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novel name= Timewyrm: Genesys|
|series         = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
image= [[file:NA001_genesys.jpg|250px]]|
|range          = Virgin New Adventures
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Virgin New Adventures]] |
|number in range = 1
number= 1 |
|number          = 1
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
|doctor         = Seventh Doctor
companions= [[Ace]] |
|companions     = [[Ace]]
enemy= The [[Timewyrm]] |
|featuring      = Fourth Doctor
year= [[Earth]], [[Mesopotamia]], [[Early human history#3rd Millennium B.C.|2700 BC]]|
|featuring2      = Third Doctor
writer= [[John Peel]] |
|enemy           = [[Timewyrm]]
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
|setting        = [[Mesopotamia]], [[BC#3rd millennium B.C.|2700 BC]]
release date= [[June]] [[1991]] |
|writer          = John Peel
format= Paperback Book, 230 pages |
|cover          = [[Andrew Skilleter]]
isbn= ISBN 0426203550 |
|publisher       = Virgin Books
previous story= |
|release date   = 20 June 1991
next story= [[Timewyrm: Exodus]]}}
|format         = Paperback Book; 25 Chapters, 230 pages
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20355-0
|next            = Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)
|series2        = [[Interweaving with the New Adventures|''DWM'' "New Adventures order"]]
|prev2          = Survival (TV story)
|next2          = Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)
}}
'''''Timewyrm: Genesys''''' was the first novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] series. It was written by [[John Peel]]. It was the first book in the Timewyrm story arc, and featured the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]].


''Timewyrm: Genesys'' is the first novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] series, and was written by [[John Peel]]. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]].
== Publisher's summary ==
==Publisher's summary==
[[Mesopotamia]] — the cradle of civilisation. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the [[river]]s [[Tigris]] and [[Euphrates]], mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into [[farmer]], and from farmer into [[city]]-dweller.
Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.


Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind's long progress to the stars.
[[Gilgamesh]], the first hero-[[king]], rules the city of [[Uruk]]. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] has brought the Doctor and his companion [[Ace]] to witness the first steps of mankind's long progress to the stars.


And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor’s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm.
And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of [[Kish]] she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor's forebears on ancient [[Gallifrey]] she was a mythical terror — the [[Timewyrm]].


==Plot==
== Plot ==
===Preface===
[[File:Timewyrm_Genesis_Prologue_illustration_1_DWM_175.jpg|thumb|An illustration for the preface, printed in [[DWM 175]].]]
A [[spacecraft]], holding the mysterious [[Timewyrm]] drifts into [[Mutter's Spiral]]. The Timewyrm is possessing the crew, but kills them all when they frustrate her. She plans to set up a slave world on [[Earth]], but soon realises the ship is falling apart. As she meets her apparent death, she can only see the irony in this.
A [[spacecraft]], holding [[Qataka|a mysterious cybernetic queen]], drifts into [[Mutter's Spiral]]. The woman is possessing the crew, but kills them all when they frustrate her. She plans to set up a slave world on [[Earth]], but soon realises the ship is falling apart. As she meets her apparent death, she can only see the irony in this.


==Characters==
In ancient [[Mesopotamia]], [[Gilgamesh]], king of [[Uruk]], is on the hunt. He meets Ishtar, who claims to be a goddess, but lacks the power to leave the crash site of her lifepod. He rejects her call to join him, and she swears revenge.
*The [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh Doctor]]
** Has enhanced night vision.
*[[Ace]]
**Gets temporary [[amnesia]].
**Sings [[Ireland|Irish]] folk songs.
**Drinks [[Alcohol#Beer|beer]] that tastes not quite unlike pig vomit.
*[[Timewyrm|Ishtar]] (aka Qataka)
*[[Gilgamesh]]
**Has wandering hands; Ace consequently wears layers to protect herself.
*[[Ninani]]
**daughter of King Agga
*[[Utnapishtim]]
*[[Agga]]
*[[Avram]]
*[[Belkeli]]
**priestess of Ishtar
*[[Dumuzi]]
**high priest of Ishtar
*[[En-Gula]]
*[[Enkidu]]
**a Neanderthal
*[[Ennatum]]
*[[Gudea]]
*[[Lagash]]
*[[Puabi]]
*[[Ta-Nin]]
*[[Urshanabi]]


