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|name= Love and War
|series       = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
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|range = Virgin New Adventures
|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]  
|number in range = 9
|number= 9  
|number      = 9
|adapted into=Love and War (audio story)
|adapted into = Love and War (audio story)
|doctor=Seventh Doctor  
|doctor       = Seventh Doctor
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]  
|companions   = [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
|enemy= [[Hoothi]]  
|featuring    = Paul Magrs (Love and War)
|setting= [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], [[2570]]  
|featuring2  = Shreela Govindia
|writer= [[Paul Cornell]]  
|enemy       = [[Hoothi]]
|publisher= Virgin Books  
|setting     = [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], [[2570]]
|release date= [[15 October (releases)|15 October]] [[1992 (releases)|1992]]
|writer       = Paul Cornell
|format= Paperback Book; 20 Chapters, 235 Pages  
|cover        = [[Lee Sullivan]]
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20385-2  
|publisher   = Virgin Books
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|release date = 15 October 1992
|next= Transit (novel)
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'''''Love and War''''' was the ninth novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Paul Cornell]] and features the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]. It introduced [[Bernice Summerfield|Professor Bernice Summerfield]]. In 2012, [[Big Finish Productions]] adapted the novel for audio to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its original release.
'''''Love and War''''' was the ninth novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Paul Cornell]] and features the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]. It introduced [[Bernice Summerfield|Professor Bernice Summerfield]]. In 2012, [[Big Finish Productions]] adapted the novel for audio to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its original release.


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''On a planet called [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], all hell is breaking loose.''
''On a planet called [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], all hell is breaking loose.''


Heaven is a paradise for both [[human]]s and [[Draconian]]s — a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission — to find a book, or so he says — and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic [[Traveller (Love and War)|Traveller]] called Jan.
Heaven is a paradise for both [[human]]s and [[Draconian]]s — a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission — to find a [[book]], or so he says — and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic [[Traveller (Love and War)|Traveller]] called Jan.


But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?
But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?


Archaeologist [[Bernice Summerfield]] thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord's plans.
[[Archaeologist]] [[Bernice Summerfield]] thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord's plans.


This time, has the Doctor gone too far?
This time, has the Doctor gone too far?


== Chapter Titles ==
== Plot ==
* The Prologues: Deaths
Ace attends the [[Julian Milton's funeral|funeral]] of her old friend [[Julian Milton|Julian]] in [[Perivale]]. Afterward, the Doctor takes her to the planet [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]] in the year [[2570]]. The bucolic planet lies on the border between the human and Draconian empires, and is neutral territory, serving as a cemetery world for both races in their long and sporadic wars against each other and against the [[Dalek]]s. While the Doctor visits the governmental library in Joycetown in search of a lost manuscript, ''The Papers of Felsecar'', Ace gets involved with a group of [[Traveller (Love and War)|Travellers]], a nomadic bunch that has lived on Heaven for some years now. She quickly falls for [[Jan Rydd|Jan]], one of the Travellers, and he shares her interest, although he is in an open relationship with another Traveller, [[Roisa McIlnery|Roisa]] — who is in turn in another open relationship with yet another Traveller, [[Máire Mab Finn|Máire]]. Ace meets other colourful characters: [[Christopher (Love and War)|Christopher]], the sexless priest of the Travellers, who has peculiar powers thanks to a government experiment; and a guest of the Travellers: archaeologist [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice “Benny” Summerfield]], who is conducting a dig at some ancient ruins left behind by the now-extinct [[Heavenite]]s. Meanwhile, Roisa steps on a filament of a strange fungus.
# Heaven's Gate
 
# Wild Horses
In Joycetown, [[Phaedrus]] — a priest of the death-obsessed [[Vacuum Church]] — conducts a ritual sacrifice of an old friend. The friend’s dying corpse is taken over by, and converted into, a fungus. The fungus is intelligent and has orders for Phaedrus. Later, he encounters Roisa, and warns her of terrible things to come.
# Twenty-Fifth-Century Boy
 
# Twenties Kicks
The Doctor’s efforts to find the manuscript are unsuccessful, and he is balked by a nervous librarian. He meets with [[James Miller|Miller]], the head of the local military detachment, and takes him into his confidence, warning him of the real reason for his visit; Miller keeps it to himself, but is convinced to help the Doctor. Miller tells him about a mysterious sphere in space, which was spotted briefly before vanishing. The Doctor meets Benny, and she shows him a buried Heavenite observatory with a strange telescope and a decayed body inside — the first Heavenite remains found. The Doctor is disturbed by what he sees there. He accompanies Benny to Joycetown, but they are attacked en route; Benny shoots off the attacker’s arm, but the assailant is not deterred, and escapes. The arm is infected with white fungal filaments.
# Ace Dreaming
 
# I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Ace joins the Travellers in “[[Puterspace]]”, a virtual reality environment that links to the Empire’s electronic networks, and which the Travellers use in lieu of drugs to join their minds for rituals and conferences. With Jan, she encounters a being calling himself the Trickster; and she learns more of Jan and Christopher’s history. The two men are old friends; both volunteered for military experimentation during their service. The experiments took away Christopher’s sexuality, but gave him strong [[psychic power]]s; Jan was mostly unaffected, but gained the ability to generate [[fire]] on command. As the Travellers gather, Roisa begs them to leave the planet and leave her behind. They are attacked in Puterspace by a strange sphere, but Christopher sacrifices himself to let the others escape.
# Necropolis
 
