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novel name= Interference: Book Two (Hour of the Geek) |
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series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] |
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number= 26 |
{{Infobox Story SMW
doctor=[[Eighth Doctor]] |
|image = Interference Book Two.jpg
companions= [[Samantha Jones| Sam Jones]], [[Fitz Kreiner]] |
|range= BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
enemy= [[Faction Paradox|The Faction Paradox]]<br/>[[The Remote]] |
|number in range = 26
year= [[Earth]], [[1996]]|
|doctor = Eighth Doctor
writer= [[Lawrence Miles]] |
|companions = [[Sam Jones|Sam]], [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]]
publisher= [[BBC Books]] |
|featuring = Third Doctor
release date= August, 1999 |
|featuring2 = Sarah Jane Smith
format= Paperback Book, --- Pages |
|featuring3 = Compassion
isbn= ISBN 0 563 55582 3|
|featuring4 = Jeremy Fitzoliver
previous story= [[Interference: Book One (Shock Tactic)]]|
|enemy = [[Faction Paradox]], the [[Remote]]
next story= [[The Blue Angel]]}}
|setting = {{il|[[England]], [[1996]]|[[Saudi Arabia]], [[1996]]|[[Anathema]], [[1996]], [[1799]]-[[1801]]|[[Dust (planet)|Foreman's World]], [[38th century]]}}
|writer = Lawrence Miles
|publisher = BBC Books
|cover = [[Black Sheep]]
|release date = 2 August 1999
|format = Paperback Book; 27 Chapters, 314 Pages
|isbn = ISBN 0-563-55582-3
|series=''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]''
|prev = Interference - Book One (novel)
|series2=[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]
|number= 26
|prev2= Interference - Book One (novel)
|next2= The Blue Angel (novel)
}}{{prose stub}}
'''''Interference - Book Two (The Hour of the Geek)''''' was the second volume of [[Lawrence Miles]]' two-part [[multi-Doctor story|multi-Doctor]] novel ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]''. Like the first volume, it was released by [[BBC Books]] on [[2 August (releases)|2 August]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]] and featured the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] and [[Third Doctor]]s alongside their companions [[Sam Jones]], [[Fitz Kreiner]], and [[Sarah Jane Smith]].


==Publisher's Summary==
This was the final book to feature Sam Jones as a regular companion, and it includes one of the only prose-based [[regeneration]]s of the Doctor.
''They call it the Dead Frontier. It’s as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.''


But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown. The past is meeting the present, cause is meeting effect, and the TARDIS crew is about to be caught in the crossfire.
== Publisher's summary ==
''They call it the [[Dead Frontier]]. It's as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.''


The Third Doctor. The Eighth Doctor. Sam. Fitz. Sarah Jane Smith. Soon, one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one of them will be something less than human...  
But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on [[Earth]] in [[1996]], where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown. The past is meeting the present, cause is meeting effect, and [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] crew is about to be caught in the crossfire.


==Characters==
The [[Third Doctor]]. The [[Eighth Doctor]]. [[Sam Jones|Sam]]. [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]]. [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. Soon, one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one of them will be something less than human...
[[Eighth Doctor]]


[[Third Doctor]]
== Plot ==
* Is infected with a [[Faction Virus]].
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* Is shot and regenerates on [[Dust (planet) | Dust).


[[Samantha Jones | Sam Jones]]
== Characters ==
* Stays with Sarah Jane Smith.
=== What Happened on Earth (Part Two) ===
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Sam Jones]]
* [[Fitz Kreiner]]
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
* [[K9 Mark III]]
* [[Kode]]
* [[Compassion]]
* [[Nathaniel Guest]]
* [[Laura Tobin]]
* {{Fonda|n=Special scientific advisor}}


[[Fitz Kreiner]]
=== What Happened on Dust (Part Two) ===
* Joins the [[Faction Paradox]], and ends up becoming [[Father Kreiner]].
* [[Third Doctor]]
* Is restored by the TARDIS using a [[remembrance tank]].
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
* [[Magdelana Bishop]]
* [[I.M. Foreman]]
* [[Father Kreiner]]


[[Sarah Jane Smith]]
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Books ===
* Kode reads ''[[Genetic Politics Beyond the Third Zone|Genetic Politics Beyond the Thirdzone]]'' while in the TARDIS.
* Sarah finds a magazine in the TARDIS called ''[[House and TARDIS]]''.
* The Doctor tries to read ''[[The Time Machine]]'' once an incarnation.


[[K-9 | K9]]
=== The Doctor ===
* When the Doctor was younger, some of his friends learnt the skill of [[internal chronometry]].
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] spends ten days trapped in [[Saudi Arabia]].
* The [[Third Doctor]] is shot by Magdelana Bishop with a shotgun and regenerates on Dust. In the process, not only is his history altered, but he is infected by Faction Paradox's [[biodata]] virus.