==References==
On [[the TARDIS]], [[Ace]] awakens with amnesia, unable to remember even her own name. The Doctor apologises; he was using the telepathic circuits to edit his own memories, clearing out old junk, and accidentally caught her in the field. He is able to restore her memories. However, in doing so, he triggers an apparition of the [[Fourth Doctor]], a message implanted long ago, warning him about a creature called a [[Timewyrm]]. He doesn't remember it, but the TARDIS takes over, and takes them to Earth, where they intrude on Gilgamesh and his friend [[Enkidu]], in battle against warriors of the rival city of [[Kish]]. As they cause the battle to end, Gilgamesh takes them for gods, and takes them along to spy on Kish. The Doctor notes odd copper patterns on the walls, and realises something isn't right.
* The Timewyrm refers to Earth's galaxy as [[Mutter's Spiral]].
* The [[Chronovore]]s name the reborn Ishtar the [[Timewyrm]].
*The Doctor uses the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]'s [[telepathic circuits]] to delete some superfluous memories, accidentally deleting Ace's; he gives them back but accidentally gives her some of [[Melanie Bush]]'s also, allowing her to remember the events of ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]''.


==Notes==
Something, indeed, is not right in Kish. Ishtar, after meeting Gilgamesh, met [[Dumuzi]], Kish's priest of the goddess Ishtar, who accepted her offer and took her to take residence in the temple of Ishtar. Meanwhile, the king of Kish, [[Agga]], is feeling trapped by Ishtar; but he won't rebel, because he fears for his city. His daughter, [[Ninani]], has no such qualms, and enlists a priestess of Ishtar, [[En-Gula]], to help her destroy the false goddess. The Doctor confronts Ishtar, and is captured; he learns that she controls her servants by means of implants that let her overtake their minds and bodies. Ace rescues him before he can be implanted, but her use of Nitro-9 explosives tips Ishtar off to the otherworldly nature of the intruders. She orders Agga to hasten completion of the patterns on the walls; they will constitute a radio transmitter that will let her spread her influence across the entire world. As well, she has a cobalt bomb tied to her biosignature, which will detonate and devastate the planet if she dies. She reveals that she used such a device to destroy her home planet, [[Anu]].
* This is the first novel in the Timewyrm four-novel series.
 
* Although there had been several original novels and novellas published based upon the Whoniverse but not featuring the Doctor, and also several novelisations of unproduced ''Doctor Who'' stories, this was the first long-form original publication to feature the Doctor himself since the publication of the novella ''[[Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space]]'' in [[1966]].
The Doctor, Gilgamesh, and the others escape back to Uruk, bringing with them En-Gula and a musician named [[Avram]]. En route, they view Ishtar’s crashed pod, and Avram reveals that he has seen something like it before, in the mountains a week away. Ace secretly pockets a now-defused thermite bomb that was left as a trap on the pod. In Uruk, Gilgamesh deals with a conspiracy against him, and Avram tells the story of his visit to the mountains, and to a man named [[Utnapishtim]]. The Doctor concludes that Utnapishtim is an enemy of Ishtar (or rather, Qataka, her true name) from her own world, and may help them against her. He sends Gilgamesh and Ace on a mission to recruit Utnapishtim, while he and Enkidu and En-Gula plan a return to Kish. Ace is not thrilled; she has been busy fighting off Gilgamesh's constant sexual advances, and doesn't look forward to a week with him on the road.
* This is also the first officially licensed novel featuring the Doctor to ever exceed 200 pages in length. The only official ''Doctor Who''-related novel to exceed this milestone before this point was ''[[Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma]]'', in which the Doctor did not appear.
 
* The book's adult content in terms of language and sexuality was initially controversial with fans.
In the mountains, they find that the Doctor was correct. Utnapishtim is the leader of a spacegoing ark, all that is left of his people—and their power source is failing, due to damage on the ship. Nevertheless, he agrees to help, and takes a pair of smaller craft to get them back to Kish quickly. He has a computer virus which should destroy Ishtar—whom, he reveals, is a cybernetic lifeform, a copy of her original humanoid form. Meanwhile, the Doctor, En-Gula, and Enkidu return to Kish, and recruit Ninani; they are captured by Agga, but released by Ninani, and they advance on the temple. Ace, Utnapishtim, Avram, and Gilgamesh arrive at the same time, as does Agga, and the battle begins. Ishtar smashes the device with the virus, but is infected anyway when she hits Ace with an implant; the device was a decoy, and the real virus has been overlaid on their minds. Knowing the bomb will go off if she dies, the Doctor takes it and Ace back to the TARDIS, and uses the telepathic circuits to dredge up the more-technically-astute [[Third Doctor]]'s personality. As the Third Doctor, he uses the implant to create a copy of Ishtar in the TARDIS circuits, then links the bomb to it, giving him time to defuse it. She infects the TARDIS, but he ejects the infected components, apparently putting an end to her.
* Cover art by [[Andrew Skilleter]].
 