# Burning Bridges
Back in the real world, the others bury Christopher’s now-empty body, and grieve for him. Ace spends the night with Jan; later, she dreams of the Doctor bargaining with [[Death (mythology)|Death]] for her life, with Death refusing the deal. In the morning, the Doctor meets her, and is disturbed to find that she slept with Jan; she assumes he is jealous of her desire for a separate life. During the visit, he shows her a [[tesseract]], a Gallifreyan hypercube, and plays a trick where it disappears between dimensions. He enlists her help in locating the book; she meets the librarian, who seems afraid, but drops a hint as to where to look in the library computers. Meanwhile, a guard named [[Kale]] meets with Miller and reports a (fabricated) attack by [[Sontaran]]s, and requests to go to the orbital station to scan the planet for incursions. Miller allows it, but notices that Kale’s arm is in a sling.
# The Armies Of The Night
 
# No More Mister Nice Guy
The Doctor talks with Jan about Ace, and then enters Puterspace. He is attacked by Vacuum Church assassins; Christopher appears and rescues him. Christopher reveals that his powers allowed him to copy his mind into Puterspace as software before he died; he is working out a way to control his own dead body as well, via the Puterspace jack in its brain. However, before the Doctor can leave, Phaedrus enters Puterspace and catches him in a software trap, forcing him to relive painful memories of his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]]’s death. Ace arrives to rescue him, but is caught in the trap herself, and it shifts to her memories of Perivale. There she learns from the Doctor that the real enemy is a fungal race called the [[Hoothi]], which absorbs its victims and gains their memories and minds. Ace sees her dead friend Julian there, and the Doctor realises the Hoothi have replicated her house from his memories, not from Ace’s, indicating that after his death, the Hoothi absorbed him. The Doctor briefly liberates Julian’s mind, and Julian in turn restores Christopher’s program; Julian is reintegrated into the group mind by Phaedrus, but Ace liberates them by reversing the trap onto Phaedrus and making him relive his worst memory in which he euthanised his own mother. With the Doctor, she escapes Puterspace. While they recover, Roisa gives the Doctor a drink from a Heavenite goblet that was once stolen from the Vacuum Church.
# Continuity
 
# Three Manuscripts
The Doctor and Ace lead the Travellers in a raid on the library. There they are intercepted by Vacuum acolytes, who have been absorbed by the Hoothi. Ace kills them with Nitro-9, setting the library ablaze in the process, but not before they infect the librarian. Just before he converts to fungus, however, he unlocks the computer, allowing the others to find out where the manuscript is hidden. They find that it was last released to Bernice Summerfield. On the way out, they meet Miller, and he learns that the Sontaran invasion was a lie; and Kale has been infected by the Hoothi spores. Kale, it seems, is the assailant who attacked the Doctor and Benny; his arm in a sling is fake, concealing a cache of the spores. He has now infected the entire orbital station crew, and removed the station from action, leaving the planet defenceless until help arrives, which will take a week.
# Something Terrible
 
# Inside The Sphere
The Doctor again tries to get Ace to give up her romance with Jan, but to no avail. He retrieves the manuscript from Benny, and finds his own handwriting in it, though presumably from a future incarnation. It acts as a [[Rosetta Stone]] of sorts, allowing him to translate Heavenite writing left behind in the observatory. Ace confers with Benny, and they discuss their respective pasts; Benny admits that she faked her credentials years ago, and is not really a professor. She travels in search of the truth about her missing [[Isaac Summerfield II|father]], who may be among the dead buried on Heaven. Ace spends the night with Jan, who tells her his secret name, Aradrath, meaning “one big fire”. During the night, mysterious figures release spores into the Traveller camp, infecting some of the Travellers. Christopher also appears, having regained control of his body, and collects most of the spores, which will not harm him; he also warns Ace that remaining with Jan will require a sacrifice.
# Ace Falling
 
# No Escape From Heaven
The observatory writing leads the Doctor and Benny to the graveyards, where they find that every body is infected with the spores, and indeed, have not decayed. He gets Benny’s team to rush and dig up the observatory, as it is instrumental to his plan. The Hoothi, via Kale, try to crash the orbital station onto the dig, but the Doctor threatens Phaedrus to divert it; the Hoothi need Phaedrus alive for now, and they destroy the station before it can crash. The Doctor returns to the camp and levels with everyone about the Hoothi: they are an ancient, fungal race, who absorb and utilise the living and the dead alike in efforts to conquer the galaxy. They were believed to have fled after failing once to conquer Gallifrey, but now they have returned. They exist in sub-hive minds as part of the greater group mind, and each sub-group travels in a massive organic sphere, composed of the remains of absorbed creatures. Centuries ago, they farmed the Heavenites for raw material, until they eventually claimed the entire world; the observatory was left to guard against their return. Now they are returning, and their long game will pay off; they arranged to have Heaven made into a cemetery world, filling it with a vast army of the dead, which they are coming to claim for use in their conquest. They can see and hear through their living victims, and can control the victims’ actions, or take over at any time. The spores cannot be cured.
# The End
 
