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|image        = Big bang generation.jpg
|image        = Big bang generation.jpg
|series      = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|series      = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|number      = 60
|doctor      = Twelfth Doctor
|doctor      = Twelfth Doctor
|companions  = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth Leonidas]], [[Jack McSpringheel|Jack]]
|companions  = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]]
|featuring    =  
|featuring    =  
|enemy        = The [[Ancients of the Universe]]
|enemy        = [[Ancients of the Universe]]
|read by      = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|read by      = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|setting      = {{il|[[Sydney]], [[December]] [[2015]]|[[New South Wales]], [[22 December]] [[1934]]|[[Bates' World]], [[51st century]]|[[El Diablo]]}}
|setting      = {{il|[[Sydney]], [[December]] [[2015]]|[[New South Wales]], [[22 December]] [[1934]]|[[Bates' World]], [[51st century]]|[[El Diablo]]}}
|writer      = [[Gary Russell]]
|writer      = Gary Russell
|publisher    = BBC Books
|publisher    = BBC Books
|release date = [[10 September (releases)|10 September]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]
|release date = 10 September 2015
|isbn        = ISBN 978-1-84990-991-4
|isbn        = ISBN 978-1-84990-991-4
|format      = {{il|Hardback (UK)|Paperback (US)}}
|format      = {{il|Hardback (UK)|Paperback (US)}}
|number = 58
|prev        = Royal Blood (novel)
|prev        = Royal Blood (novel)
|next        = Deep Time (novel)
|next        = Deep Time (novel)
}}{{prose stub}}
|cover        = [[Lee Binding]]
'''''Big Bang Generation''''' was the fifty-eighth novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Gary Russell]] and featured the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]].
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'''''Big Bang Generation''''' was the sixtieth novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Gary Russell]] and featured the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]].


It was the second entry in ''[[The Glamour Chronicles]]'' series, published in September [[2015 (releases)|2015]].
It was the second entry in ''[[The Glamour Chronicles]]'' series, published in September [[2015 (releases)|2015]].
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Imagine everyone's surprise when a time portal opens up in Sydney Cove. Imagine their shock as a massive pyramid now sits beside the Harbour Bridge, inconveniently blocking Port Jackson and glowing with energy. Imagine their fear as Cyrrus "the mobster" Globb, Professor Horace Jaanson and an alien assassin called Kik arrive to claim the glowing pyramid. Finally imagine everyone's dismay when they are followed by a bunch of con artists out to spring their greatest grift yet.
Imagine everyone's surprise when a time portal opens up in Sydney Cove. Imagine their shock as a massive pyramid now sits beside the Harbour Bridge, inconveniently blocking Port Jackson and glowing with energy. Imagine their fear as Cyrrus "the mobster" Globb, Professor Horace Jaanson and an alien assassin called Kik arrive to claim the glowing pyramid. Finally imagine everyone's dismay when they are followed by a bunch of con artists out to spring their greatest grift yet.


This gang consists of [[Jack McSpringheel|Legs]] (the sexy comedian), [[Peter Summerfield|Dog Boy]] (providing protection and firepower), [[Ruth Leonidas|Shortie]] (handling logistics), Da Trowel (in charge of excavation and history) and their leader, [[Twelfth Doctor|Doc]] (busy making sure the universe isn't destroyed in an explosion that makes the Big Bang look like a damp squib).
This gang consists of [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Legs]] (the sexy comedian), [[Peter Summerfield|Dog Boy]] (providing protection and firepower), [[Ruth|Shortie]] (handling logistics), Da Trowel (in charge of excavation and history) and their leader, [[Twelfth Doctor|Doc]] (busy making sure the universe isn't destroyed in an explosion that makes the Big Bang look like a damp squib).


And when someone accidentally reawakens the Ancients of the Universe — which, Doc reckons, wasn't the wisest or best-judged of actions — things get a whole lot more complicated...
And when someone accidentally reawakens the Ancients of the Universe — which, Doc reckons, wasn't the wisest or best-judged of actions — things get a whole lot more complicated...


