The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)

The Year of Intelligent Tigers
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Fitz, Anji
Main enemy:	Hitchemus Tigers, Hitchemus colonists
Main setting:	Port Any, Hitchemus, 22nd century
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Kate Orman
Release details
Release number:	46
Release date:	4 June 2001
Format:	Paperback Book; 18 Chapters, 277 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53831-7
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
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The Year of Intelligent Tigers was the forty-sixth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Kate Orman, released 4 June 2001 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher's summary

"Doctor!" said Anji. This couldn't be happening, he couldn't just walk out on them! "Look, give them a chance, they're frightened, they're only —"

"Human?" The Doctor took a deep breath, as though to stop himself from saying anything more. "Now, stay!"

The weather is going to hell. The tigers are coming to town. And the Doctor has taken his violin and vanished.

The island world of Hitchemus is home to a colony of musicians and seemingly harmless alien animals. When the storms and the tigers break loose, the Doctor tries to protect the humans — but the humans don't want him. When he ventures into the wilderness in search of the tigers' secrets, Fitz and Anji find themselves on their own, trying to prevent a war.

With both sides eager for blood, and hurricanes on the horizon, the Doctor must decide whether this time he's on the side of the human race.

Chapter titles

First Verse

• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Break: 1935

First Chorus

• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five

Solo

• Chapter Six

Second Verse

• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• Chapters Nine Ten Eleven Twelve

Second Chorus

• Chapter Thirteen
• Chapter Fourteen

Bridge

• Break: 1962
• Chapter Fifteen

Third Verse

• Chapter Sixteen
• Chapter Seventeen
• Chapter Eighteen

Coda

• Chapter Nineteen

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Fitz Kreiner
• Anji Kapoor
• Karl Sadeghi
• Ajamu Quick
• Besma Grieve
• Hitchemus Tigers:
  • Chew You
  • Bounce
  • Longbody
  • Big

Worldbuilding

• The sonic screwdriver is mentioned.
• The Vocoder is used by the Hitchemus tigers to enable them to create speech.
• Gidi and Lvan are Earth colonies. Chi Bootis is the closest Earth colony to Hitchemus.
• The Doctor mentions Lorenzo Smitt and Felix Pink as people he knows that have died.

Notes

• Anji is able to essentially "ignore" the TARDIS's attempts to translate the language of the tigers due to her inability to accept that the tigers are sentient in themselves.

Art by Roger Langridge from DWM 307

• This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
• A short story sequel to this novel, called The Caterpillar Room and also written by Kate Orman, was published in Obverse Books' charity anthology A Second Target for Tommy.

Reprint

• BBC Books announced that a "print on demand" reprint edition of this novel would be made available as of 30 September 2011 as the imprint revisited adventures featuring the first eight Doctors.

Continuity

• Power mad triplets (PROSE: EarthWorld) and killer wasps (PROSE: Eater of Wasps) are mentioned.
• Fitz remembers Maddy and living in 1967. (PROSE: Revolution Man)
• The Doctor carries a picture of Miranda in his wallet. (PROSE: Father Time)
• The Doctor's hair grows faster than that of a human. (PROSE: Fear Itself)
• Fitz uses his name of Fitz Fortune. (PROSE: EarthWorld)
• In the flashback to his exile on Earth, in 1935, the Doctor has saved a newspaper clipping about “a cloud of wasps attacking a train near Arandale”. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps) He intends to follow up on it one day.

External links

• The Year of Intelligent Tigers at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Year of Intelligent Tigers at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: The Year of Intelligent Tigers
• Interview: Jonathan Blum