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name= No Future|
|series         = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
image= NA023_nofuture.jpg|
|range          = Virgin New Adventures
series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]|
|number in range = 23
number= 23|
|number          = 23
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]]|
|doctor         = Seventh Doctor
companions= [[Ace]]<br />[[Bernice Summerfield]]|
|companions     = [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
enemy= [[The Monk]]<br />[[Vardans]]|
|featuring      = Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart{{!}}The Brigadier
year= {{bp|[[Trafalgar Square]], [[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Earth]], [[1976]]|[[London]], [[1976]]|UNIT Training Facility, [[1976]]|[[Glastonbury]] Festival of Performing Arts, [[1993]]|[[Varda]], [[1976]]}}|
|featuring2      = John Benton
writer= [[Paul Cornell]]|
|featuring3      = Mike Yates
publisher= [[Virgin Books]]|
|enemy          = {{Champion}}, [[Vardan]]s
release date= [[February]], [[1994]]|
|setting        = [[London]], [[Glastonbury]] and [[Varda]], [[1976]]
format= Paperback Book, 272 Pages|
|writer          = Paul Cornell
isbn= ISBN 0-426-20409-3|
|cover          = [[Pete Wallbank]]
prev= Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum (novel)|
|publisher       = Virgin Books
next= Tragedy Day (novel)|Tragedy Day (novel)}}
|release date   = 17 February 1994
'''''No Future''''' is the twenty-third novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series and was written by [[Paul Cornell]]. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]]. This was the final novel in the story arc of alternate universes. It also featured a return to the 1970s "UNIT era" with UNIT, the Brigadier, Benton and Yates.
|format         = Paperback Book; 23 Chapters, 272 Pages
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20409-3
|prev           = Conundrum (novel)
|next            = Tragedy Day (novel)
|series2        = [[Interweaving with the New Adventures|''DWM'' "New Adventures order"]]
|prev2          = Conundrum (novel)
|next2          = Tragedy Day (novel)
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'''''No Future''''' is the twenty-third novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series and was written by [[Paul Cornell]]. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]]. This was the final novel in the story arc of alternate universes. It also featured a return to the 1970s "UNIT era" with [[UNIT]], [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]], [[John Benton|Benton]] and [[Mike Yates|Yates]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''''This time, [[anarchism|anarchy]]'s real. There are power cuts and Wilson's resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now there's real fear too. Real panic. And that's not how it's supposed to be.''''
'This time, [[anarchism|anarchy]]'s real. There are power cuts and Wilson's resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now there's real fear too. Real panic. And that's not how it's supposed to be.'


Somebody has been toying with [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]]'s past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the [[TARDIS]] to [[London]] in [[1976]] -- where reality has been altered once again.
Somebody has been toying with the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Silurian Earth)|the TARDIS]] to [[London]] in [[1976]] -- where reality has been altered once again.


[[Black Star]] terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.
[[Black Star]] terrorists foment [[riot]]s in the streets. [[Elizabeth II|The Queen]] barely escapes [[assassination]]. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.


Meanwhile, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]'s the lead singer in a punk band. [[Ace]] can't talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so she's made murderous plans of her own. The Doctor's alone -- he doesn't know who his enemy is, and even the [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier]] has disowned him.
Meanwhile, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]'s the lead [[singer]] in a punk band. [[Ace]] can't talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so she's made murderous plans of her own. The Doctor's alone — he doesn't know who his enemy is, and even the [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier]] has disowned him.


As usual, it's up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he can't even protect himself.
As usual, it's up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he can't even protect himself.
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* The [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]
* Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]
* RSM [[John Benton]]
* Major [[Bryan Carpenter]]
* Captain [[Alex Pike]]
* Corporal [[Claire Tennant]]
* [[First Monk|Robert Bertram]]
* [[Danny Pain]] (aka Danny Paripski)
* [[Kit (No Future)|Kit]]
* [[Cob (No Future)|Cob]]
* [[Julie Quinlan]]
* [[Mike Yates]]
* [[Mike Yates]]
* [[Danny Pain]] (aka Danny Paprpski)
* [[Kevin Doyle]]
* [[Mortimus]]
* [[Artemis (No Future)|Artemis]]
* Captain [[Alex Pike]]
* Corporal [[Clare Tennant]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== [[:Category:Books|Books]] ===
=== Books ===
* The Garvond is mentioned in the ''[[Red Book of Gallifrey]]''.
* The Garvond is mentioned in the ''[[Red Book of Gallifrey]]''.