# Afterwards
The now-liberated observatory contains a special telescope that can penetrate the Hoothi sphere’s ability to conceal itself. Roisa, knowing she is infected, goes to blow up the Vacuum Church in a suicide bombing, but can’t pull the trigger. Phaedrus forces her to meet the Hoothi that is located in the basement. Jan realises what has happened, and takes matters into his own hands; he takes some of the others and steals a shuttle, intending to set it as a passive projectile in orbit to destroy the Hoothi sphere. Ace and Máire follow him and sneak aboard. When he discovers Ace, he asks her to marry him if they survive. She agrees, and everyone but Jan waits in the shuttle’s escape pods. Jan will activate the final course of the shuttle, and then enter a pod himself, and launch the pods. However, when the ship appears, everyone except Jan, Máire, and Ace explodes into fungus; and even Jan is clearly infected, as he can’t fire the engines. He ejects Ace, Máire, and one of the others. Ace loses her mind briefly from grief; but the Doctor’s hypercube appears in her hand, containing impressions of Jan, which pull her back to sanity. Máire’s pod crashes into the Vacuum Church, doing much damage, but not destroying the church, Phaedrus, or the Hoothi.
* Epilogues: Deaths and Other Lives
 
When the Doctor learns that Ace followed Jan, he is appalled, and he and Benny immediately take the TARDIS to the Hoothi sphere. The Hoothi - or rather, three of the four in their subgroup - meet with him, and reveal that he himself is infected, having received a spore from the drink given to him by Roisa. They will refrain from taking him over, and allow him to leave with Ace, if he destroys the planet’s military communication equipment so as to prevent the empire’s Spacefleet from arriving. However, they try infect Benny, but the Doctor secretly prevents the infection, feeding the Hoothi images from his mind to make them think they were successful.
 
As the Doctor and Benny leave, they see Jan’s body among the other captive forms. The Hoothi sphere enters the atmosphere, and sends down subspheres and stairways to receive their infected dead, which burst to life from the ground all over the planet. Along the way, the dead attack and kill many of the living, breaking down settlements and buildings. The Doctor sends Benny to recover Ace, who has crashed in the forest. Christopher joins them as well. Phaedrus, considering his work complete, enters Puterspace, still haunted by the death of his mother. Ace arrives and follows him in, seeking revenge for Jan’s death. The Doctor, meanwhile, deactivates the comm equipment. He goes to the Vacuum Church and enters Puterspace to rescue Ace. With Christopher’s help, he exploits the remnants of Jan’s consciousness inside the group mind, horrifying Ace. Rather than try to save Jan, he persuades him to ignite his pyrokinetic power, and the sphere, filled with flammable gases, explodes, destroying the Hoothi inside and breaking their control over their army. It was all a part of the Doctor’s plan, including leading Jan to confront the Hoothi, as he knew that Jan was infected; however, Ace cannot forgive the Doctor for manipulating and sacrificing her lover to win this battle.
 
As the colony picks up the pieces, Ace returns to the church and finds Phaedrus still alive in the basement. Phaedrus kills himself and is absorbed by the fourth Hoothi, which has been in the basement all along. It can still salvage the situation with enough blood, and decides that Ace will provide that blood. The captive Roisa pushes her toward the Hoothi, but Máire, who survived her pod's crash, appears and shoots Roisa, killing her. Ace calls on the last of Julian’s mind inside the Hoothi, and makes him rebel momentarily. He causes the Hoothi to explode and die.


== Plot ==
The Doctor searches for Ace, and bears witness to Christopher’s final death, as he can no longer maintain his body. He finds Ace and tries to apologise to her, but her love for him has turned to hatred after his actions, and she refuses to go with him. She stays behind with Máire and the remaining Travellers, keeping only the hypercube - she even leaves her jacket with the Doctor, indicating her break from her life with him. He returns with it to the TARDIS, where Benny agrees to join him. After all, as she points out, he needs someone to remind him who he is, and to give him a reason to fight.
''to be added''


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* The [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
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* [[Roisa McIlnery]]
* [[Roisa McIlnery]]
* Brother [[Phaedrus]]
* Brother [[Phaedrus]]
* [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]]
* [[Death (mythology)|Death]]
* [[The Trickster (Love and War)|The Trickster]]
* [[Julian Milton|Julian]]
* [[Julian Milton|Julian]]
* [[Audrey Dudman]]
* [[Audrey Dudman]]
* [[Clive Aubrey]]
* [[Shreela Govindia]]
* [[Piers Gavenal]]
* [[Fyan Trench]]
* [[James Miller]]
* [[Mark Diski]]
* [[Kate Brewer]]
* [[Benson (Love and War)|Benson]]
* [[Hussain (Love and War)|Hussain]]
* [[Carter (Love and War)|Carter]]
* [[Kyla]]
* [[Cathlan]]
* [[Kale]]
* [[Paul Magrs (Love and War)|Paul Magrs]]
* [[William (Love and War)|William]]
* [[Judith (Love and War)|Judith]]
* [[Alec (Love and War)|Alec]]
* [[Howarth]]
* [[Simon (Love and War)|Simon]]
* [[Colm Wylie]]
* [[Fiona (Love and War)|Fiona]]
* [[Patrick (Love and War)|Patrick]]
* [[Matilda (Love and War)|Matilda]]
* [[Kerwin (Love and War)|Kerwin]]
* [[Grey (Love and War)|Grey]]
* [[Mighty Lion]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Currency ===
=== Currency ===
* [[Dalek]] [[eyepiece|eyestalks]] are worth twenty [[decacredits]] in bounty at an imperial base.
* [[Dalek]] [[Dalek eyestalk|eyestalks]] are worth twenty [[decacredit]]s in bounty at an imperial base.


