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|image = Eater of Wasps.jpg
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|range= BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
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|number in range = 45
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|series = [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]
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|doctor = Eighth Doctor
|doctor = Eighth Doctor
|companions= [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]], [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]]
|companions= [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]], [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]]
|enemy = [[Time Commando]]s
|enemy = Possessed [[wasp]]s, [[Charles Rigby]]
|setting = [[Marpling]], [[England]], [[27 August]] [[1933]]
|setting = [[Marpling]], [[England]], [[27 August|27]]–[[28 August]] [[1933]]
|writer = [[Trevor Baxendale]]
|writer = Trevor Baxendale
|publisher = BBC Books
|publisher = BBC Books
|release date = [[7 May (releases)|7 May]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]
|release date = 7 May 2001
|format = Paperback Book; 36 Chapters, 288 Pages
|format = Paperback Book; 36 Chapters, 288 Pages
|isbn = ISBN 0-563-53832-5
|isbn = ISBN 0-563-53832-5
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* [[Margaret Havers]]
* [[Margaret Havers]]
* [[Liam Jarrow]]
* [[Liam Jarrow]]
* [[Fordyke]]
* [[Ernest Fordyke]]
* [[Gleave]]
* [[Roger Gleave]]
* [[Gwen Carlton]]
* [[Gwen Carlton]]
* [[Jacobs (Eater of Wasps)|Jacobs]]
* [[Jacobs (Eater of Wasps)|Jacobs]]
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* [[Tom Carlton]]
* [[Tom Carlton]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor, Anji and Liam board a train from [[Marpling Halt]].
* The Doctor, Anji and Liam board a train from [[Marpling Halt]].
* The Doctor describes [[bio‐psionic]] force.
* The Doctor describes [[bio‐psionic]] force.
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The origin of the psi-weapon and the [[Time Agency|Time Agents]] is revealed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Emotional Chemistry]]''. They are the same Time Agents mentioned by [[Magnus Greel]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''.
* The origin of the psi-weapon and the [[Time Agency|Time Agents]] is revealed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Emotional Chemistry (novel)|Emotional Chemistry]]''. They are the same Time Agents mentioned by [[Magnus Greel]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''.
* A flashback in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Year of Intelligent Tigers]]'' reveals that the Doctor learned of the attack on the [[train]] from a newspaper report during his exile on Earth, and that he intended to investigate the mysterious events one day.
* A flashback in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)|The Year of Intelligent Tigers]]'' reveals that the Doctor learned of the attack on the [[train]] from a newspaper report during his exile on Earth, and that he intended to investigate the mysterious events one day.
* While examining the Doctor's pockets, Kala, Jode and Fatboy discover the note that [[Mary Minett]] wrote the Doctor in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Casualties of War (novel)|Casualties of War]]'', which the Doctor has kept his pocket since [[1918]].
* While examining the Doctor's pockets, Kala, Jode and Fatboy discover the note that [[Mary Minett]] wrote the Doctor in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Casualties of War (novel)|Casualties of War]]'', which the Doctor has kept his pocket since [[1918]].
* In [[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures]]'', the Doctor meets a time agent from Kala's era, gone rogue and working for his enemy [[Sabbath]], who reveals that Kala comes from the [[49th century]].
* In [[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'', the Doctor meets a time agent from Kala's era, gone rogue and working for his enemy [[Sabbath]], who reveals that Kala comes from the [[49th century]].
* The Doctor hums an aria from ''[[Madame Butterfly]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
* The Doctor hums an aria from ''[[Madame Butterfly]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')


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Eater of Wasps was the forty-fifth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Trevor Baxendale, released 7 May 2001 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

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The TARDIS lands in the sleepy English village of Marpling, as calm and peaceful as any other village in the 1930s. Or so it would seem at first glance. But the village is about to get a rude awakening.

The Doctor and his friends discover they aren't the only time-travellers in the area: a crack commando team is also prowling the Wiltshire countryside, charged with the task of recovering an appallingly dangerous artefact from the far future — and they have orders to destroy the entire area, should anything go wrong.

And then there are the wasps... mutant killers bringing terror and death in equal measure. What is their purpose? How can they be stopped? And who will be their next victim?

In the race to stop the horror that has been unleashed, the Doctor must outwit both the temporal hit squad, who want him out of the way, and the local police — who want him for murder.

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