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
After receiving a message from [[Keri]] asking him to meet her at the [[White Rabbit (Legion)|White Rabbit]], [[Twelfth Doctor|the Doctor]] arrives in [[Legion City]] and learns that she believes that she was invited there by him, producing a series of [[postcard]]s as evidence. He gets a [[text]] inviting him to [[Sydney]] in [[2015]] and, after giving a [[superphone]] to Keri and having [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]] stolen, he departs for [[Earth]].
 
In the late [[51st century]], [[Sadkin|Colonel Sadkin]] and [[Horace Jaanson|Professor Horace Janson]] request the services of [[River Song]], but the [[Stormcage Containment Facility]] reject the request. They are instead joined by [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Ruth]] and [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], who were transported from the [[27th century]] by a [[stone]] given to Benny by her future self from a [[time eddy]] in which she and her friends are stuck. They put most of the team to [[sleep]] with Peter's [[knock-out patch]]es before realising that Jaanson has wandered off; they watch him promise copies of [[the Glamour]] to [[Cyrrus Globb]] and [[Kik]], [[criminal]]s sent on behalf of the [[Headless Monks]].
 
Kik notices Benny and holds her at [[sword]]point. Benny presents the stone that she has, a shard of the Glamour, and they use it to enter the [[Pyramid Eternia]] to find the [[time portal]] of the [[Ancients of the Universe]]. Inside the portal stands [[ghost]]ly versions of herself, Peter, Ruth and Jack, scattered through time and sending messages to the Doctor to come and save them. Her Peter, Ruth and Jack are captured as well, but they all manage to get free and find themselves merged with their future selves when they true to use the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] to release them. When Benny merges with herself, the entire pyramid vanishes.
 
In Sydney, the Doctor is accosted by Ruth and Peter and told to meet Jack at a [[café]] which, by the time he reaches it, is called the [[White Rabbit (Sydney)|White Rabbit]]. He meets Benny, who counts down the seconds until the Pyramid Eternia appears. To return the pyramid and everybody transported back to the 21st century, they learn from Keri's search on [[GalWiki]] where the Glamour is in 2015 and go back in time in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to [[1934]] to ensure that [[Tomas G. Schneidter]] finds it. He does so, but his wife, [[Roderika Schneidter|Roderika]], shoots him and it falls to the floor, erasing her and Tomas's men from time.
 
Returning to 2015 with a spare sonic screwdriver, Benny and the Doctor go with Peter, Ruth and Jack to the [[Power Station]] [[museum]] and steal the Glamour. Jaanson jumps at it and is erased from time, as are his ancestors and descendants. Time dies and the Doctor meets the Ancients, whom he is able to convince to restore the universe. He finds the Glamour before it had ever been touched by a non-Ancient and returns it to them, erasing anything that ever happened as a result of their technology, after which he is returned to Legion with his TARDIS. Peter returns the screwdriver that was stolen from him.
 
Benny has the Doctor take her to her future self to warn her not to dig up the shard of the Glamour. Future Benny agrees not to and blows the place up before returning to Legion City with Peter, Ruth and Jack in the ''[[Irverfield]]''. She catches a glimpse of the TARDIS as it dematerialises and wishes the Doctor happy landings, whatever face he has.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Peter Summerfield]]
* [[Peter Summerfield]]
* [[Ruth Leonidas]]
* [[Ruth]]
* [[Jack McSpringheel]]
* [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]]
* [[Keri]]
* [[Keri]]
* [[Horace Jaanson]]
* [[Horace Jaanson]]
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* [[Tomas G. Schneidter]]
* [[Tomas G. Schneidter]]
* [[Roderika Schneidter]]
* [[Roderika Schneidter]]
* Sergeant [[Rhodes (Big Bang Generation)|Rhodes]]
* [[Rhodes (Big Bang Generation)|Sergeant Rhodes]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Postcards ===
=== Postcards ===
* The postcard that [[Keri]] receives is from [[Ardethe Four]].
* The Doctor is surprised that physical [[postcard]]s still exist in the [[27th century]].
* The Doctor is surprised that physical [[postcard]]s still exist in the [[27th century]].
* There is a postcard with a [[Koala]] bear on it in [[Sydney]]. Koala bears do not live in the cities because of the lack of [[eucalyptus]] leaves.
* There is a postcard with a [[Koala]] on it in [[Sydney]]. Koala do not live in the cities because of the lack of [[eucalyptus]] leaves.