=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
* [[Aliases of the Doctor|The Doctor is known as]] Karshtakavaar - the Oncoming Storm by the [[Draconian]]s.
* The Doctor is known as [[Aliases of the Doctor|Karshtakavaar]] the Oncoming Storm by the [[Draconian]]s.
* This is the first time the Doctor is mentioned as [[Aliases of the Doctor#Time's Champion|Time's Champion]].
* The Doctor can blow [[fire]] using an oil lamp.
* The Doctor can blow [[fire]] using an oil lamp.
* He deliberately "killed" his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]] (though he was unborn at the time), knowing that [[Time (Set Piece)|Time]] would need a champion.
* The Seventh Doctor deliberately "killed" his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]] (though he was unborn at the time), knowing that [[Time (mythology)|Time]] would need a champion.
 
{{quote|Death laughed, and raised a soft finger between the Doctor's eyes. "Don't lie to me! You sacrificed the colourful jester because you needed to be born! Time would have her champion and he was just the compost for your blooming. You ran your TARDIS into the Rani's beam joyfully. Hah! Your sixth self hates you for that, he will become [[Valeyard]] for that...|''Love and War'', page 80}}


=== Culture ===
=== Culture ===
* The [[20th century]] is Bernice Summerfield's favourite era.
* The [[20th century]] is Bernice Summerfield's favourite era.
* [[Cruk]] as a swear word is mentioned and used in conversation for the first time.
* [[Cruk]] is used as a swear word.
* Máire reads a [[book]] detailing the exploits of [[Abslom Daak]]


=== Groups ===
=== Groups ===
* The [[Traveller (Love and War)|Travellers]] are a group of people who originated on Earth as anarchists and unhappy people. Currently there are thirty Travellers on Heaven. They use [[Puterspace]] instead of drugs to attain higher states of consciousness.
* The [[Traveller (Love and War)|Travellers]] are a group of people who originated on Earth as anarchists and unhappy people. They use [[Puterspace]] instead of drugs to attain higher states of [[consciousness]].


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* Máire mentions [[Abslom Daak]], a [[Dalek Killer]] who has also met the Doctor. She was also a Dalek Killer.
* Máire mentions [[Abslom Daak]], a [[Dalek Killer]] who has also met the Doctor.
* [[Chad Boyle]] suddenly started mailing [[Christmas]] cards to everyone from his school days.
* [[Chad Boyle]] suddenly started mailing [[Christmas card]]s to everyone from his school days.
* Whilst in the escape pod, Ace is visited by [[the Trickster]] in a clown costume. He tells her Jan is one of his. However, in the context of the story, this could be a vision of the Doctor, his manipulative nature and his plans that involve Jan rather then the modern Trickster.
* [[Julian Milton|Julian]] was a friend of Ace's while she was growing up. When he died, he was absorbed into the Hoothi consciousness.
* Ace becomes formally engaged to Jan by Máire.
* Ace learnt to ride a [[horse]] in [[Adelaide, Australia|Adelaide]] in [[1967]] from a man named [[Medge]].
* [[Julian (Love and War)|Julian]] was a friend of Ace's while she was growing up. When he died, he was absorbed into the Hoothi consciousness.
* [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice Surprise Summerfield]] is thirty years old. She has only ever had three boyfriends.
* Ace learnt to ride a [[horse]] in [[Australia|Adelaide]] in [[1967]].
* Ace lost her virginity to [[Glitz]] while on [[Iceworld]].
* Ace lost her virginity to [[Glitz]] while on [[Iceworld]].
* [[Fyan Trench]] is one of the people killed by the Hoothi.


=== Libraries and archives ===
=== Libraries and archives ===
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=== Organisations ===
=== Organisations ===
* The [[Vacuum Church]] believes only death and suicide can relieve the pain of life.
* The [[Vacuum Church]] believes only death and suicide can relieve the pain of life.
* [[Kale]] is a guard for [[Interplanetary Mining Corporation|IMC]].


=== Planets ===
=== Planets ===
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=== Psychic powers ===
=== Psychic powers ===
* [[Jan Rydd]] has [[pyrokinesis|pyrokinetic]] powers that he gained through experiments with the military. His "secret" name is ''Aradath''.
* Jan Rydd has [[pyrokinesis|pyrokinetic]] powers that he gained through experiments with the military. His "secret" name is ''Aradath''.
* [[Christopher (Love and War)|Christopher]] also has extensive mental powers, but was rendered sexless by the military experiments.


=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* [[Earth Reptile]] is the politically correct term for [[Silurian]].
* [[Earth Reptile]] is the politically correct term for [[Silurian]].
* The [[Hoothi]] are fungoid creatures that can exist as spores or as a planet-sized gas-filled sphere travelling through space. They live off decaying organic matter. They know of the [[Time Lord]]s and the Doctor.
* The [[Hoothi]] are fungoid creatures that can exist as spores or as a planet-sized gas-filled sphere travelling through space.
* The [[Sontaran]]s are currently "busy" in the [[Magellanic Clouds]].
* The [[Sontaran]]s are currently "busy" in the [[Magellanic Clouds]].