[[Father Kreiner]]
=== The Doctor's items ===
* Is who Fitz Kreiner became after a century (or more) in the [[Faction Paradox]].
* There's a street aboard the TARDIS along which several thousand volumes of the [[TARDIS Instruction Manual]] are kept.
* Had a [[dwarf star alloy]] glove.


[[Kode]]
=== Drugs and medicines ===
* Is what Fitz Kriener became after a century or re-remembering.
* Kode smokes [[cigarette]]s while on Earth but isn't quite sure why.
[[Compassion]]


[[Guest]]
=== Faction Paradox ===
* The ''Justinian'' was the ship that originally brought the first settlers to [[Ordifica]]. It was used by the [[Faction Paradox]] to take them away from the colony prior to its destruction by the [[High Council]].
::[[Laura Tobin]], [[Nathaniel Guest|Guest]] and [[Fitz Kreiner]] were all together on this ship.
* The ''Justinian'' is sent via a [[time jump]] to the late [[18th century]]: Anathema in 1799.
* The Faction Paradox leaves [[biosphere manipulation]] technology with the Remote in 1799.
* A [[Faction Warship]] (created from the body of a [[Dæmon]]) travels to the planet [[Dust (planet)|Dust]] to deliver the [[Biodata virus|Faction virus]] and watch as events unfold there.


[[Magdalena]]
=== Gallifrey ===
* Shoots the third Doctor.
* The [[Seal of Rassilon]] is an omniscate.
* Merges with Number 13 and the planet Dust.


[[I.M. Foreman | I.M. Foreman (Gallifreyan)]]
=== Gallifreyan technology ===
* [[The Cold (Interference)|The Cold]] is the Time Lord warship's computer system. By releasing it, it detonates the ship (which is a planet-sized bomb) and therefore destroys the Earth.
* During one of the narrative constructs Sam experiences in the Media, the Doctor mentions a [[time ring]].


==References==
=== Individual Gallifreyans and Time Lords ===
* [[UNIT]] call the Doctor to Earth via the [[Space Time Telegraph]].
* [[Regeneration]] away from a [[TARDIS]] is slow and clumsy.


* Fitz is placed in [[The Cold]] and is not removed until some time in the future on the colony [[Ordifica]], he escapes when the colony is attacked with the [[Faction Paradox]] and joins [[The Remote]].
=== Groups ===
* [[The Enemy]] came from [[Earth]] originally.


* [[Anathema]] is situated on the side of a giant warship which has spent over a century travelling through space towards Earth.
=== Individuals ===
* Sam mentions wanting to see Fitz, saying, "We did have [[sex]] and everything," though adding, "It was a parallel-universe-alternative-reality kind of thing."
* The {{Fonda}} makes a brief appearance in Sarah's ''[[Seeing Eye]]'' documentary as UNIT's [[scientific advisor|special scientific advisor]].
* [[Fitz Kreiner]] joins the [[Faction Paradox]] and ends up becoming [[Father Kreiner]].
* Kode is restored by the TARDIS using a [[remembrance tank]] to become what the TARDIS remembered Fitz to be.
* The Doctor bought Sarah her stuffed owl at a jumble sale in [[Brighton]] in [[1948]].
* Sarah can't remember [[Third Doctor|the Doctor's]] regeneration properly.
* Sarah isn't sure if she was on [[Dust (planet)|Dust]].
* Sarah reflects on the two incidents where she met the Doctor (or the things related to the Doctor) in [[1983]] and [[1995]].
* After leaving [[Ordifica]], Nathaniel Guest goes by the name of Guest while on [[Earth]].
* [[Laura Tobin]] used to crack her knuckles. She gave Fitz the nickname "code-boy".
* [[Father Kreiner]] is who Fitz Kreiner became after a century (or more) with the [[Faction Paradox]] and the Remote.


* [[Quiescia]] is in the same system as [[Ordifica]].
=== Locations ===
* The Doctor's TARDIS was left in the city of [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]].
* [[Anathema]] is the Remote's city, located on the side of a Time Lord warship.


* [[The Cold]] may be composed of something similar to [[Validium]].
=== Objects ===
* Father Kreiner has a glove made of [[dwarf star alloy]].


* A [[Faction Warship]] (created from the body of a [[Daemon]]) travels to the planet [[Dust (planet | Dust]] to deliver the [[Faction Virus]] and watch as events unfold there.
=== Planets ===
* I.M. Foreman's show once stopped off on [[New Mars]].
* I.M. Foreman's favourite planet is [[Mars]].


* There are some enlightening ideas/images/narrative exploring elements of [[Rassilon]], [[Ancient Gallifrey]], the war against the [[vampires]].
=== Species ===
* Sarah's memories of the Doctor are a bit fuzzy. She keeps getting her [[Krynoid]]s mixed up with her [[Pescaton]]s.


