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|name= Trading Futures  
|range= BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
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|number in range = 55
|series=[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  
|series = [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  
|number= 55
|number= 55
|doctor=Eighth Doctor  
|doctor = Eighth Doctor  
|companions= [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Anji Kapoor]]  
|companions= [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]], [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]]  
|enemy= [[Baskerville]], [[Jonah Cosgrove]], [[Onihr]]  
|enemy= [[Baskerville]], [[Jonah Cosgrove]], [[Onihr]]  
|setting= {{il|[[Earth]] circa [[2010]] (or thereabouts)|*[[Athens]], [[Greece]]|*[[Toronto]], [[Canada]]|*Neverland, [[California]], [[USA]]|*[[Heathrow Airport]], [[London]]|*The Green Hotel, [[Istanbul]]|*Baskerville's RealWar Factory, the Steppes of [[Russia]]|{{w||Mare Tranquillitatis}}, [[the Moon]], date unknown}}
|setting= [[Earth]], [[21st century]]; [[The Moon]]
|writer= [[Lance Parkin]]
|writer= Lance Parkin
|publisher= [[BBC Books]]
|publisher= BBC Books  
|release date= [[8 April (releases)|8 April]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]
|release date= 8 April 2002
|format= Paperback Book, ?? Pages  
|format= Paperback Book; 22 Chapters, 249 Pages  
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-53848-1
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-53848-1
|prev= Anachrophobia (novel)
|prev= Anachrophobia (novel)
|next= The Book of the Still (novel)}}
|next= The Book of the Still (novel)
'''''Trading Futures''''' was the fifty-fifth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Lance Parkin]]. It featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner]] and [[Anji Kapoor]].
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'''''Trading Futures''''' was the fifty-fifth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Lance Parkin]], released [[8 April (releases)|8 April]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]] and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner]] and [[Anji Kapoor]].
 
== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
"Welcome to the future."
''"Welcome to the future."''


The early decades of the twenty-first century. All the wars have been won. There are no rogue states. The secret services of the world keep the planet electronically monitored, safe from all threat. There is no one left for the [[United States of America|United States]] and the [[Eurozone]] to fight. Except each other.
The early decades of the [[21st century|twenty-first century]]. All the wars have been won. There are no rogue states. The secret services of the world keep the planet electronically monitored, safe from all threat. There is no one left for the [[United States of America|United States]] and the [[Eurozone]] to fight. Except each other.


A mysterious time traveler offers a better future — he has a time machine, and with it, humanity could reach the next stage of evolution, they could share its secrets and become the new Lords of Time...
A mysterious [[Eighth Doctor|time traveller]] offers a better future — he has a [[The Doctor's TARDIS|time machine]], and with it, [[human]]ity could reach the next stage of [[evolution]], they could share its secrets and become the new Lords of Time...


...either that, or someone could keep the technology for themselves, and use it to fight the ultimate war.
...either that, or someone could keep the technology for themselves, and use it to fight the ultimate war.
== Plot ==
''to be added''


