listens to [[the Communards]]. He also listens to [[Sting]], who he mentions went into politics and was assassinated in the [[21st century]]. [[Prince (singer)|Prince]] went on to found a religion.
 
=== Locations ===
* [[The Reserve]] is located in the middle of [[Spaceport Five Undertown]].
 
=== Moons ===
* On [[Iphigenia]] a quarter of the moon has a lot of [[Time Lord]] technology in it.
* The [[Ogron]]s attack the Earth Empire on the inner moons of [[Clytemnestra]].


==Characters==
=== Planets ===
*[[Seventh Doctor | The Doctor]]
* [[Orestes]] is named as the [[Ogron]] homeworld.
:*Suffers a one sided heart attack.
* Planets in the Empire include the [[Skag world]], [[Lacaille 8760]], the [[Sense Sphere]], [[Solos]], [[Japetus]] and the Androzanies ([[Androzani Major]] and [[Androzani Minor]]).
* [[Viam]] is the home planet of the [[Listener]]s.
* An outbreak of [[Breckenridge's Scourge]] has wiped out most of the population on [[Mictlan (planet)|Mictlan]].
* One potential future incarnation of the Doctor was worshipped as a god on [[Lalande 21185]].


*[[Roz Forrester]]
=== Psychic powers ===
:*Due to her time spent outside of her timezone Roz is now younger than her younger sister Leabie.
* [[Ley lines]] are a "primary source" of "[[psi]] power".
:*Roz dies.
:*Roz is buried next to her nephew and niece.


*[[Chris Cwej]]
=== Religion ===
* The [[Temple of the Goddess]] is in the [[Odysseus Crater]] on [[Tethys]].


*[[Leabie Forrester]]
=== Species ===
* The [[Quoth]] are a subatomic life form with the power to alter matter.
* [[JayJaxian]]s use [[shutterfly|shutterflies]] to interrogate telepaths.
* Simon thinks that the [[Xenomorph]] [[Hive resin|resin]] used to decorate the flats is "very ugly and [[retro]]".


==References==
=== TARDIS ===
* [[Orestes]] is here named as the [[Ogron]] homeworld.
* [[War TARDIS|TARDIS warships]], from the times of the battle against the [[Great Vampire]]s, were comet-sized.
* Roz flattens an [[N-Form]] with [[dwarf star alloy]].
* After killing [[Fenn Martle]], Roz thought about becoming a acolyte at the [[Temple of the Goddess]].
:* The [[Temple of the Goddess]] is in the [[Odysseus Crater]] on [[Tethys]].
* [[TARDIS warship]]s, from the times of the battle against the [[Great Vampire]]s they carried [[bowship]]s, they were comet sized.
* [[Iphigenia]] a quarter of the moon has a lot of [[Time Lord]] technology in it.
* [[Ley lines]] are universal lines of psionic power.
* Roz is buried in the [[Umtata Reclamation Zone]] on a sunny day.


==Notes==
== Cover Gallery ==
* '''So Vile A Sin''' was to be written by [[Ben Aaronovitch]]. Due to various problems, [[Kate Orman]] assisted him in finishing it. However, it was still published late. The exact nature of the author's difficulties has never been fully clarified, with a hard drive failure and/or chronic writer's block being the two most widely reported at the time. As such, although it occurs earlier in the continuity of the NA adventures, it was actually the last of the series to be published, being released after the NA's only [[Eighth Doctor]] novel, ''[[The Dying Days]]''. This led to an unavoidable plot jump for readers, who went from [[NA]]: ''[[Damaged Goods]]'' to ''[[Bad Therapy]]'' only to discover the absence of Roz; they had to wait until the delayed publication of ''So Vile a Sin'' to find out what happened.


* According to the acknowledgements on page 313 of So Vile A Sin: "Kate here. After Ben's troubles in writing ''So Vile A Sin'', including a disastrous hard-drive crash, I stepped in at the last minute to finish it. Some of the book survived the crash, other bits existed as printouts, and Ben provided me with extensive plot and background notes to complete the bulk of the story."
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==Continuity==
== Notes ==
* This novel follows on from the events in ''[[Damaged Goods]]''.
* ''So Vile A Sin'' was to be written by [[Ben Aaronovitch]]. Due to various problems, [[Kate Orman]] assisted him in finishing it. However, it was still published late. The exact nature of the author's difficulties have never been fully clarified, with a hard drive failure and/or chronic writer's block being the two most widely reported at the time. As a result, although it occurs earlier in the continuity of the NA adventures, it was actually the last of the series to be published, being released after the NA's only [[Eighth Doctor]] novel, ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''. This led to an unavoidable plot jump for readers, who went from the novel ''[[Damaged Goods (novel)|Damaged Goods]]'' to ''[[Bad Therapy (novel)|Bad Therapy]]'' only to discover the absence of Roz; they had to wait until the delayed publication of ''So Vile a Sin'' to find out what happened.
* According to the acknowledgements on page 313 of ''So Vile A Sin'': "Kate here. After Ben's troubles in writing ''So Vile A Sin'', including a disastrous hard-drive crash, I stepped in at the last minute to finish it. Some of the book survived the crash, other bits existed as printouts, and Ben provided me with extensive plot and background notes to complete the bulk of the story."
* [[FLORANCE]] and [[BAR B]], from the novels ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'' and ''[[SLEEPY (novel)|SLEEPY]]'' respectively, are contacted by the [[Flying Dutchman]], an electronic avatar of [[the Doctor]].
* The original plan was to have an incredibly powerful and evil being living in the core of the Earth. This would tie back to stories like ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'' and ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' and show that the Doctor had unknowingly been fighting against it for a long time. This was abandoned when [[Kate Orman]] took over the book, though the scene with the Empress of the Earth Empire may been a retooled version of it.