The Doctor uses Ishtar's technology from the temple to repair Utnapishtim's ship, and gives him the cobalt bomb to use as a new power source. He then directs them to an uninhabited world where they can re-establish their civilisation. Unfortunately, he can't change history; the future holds more natural unhappiness for their friends in Uruk and Kish.
 
Back in the TARDIS, they are attacked when they enter the [[Vortex]]. Ishtar is not dead after all; she has merged with the ejected TARDIS components and become something terrible: the Timewyrm. She is free to roam time and space. The Doctor sets course after her, vowing to destroy her.
 
== Characters ==
* The [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Timewyrm|Ishtar]] (aka Qataka)
* [[Gilgamesh]]
* [[Ninani]]
* [[Utnapishtim]]
* [[Agga]]
* [[Avram]]
* [[Belkeli]]
* [[Dumuzi]]
* [[En-Gula]]
* [[Enkidu]]
* [[Ennatum]]
* [[Gudea]]
* [[Lagash]]
* [[Puabi]]
* [[Ta-Nin]]
* [[Urshanabi]]
* [[Fourth Doctor]] (projection)
* [[Third Doctor]] (persona inhabiting the seventh incarnation)


==Continuity==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The [[Fourth Doctor]] gained knowledge of the Timewyrm when he was in [[the Matrix]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]''; he left a time-delayed message in the TARDIS for himself.
* Ace mentions ''[[Watership Down]]''.
*Ace still feels some of the after effects of the [[Cheetah Virus]] she became infected with in [[DW]]: ''[[Survival]]''.
* Avram mentions [[Shulpae]], [[Adad]], [[Ashnan]] and [[Ninsun]].
*The Doctor consoles Enkidu (who believes he is the last of his kind) by telling him that another Neanderthal survives to the 19th century. ([[DW]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'')
* En-gula mentions [[Nisaba]], [[Enki]] and [[Ennugi]].
* Agga mentions [[Nergal]].
* Gilgamesh mentions [[Lugulbanda]] and [[Belit-Sheri]].
* Gilgamesh hunts on [[Eridu]].
* Ennatum mentions [[Enlil]].
=== Foods and beverages ===
* Ace drinks a type of [[fruit juice]] whilst visiting Utnapishtim.
* Ace's mum's boyfriends bought her [[fish and chips]]. She drank fizzy drinks while they drank beer.
* Ace drinks [[beer]] that tastes not quite unlike [[pig]] [[vomit]].
* [[Rice]] and [[barley]] are grown using irrigation ditches.


==Timeline==
=== Galaxies ===
*This story occurs after [[BFA]]: ''[[The Angel of Scutari]]''
* The Timewyrm refers to the galaxy containing Earth as [[Mutter's Spiral]].
*This story occurs before [[NA]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus]]''


==External links==
=== Species ===
*{{dwrefguide|who_na01.htm|Timewyrm: Genesys}}
* Ace is aware that [[Time Lord]]s can [[Regeneration|regenerate]].
*{{whoniverse|NA01.php|Timewyrm: Genesys}}
*[http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/gnss.html Bewildering References Guide to '''Timewyrm: Genesys''']


{{Virgin New Adventure Series Box | before = none | after = [[Timewyrm: Exodus]]}}
=== Songs ===
* Ace sings "[[Wikipedia:The Wild Rover|The Wild Rover]]" for the patrons of an inn in Kish.


== Notes ==
* This is the first novel in the Timewyrm four-novel series.
* Although there had been several original novels and novellas published based upon the Whoniverse but not featuring the Doctor, and also several novelisations of unproduced ''Doctor Who'' stories, this was the first long-form original publication to feature the Doctor himself since the publication of the novella ''[[Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space (novel)|Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space]]'' in 1966.
* The Doctor's first line in the ''Virgin New Adventures'' series is; "Didn't I tell you not to do that?"
* This is also the first officially licensed novel featuring the Doctor to ever exceed 200 pages in length. The only official ''Doctor Who''-related novel to exceed this milestone before this point was ''[[Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma (novel)|Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma]]'', in which the Doctor did not appear.
* The book's adult content in terms of language and [[sexuality]] was initially controversial with fans.
* [[Andrew Skilleter]] created the cover art.
* John Peel sets up an explanation for future writers to use, regarding continuity errors, by having the Doctor erase his less important memories.