=== [[:Category:Culture|Culture]] ===
=== Culture ===
* The Doctor first heard Benny's voice at a party in [[Finchley]].
* The Doctor first heard Benny's voice at a party in [[Finchley]].
* [[Black Star]] is a group of anarchists. It developed from the 'Angry Brigade'. It was created through Mortimus's time interference.
* [[Black Star]] is a group of anarchists. It developed from the "Angry Brigade". It was created through Mortimus's time interference.
:* Black Star bombed [[Big Ben]]'s face in [[1976]].
** Black Star bombed [[Big Ben]]'s face in [[1976]].
* ''[[Professor X]]'' is a television series that is broadcast between Bruce Forsyth and [[Basil Brush]]. Professor X travels in a "TASID" which is disguised as a post box. According to Benny, it was ''"like a pantomime version of the TARDIS!".<ref>''No Future'', p.126</ref>''
* ''[[Professor X]]'' is a television series that is broadcast between Bruce Forsyth and [[Basil Brush]].


=== [[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]] ===
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor erases the Brigadier's memory just by touching him.
* The Doctor mentions having killed {{Ainley}}.
* The Doctor mentions having killed [[the Master]].


=== [[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]] ===
=== Individuals ===
* Bernice calls the Brigadier 'Sir', despite hating being brought up in the military.
* Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] dies but is brought back by a 'wish' granted by the Chronovore Artemis.
* [[Mike Yates]] believes in Black Star's goals and has doubts about renewing his UNIT status.
* Yates also knows of [[Hamlet Macbeth]].
* Yates also knows of [[Hamlet Macbeth]].
* Ace uses the psudonym "Dorothy Moose".
* UNIT soldiers call [[Bryan Carpenter]] "[[Karen Carpenter]]".
 
=== [[:Category:Music|Music]] ===
* Bernice is the lead vocalist in [[Plasticine]], she also writes some of the music.


=== [[:Category:Planets|Planets]] ===
=== Music ===
* Ace was once marooned on an ice planet.
* Bernice is the lead vocalist in [[Plasticine (group)|Plasticine]]. She also writes some of the music.


=== [[:Category:Politics|Politics]] ===
=== Politics ===
* [[Shirley Williams]] is [[British Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] of Britain.
* [[Shirley Williams]] is the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in [[1976]]. Her cabinet includes [[Home Secretary]] [[Tony Benn]] and [[Roy Jenkins]].


=== [[:Category:Species|Species]] ===
=== Species ===
* Artemis the [[Chronovore]] is released by Ace.
* Artemis the [[Chronovore]] is released by Ace.
* The Vardan [[Mediascape]] was created by the Vardans using the same technology as that which generated the [[Land of Fiction]].
* The Vardan [[Mediascape]] was created by the Vardans using the same technology as that which generated the [[Land of Fiction]]. The Mediasphere grants access to it.
:* The [[Mediasphere]] grants access to it.
 
* [[Mortimus]] trapped [[Artemis]] using the blood of races whose destinies have been altered by the Time Lords: [[Minyan]]s, [[Silurian]]s, [[Dalek]]s, [[human]]s and [[Mandrel]]s.
* Mortimus used Artemis{{what}} has been using her to give [[Morka]] the power to kill the (alternate version) of the Doctor, resurrect the [[Garvond]], empower [[Huitzilin]], and restore the [[Land of Fiction]]. He also used her to release the Vardans' home planet from the time loop that the Doctor trapped following their attempt to invade [[Gallifrey]].
 
* [[Vardan]]s are ridiculed as the only race to be outwitted by the [[Sontaran]]s.
* [[Vardan]]s are ridiculed as the only race to be outwitted by the [[Sontaran]]s.


=== [[:Category:Religion|Religion]] ===
=== Religion ===
* Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] is into Buddhism. He was introduced to the Eight Fold Path by the Doctor. He uses his meditation techniques to combat the Vardan mind control.
* The Brigadier is into [[Buddhism]].
 