=== Theories and concepts ===
=== Theories and concepts ===
* The [[Laws of Time#First Law of Time|First Law of Time]] is a moral law as well as a legal one.
* The [[Laws of Time#First Law of Time|First Law of Time]] is a moral law as well as a legal one.
* [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]] and [[Time (Set Piece)|Time]] are referred to as [[Eternal]]s.
* [[Death (mythology)|Death]] and [[Time (mythology)|Time]] are referred to as [[Eternal]]s.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This novel introduced the character of [[Bernice Summerfield]]. She was the subject of a promotional campaign involving ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' as the first companion created for the literary field. She is not, however, the first non-TV companion, as the Doctor travelled with several original companions in the various comic strips dating back to the 1960s. Summerfield would ultimately take over the New Adventures book line when Virgin lost its ''Doctor Who'' licence, and continues to be featured in books and audios produced by [[Big Finish Productions]].
* This novel introduced the character of [[Bernice Summerfield]]. She was the subject of a promotional campaign involving ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' as the first companion created for the literary field. She is not, however, the first non-TV companion, as the Doctor travelled with several original companions in the various comic strips dating back to the 1960s. Benny would prove to be, inarguably, the most enduring character created during the Wilderness Years, appearing in adventures with and without the Doctor every year since her introduction (as of 2020).
* This novel had a working title of ''Heaven''. <ref>[[DWM 252]] (Licence to Kill, pp 27-30)</ref>
* This novel had a working title of ''Heaven''.<ref>[[DWM 252]] (Licence to Kill, pp 27-30)</ref>
* [[Prelude Love and War|A prequel to this novel]] was published in [[DWM 192]].
* [[Prelude Love and War (short story)|A prequel to this novel]] was published in [[DWM 192]].
* [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] released [[Love and War (audio story)|an audio adaption]] of this story in October 2012 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this story and of the character of Bernice Summerfield.
* [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] released [[Love and War (audio story)|an audio adaptation]] of this story in [[October (releases)|October]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]] to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this story and of the character of Bernice Summerfield.
* This is the first Virgin New Adventures novel to be written by a returning writer.
* The story arc known as the Future History arc begins here.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Chad Boyle first appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation]]'' which also explains why he suddenly starts sending Christmas cards.
* Months have passed since Ace left [[Robin Yeadon]] in [[1968]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'')
* Dalek Killers were first mentioned in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]''.
* [[Chad Boyle]] first appeared in [[PROSE]]:'' [[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'' which also explains why he suddenly starts sending Christmas cards.
* The Draconians first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]''.
* [[Dalek Killer]]s were first mentioned in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]''.
* [[IMC]] is on Heaven. They were first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]''.
* The [[Draconian]]s first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]''.
* The [[Hoothi]] were first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]''.
* [[IMC]] is on Heaven. They were first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]''.
* Further [[Spacefleet]] experiments on people are revealed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad]]''.
* The [[Hoothi]] were first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''.
* Ace returns in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit]]''.
* Further [[Spacefleet]] experiments on people are revealed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]''.
* Ace returns in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]''.
* The origins of the work ''Cruk'' are explained in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death and the Daleks (audio story)|Death and the Daleks]]''.
* The origins of the work ''Cruk'' are explained in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death and the Daleks (audio story)|Death and the Daleks]]''.
* Bernice returns to Heaven in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death and the Daleks (audio story)|Death and the Daleks]]''.
* Bernice returns to Heaven in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death and the Daleks (audio story)|Death and the Daleks]]''.
* The Draconians refer to the Doctor as "the Oncoming Storm". The Daleks used this term for the Doctor in [[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''.
* The Draconians refer to the Doctor as "the Oncoming Storm". The Daleks also used this term for the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')
* Felsecar Abbey (first mentioned in this novel) is visited by the Doctor in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear]]''.
* [[Felsecar Abbey]], first mentioned in this novel, is later visited by the Doctor in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]''.
* The Travellers reappear in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]''.
* The Travellers reappear in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''.
* Although this is Bernice Summerfield's first encounter with the Doctor from her perspective, the same is not true of him. The [[Sixth Doctor]] and his companion [[Evelyn Smythe]] had met Benny and [[Irving Braxiatel]] on a dig conducted by Irving's [[Braxiatel Collection|collection]]. The Sixth Doctor remained completely ignorant of the fact that Benny would later travel with him. It can be assumed the archaeologist did not reveal this information to him to avoid disrupting the [[Web of Time]]. For the same reason, the Doctor does not reveal to Benny that he has previously met her future self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'')
* Although this is Bernice Summerfield's first encounter with the Doctor from her perspective, the same is not true of him. The [[Sixth Doctor]] and his companion [[Evelyn Smythe]] had met Benny and [[Irving Braxiatel]] on a dig conducted by Irving's [[Braxiatel Collection|collection]]. The Sixth Doctor remained completely ignorant of the fact that Benny would later travel with him. It can be assumed the archaeologist did not reveal this information to him to avoid disrupting the [[Web of Time]]. For the same reason, the Doctor does not reveal to Benny that he has previously met her future self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'')
* A phrase on the first page of the novel ("Long ago, when love was real") is used as the first line of an eighty-page love poem. [[Romana I]] reads it and knows from the line that this is the worst thing she will ever read. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'')
* A phrase on the first page of the novel ("Long ago, when love was real") is used as the first line of an eighty-page love poem. [[Romana I]] reads it and knows from the line that this is the worst thing she will ever read. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'')
* The Doctor recalls leaving [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] on [[Earth]] with [[David Campbell|"her boyfriend"]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') and reuniting with her only once afterward. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') He says that she's currently living out her current incarnation with David, and that she'll call for him once he's dead. She later reunited with him in his [[eighth incarnation]], as he predicted once David was dead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child]]'', ''[[Relative Dimensions]]'', ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]'', ''[[To the Death]]'')
* The Doctor recalls leaving [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] on [[Earth]] with [[David Campbell|"her boyfriend"]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') and reuniting with her only once afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') He says that she's currently living out her current incarnation with David, and that she'll call for him once he's dead. She later reunited with him in his [[eighth incarnation]], as he predicted, once David was dead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'', ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'', ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]'', ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'')
* The Doctor has met another pyrokinetic named [[Kylo Sorsha]] in his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth]] and [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] incarnations as well as later in his current one. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Burning Prince (audio story)|The Burning Prince]], [[The Acheron Pulse]] ''and'' [[The Shadow Heart (audio story)|The Shadow Heart]]'')
* The Doctor has met other pyrokinetics, including [[Kylo Sorsha]], in his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth]] and [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] incarnations as well as later in his current one. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Burning Prince (audio story)|The Burning Prince]]'', ''[[The Acheron Pulse (audio story)|The Acheron Pulse]]'', ''[[The Shadow Heart (audio story)|The Shadow Heart]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
* The Doctor refers to his encounter with [[Harry Houdini]]. Prior to their arrival in [[1963]], his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]] and his granddaughter Susan met Houdini in the [[United States of America|United States]]. Houdini taught the Doctor how to perform sleight-of-hand tricks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'')
* The Doctor refers to his encounter with [[Harry Houdini]]. Prior to their arrival in [[1963]], his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]] and his granddaughter Susan met Houdini in the [[United States of America|United States]]. Houdini taught the Doctor how to perform sleight-of-hand tricks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'')
* While in the [[Land of Fiction]] library, Ace would later find a fictionalised version of these events in the form of a novel entitled ''Love and War''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'')
* While in the [[Land of Fiction]] library, Ace would later find a fictionalised version of these events in the form of a novel entitled ''[[Love and War]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'')
* An [[alternate timeline|alternative version]] of the Doctor was able to save Jan and his fellow Travellers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')
* An [[alternate timeline|alternate version]] of the Doctor was able to save Jan and his fellow Travellers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')
* The Doctor would encounter aliens snatching corpses to create an army again in his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
 