=== Concepts ===
=== Concepts ===
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=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* [[Robin Hood]] is mentioned.
* [[Robin Hood]] is mentioned.
* [[Hindenburg]] is the president of Germany in [[1934]].
* [[Von Hindenburg]] is the president of Germany in [[1934]].
* Ruth claims to have sold stolen artefacts to [[Aloysius D. Campling]], the [[Estatelands of Salvadori]], [[Les Sourire du Starship Louvre]], [[Jared Jones]] and the [[Braxiatel Collection]].


=== Locations ===
=== Locations ===
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* The Doctor compares [[Legion City]] to [[Tombstone]].
* The Doctor compares [[Legion City]] to [[Tombstone]].
* Hookup apps are used on [[Aztec Moon]].
* Hookup apps are used on [[Aztec Moon]].
* There are numerous [[coffee shop]]s and an [[IMAX]] cinema in [[Sydney]].
* There are numerous [[coffee shop]]s and an [[IMAX]] [[cinema]] in [[Sydney]].


=== References to the real world ===
=== References to the real world ===
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* Keri has gone ice skating with the Doctor on the planet [[K174B]] in another solar system, which is actually an animal that looked like an ice rink, and broke her leg doing it. The Doctor nicknamed the creature [[Torvill and Dean]].
* Keri has gone ice skating with the Doctor on the planet [[K174B]] in another solar system, which is actually an animal that looked like an ice rink, and broke her leg doing it. The Doctor nicknamed the creature [[Torvill and Dean]].
* The Doctor receives a postcard Bernice sent from [[1969]] and from [[Scunthorpe]] in [[1991]]. The Doctor is unsure whether he has ever been to [[Scunthorpe]].
* The Doctor receives a postcard Bernice sent from [[1969]] and from [[Scunthorpe]] in [[1991]]. The Doctor is unsure whether he has ever been to [[Scunthorpe]].
* The Doctor eats [[tomato chocolate]].
* The Doctor is over [[The Doctor's age|2000 years old]].
* The Doctor is over [[The Doctor's age|2000 years old]].
* The Doctor attended a [[Sam Smith]] concert with [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] a couple of months ago, where he obtained a smartphone that he still carries.
* The Doctor attended a [[Sam Smith]] concert with [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] a couple of months ago, where he obtained a smartphone that he still carries.
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* The Doctor mentions [[Sto'Vo'Kor]], the [[Klingon]] afterlife from ''[[Star Trek]]''.
* The Doctor mentions [[Sto'Vo'Kor]], the [[Klingon]] afterlife from ''[[Star Trek]]''.
* The Doctor sees two [[Killoran]] mercenaries getting drunk in the White Rabbit.
* The Doctor sees two [[Killoran]] mercenaries getting drunk in the White Rabbit.
* When Bernice is hit by chronon energy, the Doctor sees the faces of other companions, including [[Clara Oswald]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]], [[River Song]], [[Wilfred Mott]], [[Donna Noble]], [[Martha Jones]], [[Jack Harkness]], [[Mickey Smith]], [[Rose Tyler]], [[Cinder]], [[Molly O'Sullivan]], [[Tamsin Drew]], [[Lucie Miller]], [[C'rizz]], [[Charlotte Pollard]], [[Samson Griffin]], [[Gemma Griffin]], [[Mary Shelley]], [[Grace Holloway]], [[Ace McShane]], [[Hex]], [[Mel Bush]], [[Evelyn Smythe]], and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]].  
* When Bernice is hit by chronon energy, the Doctor sees the faces of other companions, including [[Clara Oswald]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]], [[River Song]], [[Wilfred Mott]], [[Donna Noble]], [[Martha Jones]], [[Jack Harkness]], [[Mickey Smith]], [[Rose Tyler]], [[Cinder]], [[Molly O'Sullivan]], [[Tamsin Drew]], [[Lucie Miller]], [[C'rizz]], [[Charlotte Pollard]], [[Samson Griffin]], [[Gemma Griffin]], [[Mary Shelley]], [[Grace Holloway]], [[Ace|Ace McShane]], [[Hex]], [[Mel Bush]], [[Evelyn Smythe]], and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]].


