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|image        = The Forgotten Army.jpg
|series      = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|number      = 39
|doctor      = Eleventh Doctor
|companions  = [[Amy Pond|Amy]]
|featuring    = [[Trinity Wells|Trinity]]
|enemy        = General Erik, [[Vykoid]]s
|setting      = [[New York City]], [[2010]]
|writer      = Brian Minchin
|read by      = [[Olivia Colman]]
|publisher    = BBC Books
|release date = 22 April 2010
|format      = Hardcover, 248 Pages
|isbn        = ISBN 978-1-84607-987-0
|prev        = Night of the Humans (novel)
|next        = Nuclear Time (novel)
|cover = [[Lee Binding]]
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'''''The Forgotten Army''''' was the thirty-ninth novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Brian Minchin]] and featured the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]].


== Publisher's summary ==
''Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the froze Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack.''


|image = [[Image: The Forgotten Army.jpg|250px]]
[[New York City|New York]] — one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly [[Mammoth]] rampaging down Broadway?
|novel name = The Forgotten Army
|series = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|number = 39
|doctor = [[Eleventh Doctor]]
|companions = [[Amy Pond]]
|enemy = [[Vykoid]]s
|year = [[June]] [[2010]]
|writer = [[Brian Minchin]]
|publisher = [[BBC Books]]
|release date = [[April]] 22, [[2010]]
|format = Hardcover Book, --- Pages
|previous story = [[Night of the Humans]]
|next story = [[The Glamour Chase]]
}}


'''The Forgotten Army''' is one of the first three announced [[Eleventh Doctor]] novels, released on April 22, 2010.
An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they're only seven centimetres high.


==Publisher's summary==
With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn't, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet.


''Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack.''
But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army?


[[New York City|New York]] – one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth...
== Plot ==
The Doctor and Amy Pond land in the Times Square in 2010, much to the Doctor's excitement. He leads Amy to a long queue in an alley, waiting at a cart called Paulie's Sausage Burgers. The Doctor claims that beings from all over the Universe and Time come to eat at Paulie's, pointing out a Judoon, a Graske and a few other aliens in line and seated nearby.  


But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly [[Mammoth]] rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they're only seven centimetres high. With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn't, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army?
''to be continued''


==Characters==
== Characters ==
*[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
*[[Amy Pond]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
*[[Sam Horwitz]]
* [[Sam Horwitz]]
*[[Polly Vernon]]
* [[Polly Vernon]]
*NYPD Officer [[Oscar Henderson]]
* [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] Officer [[Oscar Henderson]]
*NYPD Commander [[Jackie Stebbins]]
* [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] Commander [[Jackie Stebbins]]
*[[Trinity Wells]]
* [[Vykoid]]s
*[[Vykoid]]s


==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
*[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] can cause the [[TARDIS]] to go 5 seconds out of sync with the rest of time by clicking his fingers.
* The Doctor can make [[the TARDIS]] go five seconds out of sync with the rest of time by clicking his fingers.
*Amy grew up in Inverness, Scotland before moving to Leadworth. (Incidentally, Inverness is the home city of actress [[Karen Gillan]], who portrays Amy.)
* Amy grew up in [[Inverness]], [[Scotland]] before moving to [[Leadworth]].
*The Vykoids are a very advanced civilisation - level 18 or higher.
* A [[Judoon]], three [[Graske]] and a [[Catkind|Cat Person]] are among the aliens eating at "Big Paulie's Sausages".