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
** Can use a gun to to deflect bullets in mid-air by shooting them.
* [[Fitz Kreiner]]
* [[Fitz Kreiner]]
** Fitz can still speak Chinese.
** Is mistaken for the [[Eighth Doctor]] and successfully defeats the alien invaders on his own, acting as the Doctor.
* [[Anji Kapoor]]
* [[Anji Kapoor]]
** Tries to use Baskerville's time machine (which isn't) to contact Dave.
* [[Jonah Cosgrove]]
* [[Jonah Cosgrove]]
** Deputy Head of Eurozone Secret Service.
* [[Baskerville]]
* [[Baskerville]]
** Is the richest man in the world.
* [[Jaxa (Trading Futures)|Jaxa]]
** Is ''not'' a time traveller.
** Possesses his own personal stealth [[Concorde]].
* [[Jaxa]]
** [[Sabbath]]'s [[Time Agent]] mercenary.
** She's a historian.
* [[Roja]]
* [[Roja]]
** Sabbath's cabin boy and Time Agent mercenary.
* [[Bermuda Atkins]]
* [[Bermuda Atkins]]
* [[Dee Gordon]]
* [[Dee Gordon]]
* [[Felix Mather]]
* [[Felix Mather]]
** Has become President of the United States since the Doctor last met him.
* [[Malady Chang]]
* [[Malady Chang]]
** A CIA agent, working for [[Control (The Devil Goblins from Neptune)|Control]].
* [[Penny Lik]]
* [[Penny Lik]]
* [[Relker]]
* [[Relker]]
* Pad
* [[Pad]]
* [[Onihr]] Leader
* [[Onihr Leader]]
* Onihr Deputy Leader
* [[Onihr Deputy Leader]]
* [[Control (The Devil Goblins from Neptune)|Control]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor uses the [[Bocca Scale]] to measure time disturbances.
* The Doctor uses the [[Bocca Scale]] to measure time disturbances.
=== Fitz Kreiner ===
* Fitz uses a [[RealWar]] robot in what he thinks is an arcade game.
=== Anji Kapoor ===
* Anji thinks about "current" technology in relation to [[Hitchemus]]'s.
=== Politics ===
* The [[Eurozone]], or EZ, is one of the larger superpowers in the "near future". Britain is part of the EZ.
* The [[Eurozone]], or EZ, is one of the larger superpowers in the "near future". Britain is part of the EZ.
* Fitz uses a [[RealWar]] robot in what he thinks is an arcade game. Later Anji meets Baskerville, the owner of [[RealWar]].
* [[Ukraine]], [[Russia]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Eastern Turkey]], and [[Kurdistan]] are countries. Three of them are in [[civil war]]s.
* Anji thinks about "current" technology in relation to [[Hitchemus]]'s.
* Felix Mather is [[President of the United States]] and the only politician trusted by [[Jonah Cosgrove]].
* This marks another appearance of humans with access to [[time travel]] technology, highlighting the destruction of the [[Time Lord]]s.
* Malady Chang is a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent, working for [[Control (The Devil Goblins from Neptune)|Control]].
 
=== Time Lords ===
* After the destruction of the [[Time Lord]]s, there are now [[human]]s with access to [[time travel]] technology.
 
=== Other species ===
* The [[Onihr]] are among many alien races seeking time travel in the post-Gallifrey universe, and have discovered some Time Lord relics (including the high-collared robes) in their quest.
* The [[Onihr]] are among many alien races seeking time travel in the post-Gallifrey universe, and have discovered some Time Lord relics (including the high-collared robes) in their quest.
* The Onihr mention that the Earth acts as a magnet to "time travellers and other fourth-dimensional beings", but don't know why.
 
* Baskerville's time machine (which several parties try to get throughout the novel) isn't. It's a coffee machine...more or less.
=== Baskerville ===
* The [[Onihr]] are large rhinoceros-like alien humanoids similar in description (but not in character) to the later [[Judoon]].
* Baskerville is the richest man in the world. He possesses his own personal stealth [[Concorde]].
 