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whona09p.htm Prelude to ''Love and War'' as published in DWM #192]
* [https://doctorwho.guide/whona09p.htm Prelude to ''Love and War'' as published in DWM #192]
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* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/love.htm The Cloister Library: '''Love and War''']
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/love.htm The Cloister Library: '''Love and War''']
* [http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv48/paulcornell.html Paul Cornell by Paul Scoones (Interview) - TSV 48]


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Love and War was the ninth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It was written by Paul Cornell and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. It introduced Professor Bernice Summerfield. In 2012, Big Finish Productions adapted the novel for audio to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its original release.

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

On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.

Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians — a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission — to find a book, or so he says — and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.

But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?

Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord's plans.

This time, has the Doctor gone too far?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ace attends the funeral of her old friend Julian in Perivale. Afterward, the Doctor takes her to the planet Heaven in the year 2570. The bucolic planet lies on the border between the human and Draconian empires, and is neutral territory, serving as a cemetery world for both races in their long and sporadic wars against each other and against the Daleks. While the Doctor visits the governmental library in Joycetown in search of a lost manuscript, The Papers of Felsecar, Ace gets involved with a group of Travellers, a nomadic bunch that has lived on Heaven for some years now. She quickly falls for Jan, one of the Travellers, and he shares her interest, although he is in an open relationship with another Traveller, Roisa — who is in turn in another open relationship with yet another Traveller, Máire. Ace meets other colourful characters: Christopher, the sexless priest of the Travellers, who has peculiar powers thanks to a government experiment; and a guest of the Travellers: archaeologist Bernice “Benny” Summerfield, who is conducting a dig at some ancient ruins left behind by the now-extinct Heavenites. Meanwhile, Roisa steps on a filament of a strange fungus.

In Joycetown, Phaedrus — a priest of the death-obsessed Vacuum Church — conducts a ritual sacrifice of an old friend. The friend’s dying corpse is taken over by, and converted into, a fungus. The fungus is intelligent and has orders for Phaedrus. Later, he encounters Roisa, and warns her of terrible things to come.

The Doctor’s efforts to find the manuscript are unsuccessful, and he is balked by a nervous librarian. He meets with Miller, the head of the local military detachment, and takes him into his confidence, warning him of the real reason for his visit; Miller keeps it to himself, but is convinced to help the Doctor. Miller tells him about a mysterious sphere in space, which was spotted briefly before vanishing. The Doctor meets Benny, and she shows him a buried Heavenite observatory with a strange telescope and a decayed body inside — the first Heavenite remains found. The Doctor is disturbed by what he sees there. He accompanies Benny to Joycetown, but they are attacked en route; Benny shoots off the attacker’s arm, but the assailant is not deterred, and escapes. The arm is infected with white fungal filaments.