* [[I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show | I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show]] is a complex space-time event.
=== TARDIS ===
* The Doctor discusses [[I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show|I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show]].


* The [[Eighth Doctor]] talks with [[I.M. Foreman | I.M. Foreman (Gallifreyan)]] attempting to get events straight in his mind.
=== Technology ===
* [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] picked up a mask of James Stewart at the Grand Festival of Zymymys Midamor. It's made of a [[memory polymer]].
* The Remote's receivers pump active temporal [[biodata]] into the colonists bodies.
* The Cold is probably [[validium]] based.
* Sarah used the Remote's "[[TARDIS tracker]]" to find [[the Doctor's TARDIS]].
* [[Faction Paradox]] warships are made from the bones of [[Dæmon]]s.
* [[Sam Jones]] gets put in the [[Media]].
* [[K9 Mark III]] is made out of a [[ZX-81]].


==Continuity==
=== Theories and concepts ===
[[Revenge of the Cybermen]], [[Seeing I]],
* Sarah mentions the "[[Blinovitch Limitation Effect|Blinovitch Limitation wotsit]]."


* [[Alien Bodies]] was the first appearance of the Faction Paradox.
=== Dates ===
* Anathema [[1799]] is out of reach by the High Council.
* Between 1799 and [[1800]] the Remote build the transmission tower on Anathema.
* By [[1801]] on Anathema Fitz and the rest of the Remote are sterile.
* The [[20th century]] is when [[Earth]] starts to turn itself into a major galactic power.
* The events on [[Dust (planet)|Dust]] occur a thousand years after the fall of the [[Earth Empire]].


* Sam was put through the emotional and temporal wringer in [[Unnatural History]].
=== Vehicles ===
* The Doctor has an S-reg [[Mini Metro]] parked in the [[TARDIS console room]] to replace his destroyed [[Volkswagen Beetle]].


* At the end of [[Autumn Mist]] Sam told the Doctor she wanted to go home.
== Notes ==
* This novel is notable for being the only novel to outright change the circumstances of one of the Doctor's regenerations, with the [[Third Doctor]] dying on [[Dust (planet)|Dust]], instead of [[Earth]]. While it was made clear that most of the Doctor's timeline after the change proceeded as normal, the effects the change had on the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', were not made clear. [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'' implies that the Doctor's involvement was averted, as the [[Eighth Doctor]] encountered spiders aboard [[The Edifice (The Ancestor Cell)|the Edifice]], and had the feeling he should fear them, but didn't know why. Fortunately, thanks to the events in ''The Ancestor Cell'', the original timeline was restored, with the Third Doctor never being diverted to Dust. This has the effect of leaving the true version of events on the planet, involving [[I.M. Foreman]], unknown.


* The novel / story is continued from [[Interference: Book One (Shock Tactic)]].  
== Continuity ==
* Sam reflects that the Doctor has told her the 'real' story of [[Jack the Ripper]], a possible reference to the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]''.
* Sarah recalls being poisoned by the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
* The Doctor recalls and compares his imprisonment to his experiences in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'' was the first appearance of the Faction Paradox.
* Sam found out her life was stage-managed by the Faction Paradox and that a (sort of) alternate version of herself had sex with Fitz in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]''.
* At the end of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Autumn Mist (novel)|Autumn Mist]]'' Sam told the Doctor the next time the TARDIS landed on Earth close to her time she would be leaving him.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'' is the next novel and the first novel to show Compassion as a genuine companion.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'' brings all that happens in this novel (and those in between) to a conclusion.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'' introduces [[validium]].
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' attempts to explain / re-interpret many of the events that lead up to and followed this novel.
* Sarah mentions mixing up Pescatons and Krynoids. They are from [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Pescatons (audio story)|Doctor Who and the Pescatons]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom (TV story)|The Seeds of Doom]]''.
* The two events Sarah remembers from [[1983]] and [[1995]] are [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]'' respectfully.
* The dialogue "Drop the sonic device, Time Lord," is a reference to [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]''.
* There are some references to the Time Lords escaping to a universe in a bottle which is seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]''.
* During Iris Wildthyme's interview she mentions a "space wheel" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'') and people in Geneva wanting to put bases on the Moon, which would come to pass in [[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'' and ''[[The Seeds of Death (TV story)|The Seeds of Death]]''.
* Sarah and Sam swap companion stories, just as Rose and Sarah do in [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]''.
* Before the Third Doctor regenerates, he says the same thing he did in [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'': "A tear, Sarah Jane?"
* The Doctor promises Sarah that he will attend her wedding, something he does in [[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''.
* The Time Lord warship on which Anathema is built features briefly in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'' when [[Voran]] suggest using it to destroy [[the Needle]].
* The Doctor tells Sarah that she should see [[K9 Mark IV]]. Eventually, in [[2007]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] will leave Mark IV to Sarah following the destruction of her Mark III. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'')


* [[The Blue Angel]] is the next novel and the first novel to show Compassion as a genuine companion.
== External links ==
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* [[Silver Nemesis]] shows validium and exactly what it is.
 
