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novel name= Time Zero |
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series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] |
{{Infobox Story SMW
number= 60 |
|image = Time Zero.jpg
doctor=[[Eighth Doctor]] |
|range= BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
companions= [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Anji Kapoor]] |
|number in range = 60
enemy= [[Sabbath]], Maxwell Curtis |
|series = [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  
year= [[Earth]] <br> [[England]], Anji’s apartment, Anji’s work, Curtis’s Home, [[2002]] <br> [[England]], [[The Thames]], late [[1893]] <br> [[Siberia]], early [[1894]] <br> [[Siberia]], early [[2002]] <br> [[England]], [[London]], a Euston Road bookshop, October 12th, [[1938]] |
|number= 60  
writer= [[Justin Richards]] |
|doctor = Eighth Doctor  
publisher= [[BBC Books]] |
|companions= [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]], [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]]  
release date= September, 2002 |
|enemy= [[Sabbath]], [[Maxwell Curtis]]
format= Paperback Book, --- Pages |
|setting= [[England]], [[2002]] and [[1893]]; [[Siberia]], [[1894]] and [[2002]]; [[London]], [[12 October]] [[1938]]
isbn= ISBN 0-563-53866-X|
|writer= Justin Richards
previous story= [[Camera Obscura]]|
|publisher= BBC Books  
next story= [[The Infinity Race]]}}
|release date= 2 September 2002
|format= Paperback Book; 57 Chapters, 275 Pages  
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-53866-X
|prev= Camera Obscura (novel)
|next= The Infinity Race (novel)
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'''''Time Zero''''' was the sixtieth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Justin Richards]], released [[2 September (releases)|2 September]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]] and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Anji Kapoor]] and [[Trix MacMillan]].


==Publisher’s Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
''‘It doesn’t take the creation of a whole new universe just to kill a cat.’''
''"It doesn't take the creation of a whole new universe just to kill a cat."''


With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied.
With [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]] gone to his certain death and [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]] back at work in the [[City of London|City]], [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied.


At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition’s journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice.
At the [[Naryshkin Institute]] in [[Siberia]], [[scientist]]s are busily at work in a haunted [[castle]]. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition's journal are put on display at the [[British Museum]], and a [[United States of America|US]] [[spy]] [[Aeroplane|plane]] suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the [[snow]]y landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice.


Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn’t the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved?
Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn't the only person involved. Why is [[Alexander Hartford|Colonel Hartford]] so interested in the Institute? Who is the [[Maxwell Curtis|mysterious millionaire]] who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendant of the last Tsar, involved?


Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond...
Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the [[Universe]]. And beyond...
...to Time Zero.  


==Characters==
...to Time Zero.
[[Eighth Doctor | The Doctor]]


[[Fitz Kreiner]]
== Plot ==
* Fitz goes on an expedition with George Williamson after he struck up a friendship following a lecture he attended in [[1893]].
''to be added''


[[Anji Kapoor]]
== Characters ==
* The Doctor returns her to 2001 three weeks after she left, she then spends 18 months working in her job as a futures trader, succeeding partially due to her travels with the Doctor…and because she’s got future copies of The Times.
* [[Fitz Kreiner]]
* [[Anji Kapoor]]
* [[Sabbath]] (alias Holiday)
* Beatrice MacMillan (aka [[Trix]])
* [[George Williamson]]
* [[Alexander Hartford]]
* [[Andrew Jenkins]]
* [[Basil Flanaghan]]
* [[Bill Thorpe]]
* [[Blake Michaels]]
* [[Bob Lansing]]
* [[Chedakin]]
* [[Control (The Devil Goblins from Neptune)|Control]]
* [[Maxwell Curtis]]
* [[Edward Parton]]
* [[Gerhart Graul]]
* [[Gilbertson]]
* [[Hanson Galloway]]
* [[Jonas (Time Zero)|Jonas]]
* [[Larry Withers]]
* [[Lionel Correll]]
* [[Mike Nesbitt]]
* [[Miriam Dewes]]
* [[Ostrander]]
* [[Paul Anderton]]
* [[Penny Ashworth]]
* [[Peter Caversham]]
* [[St John Price]]
* [[Vladimir Naryshkin]]
* [[Yuri Culmanov]]
* [[Fire elemental]]


[[Sabbath]] (alias Holiday)
== Worldbuilding ==
 
Beatrix MacMillan (aka [[Trix]])
* Is one of Sabbath's agents but only loyal as long as cheque book is.
 
[[George Williamson]]
 
==References==
* The origin of the [[fire elemental]] is revealed here.
* The origin of the [[fire elemental]] is revealed here.
* Several time travel and physics theories / terms are brought up, including [[Schrödinger's cat]], [[o-region]]s, [[slow light]] [[time machine]]s, and [[quantum theory]].


==Notes==
== Notes ==
Several time travel and physics theories / terms are brought up throughout Time Zero including:
* This book was previewed in [[DWM 321]] with a comic from [[David A. Roach]].
:* Schrödinger’s Cat
:* O-Regions
:* Slow Light Time Machines
:* Quantum Theory
 
==Continuity==
* The fire elemental is first seen in [[The Burning]] (which takes place after this novel).
* Fitz met George Williamson in [[Camera Obscura]].


==External Links==
== Gallery ==
[http://www.drwhoguide.com/whobbc60.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: Time Zero]
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" widths="250">
Time Zero.jpg|Original cover art.
Time_Zero_Preview.jpg|Comic Preview from [[DWM 321]].
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[http://www.whoniverse.org/discontinuity/ED60.php Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Time Zero]
== Continuity ==
* The fire elemental is first seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'' (which takes place after this novel, from the perspective of the fire elemental).
* Fitz met George Williamson in the earlier novel {{cs|[[Camera Obscura (novel)]]}}.
* Fitz remembers the planet [[Hope (city)|Hope]], where the ruler is a mechanical man and the sea is made of [[acid]], a reference to the earlier novel {{cs|[[Hope (novel)]]}}
* Anji remembers Dave and talks with his mother, which occured in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'')
* There is a flash-back to the Doctor back in 1938, having the note about his meeting with Fitz in 2001. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'' et al)
* The Doctor recalls his conversation with Sabbath in [[Spain]] about the nature of time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'')
* The Doctor recalls people who became clocks, a reference to the [[Clock-Person]]s from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Anachrophobia (novel)|Anachrophobia]]''); beasts from other dimensions, a reference to the [[Mal'akh]] from [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') and fire demons. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'') He also mentions destroying a time machine in the 19th century. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'')


{{BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Series Box | before = [[Camera Obscura]] | after = [[The Infinity Race]]}}
== External links ==
{{dwrefguide|whobbc60.htm|Time Zero}}
* {{whoniverse|ed60|Time Zero}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/timez.htm The Cloister Library: '''Time Zero''']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050406223146/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/drwho/2004/01/01/13715.shtml Interview: Justin Richards]
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Time Zero was the sixtieth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Justin Richards, released 2 September 2002 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor and Trix MacMillan.

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

"It doesn't take the creation of a whole new universe just to kill a cat."

With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied.

At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition's journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice.

Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn't the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendant of the last Tsar, involved?

Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond...

...to Time Zero.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Original cover art.

    Original cover art.

  • Comic Preview from DWM 321.

    Comic Preview from DWM 321.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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