Ace joins the Travellers in “Puterspace”, a virtual reality environment that links to the Empire’s electronic networks, and which the Travellers use in lieu of drugs to join their minds for rituals and conferences. With Jan, she encounters a being calling himself the Trickster; and she learns more of Jan and Christopher’s history. The two men are old friends; both volunteered for military experimentation during their service. The experiments took away Christopher’s sexuality, but gave him strong psychic powers; Jan was mostly unaffected, but gained the ability to generate fire on command. As the Travellers gather, Roisa begs them to leave the planet and leave her behind. They are attacked in Puterspace by a strange sphere, but Christopher sacrifices himself to let the others escape.

Back in the real world, the others bury Christopher’s now-empty body, and grieve for him. Ace spends the night with Jan; later, she dreams of the Doctor bargaining with Death for her life, with Death refusing the deal. In the morning, the Doctor meets her, and is disturbed to find that she slept with Jan; she assumes he is jealous of her desire for a separate life. During the visit, he shows her a tesseract, a Gallifreyan hypercube, and plays a trick where it disappears between dimensions. He enlists her help in locating the book; she meets the librarian, who seems afraid, but drops a hint as to where to look in the library computers. Meanwhile, a guard named Kale meets with Miller and reports a (fabricated) attack by Sontarans, and requests to go to the orbital station to scan the planet for incursions. Miller allows it, but notices that Kale’s arm is in a sling.

The Doctor talks with Jan about Ace, and then enters Puterspace. He is attacked by Vacuum Church assassins; Christopher appears and rescues him. Christopher reveals that his powers allowed him to copy his mind into Puterspace as software before he died; he is working out a way to control his own dead body as well, via the Puterspace jack in its brain. However, before the Doctor can leave, Phaedrus enters Puterspace and catches him in a software trap, forcing him to relive painful memories of his third incarnation’s death. Ace arrives to rescue him, but is caught in the trap herself, and it shifts to her memories of Perivale. There she learns from the Doctor that the real enemy is a fungal race called the Hoothi, which absorbs its victims and gains their memories and minds. Ace sees her dead friend Julian there, and the Doctor realises the Hoothi have replicated her house from his memories, not from Ace’s, indicating that after his death, the Hoothi absorbed him. The Doctor briefly liberates Julian’s mind, and Julian in turn restores Christopher’s program; Julian is reintegrated into the group mind by Phaedrus, but Ace liberates them by reversing the trap onto Phaedrus and making him relive his worst memory in which he euthanised his own mother. With the Doctor, she escapes Puterspace. While they recover, Roisa gives the Doctor a drink from a Heavenite goblet that was once stolen from the Vacuum Church.

The Doctor and Ace lead the Travellers in a raid on the library. There they are intercepted by Vacuum acolytes, who have been absorbed by the Hoothi. Ace kills them with Nitro-9, setting the library ablaze in the process, but not before they infect the librarian. Just before he converts to fungus, however, he unlocks the computer, allowing the others to find out where the manuscript is hidden. They find that it was last released to Bernice Summerfield. On the way out, they meet Miller, and he learns that the Sontaran invasion was a lie; and Kale has been infected by the Hoothi spores. Kale, it seems, is the assailant who attacked the Doctor and Benny; his arm in a sling is fake, concealing a cache of the spores. He has now infected the entire orbital station crew, and removed the station from action, leaving the planet defenceless until help arrives, which will take a week.

The Doctor again tries to get Ace to give up her romance with Jan, but to no avail. He retrieves the manuscript from Benny, and finds his own handwriting in it, though presumably from a future incarnation. It acts as a Rosetta Stone of sorts, allowing him to translate Heavenite writing left behind in the observatory. Ace confers with Benny, and they discuss their respective pasts; Benny admits that she faked her credentials years ago, and is not really a professor. She travels in search of the truth about her missing father, who may be among the dead buried on Heaven. Ace spends the night with Jan, who tells her his secret name, Aradrath, meaning “one big fire”. During the night, mysterious figures release spores into the Traveller camp, infecting some of the Travellers. Christopher also appears, having regained control of his body, and collects most of the spores, which will not harm him; he also warns Ace that remaining with Jan will require a sacrifice.

The observatory writing leads the Doctor and Benny to the graveyards, where they find that every body is infected with the spores, and indeed, have not decayed. He gets Benny’s team to rush and dig up the observatory, as it is instrumental to his plan. The Hoothi, via Kale, try to crash the orbital station onto the dig, but the Doctor threatens Phaedrus to divert it; the Hoothi need Phaedrus alive for now, and they destroy the station before it can crash. The Doctor returns to the camp and levels with everyone about the Hoothi: they are an ancient, fungal race, who absorb and utilise the living and the dead alike in efforts to conquer the galaxy. They were believed to have fled after failing once to conquer Gallifrey, but now they have returned. They exist in sub-hive minds as part of the greater group mind, and each sub-group travels in a massive organic sphere, composed of the remains of absorbed creatures. Centuries ago, they farmed the Heavenites for raw material, until they eventually claimed the entire world; the observatory was left to guard against their return. Now they are returning, and their long game will pay off; they arranged to have Heaven made into a cemetery world, filling it with a vast army of the dead, which they are coming to claim for use in their conquest. They can see and hear through their living victims, and can control the victims’ actions, or take over at any time. The spores cannot be cured.

