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|name= Vanishing Point  
|range= BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
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|number in range = 44
|series=[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  
|series = [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  
|number= 44  
|number= 44  
|doctor=Eighth Doctor  
|doctor = Eighth Doctor  
|companions= [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Anji Kapoor]]  
|companions= [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]], [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]]
|enemy= [[The Creator]], [[Cauchemar]]  
|enemy= [[The Creator (Vanishing Point)|The Creator]], [[Cauchemar]]  
|setting=   
|setting=  [[Planet (Vanishing Point)|Unnamed planet]]
|writer= [[Stephen Cole]]
|writer= Stephen Cole
|publisher= BBC Books  
|publisher= BBC Books  
|release date= [[2 April (releases)|2 April]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]
|release date= 2 April 2001
|format= Paperback Book, 288 Pages  
|format= Paperback Book; 36 Chapters, 278 Pages  
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-53829-5
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-53829-5
|prev= EarthWorld (novel)
|prev= EarthWorld (novel)
|next= Eater of Wasps (novel)}}
|next= Eater of Wasps (novel)
'''''Vanishing Point''''' was the forty-fourth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Stephen Cole]]. It featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner]] and [[Anji Kapoor]].
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== Publisher’s summary ==
'''''Vanishing Point''''' was the forty-fourth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Stephen Cole]], released [[2 April (releases)|2 April]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]] and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner]] and [[Anji Kapoor]].
''Imagine a world where death has meaning, where God exists and faith is untested. Where people die with the purpose of their lives made clear to them in blissful understanding. Such a world exists, hidden on the far side of the universe where a battered blue police box has just faded into being...''
 
== Publisher's summary ==
''Imagine a world where death has meaning, where [[God]] exists and faith is untested. Where people die with the purpose of their lives made clear to them in blissful understanding. Such a world exists, hidden on the far side of the universe where a [[The Doctor's TARDIS|battered blue police box]] has just faded into being...''
 
But unknown to the populace, unknown even to the Creator, an alien evil has stalked this world for hundreds of years. When [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]] and [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]] arrive, they soon find themselves embroiled in the alien's final, desperate plans for this planet — and in the hunt for a murderer who cannot possibly exist...


But unknown to the populace, unknown even to the Creator, an alien evil has stalked this world for hundreds of years. When the Doctor, Fitz and Anji arrive, they soon find themselves embroiled in the alien’s final, desperate plans for this planet — and in the hunt for a murderer who cannot possibly exist...
Unnatural deaths are being visited on the people. Campaigns of terror threaten to tear this world apart. It seems that the prophecy of the Vanishing Point where all life shall meet all death under the Creator's aegis is coming to pass. For when God exists, prophecy, however fantastic or deadly, is fact.


Unnatural deaths are being visited on the people. Campaigns of terror threaten to tear this world apart. It seems that the prophecy of the Vanishing Point where all life shall meet all death under the Creator’s aegis is coming to pass. For when God exists, prophecy, however fantastic or deadly, is fact.
== Plot ==
''to be added''


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
** The Doctor uses Fitz's injured leg to smash a car window.
** After the events from [[PROSE]]:''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'', he was found wandering and was placed in a Victorian ward for five days.
* [[Fitz Kreiner]]
* [[Fitz Kreiner]]
** Fitz sprains his ankle after falling off a cliff side and is later shot in the same leg. He spends most of the story unable to walk and at one point must be carried bridal-style ("almost romantically") by the Doctor.
** Fitz wears "navy-blue pants with a large carrot on the front," much to Anji's embarrassment after having to strip him.
** Fitz admits to Anji his mother called him "mooncalf" and explain it means "someone who idles away the day," but also "idiot, freak, or monster."
* [[Anji Kapoor]]
* [[Anji Kapoor]]
** Anji muses about "''What I Learned in Outer Space'' by Anji Kapoor — impressive pause — They have bigger cows."
* [[Cauchemar]]
* [[Cauchemar]]
* [[The Creator]]  
* [[The Creator]]
* [[Jasmine (Vanishing Point)|Jasmine]]
* [[Jasmine (Vanishing Point)|Jasmine]]
* [[Ettianne Grace]]
* [[Ettianne Grace]]
* [[Ansac]]
* [[Ansac]]
* [[Braga]]
* [[Braga Grace]]
* [[Derran Sherat]]
* [[Hox (Vanishing Point)|Hox]]
* [[Design]]
* [[Hox]]
* [[Lanna]]
* [[Lanna]]
* [[Marie (Vanishing Point)|Marie]]
* [[Marie (Vanishing Point)|Marie]]
* [[Nathaniel Dark]]
* [[Nathaniel Dark]]
* [[Rammes]]
* [[Rammes]]
* [[Treena]]
* [[Treena Grace]]
* [[Vettul]]
* [[Vettul]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* [[Nick Ross]] was a news reader on Earth.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor says that he might be of mixed heritage. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')
* The Doctor says that he might be of mixed heritage. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
* Fitz remembers he has had his head rewired and mucked about with so many times before: alien leeches, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taint]]'') virtual reality generators ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallel 59 (novel)|Parallel 59]]'') and the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference]]'')
* Fitz remembers he has had his head rewired and mucked about with so many times before: alien leeches, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taint (novel)|The Taint]]'') virtual reality generators ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallel 59 (novel)|Parallel 59]]'') and the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')
* The Doctor says that he doesn't want to wait another hundred years before he can see Fitz again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Escape Velocity]]'')
* The Doctor says that he doesn't want to wait another hundred years before he can see Fitz again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|whobbc44.htm|Vanishing Point}}
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* {{whoniverse|ED44.php|Vanishing Point}}
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* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/vanipont.htm The Cloister Library: '''Vanishing Point''']
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060324070830/http://www.gallifreyone.com/interview.php?id=cole Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: '''Stephen Cole''' (archived)]
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Vanishing Point was the forty-fourth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Stephen Cole, released 2 April 2001 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

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

Imagine a world where death has meaning, where God exists and faith is untested. Where people die with the purpose of their lives made clear to them in blissful understanding. Such a world exists, hidden on the far side of the universe where a battered blue police box has just faded into being...

But unknown to the populace, unknown even to the Creator, an alien evil has stalked this world for hundreds of years. When the Doctor, Fitz and Anji arrive, they soon find themselves embroiled in the alien's final, desperate plans for this planet — and in the hunt for a murderer who cannot possibly exist...

Unnatural deaths are being visited on the people. Campaigns of terror threaten to tear this world apart. It seems that the prophecy of the Vanishing Point where all life shall meet all death under the Creator's aegis is coming to pass. For when God exists, prophecy, however fantastic or deadly, is fact.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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