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* [[Roz Forrester]]
* [[Roz Forrester]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
*[[David Clayton]]
* [[David Clayton]]
*Brother [[Tomas (The Death of Art)|Tomas]]
* Brother [[Tomas (The Death of Art)|Tomas]]
*[[Montague]]
* [[Montague]]
*[[August Mirakle]]
* [[August Mirakle]]
*[[Georges Picquart]]
* [[Georges Picquart]]
*[[Anton Jarre]]
* [[Anton Jarre]]
*[[Claudette Engadine]]
* [[Claudette Engadine]]
*[[Emil Montfalcon]]
* [[Emil Montfalcon]]
*[[Dominic Montfalcon]]
* [[Dominic Montfalcon]]
*[[Jean Veber]]
* [[Jean Veber]]
*[[Marcel]]
* [[Marcel]]


== References ==
== References ==
=== [[:Category:Devices|Devices]] ===
=== [[:Category:Devices|Devices]] ===
*The Ormolu [[clock]] is still within the TARDIS.
* The Ormolu [[clock]] is still within the TARDIS.


=== [[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]] ===
=== [[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]] ===
*The Doctor was once invited to [[the Rani]]'s 94th birthday party.
* The Doctor was once invited to [[the Rani]]'s 94th birthday party.
* The Doctor is worried that he has very few harmless and peaceful memories.
* The Doctor is worried that he has very few harmless and peaceful memories.


=== [[:Category:The Doctor's items|The Doctor's items]] ===
=== [[:Category:The Doctor's items|The Doctor's items]] ===
*[[Ace]] has the Doctor's [[500 Year Diary]].
* [[Ace]] has the Doctor's [[500 Year Diary]].


=== [[:Category:Biology|Biology]] ===
=== [[:Category:Biology|Biology]] ===
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=== [[:Category:Sports|Sports]] ===
=== [[:Category:Sports|Sports]] ===
*Roz practices [[archery]].
* Roz practices [[archery]].
*Chris doesn't know a lot about [[cricket]].
* Chris doesn't know a lot about [[cricket]].


=== [[:Category:Theories and concepts|Theories and concepts]] ===
=== [[:Category:Theories and concepts|Theories and concepts]] ===
*The [[Sensory Limitation Effect]] is a barrier of scale where events take place over timescales too vast to be meaningful.
* The [[Sensory Limitation Effect]] is a barrier of scale where events take place over timescales too vast to be meaningful.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor installs a copy of a cathedral into the TARDIS for future use - presumably this is the origin of the console room used in [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''.
* The Doctor installs a copy of a cathedral into the TARDIS for future use - presumably this is the origin of the console room used in [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''.
*Chris pretends to be the Fifth Doctor, not very successfully, following the events of [[MA]]: ''[[Cold Fusion]]''.
* Chris pretends to be the Fifth Doctor, not very successfully, following the events of [[MA]]: ''[[Cold Fusion]]''.


== [[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]] ==
== [[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]] ==

Revision as of 14:51, 29 January 2012

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The Death of Art is the fifty-fourth Virgin New Adventures novel. Featuring the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. It is another in the arc of stories featuring psychic powers.

Publisher's summary

He did not know if his powers could save him until the horses' hooves had crushed his ribs and his heart had stopped beating. After that, it was obvious.

1880's France: the corrupt world of the Third Republic. A clandestine brotherhood is engaged in a desperate internal power struggle; a race of beings seeks to free itself from perpetual oppression; and a rip in time threatens an entire city. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.

Chris finds himself working undercover with a suspicious French gendarme; Roz follows a psychic artist whose talents are attracting the attention of mysterious forces; and the Doctor befriends a shape-shifting member of a terrifying family. And, at the heart of it all, a dark and disturbing injustice is being perpetrated. Only an end to the secret war, and the salvation of an entire race, can prevent Paris from being utterly destroyed.

Plot

to be added

Characters

References

Devices

  • The Ormolu clock is still within the TARDIS.

The Doctor

  • The Doctor was once invited to the Rani's 94th birthday party.
  • The Doctor is worried that he has very few harmless and peaceful memories.

The Doctor's items

Biology

  • The Doctor is prepared to destroy the Quoth with something in his blood, but as an agreement is made he swallows the blood.

[[[:Category:Races and species|Races and species]]

  • The Quoth live 18,000 times faster than humans.
  • The Time Lords' lives are linear, just in more dimensions.

Sports

Theories and concepts

Notes

  • This novel is based on the historical events of the Dreyfus Affair.
  • The novel makes references to the disappearance of the author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid - i.e. Professor James Moriarty, last seen falling off a cliff in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Final Problem.
  • Anton Jarre recalls meeting a Belgian police sergeant who is clearly intended to be a young Hercule Poirot, the detective created by Agatha Christie.
  • The novel makes reference to the events of The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe.

Continuity

  • The Doctor installs a copy of a cathedral into the TARDIS for future use - presumably this is the origin of the console room used in DW: Doctor Who.
  • Chris pretends to be the Fifth Doctor, not very successfully, following the events of MA: Cold Fusion.

Timeline

External links

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