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|series=[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  
|range= BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
|number= 12  
|number in range = 12
|doctor=Eighth Doctor  
|series = [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]
|companions=[[Samantha Jones|Sam]]
|number= 12
|enemy= [[I (Seeing I)|I]], [[INC]]  
|doctor = Eighth Doctor
|setting= {{il|[[Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre]], [[Ha'olam]], [[22nd century]]|[[Ha'olam]], [[22nd century]]}}
|companions=[[Sam Jones|Sam]]
|writer= [[Jonathan Blum]], [[Kate Orman]]
|enemy= [[I (Seeing I)|I]], [[INC]]
|publisher= BBC Books  
|setting= {{il|[[Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre]], [[Ha'olam]], [[23rd century]]|[[Ha'olam]], [[23rd century]]}}
|cover=[[Black Sheep]]
|writer= Jonathan Blum, Kate Orman
|release date= [[8 June (releases)|8 June]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]]
|publisher= BBC Books
|format= Paperback Book; 18 Chapters, 279 Pages  
|cover = [[Black Sheep]]
|release date= 8 June 1998
|format= Paperback Book; 18 Chapters, 279 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-40586-4
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-40586-4
|prev= Dreamstone Moon (novel)
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'''''Seeing I''''' was the twelfth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Jonathan Blum]] and [[Kate Orman]], released [[8 June (releases)|8 June]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]] and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones]].
'''''Seeing I''''' was the twelfth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Jonathan Blum]] and [[Kate Orman]], released [[8 June (releases)|8 June]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]] and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones]].


Much like [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'' did before it with [[Ace]], ''Seeing I'' returns companion Sam Jones to travel with the Doctor after having spent three or four years away from him. Unlike Ace (who spent her time travelling and in the [[Spacefleet]]), Sam spent most of her time on [[Ha'olam]].
Much like ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'' did before it with [[Ace]], ''Seeing I'' returns companion Sam Jones to travel with the Doctor after having spent three or four years away from him. Unlike Ace (who spent her time travelling and in the [[Spacefleet]]), Sam spent most of her time on [[Ha'olam]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
He has no idea why [[Samantha Jones]] ran away from him.
He has no idea why [[Samantha Jones]] ran away from him.


Sam is homeless on the streets of the colony world of [[Ha'olam]], trying to face what's just happened between her and the Doctor. He's searching for her, and for answers. While she struggles to survive in a strange city centuries from home, the Doctor comes across evidence of alien involvement in the local mega-corporation, INC — and is soon confined to a [[prison]] that becomes a hell of his own making.
Sam is homeless on the streets of the colony world of [[Ha'olam]], trying to face what's just happened between her and [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]]. He's searching for her, and for answers. While she struggles to survive in a strange city centuries from home, the Doctor comes across evidence of alien involvement in the local mega-corporation, [[INC]] — and is soon confined to a [[prison]] that becomes a hell of his own making.


Where did INC's mysterious eye implants really come from? What is the company searching for in the deserts? What is hiding in the shadows, watching their progress?
Where did INC's mysterious eye implants really come from? What is the company searching for in the deserts? What is hiding in the shadows, watching their progress?


Faced with these mysteries, separated by half a world, Sam and the Doctor each face a battle — Sam to rebuild her life, the Doctor to stay sane. And if they find each other again, what will be left of either of them?
Faced with these mysteries, separated by half a world, Sam and the Doctor each face a battle — Sam to rebuild her life, the Doctor to stay sane. And if they find each other again, what will be left of either of them?
== Chapter titles ==
# An Ordinary World
# I Seek Her Here, I Seek Her There
# Eye Robot
# Radical Dislocation
# Capture Escape Capture
# I Into We
# Eye-Bugged Monster
# Morning Run
# No Monsters Here
# I Spy
# Urgent Action
Interlude, with Audio
# Now You See Me
# And You and I
# I Contact
# I Technology
# Oy Gestalt
# Long Last Look


