Hunter's Moon (novel)

Hunter's Moon (novel)

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Hunter's Moon
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond Rory Williams
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Paul Finch
Release details
Release number:	45
Release date:	28 April 2011
Format:	Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84990-236-6

Hunter's Moon was the ninth Eleventh Doctor novel to be released.

Publisher's summary

"There's no end to the horror in this place - it's like Hell, and there are devils round every corner." Welcome to Leisure Platform 9 – a place where gamblers and villains rub shoulders with socialites and celebrities. Don’t cheat at the games tables, and be careful who you beat. The prize for winning the wrong game is to take part in another, as Rory is about to discover – and the next game could be the death of him. When Rory is kidnapped by the brutal crime lord Xorg Krauzzen, the Doctor and Amy must go undercover to infiltrate the deadly contest being played out in the ruins of Gorgoror. But how long before Krauzzen realises the Doctor isn’t a vicious mercenary and discovers what Amy is up to? It’s only a matter of time. And time is the one thing Rory and the other fugitives on Gorgoror don’t have. They are the hunted in a game that can only end in death, and time for everyone is running out…

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Rory Williams
• Xorg Krauzzen

References

to Be Added

Notes

• Kobal Zalu has apparantly encountered at least two past incarnations of he Doctor, as he notes that he has "changed bodies again".
• On Gorgoror, Rory marks a path for the Doctor to follow by etching drawings of one of the cracks in time on the walls.
• While New Series Adventure novels often consist of around twenty chapters, just under two hundred fifty pages for the story and extra pages at the back to advertise other novels, the chapters here are shorter than in other novels. Hunter's Moon has forty chapters, as well as a prologue and the ads at the end of the book are absent to make room for the book's slightly extended two hundred fifty-six pages.
• This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

The Audiobook cover.

Continuity

• The Terileptils are mentioned. They were at war with the Torodon. (DW: The Visitation)
• Aggedor, the Royal Beast of Peladon, is a species that fought on the moon of Gorgoror. (DW: The Curse of Peladon, The Monster of Peladon)
• Kobal Zalu mentions that the Doctor had white hair the last time they met, suggesting an encounter with either the First or Third Doctors.

Timeline

• Hunter's Moon occurs after: WC: Snowfall
• Hunter's Moon occurs before: DW: The Impossible Astronaut

Audio release

• The story was released as an audiobook on 6x CD read by Arthur Darvill.
• The audiobook is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.