* [[The Gallifrey Chronicles]] attempts to explain / re-interpret many of the events that lead up to and followed this novel.
 
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Interference - Book Two (The Hour of the Geek) was the second volume of Lawrence Miles' two-part multi-Doctor novel Interference. Like the first volume, it was released by BBC Books on 2 August 1999 and featured the Eighth and Third Doctors alongside their companions Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, and Sarah Jane Smith.

This was the final book to feature Sam Jones as a regular companion, and it includes one of the only prose-based regenerations of the Doctor.

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

They call it the Dead Frontier. It's as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.

But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown. The past is meeting the present, cause is meeting effect, and the TARDIS crew is about to be caught in the crossfire.

The Third Doctor. The Eighth Doctor. Sam. Fitz. Sarah Jane Smith. Soon, one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one of them will be something less than human...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Interference (novel)

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

What Happened on Earth (Part Two)[[edit] | [edit source]]

What Happened on Dust (Part Two)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Books[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

  • When the Doctor was younger, some of his friends learnt the skill of internal chronometry.
  • The Eighth Doctor spends ten days trapped in Saudi Arabia.
  • The Third Doctor is shot by Magdelana Bishop with a shotgun and regenerates on Dust. In the process, not only is his history altered, but he is infected by Faction Paradox's biodata virus.

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

Drugs and medicines[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Kode smokes cigarettes while on Earth but isn't quite sure why.

Faction Paradox[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Justinian was the ship that originally brought the first settlers to Ordifica. It was used by the Faction Paradox to take them away from the colony prior to its destruction by the High Council.
Laura Tobin, Guest and Fitz Kreiner were all together on this ship.

Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifreyan technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Cold is the Time Lord warship's computer system. By releasing it, it detonates the ship (which is a planet-sized bomb) and therefore destroys the Earth.
  • During one of the narrative constructs Sam experiences in the Media, the Doctor mentions a time ring.

Individual Gallifreyans and Time Lords[[edit] | [edit source]]

Groups[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Sam mentions wanting to see Fitz, saying, "We did have sex and everything," though adding, "It was a parallel-universe-alternative-reality kind of thing."
  • The "Jane Fonda" Iris makes a brief appearance in Sarah's Seeing Eye documentary as UNIT's special scientific advisor.
  • Fitz Kreiner joins the Faction Paradox and ends up becoming Father Kreiner.
  • Kode is restored by the TARDIS using a remembrance tank to become what the TARDIS remembered Fitz to be.
  • The Doctor bought Sarah her stuffed owl at a jumble sale in Brighton in 1948.
  • Sarah can't remember the Doctor's regeneration properly.
  • Sarah isn't sure if she was on Dust.
  • Sarah reflects on the two incidents where she met the Doctor (or the things related to the Doctor) in 1983 and 1995.
  • After leaving Ordifica, Nathaniel Guest goes by the name of Guest while on Earth.
  • Laura Tobin used to crack her knuckles. She gave Fitz the nickname "code-boy".
  • Father Kreiner is who Fitz Kreiner became after a century (or more) with the Faction Paradox and the Remote.

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor's TARDIS was left in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • Anathema is the Remote's city, located on the side of a Time Lord warship.

Objects[[edit] | [edit source]]

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • I.M. Foreman's show once stopped off on New Mars.
  • I.M. Foreman's favourite planet is Mars.

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Sarah's memories of the Doctor are a bit fuzzy. She keeps getting her Krynoids mixed up with her Pescatons.

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Theories and concepts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dates[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Anathema 1799 is out of reach by the High Council.
  • Between 1799 and 1800 the Remote build the transmission tower on Anathema.
  • By 1801 on Anathema Fitz and the rest of the Remote are sterile.
  • The 20th century is when Earth starts to turn itself into a major galactic power.
  • The events on Dust occur a thousand years after the fall of the Earth Empire.

Vehicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This novel is notable for being the only novel to outright change the circumstances of one of the Doctor's regenerations, with the Third Doctor dying on Dust, instead of Earth. While it was made clear that most of the Doctor's timeline after the change proceeded as normal, the effects the change had on the events of TV: Planet of the Spiders, were not made clear. PROSE: The Ancestor Cell implies that the Doctor's involvement was averted, as the Eighth Doctor encountered spiders aboard the Edifice, and had the feeling he should fear them, but didn't know why. Fortunately, thanks to the events in The Ancestor Cell, the original timeline was restored, with the Third Doctor never being diverted to Dust. This has the effect of leaving the true version of events on the planet, involving I.M. Foreman, unknown.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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