Paradox Lost (novel)

Paradox Lost
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Amy, Rory
Featuring:	Archibald Angelchrist
Main enemy:	The Squall
Main setting:	London, 1910 and 2789
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	George Mann
Read by:	Nicholas Briggs
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Release number:	48
Release date:	23 June 2011
Format:	Hardcover, 238 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84990-235-9
BBC New Series Adventures
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Paradox Lost was the forty-eighth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by George Mann and featured the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

Publisher's summary

"The Squall feed on psychic energy. They spread like a plague and if they are not stopped they will strip the Earth clean..."

London 1910: an unsuspecting thief finds himself confronted by grey-skinned creatures that are waiting to devour his mind. London 2789: the remains of an ancient android are dredged from the Thames. When reactivated it has a warning that can only be delivered to a man named "the Doctor".

The Doctor and his friends must solve a mystery that has spanned over a thousand years. If they fail, the deadly alien Squall will devour the world.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Edgar Miller
• The Squall
• Eleventh Doctor
• Rory Williams
• Amy Pond
• Patricia Young
• Arven
• Professor Archibald Angelchrist
• Professor Celestine Gradius

Worldbuilding

• While fleeing the Squall in a car, the Doctor says that he "hasn't had this much fun since Bessie."
• Professor Angelchrist reads records of previous incarnations of the Doctor, describing a "tall, thin man with long hair and a frock coat", a man with"teeth and curls" and "a long woollen scarf", a man who wore a "leather jacket" and "spoke with a Northern accent", and a man clad in a "pantomime coat of many colours".

Foods and Beverages

• The Doctor drinks tea with Archangel.

Notes

• This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity

• Amy recalls the oxygen factory at the heart of the Byzantium after discovering that 28th century London had one. (TV: Flesh and Stone)
• The Doctor says "top hats are cool", a variation of his catchphrase "bow ties are cool". (TV: The Eleventh Hour, et al)
• The Doctor shouts "Geronimo!", another of his catchphrases. (TV: The End of Time, et al)
• Rory recalls aliens made of wool, (PROSE: The Glamour Chase) vampire creatures (TV: The Vampires of Venice) and nuclear bombs. (PROSE: Nuclear Time)
• The Doctor tells Professor Angelchrist "I'm the one the monsters are scared of." He made similar declarations in TV: The Girl in the Fireplace and The Hungry Earth.
• Rory mentions that both he and Amy have experience with "waiting". (TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Big Bang)
• The Doctor mentions that the rift caused by the Squall is large enough to drive a double decker bus through, then mentions that he has done something similar. (TV: Planet of the Dead)
• The Doctor brings up the TARDIS exploding. (TV: The Big Bang)
• Angelchrist serves the Doctor from a teapot etched with a five-pointed star, one of his greatest treasures that he had obtained a decade prior. (PROSE: The Maharajah's Star)

Editions published outside Britain

• Published in China by New Star Press in October 2020 as a paperback edition.

Audiobook

• This novel was released as an audiobook in March 2012 complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Nicholas Briggs.

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  Audiobook cover

External links

• Paradox Lost at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Paradox Lost at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: Paradox Lost