==Notes==
== Notes ==
*[[Trinity Wells]] makes her first appearance in a Doctor Who novel. The Doctor comments that he has never met her, but says that when she's on the telly he knows the world is in danger. This paraphrases a quote by [[Russell T Davies]] on ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]''.
* [[Trinity Wells]] makes her first appearance in a ''Doctor Who'' novel. The Doctor says that he has never met her, but when she's on the telly, he knows the world is in danger. This paraphrases a quote by [[Russell T Davies]] on ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]''.
*This is a 'comedic' style book.
* This is a comedic style book.
*There is a large amount of "toilet humour" in this story. Upon awakening, the Mammoth's first action is to defecate in spite of the fact that it is actually an alien spaceship. Later on Amy slips in dung, the Mammoth farts (again, ignoring the fact that it is an alien spaceship) and the Doctor says the "Asteroid" mines of the Vykroid homeworld are actually excrement of a large space animal that became extinct.
* There is much "toilet humour" in this story. Upon awakening, the Mammoth's first act is to defecate, in spite of the fact that it is actually an alien spaceship. Later on, Amy slips in dung, the Mammoth farts (again, ignoring the fact that it is an alien spaceship) and the Doctor says the "asteroid" mines of the Vykroid homeworld are actually excrement of a space-boar, a large animal which fed on the swamps of a planet and grew big enough for space travel.
*At the end the Doctor announces their next stop to be the [[Delerium Archive]], placing this adventure directly before [[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]''.
* At the end, the Doctor announces their next stop as the [[Delerium Archive]], placing this adventure directly before the television story ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''.
*The Doctor makes himself known to Stebbins by using the code "X231 hyphen 19 ten", a code that, according to Stebbins, has been in on record since [[1932]].
* The Doctor makes himself known to Stebbins by using the code "X231 hyphen 19 ten", a code that, according to Stebbins, has been in on record since [[1932]].
*According to the Doctor, the restaurant [[Big Paulie's Sausages|"Big Paulie's Sausages]]" in [[June]] [[2010]], is the best place in history to eat at, with many species saving up to make the trip to eat there.
* According to the Doctor, the restaurant "[[Big Paulie's Sausages]]" in [[June]] [[2010]] is the best place in history to eat at, with many species saving up to make the trip to eat there.
* This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
*Amy recalls Mrs Poggitt (and her bad hip) from Leadworth ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'').
* Amy recalls Mrs [[Poggit]] (and her bad hip) from [[Leadworth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'')
*Amy thinks of [[Rory Williams|Rory]] at one point and later mentions him.
* The Doctor makes reference to the last time he was in New York City, saying he spent far too long underground. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
*The Doctor says he wants to make sure there are no cracks in New York, possibly referring to the [[Crack]]s in space and time.
* The Doctor states yet again (several times) that "[[bowtie]]s are cool", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'', ''[[Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)|Vincent and the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') and says that "they'll all be wearing them soon", which actually occurs in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Fashion Victims (comic story)|Fashion Victims]]''.
*The Doctor makes reference to the last time he was in New York City, saying he spent far too long underground ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]/[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'').
* The Doctor uses his [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] to make a wooden chair fall apart, despite the fact that it usually "doesn't do wood". ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'', ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]'', ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'')
*The Doctor states yet again (several times) that 'bowties are cool' ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Amy's Choice]]'', ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'', ''[[The Big Bang]]''), and says that 'they'll all be wearing them soon', which actually occurs in [[DWA]]: ''[[Fashion Victims]]''.
* Amy has a strange recollection of seeing Nile Penguins in the museum. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
*When jumping on to the back of the mammoth, the Doctor yells 'Geronimo', once again. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Beast Below]]'', ''[[The Big Bang]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[Apollo 23]]'', [[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor mentions having "borrowed" the TARDIS, a fact later repeated by him in [[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]''.
*The Doctor uses his [[Sonic screwdriver]] to make a wooden chair fall apart, despite the fact that it usually 'doesn't do wood' ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'', ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'')
* The Doctor mentions the [[Shadow Proclamation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', et al.)
*Amy has a strange recollection of seeing Nile Penguins in the museum ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
* The Doctor sends Amy messages on the [[psychic paper]] ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'', ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') and refers to the [[Atraxi]] doing the same in [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''.
*The Doctor mentions having 'borrowed' the TARDIS, a fact later repeated by him in [[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]''.
* [[Barack Obama]] is mentioned as being [[President of the United States]], following on from his appearance in [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.
*The Doctor mentions the [[Shadow Proclamation]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', et al)
* Joe Hudson's father still talks about the time Joe "froze and started chanting". ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'')
*The Doctor sends Amy messages on the [[psychic paper]] ([[DW]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'', ''[[Silence in the Library]]'',) and refers to the [[Atraxi]] doing the same in [[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''.
* The Doctor mentions all the clocks resetting to zero — this was apparently due to a computer fault. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
*References are made to nobody feeling "safe at [[Christmas]]", following recent events.
* Various smaller scale alien invasions are mentioned, but not the [[2009 Dalek invasion of Earth]] - most likely due to it being erased by a crack in space and time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'')
*[[Barack Obama]] is mentioned as being [[President of the United States]], following on from his appearance in ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'').
* General Erik observes that Amy is "so important to [the Doctor], but [she doesn't] know why". The reason for this is revealed in [[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]''.
*Joe Hudson's father still talks about the time Joe "froze and started chanting" ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'')
* Amy mentions that the Doctor had planned to take her to see the moons of [[Poosh]]. The [[Lost Moon of Poosh]] was among the celestial bodies stolen by the Daleks in [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''.
*[[Colonel Mace]] of [[UNIT]] is mentioned, and is still in Vancouver.
* The Doctor says he wants to ensure there are no cracks in New York. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
*The Doctor mentions all the clocks resetting to zero ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') - this was apparantly due to a computer fault.
* No-one on Earth feels safe at [[Christmas]], following various invasions by the Sycarox and Racnoss, the Titanic descending on Buckingham Palace and the resurrection of the Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]],'' ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
*A [[Judoon]], three [[Graske |Graske]] and a [[Catkind|Cat Person]] are among the aliens eating at "Big Paulie's Sausages".
*Various smaller scale alien invasions are mentioned, but not the [[2009 Dalek invasion of Earth]] - most likely due to it being erased by a crack in space and time ([[DW]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
*General Erik observes that Amy is 'so important to [the Doctor], but [she doesn't] know why'. The reason for this is revealed in [[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang]]''.
*Amy mentions that the Doctor had planned to take her to see the moons of [[Poosh]]. The [[Lost Moon of Poosh]] was among the celestial bodies stolen by the Daleks in [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]''.