=== Bernice Summerfield ===
=== Bernice Summerfield ===
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* Bernice thinks the Twelfth Doctor has more of a [[Glasgow|Glaswegian]] [[accent]], but thinks the [[Seventh Doctor]] has more of a [[Highlands]] accent.
* Bernice thinks the Twelfth Doctor has more of a [[Glasgow|Glaswegian]] [[accent]], but thinks the [[Seventh Doctor]] has more of a [[Highlands]] accent.
* Bernice is now in her fifties, and attributes the fact that she looks around 35 due to travelling in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] and using [[time ring]]s.
* Bernice is now in her fifties, and attributes the fact that she looks around 35 due to travelling in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] and using [[time ring]]s.
* Bernice's [[Shimmer]] creates a costume from ''[[Pygmalion]]''.
* Bernice's [[Shimmer]] creates a costume from ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]''.


=== Keri ===
=== Keri ===
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* Keri receives a spam [[email]] from ''[[Galaxy Five's Readers Digest]]''; the Doctor says it is the only remaining print [[magazine]].
* Keri receives a spam [[email]] from ''[[Galaxy Five's Readers Digest]]''; the Doctor says it is the only remaining print [[magazine]].
* The Doctor gives Keri a smartphone that he received as part of a job lot in [[Houston]].
* The Doctor gives Keri a smartphone that he received as part of a job lot in [[Houston]].
=== Foods and beverages ===
* The Doctor eats some cold Hawaiian [[pizza]] and [[tomato chocolate]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
[[File:Big Bang Generation audiobook cover.jpg|thumb|Audiobook cover.]]
* An audiobook was released by [[BBC Audiobooks|BBC Physical Audio]] on [[4 October (releases)|4 October]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]], with music and sound effects, read by [[Lisa Bowerman]].
* Gary Russell states on the endnote page that he originally wanted to use [[River Song]] in the story, but [[Steven Moffat]] told him he did not want the book to conflict with anything that might happen between River and the Twelfth Doctor on television. Moffat suggested he use Bernice Summerfield instead and Russell was delighted by the idea. As it would turn out, Moffat intended for ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'' to be the first and only time the Twelfth Doctor and River met, as it would also be their final adventure together.
* Gary Russell states on the endnote page that he originally wanted to use [[River Song]] in the story, but [[Steven Moffat]] told him he did not want the book to conflict with anything that might happen between River and the Twelfth Doctor on television. Moffat suggested he use Bernice Summerfield instead and Russell was delighted by the idea. As it would turn out, Moffat intended for ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'' to be the first and only time the Twelfth Doctor and River met, as it would also be their final adventure together.
* This is the first New Series Adventures novel to reference characters created for the Big Finish audio dramas (Summerfield having predated that part of the franchise).
* This is the first New Series Adventures novel to reference characters created for the Big Finish audio dramas (Summerfield having predated that part of the franchise).
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* A group of scholars try to get information about the Glamour from the Panopticon archives in the [[Obverse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'')
* A group of scholars try to get information about the Glamour from the Panopticon archives in the [[Obverse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'')
* [[River Song]] is imprisoned in Stormcage Containment Facility. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]/[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[First Night (home video)|First Night]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') She is the archaeologist that the Papal Mainframe expected to arrive, rather than Bernice.
* [[River Song]] is imprisoned in Stormcage Containment Facility. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]/[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[First Night (home video)|First Night]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') She is the archaeologist that the Papal Mainframe expected to arrive, rather than Bernice.
* Keri has had an adventure with the Doctor, [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Luke Smith]] and [[K9 Mark IV]]. The Doctor has met Luke before on a number of occasions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]], [[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]], [[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]], [[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
* Keri has had an adventure with the Doctor, [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Luke Smith]] and [[K9 Mark IV]]. The Doctor has met Luke before on a number of occasions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]], [[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]], [[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* Bernice crosses her handwriting. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
* Bernice crosses her handwriting. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
* The Doctor visited the [[White Rabbit (Legion)|White Rabbit]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'') He muses on the fact there is also a [[White Rabbit (London)|White Rabbit]] that is a [[pub]] on the [[Thames]] Embankment in [[London]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'' et al.) and a bar on [[Bedrock 12]].
* The Doctor visited the [[White Rabbit (Legion)|White Rabbit]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'') He muses on the fact there is also a [[White Rabbit (London)|White Rabbit]] that is a [[pub]] on the [[Thames]] Embankment in [[London]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'' et al.) and a bar on [[Bedrock 12]].
* Bernice says that, as an archaeologist, she is "probably not the one you were expecting". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Defectors (audio story)|The Defectors]]'')
* Bernice says that, as an archaeologist, she is "probably not the one you were expecting". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Defectors (audio story)|The Defectors]]'')