==[[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]]==
== Continuity ==
*This story takes place after [[NA]]: ''[[Damaged Goods]]''
* This novel follows on from the events in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (novel)|Damaged Goods]]''.
*This story takes place before [[NA]]: ''[[Bad Therapy]]''
* [[Death (mythology)|Death]] taunts the Doctor by telling him that his seventh incarnation will die without warning, without purpose, afraid and alone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
* One alternative version of the Doctor was able to save [[Adric]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') another had his [[brain]] fried by a [[computer]] while substituting for a dead synch-op on [[Sea Base 4]] in [[2084]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') another never went to [[Androzani Minor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') another had his [[throat]] cut by [[Shockeye o' the Quawncing Grig|Shockeye]], another arrived 30 seconds before [[Oscar Botcherby]] was killed by Shockeye in [[Seville]], [[Spain]] in [[1985]] instead of 30 seconds afterwards, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'') another was killed by the [[Silurians]] [[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|in the early 1970s]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'') another who became a dictator with his poster plastered everywhere, ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'') [[Muldwych|another]] lived in a [[Arthur's World|parallel universe]] and visited [[Earth]] occasionally spreading rumours that [[King Arthur (Arthur's World)|King Arthur]] was about to return, ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') another had his throat torn out by a [[Mags (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)|werewolf]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'') or was possessed by [[Huitzilin|the Blue]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)|The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'') another was able to save [[Jan Rydd]] and his fellow [[Traveller (Love and War)|Travellers]] on [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]] in [[2570]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') another was beheaded by an [[Ice Warrior]] on [[Peladon]] in [[3985]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]'') another settled down at [[Smithwood Manor]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fellow Travellers (comic story)|Fellow Travellers]]'', et. al) and kept a pet [[Venusian]], another organised a bloody revolution on [[Gallifrey]], another became a scientist for the Silurians, and another settled down and lived with his [[Grace Holloway|wife]] in [[San Francisco]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'').
* Leabie created Earth animals for her palace on Io, who existed before the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
* Roz sees three alternate versions of herself including one where she died at [[Woodwicke]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') one where she married [[George Reed]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'') and a final where she became head of the [[Guild of Adjudicators|Adjudicators]].


==External links==
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prose stub

So Vile a Sin was the fifty-sixth Virgin New Adventures novel in the series. However, due to writing and completion difficulties it was the last novel in the series featuring the Doctor to be published in May 1997. It was also the last novel in the series to feature Roz Forrester, depicting her death on a battlefield.

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

"If you step into history," said the Doctor, "I won't be able to protect you."

"This isn't history," said Roz. "This is family."

The Earth Empire — the Imperium Humanum, upon which a thousand suns never set — is dying.

The Great Houses of the Empire manoeuvre and scheme for advantage; alliances are made; and knives flash in the shadows. Out among the moons of Jupiter, another battle is just beginning, as an ancient brotherhood seeks limitless power and long-overdue revenge.

The Doctor returns to the thirtieth century, searching for the source of a terrifying weapon. He fears a nightmare from his own past may be about to destroy the future. Nothing must be allowed to get in his way.

But the Doctor has reckoned without the power of history — which has its own plans for the wayward daughter of the House of Forrester.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dates[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor suffers a one sided heart attack, and has a vision of Death tormenting him about his coming demise.

Gallifreyan technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Moons[[edit] | [edit source]]

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Psychic powers[[edit] | [edit source]]

Religion[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • So Vile A Sin was to be written by Ben Aaronovitch. Due to various problems, Kate Orman assisted him in finishing it. However, it was still published late. The exact nature of the author's difficulties have never been fully clarified, with a hard drive failure and/or chronic writer's block being the two most widely reported at the time. As a result, although it occurs earlier in the continuity of the NA adventures, it was actually the last of the series to be published, being released after the NA's only Eighth Doctor novel, The Dying Days. This led to an unavoidable plot jump for readers, who went from the novel Damaged Goods to Bad Therapy only to discover the absence of Roz; they had to wait until the delayed publication of So Vile a Sin to find out what happened.
  • According to the acknowledgements on page 313 of So Vile A Sin: "Kate here. After Ben's troubles in writing So Vile A Sin, including a disastrous hard-drive crash, I stepped in at the last minute to finish it. Some of the book survived the crash, other bits existed as printouts, and Ben provided me with extensive plot and background notes to complete the bulk of the story."
  • FLORANCE and BAR B, from the novels Transit and SLEEPY respectively, are contacted by the Flying Dutchman, an electronic avatar of the Doctor.
  • The original plan was to have an incredibly powerful and evil being living in the core of the Earth. This would tie back to stories like Inferno and The Dalek Invasion of Earth and show that the Doctor had unknowingly been fighting against it for a long time. This was abandoned when Kate Orman took over the book, though the scene with the Empress of the Earth Empire may been a retooled version of it.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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