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== Continuity ==
* The Doctor erases the parts of his memory he considers no longer important to make room for new memories. As a result, he hopes he never encounters the [[Chronovore]]s again ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') even though he already had in his last incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') He later says he never met [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') even though he did in his last incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadow in the Glass (novel)|The Shadow in the Glass]]'') and that he has never been to [[Alaska (state)|Alaska]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (audio story)|Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge]]'') even though the [[Fifth Doctor]] had. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Land of the Dead (audio story)|The Land of the Dead]]'')
* The [[Fourth Doctor]] gained knowledge of the Timewyrm when he was in [[the Matrix]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') he left a time-delayed message in the TARDIS for himself.
* The Doctor claims that the [[Cloister Bell]] has not sounded since the events of [[Logopolis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') However this is not true as it sounded briefly after the TARDIS started to travel to Event One, ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') during the collapse of a Time Corridor ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase (audio story)|The Mutant Phase]]'') and when the TARDIS got trapped in a Dalek time corridor. However, this claim was made very shortly after he deleted various memories from his mind so he may simply be no longer able to recall any of these instances. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')
* Enkidu reminds Ace of [[Nimrod]], this in turn leads her to remember the events of [[Gabriel Chase]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'')
* The Doctor remembers the deaths of Katarina, Sara Kingdom ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') and Adric. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') These memories are painful to the Doctor and he wishes to keep the same fate from happening to Ace.
* Ace still feels some of the after effects of the [[Cheetah Virus]] she became infected with in ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''.
* The Doctor consoles Enkidu (who believes he is the last of his kind) by telling him that another [[Neanderthal]] survives to the 19th century. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'')
* The narration incorrectly states that Ace has seen [[Paradise Towers]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'')
 
== Cover gallery ==
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File:NA001 genesys.jpg|Original cover
File:NA001 genesys textless cover.jpg|Textless cover
</gallery>
 
== External links ==
{{dwrefguide|who_na01.htm|Timewyrm: Genesys}}
* {{whoniverse|na01|Timewyrm: Genesys}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/genesys.htm The Cloister Library: '''Timewyrm: Genesys''']
* [http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/gnss.html Bewildering References Guide to '''Timewyrm: Genesys''']
* [https://tardis.guide/story/timewyrm-genesys/ '''Timewyrm: Genesys''' at TARDIS Guide]
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Timewyrm: Genesys was the first novel in the New Adventures series. It was written by John Peel. It was the first book in the Timewyrm story arc, and featured the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

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

Mesopotamia — the cradle of civilisation. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.

Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind's long progress to the stars.

And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor's forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror — the Timewyrm.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

An illustration for the preface, printed in DWM 175.

A spacecraft, holding a mysterious cybernetic queen, drifts into Mutter's Spiral. The woman is possessing the crew, but kills them all when they frustrate her. She plans to set up a slave world on Earth, but soon realises the ship is falling apart. As she meets her apparent death, she can only see the irony in this.

In ancient Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is on the hunt. He meets Ishtar, who claims to be a goddess, but lacks the power to leave the crash site of her lifepod. He rejects her call to join him, and she swears revenge.

On the TARDIS, Ace awakens with amnesia, unable to remember even her own name. The Doctor apologises; he was using the telepathic circuits to edit his own memories, clearing out old junk, and accidentally caught her in the field. He is able to restore her memories. However, in doing so, he triggers an apparition of the Fourth Doctor, a message implanted long ago, warning him about a creature called a Timewyrm. He doesn't remember it, but the TARDIS takes over, and takes them to Earth, where they intrude on Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu, in battle against warriors of the rival city of Kish. As they cause the battle to end, Gilgamesh takes them for gods, and takes them along to spy on Kish. The Doctor notes odd copper patterns on the walls, and realises something isn't right.