=== [[:Category:TARDIS|TARDISes]] ===
* Danny Pain saves the world by throwing a piece of [[the Monk's TARDIS]] (disguised as a desk and the papers inside) out of the window and signing a piece he then gives the Doctor.
* The Doctor disguises [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|the TARDIS]] as [[Nelson's Column]] by materialising around the actual monument.
* The Doctor deliberately breaks the chameleon circuit on the TARDIS, fixing it into the shape of a police box.


=== [[:Category:Technology|Technology]] ===
=== Technology ===
* Mortimus uses the alias Robert Bertram to run [[Priory]] a record company and also other related companies and invents [[CD]]s a decade early.
* Mortimus uses the alias Robert Bertram to run [[Priory]] a record company and also other related companies and invents [[CD]]s a decade early.
* Mortimus supplies UNIT with virtual reality technology and is appointed scientific advisor.
* Ace creates ''[[Vengeance of the Vardans]]'' as a message for the Doctor and her past self.


=== [[:Category:Theories and concepts|Theories and Concepts]] ===
=== Theories and concepts ===
* [[Death]] and [[Time (Eternal)|Time]] are referred to as [[Eternal]]s.
* [[Death (mythology)|Death]] and [[Time (mythology)|Time]] are referred to as [[Eternal]]s.
* During a dream Death tells Ace all Eternals have a champion.
* Mortimus has taken on the mantle of Death's champion.
* The Doctor's future self broke the [[Laws of Time#First Law of Time|First Law of Time]] by leaving himself messages.
* The Doctor's future self broke the [[Laws of Time#First Law of Time|First Law of Time]] by leaving himself messages.


=== [[:Category:Time Lords|Time Lords]] ===
=== United Nations Intelligence Taskforce ===
* [[Mortimus]] thinks he gains Ace as an ally.
* [[Broadsword]] is the intelligence wing and Special Ops division of [[UNIT]].
 
=== [[:Category:United Nations Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] ===
* [[UNIT Broadsword]] is [[UNIT]]'s intelligence wing and Special Ops division.
* [[UN Resolution 2245]] allows UNIT to use "ultimate force" against hostile extra-terrestrials.
* [[UN Resolution 2245]] allows UNIT to use "ultimate force" against hostile extra-terrestrials.
* [[Spontaneous human combustion]] is ten more times likely to happen to a UNIT operative than a normal person.
* [[Spontaneous human combustion]] is ten more times likely to happen to a UNIT operative than a normal person.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is the final story in Alternate Universe arc.
* This is the final story in Alternate Universe arc. The novels ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'', ''[[The Dimension Riders (novel)|The Dimension Riders]]'', ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)|The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'' and ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'' are the previous novels in the Alternate Universe Arc.
* This novel is the last one to feature the TARDIS (taken from the alternate Earth in ''[[Blood Heat]]'') with a functioning [[chameleon circuit]]. Near the novel's end the Doctor smashes it with a hammer.
* This novel is the last one to feature the TARDIS (taken from the alternate Earth in ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'') with a functioning [[chameleon circuit]]. Near the end of the novel, the Doctor smashes it with a hammer.
* This novel had a working title of; '''Anarchy in the UK'''.<ref>[[DWM]]: ''[[DWM 252]]'' (Licence to Kill p.30)</ref>
* This novel had a working title of ''Anarchy in the UK''.<ref>[[DWM 252]] (''Licence to Kill'' p.30)</ref>
* The title is a reference to the Sex Pistols' song "God Save the Queen".
* The title is a reference to the Sex Pistols' song "God Save the Queen".


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* [[NA]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]'', ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'', ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'' and ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'' are the previous novels in the Alternate Universe Arc.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'' is chronologically (for the Doctor) the first time he met the Brigadier in his seventh incarnation, but this story is set earlier in the Brigadier's life and later in the Seventh Doctor's based on the events of ''Battlefield''.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'' was the first story to feature the Vardans. A single Vardan is mentioned in ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'' as being a survivor of this invasion attempt.
* [[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'' is chronologically (for the Doctor) the last time he met the Brigadier. However this story (and consequently ''his'' first meeting of the Doctor) is in his own personal future.
* Following [[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'', the Monk is carrying a degree of baggage. His previous appearance and previous meeting with the Doctor was in this story, which would seem to contradict [[COMIC]] ''[[4-Dimensional Vistas (comic story)|4-Dimensional Vistas]]''.
 