* [[Ruth Leonidas|Ruth]]'s mind was wiped when she attempted to flee from an uprising and has no memory of her life before meeting Bernice. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Temple of Questions (audio story)|The Temple of Questions]]'')
* [[Ruth]]'s mind was wiped when she attempted to flee from an uprising and has no memory of her life before meeting Bernice. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Temple of Questions (audio story)|The Temple of Questions]]'')
* [[Jack McSpringheel|Jack]] met Bernice on a future Earth that looked like [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]], where he was nicknamed [[Spring-heeled Jack]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)|Judgement Day]]'')
* [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] met Bernice on a future Earth that looked like [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]], where he was nicknamed [[Spring-heeled Jack]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)|Judgement Day]]'')
* Benny thinks back to when she first met the [[Seventh Doctor]] on [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], where they encountered the [[Hoothi]]. She was significantly younger then. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') She also thinks of how she has met more than one incarnation of the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]], ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|Benny's Story]]'')
* Benny thinks back to when she first met the [[Seventh Doctor]] on [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], where they encountered the [[Hoothi]]. She was significantly younger then. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') She also thinks of how she has met more than one incarnation of the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|Benny's Story]]'')
* Bernice attributes her youthful looks to using time rings. The Doctor gave Bernice and [[Jason Kane]] time rings for their wedding. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]], ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Walking to Babylon (audio story)|Walking to Babylon]]'', ''[[Birthright (audio story)|Birthright]], [[Just War (audio story)|Just War]], [[Making Myths (audio story)|Making Myths]], [[Closure (audio story)|Closure]]'')
* Bernice attributes her youthful looks to using time rings. The Doctor gave Bernice and [[Jason Kane]] time rings for their wedding. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]], ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Walking to Babylon (audio story)|Walking to Babylon]]'', ''[[Birthright (audio story)|Birthright]]'', ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]'', ''[[Making Myths (audio story)|Making Myths]]'', ''[[Closure (audio story)|Closure]]'')
* Bernice reflects on how she would never have met [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Guy Chisholm|Guy]], [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Irving Braxiatel]] or [[Wolsey]] and would have not have brought [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Joseph (Oh No It Isn't!)|Joseph]], [[Braxiatel Collection|the Collection]], [[Legion (planet)|Legion]] into being without the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Death and Diplomacy (novel)|Death and Diplomacy]]'', ''[[The Squire's Crystal (novel)|The Squire's Crystal]], [[A Question of Identity (short story)|A Question of Identity]], [[Theatre of War (novel)|Theatre of War]]'', ''[[Prelude Human Nature (short story)|Prelude Human Nature]], [[Oh No It Isn't! (novel)|Oh No It Isn't!]]'','' ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Theatre of War (audio story)|Theatre of War]]'', ''[[The Genocide Machine (audio story)|The Genocide Machine]]'')
* Bernice reflects on how she would never have met [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Adrian Wall|Adrian]], [[Guy Chisholm|Guy]], [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]], [[Irving Braxiatel]] or [[Wolsey]] and would have not have brought [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Joseph (Oh No It Isn't!)|Joseph]], [[Braxiatel Collection|the Collection]] or [[Legion (planet)|Legion]] into being without the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Death and Diplomacy (novel)|Death and Diplomacy]]'', ''[[The Squire's Crystal (novel)|The Squire's Crystal]], [[A Question of Identity (short story)|A Question of Identity]], [[Theatre of War (novel)|Theatre of War]]'', ''[[Prelude Human Nature (short story)|Prelude Human Nature]], [[Oh No It Isn't! (novel)|Oh No It Isn't!]]'','' ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Theatre of War (audio story)|Theatre of War]]'', ''[[The Genocide Machine (audio story)|The Genocide Machine]]'')
* When two versions of the same person occupy the same space at the same time, given the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] it usually results in a big bang. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'')
* When two versions of the same person occupy the same space at the same time, given the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] it usually results in a big bang. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'')
* Bernice recalls when her body was controlled by someone else. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Squire's Crystal (novel)|The Squire's Crystal]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenman (audio story)|The Curse of Fenman]]'')
* Bernice recalls when her body was controlled by someone else. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Squire's Crystal (novel)|The Squire's Crystal]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenman (audio story)|The Curse of Fenman]]'')
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* The Doctor remarks on how much older Peter looks than the last time he saw him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[...Be Forgot (short story)|...Be Forgot]]'')
* The Doctor remarks on how much older Peter looks than the last time he saw him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[...Be Forgot (short story)|...Be Forgot]]'')
* Benny's last encounter with the Doctor was on [[Skaro]] with the Seventh Doctor after [[Ace]] stole an Omega device. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lights of Skaro (audio story)|The Lights of Skaro]]'') She would later meet him in his seventh incarnation again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pyramid of Sutekh (audio story)|The Pyramid of Sutekh]]'')