=== Sabbath ===
* Jaxa and Roja are [[Sabbath]]'s [[Time Agent]] mercenaries. Jaxa is a historian.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* Stylistically (right down to the cover), ''Trading Futures'' is a little bit like a [[James Bond]] movie, with the Doctor blowing up spy boats, car chases and international travel, bombs in interesting places...plus some genuine (non-coffee machine) time travel (and space alien rhinos).
* Stylistically (right down to the cover), ''Trading Futures'' is a little bit like a [[James Bond]] movie, with the Doctor blowing up spy boats, car chases and international travel, bombs in interesting places... plus some genuine (non-coffee machine) time travel (and space alien rhinos).
* The "dancing flame women" on the cover is a reuse of the fire image from [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]''; you can see the silhouette of the Doctor in one of the women.
* The date isn't given but Anji Kapoor, born in 1973 and taken from 2001, thinks that the pensioners she meets could have gone to school with her, and that a young actress in her twenties would have been in nappies when Anji left her time. This would roughly be around the [[2030s]].
*[[BBC Books]] has announced that a "print on demand" reprint edition of this novel will be made available as of 31st August 2011 as the imprint revisits adventures featuring the first eight Doctors. This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.{{source}}
** This is further supported when Malady learns that the Doctor stole Felix Mather's space shuttle in 1989 ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]''); she had previously assumed that the Doctor was in his early forties and therefore believes that he couldn't have been more than ten in 1989.
* The "dancing flame women" on the cover is a reuse of the fire image from the novel ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]''; the silhouette of the Doctor can be seen in one of the women.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Fitz learnt to speak Chinese during his time brainwashed for Communist [[China]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revolution Man]]'')
* Fitz learnt to speak [[Chinese language|Chinese]] during his time brainwashed for Communist [[China]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]'')
* Fitz wanders the TARDIS corridors and hears something scratching behind the walls. The source of the noise is revealed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''.
* Fitz wanders the TARDIS corridors and hears something scratching behind the walls. The source of the noise is revealed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''.
* The Onihr are aware that the Doctor only has one heart at this point, his second heart having been removed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]''.
* The Onihr are also aware of [[Chronodev|time travel development]] in the [[51st century]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Emotional Chemistry (novel)|Emotional Chemistry]]'') and the identities of the [[four surviving elementals]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')
* Fitz tells the Onihr about meeting [[Kala (Eater of Wasps)|Kala]] in the [[1930s]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eater of Wasps (novel)|Eater of Wasps]]'') [[Blithe Pinking Shears|Noel Coward's shears]] which cut through the [[Very Fabric of Time and Space]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'') the experiment at [[Station 40 (Anachrophobia)|Station 40]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Anachrophobia (novel)|Anachrophobia]]'') and [[Sabbath Dei|Sabbath]] in the [[18th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')
* The Doctor first met Felix Mather while hijacking the ''Atlantis'' space shuttle. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'')
* The Doctor first met Felix Mather while hijacking the ''Atlantis'' space shuttle. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'')
* [[Mariah Learman]] and the Eurozone also appear in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks]]''.
* Cosgrove has survived the [[Martian]] invasion, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') and the Fall of [[Mariah Learman|Learman]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor remembers meeting [[Time Agent]]s in [[1933]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eater of Wasps]]'')
* The Doctor remembers meeting [[Time Agent]]s in [[1933]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eater of Wasps (novel)|Eater of Wasps]]'')
* Europe and the United States are [[World Zone Authority|Zones]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
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* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/tradf.htm The Cloister Library: '''Trading Futures''']
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Trading Futures was the fifty-fifth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Lance Parkin, released 8 April 2002 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

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

"Welcome to the future."

The early decades of the twenty-first century. All the wars have been won. There are no rogue states. The secret services of the world keep the planet electronically monitored, safe from all threat. There is no one left for the United States and the Eurozone to fight. Except each other.

A mysterious time traveller offers a better future — he has a time machine, and with it, humanity could reach the next stage of evolution, they could share its secrets and become the new Lords of Time...

...either that, or someone could keep the technology for themselves, and use it to fight the ultimate war.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

  • The Doctor uses the Bocca Scale to measure time disturbances.

Fitz Kreiner[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Fitz uses a RealWar robot in what he thinks is an arcade game.

Anji Kapoor[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Anji thinks about "current" technology in relation to Hitchemus's.

Politics[[edit] | [edit source]]

Time Lords[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Onihr are among many alien races seeking time travel in the post-Gallifrey universe, and have discovered some Time Lord relics (including the high-collared robes) in their quest.

Baskerville[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Baskerville is the richest man in the world. He possesses his own personal stealth Concorde.

Sabbath[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Stylistically (right down to the cover), Trading Futures is a little bit like a James Bond movie, with the Doctor blowing up spy boats, car chases and international travel, bombs in interesting places... plus some genuine (non-coffee machine) time travel (and space alien rhinos).
  • The date isn't given but Anji Kapoor, born in 1973 and taken from 2001, thinks that the pensioners she meets could have gone to school with her, and that a young actress in her twenties would have been in nappies when Anji left her time. This would roughly be around the 2030s.
    • This is further supported when Malady learns that the Doctor stole Felix Mather's space shuttle in 1989 (PROSE: Father Time); she had previously assumed that the Doctor was in his early forties and therefore believes that he couldn't have been more than ten in 1989.
  • The "dancing flame women" on the cover is a reuse of the fire image from the novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street; the silhouette of the Doctor can be seen in one of the women.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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