The now-liberated observatory contains a special telescope that can penetrate the Hoothi sphere’s ability to conceal itself. Roisa, knowing she is infected, goes to blow up the Vacuum Church in a suicide bombing, but can’t pull the trigger. Phaedrus forces her to meet the Hoothi that is located in the basement. Jan realises what has happened, and takes matters into his own hands; he takes some of the others and steals a shuttle, intending to set it as a passive projectile in orbit to destroy the Hoothi sphere. Ace and Máire follow him and sneak aboard. When he discovers Ace, he asks her to marry him if they survive. She agrees, and everyone but Jan waits in the shuttle’s escape pods. Jan will activate the final course of the shuttle, and then enter a pod himself, and launch the pods. However, when the ship appears, everyone except Jan, Máire, and Ace explodes into fungus; and even Jan is clearly infected, as he can’t fire the engines. He ejects Ace, Máire, and one of the others. Ace loses her mind briefly from grief; but the Doctor’s hypercube appears in her hand, containing impressions of Jan, which pull her back to sanity. Máire’s pod crashes into the Vacuum Church, doing much damage, but not destroying the church, Phaedrus, or the Hoothi.

When the Doctor learns that Ace followed Jan, he is appalled, and he and Benny immediately take the TARDIS to the Hoothi sphere. The Hoothi - or rather, three of the four in their subgroup - meet with him, and reveal that he himself is infected, having received a spore from the drink given to him by Roisa. They will refrain from taking him over, and allow him to leave with Ace, if he destroys the planet’s military communication equipment so as to prevent the empire’s Spacefleet from arriving. However, they try infect Benny, but the Doctor secretly prevents the infection, feeding the Hoothi images from his mind to make them think they were successful.

As the Doctor and Benny leave, they see Jan’s body among the other captive forms. The Hoothi sphere enters the atmosphere, and sends down subspheres and stairways to receive their infected dead, which burst to life from the ground all over the planet. Along the way, the dead attack and kill many of the living, breaking down settlements and buildings. The Doctor sends Benny to recover Ace, who has crashed in the forest. Christopher joins them as well. Phaedrus, considering his work complete, enters Puterspace, still haunted by the death of his mother. Ace arrives and follows him in, seeking revenge for Jan’s death. The Doctor, meanwhile, deactivates the comm equipment. He goes to the Vacuum Church and enters Puterspace to rescue Ace. With Christopher’s help, he exploits the remnants of Jan’s consciousness inside the group mind, horrifying Ace. Rather than try to save Jan, he persuades him to ignite his pyrokinetic power, and the sphere, filled with flammable gases, explodes, destroying the Hoothi inside and breaking their control over their army. It was all a part of the Doctor’s plan, including leading Jan to confront the Hoothi, as he knew that Jan was infected; however, Ace cannot forgive the Doctor for manipulating and sacrificing her lover to win this battle.

As the colony picks up the pieces, Ace returns to the church and finds Phaedrus still alive in the basement. Phaedrus kills himself and is absorbed by the fourth Hoothi, which has been in the basement all along. It can still salvage the situation with enough blood, and decides that Ace will provide that blood. The captive Roisa pushes her toward the Hoothi, but Máire, who survived her pod's crash, appears and shoots Roisa, killing her. Ace calls on the last of Julian’s mind inside the Hoothi, and makes him rebel momentarily. He causes the Hoothi to explode and die.

The Doctor searches for Ace, and bears witness to Christopher’s final death, as he can no longer maintain his body. He finds Ace and tries to apologise to her, but her love for him has turned to hatred after his actions, and she refuses to go with him. She stays behind with Máire and the remaining Travellers, keeping only the hypercube - she even leaves her jacket with the Doctor, indicating her break from her life with him. He returns with it to the TARDIS, where Benny agrees to join him. After all, as she points out, he needs someone to remind him who he is, and to give him a reason to fight.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Currency[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

  • The Doctor is known as Karshtakavaar — the Oncoming Storm — by the Draconians.
  • The Doctor can blow fire using an oil lamp.
  • The Seventh Doctor deliberately "killed" his sixth incarnation (though he was unborn at the time), knowing that Time would need a champion.

Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

Groups[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Travellers are a group of people who originated on Earth as anarchists and unhappy people. They use Puterspace instead of drugs to attain higher states of consciousness.

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Libraries and archives[[edit] | [edit source]]

Organisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Vacuum Church believes only death and suicide can relieve the pain of life.
  • Kale is a guard for IMC.

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Psychic powers[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Jan Rydd has pyrokinetic powers that he gained through experiments with the military. His "secret" name is Aradath.

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This novel introduced the character of Bernice Summerfield. She was the subject of a promotional campaign involving Doctor Who Magazine as the first companion created for the literary field. She is not, however, the first non-TV companion, as the Doctor travelled with several original companions in the various comic strips dating back to the 1960s. Benny would prove to be, inarguably, the most enduring character created during the Wilderness Years, appearing in adventures with and without the Doctor every year since her introduction (as of 2020).
  • This novel had a working title of Heaven.[1]
  • A prequel to this novel was published in DWM 192.
  • Big Finish released an audio adaptation of this story in October 2012 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this story and of the character of Bernice Summerfield.
  • This is the first Virgin New Adventures novel to be written by a returning writer.
  • The story arc known as the Future History arc begins here.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. DWM 252 (Licence to Kill, pp 27-30)