* Benny's last encounter with the Doctor was on [[Skaro]] with the Seventh Doctor after [[Ace]] stole an Omega device. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lights of Skaro (audio story)|The Lights of Skaro]]'') She would later meet him in his seventh incarnation again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pyramid of Sutekh (audio story)|The Pyramid of Sutekh]]'')
* One of the [[Papal Mainframe]] soldiers mentions Colonel [[Octavian (The Time of Angels)|Octavian]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''/''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
* One of the [[Papal Mainframe]] soldiers mentions Colonel [[Octavian (The Time of Angels)|Octavian]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''/''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'')
* The Doctor tells Bernice that [[Gallifrey]] is missing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') He says he is unable to find his family.
* The Doctor tells Bernice that [[Gallifrey]] is missing. ([[TV]]: {{Cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor}}) He says he is unable to find his family.
* Bernice says that she will never forget how the Doctor was there for her after [[Guy de Carnac]] died. The Doctor says that every time he visits [[France]] he thinks of him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sanctuary (novel)|Sanctuary]], ''AUDIO: ''[[The Scapegoat (audio story)|The Scapegoat]]'', ''[[The Monster of Montmartre (audio story)|The Monster of Montmartre]]'','' ''[[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')
* The Doctor also tells Bernice that Gallifrey had been destroyed ([[COMIC]]: {{Cs|Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks}}, [[PROSE]]: [[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]) but that he had later rewritten history to save it. ([[TV]]: {{Cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor}})
* Bernice says that she will never forget how the Doctor was there for her after [[Guy de Carnac]] died. The Doctor says that every time he visits [[France]] he thinks of him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sanctuary (novel)|Sanctuary]], ''AUDIO: ''[[The Scapegoat (audio story)|The Scapegoat]]'', ''[[The Monster of Montmartre (audio story)|The Monster of Montmartre]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')
* [[Stacy Townsend]] and [[Ssard]] are briefly seen celebrating their eighteenth wedding anniversary. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'')
* [[Stacy Townsend]] and [[Ssard]] are briefly seen celebrating their eighteenth wedding anniversary. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'')
* Peter uses a [[Deindum]] maser. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escaping the Future (audio story)|Escaping the Future]]'')
* Peter uses a [[Deindum]] maser. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escaping the Future (audio story)|Escaping the Future]]'')
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* The Doctor is fond of the [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror of the Sontarans (audio story)|Terror of the Sontarans]]'')
* The Doctor is fond of the [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror of the Sontarans (audio story)|Terror of the Sontarans]]'')
* Peter identifies as [[gay]] and is single. He remembers having a romance with a slave named [[Antonio Tulloch]] on [[Bastion]] who died, and feels a lot of grief because of this. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenman (audio story)|The Curse of Fenman]]'') 
* Peter identifies as [[gay]] and is single. He remembers having a romance with a slave named [[Antonio Tulloch]] on [[Bastion]] who died, and feels a lot of grief because of this. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenman (audio story)|The Curse of Fenman]]'') 
* There are clones of [[Arthur Candy|Professor Candy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Continuity Errors (short story)|Continuity Errors]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') 
* There are clones of [[Arthur Candy|Professor Candy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Continuity Errors (short story)|Continuity Errors]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* The shop and the group uses a [[Shimmer]] to disguise themselves in Sydney in 2015. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') 
* The shop and the group use a [[Shimmer]] to disguise themselves in Sydney in 2015. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') 
* Kik wears a pair of sunglasses the Doctor once owned in a previous incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') 
* Ruth wears a pair of sunglasses the Doctor once owned in a previous incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') 
* The Doctor mentions [[Garron|the man]] who sold the [[Sydney Opera House]] to five different people. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'')
* Bernice and Keri talk about the Planet of the Hats. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'') 
* Bernice and Keri talk about the Planet of the Hats. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'') 
== Additional cover images ==
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== Editions published outside Britain ==
* Published in the USA by Broadway Books in 2015 as a paperback edition.
* Published in Italy by Armenia in 2016 as a paperback edition.
* Published in Germany by Cross Cult in 2016 as a paperback edition.
* Published in the Czech Republic by Jota in 2017 as a hardback edition.
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AmericanBigBangGeneration.jpg|US edition
ItalianBigBangGeneration.jpg|Italian edition
GermanBigBangGeneration.jpg|German edition
CzechBigBangGeneration.jpg|Czech edition
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== Audiobook ==
* This novel was released as an audiobook on [[4 October (releases)|4 October]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Lisa Bowerman]].
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Big Bang Generation audiobook cover.jpg|Audiobook cover
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== External links ==
== External links ==
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* {{whoniverse|ns59|Big Bang Generation}}
* [https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/bigbanggeneration.htm The Cloister Library: '''Big Bang Generation''']