Something, indeed, is not right in Kish. Ishtar, after meeting Gilgamesh, met Dumuzi, Kish's priest of the goddess Ishtar, who accepted her offer and took her to take residence in the temple of Ishtar. Meanwhile, the king of Kish, Agga, is feeling trapped by Ishtar; but he won't rebel, because he fears for his city. His daughter, Ninani, has no such qualms, and enlists a priestess of Ishtar, En-Gula, to help her destroy the false goddess. The Doctor confronts Ishtar, and is captured; he learns that she controls her servants by means of implants that let her overtake their minds and bodies. Ace rescues him before he can be implanted, but her use of Nitro-9 explosives tips Ishtar off to the otherworldly nature of the intruders. She orders Agga to hasten completion of the patterns on the walls; they will constitute a radio transmitter that will let her spread her influence across the entire world. As well, she has a cobalt bomb tied to her biosignature, which will detonate and devastate the planet if she dies. She reveals that she used such a device to destroy her home planet, Anu.

The Doctor, Gilgamesh, and the others escape back to Uruk, bringing with them En-Gula and a musician named Avram. En route, they view Ishtar’s crashed pod, and Avram reveals that he has seen something like it before, in the mountains a week away. Ace secretly pockets a now-defused thermite bomb that was left as a trap on the pod. In Uruk, Gilgamesh deals with a conspiracy against him, and Avram tells the story of his visit to the mountains, and to a man named Utnapishtim. The Doctor concludes that Utnapishtim is an enemy of Ishtar (or rather, Qataka, her true name) from her own world, and may help them against her. He sends Gilgamesh and Ace on a mission to recruit Utnapishtim, while he and Enkidu and En-Gula plan a return to Kish. Ace is not thrilled; she has been busy fighting off Gilgamesh's constant sexual advances, and doesn't look forward to a week with him on the road.

In the mountains, they find that the Doctor was correct. Utnapishtim is the leader of a spacegoing ark, all that is left of his people—and their power source is failing, due to damage on the ship. Nevertheless, he agrees to help, and takes a pair of smaller craft to get them back to Kish quickly. He has a computer virus which should destroy Ishtar—whom, he reveals, is a cybernetic lifeform, a copy of her original humanoid form. Meanwhile, the Doctor, En-Gula, and Enkidu return to Kish, and recruit Ninani; they are captured by Agga, but released by Ninani, and they advance on the temple. Ace, Utnapishtim, Avram, and Gilgamesh arrive at the same time, as does Agga, and the battle begins. Ishtar smashes the device with the virus, but is infected anyway when she hits Ace with an implant; the device was a decoy, and the real virus has been overlaid on their minds. Knowing the bomb will go off if she dies, the Doctor takes it and Ace back to the TARDIS, and uses the telepathic circuits to dredge up the more-technically-astute Third Doctor's personality. As the Third Doctor, he uses the implant to create a copy of Ishtar in the TARDIS circuits, then links the bomb to it, giving him time to defuse it. She infects the TARDIS, but he ejects the infected components, apparently putting an end to her.

The Doctor uses Ishtar's technology from the temple to repair Utnapishtim's ship, and gives him the cobalt bomb to use as a new power source. He then directs them to an uninhabited world where they can re-establish their civilisation. Unfortunately, he can't change history; the future holds more natural unhappiness for their friends in Uruk and Kish.

Back in the TARDIS, they are attacked when they enter the Vortex. Ishtar is not dead after all; she has merged with the ejected TARDIS components and become something terrible: the Timewyrm. She is free to roam time and space. The Doctor sets course after her, vowing to destroy her.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Ace drinks a type of fruit juice whilst visiting Utnapishtim.
  • Ace's mum's boyfriends bought her fish and chips. She drank fizzy drinks while they drank beer.
  • Ace drinks beer that tastes not quite unlike pig vomit.
  • Rice and barley are grown using irrigation ditches.

Galaxies[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Songs[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This is the first novel in the Timewyrm four-novel series.
  • Although there had been several original novels and novellas published based upon the Whoniverse but not featuring the Doctor, and also several novelisations of unproduced Doctor Who stories, this was the first long-form original publication to feature the Doctor himself since the publication of the novella Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space in 1966.
  • The Doctor's first line in the Virgin New Adventures series is; "Didn't I tell you not to do that?"
  • This is also the first officially licensed novel featuring the Doctor to ever exceed 200 pages in length. The only official Doctor Who-related novel to exceed this milestone before this point was Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma, in which the Doctor did not appear.
  • The book's adult content in terms of language and sexuality was initially controversial with fans.
  • Andrew Skilleter created the cover art.
  • John Peel sets up an explanation for future writers to use, regarding continuity errors, by having the Doctor erase his less important memories.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Original cover

    Original cover

  • Textless cover

    Textless cover

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

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