==Timeline==
== Editions published outside Britain ==
*This story occurs after [[BBCR]]: ''[[The Runaway Train]]''
* Published in France by Milady in 2012 as a paperback edition.
*This story occurs before [[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]''


==External links==
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== Audiobook ==
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* This novel was released as an audiobook in [[December (releases)|December]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Olivia Colman]].
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The Forgotten Army was the thirty-ninth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Brian Minchin and featured the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.

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

Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the froze Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack.

New York — one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway?

An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they're only seven centimetres high.

With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn't, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet.

But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Amy Pond land in the Times Square in 2010, much to the Doctor's excitement. He leads Amy to a long queue in an alley, waiting at a cart called Paulie's Sausage Burgers. The Doctor claims that beings from all over the Universe and Time come to eat at Paulie's, pointing out a Judoon, a Graske and a few other aliens in line and seated nearby.

to be continued

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Trinity Wells makes her first appearance in a Doctor Who novel. The Doctor says that he has never met her, but when she's on the telly, he knows the world is in danger. This paraphrases a quote by Russell T Davies on Doctor Who Confidential.
  • This is a comedic style book.
  • There is much "toilet humour" in this story. Upon awakening, the Mammoth's first act is to defecate, in spite of the fact that it is actually an alien spaceship. Later on, Amy slips in dung, the Mammoth farts (again, ignoring the fact that it is an alien spaceship) and the Doctor says the "asteroid" mines of the Vykroid homeworld are actually excrement of a space-boar, a large animal which fed on the swamps of a planet and grew big enough for space travel.
  • At the end, the Doctor announces their next stop as the Delerium Archive, placing this adventure directly before the television story The Time of Angels.
  • The Doctor makes himself known to Stebbins by using the code "X231 hyphen 19 ten", a code that, according to Stebbins, has been in on record since 1932.
  • According to the Doctor, the restaurant "Big Paulie's Sausages" in June 2010 is the best place in history to eat at, with many species saving up to make the trip to eat there.
  • This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Editions published outside Britain[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Published in France by Milady in 2012 as a paperback edition.

Audiobook[[edit] | [edit source]]

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