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Latest revision as of 18:17, 3 November 2024

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Big Bang Generation was the sixtieth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Gary Russell and featured the Twelfth Doctor and Bernice Summerfield.

It was the second entry in The Glamour Chronicles series, published in September 2015.

Notably, it marked the first official time that Benny met an incarnation of the Doctor from the revived series.

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

"I'm an archaeologist, but probably not the one you were expecting."

Christmas 2015, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Imagine everyone's surprise when a time portal opens up in Sydney Cove. Imagine their shock as a massive pyramid now sits beside the Harbour Bridge, inconveniently blocking Port Jackson and glowing with energy. Imagine their fear as Cyrrus "the mobster" Globb, Professor Horace Jaanson and an alien assassin called Kik arrive to claim the glowing pyramid. Finally imagine everyone's dismay when they are followed by a bunch of con artists out to spring their greatest grift yet.

This gang consists of Legs (the sexy comedian), Dog Boy (providing protection and firepower), Shortie (handling logistics), Da Trowel (in charge of excavation and history) and their leader, Doc (busy making sure the universe isn't destroyed in an explosion that makes the Big Bang look like a damp squib).

And when someone accidentally reawakens the Ancients of the Universe — which, Doc reckons, wasn't the wisest or best-judged of actions — things get a whole lot more complicated...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

After receiving a message from Keri asking him to meet her at the White Rabbit, the Doctor arrives in Legion City and learns that she believes that she was invited there by him, producing a series of postcards as evidence. He gets a text inviting him to Sydney in 2015 and, after giving a superphone to Keri and having his sonic screwdriver stolen, he departs for Earth.