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Samantha Jones]]
* [[Sam Jones]]
* [[Sara (Seeing I)|Sara]]
* [[Sara (Seeing I)|Sara]]
* [[Ramadan]]
* [[Ramadan (Seeing I)|Ramadan]]
* [[Ari (Seeing I)|Ari]]
* [[ChrisBen]]
* [[Shoshana Rubenstein]]
* [[Shoshana Rubenstein]]
* [[Zuabi]]
* [[Mlihi]]
* [[Crying Woman]]
* Dr [[David Akalu]]
* [[Mahmoud Rifaat]]
* [[Ziba Hurst]]
* [[Gamal el Bayoumi]]
* [[Salameh]]
* [[Paul Hamani]]
* [[Paul Hamani]]
* [[Orin]]
* [[Orin]]
* Dr [[David Akalu]]
* [[Chris (Seeing I)|Chris]]
* [[Khalaf]]
* [[Tamar (Seeing I)|Tamar]]
* [[Feroz]]
* [[Leah (Seeing I)|Leah]]
* [[Amin (Seeing I)|Amin]]
* [[Brian Weissman]]
* [[Isaac Lobachevsky]]
* [[Lobachevsky]]
* [[Deeb]]
* [[Kafiyeh]]
* [[Symonds (Seeing I)|Symonds]]
* [[Sumrein]]
* [[Cliff (Seeing I)|Cliff]]
* [[Hanneh]]
* [[Eric (Seeing I)|Eric]]
* [[Rachel (Seeing I)|Rachel]]
* [[Eyal]]
* [[Mataten]]
* [[DOCTOR]]
* [[DOCTOR]]
* [[Rifaat]]
* [[Cat (Seeing I)|Stray cat]]
* [[Ziba]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Corporations ===
=== Corporations ===
* Sam goes to join the [[Eurogen Village]].
* Sam goes to join the [[Eurogen Village]].
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=== Cultural references from the real world ===
=== Cultural references from the real world ===
* The Doctor describes what a [[perigosto stick]] is for: "You use it in a game of four-dimensional [[juggling]]".
* The Doctor describes what a [[perigosto stick]] is for: "You use it in a game of four-dimensional [[juggling]]".
* The Doctor uploads fragments of ''[[Down Among the Dead Men Again]]'' (whose author would likely be the same as ''[[Down Among the Dead Men]]'', [[Bernice Summerfield]]).
* The Doctor uploads fragments of ''[[Down Among the Dead Men Again]]''.


=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
* [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] uses the alias James Alistair Bowman.
* Whilst imprisoned the Doctor goes into detail of how he was held [[prisoner]] by the [[Tractite]]s.
* Whilst imprisoned the Doctor goes into detail of how he was held [[prisoner]] by the [[Tractite]]s.
* The Doctor becomes a little bit claustrophobic after three years of being locked aways a prisoner.
* The Doctor becomes a little bit [[claustrophobia|claustrophobic]] after three years of being locked away.


=== The Doctor's items ===
=== The Doctor's items ===
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=== Foods and beverages ===
=== Foods and beverages ===
* Sam drinks [[coffee]]; she never used to after she had an experience with [[drug]]s.
* Sam drinks [[coffee]]; she never used to after she had an experience with [[drug]]s.
* Number 15 is a system of moves that the Doctor and Sam came up with.
* Number 15 is a system of moves that the Doctor and Sam came up with. It involves the Doctor using a [[banana]] and pretending it to be a gun to hold someone up, while in the confusion Sam takes the guard's gun.
:* Number 15 involves the Doctor using a [[banana]] and pretending it to be a gun to hold someone up, while in the confusion Sam takes the guard's gun.


=== Gallifrey ===
=== Gallifrey ===
* The Doctor explains to Sam what happened to [[Savar]]: "It happened back when I was a student. [[Savar]] was a [[Time Lord]] who went on a mission in his [[TARDIS]], but something went wrong and he had to abandon ship."
* The Doctor explains to Sam what happened to [[Savar]].