* The memory blocks the Doctor puts in place in the Brigadier's mind are removed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''.
* [[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'' was the first story to feature the Vardans. A single Vardan is mentioned in [[Return of the Living Dad|''Return of the Living Da''d]] as being a survivor of this invasion attempt.
* Danny Pain and the rest of [[Plasticine (group)|Plasticine]] reappear (a bit older) in ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''.
 
* [[Big Ben]] is attacked again in [[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]''.
* Following [[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' the Monk is carrying a degree of baggage. His previous appearance and previous meeting of the Doctor was in this story.
* Bernice notes that the [[Vardan]]s are "the only race in history to be outwitted by the intellectual might of the [[Sontaran]]s." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')
 
* The Doctor would later encounter {{Garden}} in the Abbey of Kells in [[Ireland]] in [[1006]] during his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], by which time the Monk had himself [[Regeneration|regenerated]] at least once. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Book of Kells (audio story)|The Book of Kells]]'')
* The memory blocks the Doctor puts in place in the Brigadier's mind are removed in [[NA]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]''.
 
* Danny Pain and the rest of [[Plasticine]] reappear (a bit older) in ''[[Happy Endings]]''.
* [[Big Ben]] is attacked again in [[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]''.
 
== Timeline ==
* This story takes place after [[NA]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]''
* This story takes place before [[DWM]]: ''[[Time & Time Again]]''


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whona23p.htm Prelude to '''No Future''' as published in DWM]
* [https://doctorwho.guide/whona23p.htm Prelude to '''No Future''' as published in DWM]
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* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/nofu.htm The Cloister Library: '''No Future''']
* [http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/nofu.html Doctor Who Bewildering Reference Guide to '''No Future''']
* [http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/nofu.html Doctor Who Bewildering Reference Guide to '''No Future''']
 
* [http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv48/paulcornell.html Paul Cornell by Paul Scoones (Interview) - TSV 48]
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prose stub

No Future is the twenty-third novel in the Virgin New Adventures series and was written by Paul Cornell. It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice. This was the final novel in the story arc of alternate universes. It also featured a return to the 1970s "UNIT era" with UNIT, the Brigadier, Benton and Yates.

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

'This time, anarchy's real. There are power cuts and Wilson's resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now there's real fear too. Real panic. And that's not how it's supposed to be.'

Somebody has been toying with the Seventh Doctor's past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the TARDIS to London in 1976 -- where reality has been altered once again.

Black Star terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.

Meanwhile, Benny's the lead singer in a punk band. Ace can't talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so she's made murderous plans of her own. The Doctor's alone — he doesn't know who his enemy is, and even the Brigadier has disowned him.

As usual, it's up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he can't even protect himself.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Books[[edit] | [edit source]]

Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor first heard Benny's voice at a party in Finchley.
  • Black Star is a group of anarchists. It developed from the "Angry Brigade". It was created through Mortimus's time interference.
  • Professor X is a television series that is broadcast between Bruce Forsyth and Basil Brush.

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

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Music[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Bernice is the lead vocalist in Plasticine. She also writes some of the music.

Politics[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Artemis the Chronovore is released by Ace.
  • The Vardan Mediascape was created by the Vardans using the same technology as that which generated the Land of Fiction. The Mediasphere grants access to it.
  • Vardans are ridiculed as the only race to be outwitted by the Sontarans.

Religion[[edit] | [edit source]]

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Mortimus uses the alias Robert Bertram to run Priory a record company and also other related companies and invents CDs a decade early.
  • Ace creates Vengeance of the Vardans as a message for the Doctor and her past self.

Theories and concepts[[edit] | [edit source]]

United Nations Intelligence Taskforce[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This is the final story in Alternate Universe arc. The novels Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird and Conundrum are the previous novels in the Alternate Universe Arc.
  • This novel is the last one to feature the TARDIS (taken from the alternate Earth in Blood Heat) with a functioning chameleon circuit. Near the end of the novel, the Doctor smashes it with a hammer.
  • This novel had a working title of Anarchy in the UK.[1]
  • The title is a reference to the Sex Pistols' song "God Save the Queen".

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ DWM 252 (Licence to Kill p.30)

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

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