In the late 51st century, Colonel Sadkin and Professor Horace Janson request the services of River Song, but the Stormcage Containment Facility reject the request. They are instead joined by Benny, Peter, Ruth and Jack, who were transported from the 27th century by a stone given to Benny by her future self from a time eddy in which she and her friends are stuck. They put most of the team to sleep with Peter's knock-out patches before realising that Jaanson has wandered off; they watch him promise copies of the Glamour to Cyrrus Globb and Kik, criminals sent on behalf of the Headless Monks.

Kik notices Benny and holds her at swordpoint. Benny presents the stone that she has, a shard of the Glamour, and they use it to enter the Pyramid Eternia to find the time portal of the Ancients of the Universe. Inside the portal stands ghostly versions of herself, Peter, Ruth and Jack, scattered through time and sending messages to the Doctor to come and save them. Her Peter, Ruth and Jack are captured as well, but they all manage to get free and find themselves merged with their future selves when they true to use the Blinovitch Limitation Effect to release them. When Benny merges with herself, the entire pyramid vanishes.

In Sydney, the Doctor is accosted by Ruth and Peter and told to meet Jack at a café which, by the time he reaches it, is called the White Rabbit. He meets Benny, who counts down the seconds until the Pyramid Eternia appears. To return the pyramid and everybody transported back to the 21st century, they learn from Keri's search on GalWiki where the Glamour is in 2015 and go back in time in the TARDIS to 1934 to ensure that Tomas G. Schneidter finds it. He does so, but his wife, Roderika, shoots him and it falls to the floor, erasing her and Tomas's men from time.

Returning to 2015 with a spare sonic screwdriver, Benny and the Doctor go with Peter, Ruth and Jack to the Power Station museum and steal the Glamour. Jaanson jumps at it and is erased from time, as are his ancestors and descendants. Time dies and the Doctor meets the Ancients, whom he is able to convince to restore the universe. He finds the Glamour before it had ever been touched by a non-Ancient and returns it to them, erasing anything that ever happened as a result of their technology, after which he is returned to Legion with his TARDIS. Peter returns the screwdriver that was stolen from him.

Benny has the Doctor take her to her future self to warn her not to dig up the shard of the Glamour. Future Benny agrees not to and blows the place up before returning to Legion City with Peter, Ruth and Jack in the Irverfield. She catches a glimpse of the TARDIS as it dematerialises and wishes the Doctor happy landings, whatever face he has.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Postcards[[edit] | [edit source]]

Concepts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

References to the real world[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Bernice Summerfield[[edit] | [edit source]]

Keri[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Gary Russell states on the endnote page that he originally wanted to use River Song in the story, but Steven Moffat told him he did not want the book to conflict with anything that might happen between River and the Twelfth Doctor on television. Moffat suggested he use Bernice Summerfield instead and Russell was delighted by the idea. As it would turn out, Moffat intended for The Husbands of River Song to be the first and only time the Twelfth Doctor and River met, as it would also be their final adventure together.
  • This is the first New Series Adventures novel to reference characters created for the Big Finish audio dramas (Summerfield having predated that part of the franchise).
  • All of the chapter titles are songs by British band Duran Duran (one song from each studio album, except "Rio" and including the unreleased "Reportage"). Additionally, the names of two Duran Duran side projects, Arcadia and the Power Station, are used as names for a hotel and a museum in Australia, and Medazzaland, an album title, is used as the name of a planet.
  • Bernice says that she comes from "another time, another world" and was "born in the 26th century", alluding to Susan's dialogue from "The Pilot Episode".
  • The Doctor mentions Time Squids and the Crinis, monsters from the Doctor Who Experience Interactive Story that ran from 2014 to 2017.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Additional cover images[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Textless cover art

    Textless cover art

Editions published outside Britain[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Published in the USA by Broadway Books in 2015 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in Italy by Armenia in 2016 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in Germany by Cross Cult in 2016 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in the Czech Republic by Jota in 2017 as a hardback edition.
  • AmericanBigBangGeneration.jpg

    US edition

  • ItalianBigBangGeneration.jpg

    Italian edition

  • GermanBigBangGeneration.jpg

    German edition

  • CzechBigBangGeneration.jpg

    Czech edition

Audiobook[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Audiobook cover

    Audiobook cover

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

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