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* Sam's [[Samantha Jones#Timeline 1|"Dark Sam"]] personality is referred to several times.
* Sam's [[Sam Jones#Timeline 1|"Dark Sam"]] personality is referred to several times.
* [[DOCTOR]] is an artificial intelligence based on the Doctor, sounding a bit like [[Eighth Doctor|him]]. He goes travelling with another AI called [[FLORANCE]].
* [[DOCTOR]] is an artificial intelligence based on the Doctor, sounding a bit like him. He goes travelling with another AI called [[FLORANCE]].
* The [[DOCTOR]] mentions to the Doctor, "I could name half a dozen of your school chums and all sorts of ancient lore and legends from [[Gallifrey]]."
* The Doctor tells Sam that he met his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] whilst searching for her.
* The Doctor tells Sam that he met his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] whilst searching for her.
* It's been three and a bit years since the Doctor last saw Sam, also the same amount of time that [[Ace]] spent in the [[Spacefleet]]. (The Doctor mentions this: "It was about three years after she left me that I saw Ace again.")
* The Doctor claims to Dr Akalu that [[Romana]] always told him he had a death wish.
* The Doctor seems to indicate he was taught by [[Leonardo da Vinci]].
* The Doctor seems to indicate he was taught how to sketch by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], but was never very good.
* When [[Samantha Jones|Sam Jones]] met the Doctor she was nearly seventeen. When she arrived on [[Ha'olam]] she was nearly eighteen. She spent three years on [[Ha'olam]] and is now twenty-one.
* Sam remembers sleeping with a [[bat]], [[Jasper and Stewart|Jasper]] the [[Fledershrew]], in the TARDIS.
* Sam remembers sleeping with a bat ([[Jasper]] in the TARDIS).
* At the novel's end Sam gives the Doctor a long passionate kiss and feels no compulsion to do it again...though she wouldn't say no.
* [[Shoshana Rubenstein]] was Sam's flatmate for a while.
* [[Shoshana Rubenstein]] was Sam's flatmate for a while.


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=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* [[Lacaillan]]s and [[Caxtarid]] are some of the people that make up the population of [[Ha'olam]].
* [[Lacaillan]]s and [[Caxtarid]] are some of the people that make up the population of [[Ha'olam]].
* Sam mentions the [[Dalek]]s and the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]].
* Sam mentions the [[Dalek]]s and the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]].


=== Technology ===
=== Technology ===
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* The beginning of the book contains a quote from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'' by [[Paul Cornell]].
* The beginning of the book contains a quote from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'' by [[Paul Cornell]].
* Continuing what could be considered a trend for Kate Orman novels, the Doctor gets tortured in extreme and interesting ways.
* Continuing what could be considered a trend for Kate Orman novels, the Doctor gets tortured in extreme and interesting ways.
* Sam has a relationship with a woman named Chris, confirming that she is bisexual.
* Sam has a relationship with a woman named [[Chris (Seeing I)|Chris]], confirming that she is [[bisexuality|bisexual]].
 
* This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.{{fact}}
* [[BBC Books]] has announced that a "print on demand" reprint edition of this novel will be made available as of 30th September 2011 as the imprint revisits adventures featuring the first eight Doctors.{{fact}}


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The [[Imogen]] Company first appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit]]''.
* The [[Imogen]] Company first appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]''.
* The [[Dione-Kisumu Company]] appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sleepy]]''.
* The [[Dione-Kisumu Company]] appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[SLEEPY (novel)|SLEEPY]]''.
* [[Gray Corporation]] appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]''.
* [[Gray Corporation]] appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]''.
* The Doctor's alias (James Alistair Bowman) comes primarily from [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''.
* The Doctor's alias (James Alistair Bowman) comes primarily from [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''.
* Synch-op links were seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]''.
* Synch-op links were seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]''.
* In [[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites]]'' the [[First Doctor]] mentions the [[Tower of London]]. In [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Summer (audio story)|Summer]]'' the [[Fifth Doctor]] ends up in the Tower and in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Roundheads (novel)|The Roundheads]]'' the [[Second Doctor]], [[Polly Wright]] and [[Jamie McCrimmon]] end up in the Tower.
* In [[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'' the [[First Doctor]] mentions the [[Tower of London]]. In [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Summer (audio story)|Summer]]'' the [[Fifth Doctor]] ends up in the Tower and in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Roundheads (novel)|The Roundheads]]'' the [[Second Doctor]], [[Polly Wright]] and [[Jamie McCrimmon]] end up in the Tower.
* The Doctor first mentioned a [[perigosto stick]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death]]''.
* The Doctor first mentioned a [[perigosto stick]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]''.
* [[Eurogen Company]] merged with the [[Butler Institute]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'') to create Eurogen Butler, commonly known as the [[EB Corporation]]. They play a significant role in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Girl, Another Planet]]''. Later they became the [[Spinward Corporation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'')
* [[Eurogen Company]] merged with the [[Butler Institute]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'') to create Eurogen Butler, commonly known as the [[EB Corporation]]. They play a significant role in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Girl, Another Planet]]''. Later they became the [[Spinward Corporation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'')
* The Doctor was held prisoner and (effectively) tortured by [[Tractite]]s in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]''.
* The Doctor was held prisoner and (effectively) tortured by [[Tractite]]s in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]''.
* Sam refers to having seen [[clone]]d humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science]]'')
* Sam refers to having seen [[clone]]d humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'')
* Sam witnesses a [[warehouse]] full of company-designed babies created for testing. This imagery would be used as a source for other media images in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two]]''.
* Sam witnesses a [[warehouse]] full of company-designed babies created for testing. This imagery would be used as a source for other media images in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]''.
* Savar's final fate in [[The Infinity Doctors universe|one universe]] is seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]''.
* Savar's final fate in [[The Infinity Doctors universe|one universe]] is seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]''.
* The concept of Dark Sam living in King's Cross is first seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'' and actually seen in ''[[Unnatural History]]''
* The concept of Dark Sam living in King's Cross is first referenced in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'' and first seen in ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]''.
* [[FLORANCE]] appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit]]'' and ''[[Sleepy]]''.
* [[FLORANCE]] appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'' and ''[[SLEEPY (novel)|SLEEPY]]''.


== External links ==
== External links ==
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Seeing I was the twelfth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, released 8 June 1998 and featured the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones.

Much like Deceit did before it with Ace, Seeing I returns companion Sam Jones to travel with the Doctor after having spent three or four years away from him. Unlike Ace (who spent her time travelling and in the Spacefleet), Sam spent most of her time on Ha'olam.

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

He has no idea why Samantha Jones ran away from him.

Sam is homeless on the streets of the colony world of Ha'olam, trying to face what's just happened between her and the Doctor. He's searching for her, and for answers. While she struggles to survive in a strange city centuries from home, the Doctor comes across evidence of alien involvement in the local mega-corporation, INC — and is soon confined to a prison that becomes a hell of his own making.

Where did INC's mysterious eye implants really come from? What is the company searching for in the deserts? What is hiding in the shadows, watching their progress?

Faced with these mysteries, separated by half a world, Sam and the Doctor each face a battle — Sam to rebuild her life, the Doctor to stay sane. And if they find each other again, what will be left of either of them?

Chapter titles[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. An Ordinary World
  2. I Seek Her Here, I Seek Her There
  3. Eye Robot
  4. Radical Dislocation
  5. Capture Escape Capture
  6. I Into We
  7. Eye-Bugged Monster
  8. Morning Run
  9. No Monsters Here
  10. I Spy
  11. Urgent Action

Interlude, with Audio

  1. Now You See Me
  2. And You and I
  3. I Contact
  4. I Technology
  5. Oy Gestalt
  6. Long Last Look

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Corporations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cultural references from the real world[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

  • Whilst imprisoned the Doctor goes into detail of how he was held prisoner by the Tractites.
  • The Doctor becomes a little bit claustrophobic after three years of being locked away.

The Doctor's items[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Sam drinks coffee; she never used to after she had an experience with drugs.
  • Number 15 is a system of moves that the Doctor and Sam came up with. It involves the Doctor using a banana and pretending it to be a gun to hold someone up, while in the confusion Sam takes the guard's gun.

Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor explains to Sam what happened to Savar.

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Sam's "Dark Sam" personality is referred to several times.
  • DOCTOR is an artificial intelligence based on the Doctor, sounding a bit like him. He goes travelling with another AI called FLORANCE.
  • The Doctor tells Sam that he met his granddaughter Susan whilst searching for her.
  • The Doctor claims to Dr Akalu that Romana always told him he had a death wish.
  • The Doctor seems to indicate he was taught how to sketch by Leonardo da Vinci, but was never very good.
  • Sam remembers sleeping with a bat, Jasper the Fledershrew, in the TARDIS.
  • Shoshana Rubenstein was Sam's flatmate for a while.

Individuals by profession[[edit] | [edit source]]

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Prisons[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The beginning of the book contains a quote from PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell.
  • Continuing what could be considered a trend for Kate Orman novels, the Doctor gets tortured in extreme and interesting ways.
  • Sam has a relationship with a woman named Chris, confirming that she is bisexual.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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