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series=[[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures | Virgin <br> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] |
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number= 19 |
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featuring= [[Christine Summerfield]] <br> [[Chris Cwej]]|
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enemy= It could be: <br> The Sphinxes <br> The [[Time Lord]]s <br> [[The Horror]] <br> [[Chris Cwej]]|
|series         = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
year= Bottle Universe: [[Earth]], [[England]], [[London]], [[1970]] <br> 'Real' Universe: <br> [[Simia KK998]] <br> [[Cygni 8.9]]  |
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writer= [[Lawrence Miles]]|
|number in range = 80
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
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release date= April, [[1999]] |
|main character  = [[Christine Summerfield|Christine]]
format= Paperback Book, 294 Pages |
|featuring      = [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
isbn= ISBN 0-426-20532-4 |
|enemy           = [[The Horror]]
previous story= [[The Mary-Sue Extrusion]] |
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|writer          = Lawrence Miles
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'''''Dead Romance''''' was the eightieth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel and the second in a row not to feature [[Bernice Summerfield]] in the main narrative. This story almost entirely focuses on [[Christine Summerfield]] and [[Chris Cwej]]. In [[2004 (releases)|2004]], it was [[Dead Romance (anthology)|reprinted]] by [[Mad Norwegian Press]] as a "tie-in" to their ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' line.


==Publisher's Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
''''All right, let's start with the basics. The world ended on the twelfth of October, Nineteen Seventy...''''
''"All right, let's start with the basics. The world ended on the [[12 October|twelfth of October]], [[1970|Nineteen Seventy]]..."''


I don't know why I'm writing this. It's not like anybody's going to read it. At least, nobody who cares about the fact that I'm a desperate, dying, 23-year-old human being who's just had the whole of history taken away from her.
I don't know why I'm writing [[Dead Romance|this]]. It's not like anybody's going to read it. At least, nobody who cares about the fact that I'm a desperate, dying, 23-year-old human being who's just had the whole of history taken away from her.


To whoever's out there, to whatever's left, this is the way things were, just before the end. This is the story about the last days of London, about murder and love and waking up in the ruins, about all the people buried in the wreckage...
To whoever's out there, to whatever's left, this is the way things were, just before the end. This is the story about the last days of [[London]], about [[murder]] and [[love]] and waking up in the ruins, about all the people buried in the wreckage...


I'm lying, obviously. This is my story. This is what I was doing, when October the twelfth came. Because, let's face it, I'm the only one who really matters.
I'm lying, obviously. This is my story. This is what I was doing, when October the twelfth came. Because, let's face it, I'm the only one who really matters.


I'm the only one who got out alive.  
I'm the only one who got out alive.


==Characters==
== Plot ==
[[Christine Summerfield]]
=== First notebook (128 pages) ===
*Probably no relation to [[Bernice Summerfield]], except in name.
''to be added''
*Lost her virginity at 15.


[[Chris Cwej]]
=== Second notebook (128 pages, 12 missing) ===
*Is an agent of the Time Lords.
''to be added''
*The Time Lords have altered his biology to make him more suited to dealing in thier affairs, they also changed his memory of his time with the Doctor, making him the 'Evil Renegade' instead.
*After meeting with the Daleks Chris comes back to Christine and has sex with her.


Khiste
=== Third notebook (128 pages, 8 blank) ===
*Has regenerated at least once (quite possibily more than once).
''to be added''
*Has sex with Christine to prove a point...sort of.


The Horror
== Characters ==
*A gestault of all the stuff lost in the vortex.
* [[Christine Summerfield]]
* [[Elliot Bishop]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
* [[Khiste]]
* [[The Horror]]
* [[Great Houses|Cwej's employers]]
* [[Sphinx (Dead Romance)|Sphinxes]]
* [[Lady Diamond]]


Cwej's Employers
== Worldbuilding ==
*The Time Lords.
=== Biology ===
* Cwej's employers give [[regeneration|regenerative]] powers to their agents, Chris Cwej included.


The Sphinxes
=== Individuals ===
* [[Christine Summerfield]] is probably no relation to [[Bernice Summerfield]], except in name.
* [[Chris Cwej]] is an agent of the [[Great House]]s.
* After meeting with [[Dalek|the machine peoples]], Chris comes back to Christine and has [[sex]] with her to make himself feel [[human]].
* Chris Cwej recalls [[Roz Forrester]]'s death.
* [[The Horror]] is a gestalt of all the stuff lost in [[Time Vortex|the Vortex]].
* [[Father Kreiner]] appears as the voice of [[the Horror]] that Christine speaks to and negotiates with.
* The large machine intelligence is [[Pool (Deceit)|Pool]], the gestalt from above [[Arcadia (planet)|Arcadia]].
* Benny's earliest known ancestor is [[Jonah Summerfield I]]. He was born in [[1930]] and was killed in an industrial accident in [[1975]].
* Benny's distant ancestor [[Jason Summerfield]] was born in [[2007]]. He had a son named [[Jubilation Summerfield]] in [[2039]].


==References==
=== Literature ===
*Cwej comes back from a meeting with the [[Dalek]]s, supposedly the [[Time Lord]]s ''"made a deal with them. Years ago."'' to let them build time machines. (page 112).
* Christine writes much of ''[[Dead Romance]]'' in the ruins of [[the Homeworld (Dead Romance)|the Homeworld]]'s [[The Capitol|capitol]].
*The Time Lords alter their treaty with [[The People]] which means they can build time machines, [[God (Worldsphere)|God]] was present.
*Chris Cwej recalls [[Roz Forrester]]'s death.
*The bottle (universe in a bottle) is located at [[Simia KK98]].
*Simia KK98 is a Time Lord base, inside there is an eight armed statue of [[Rassilon]] holding various [[artefacts of Rassilon|artefacts]].
*Cwej takes Christine to a market on [[Cygni 8.9]], where she sees some Liquid Cats, which may be related to [[Wetworks Facility]] technology.
*Cwej's Employers are the [[Time Lord]]s.
*[[Shada (planet)|Shada]] is described (page 215).
*[[Father Kreiner]] appears as the voice of [[The Horror]] that Christine speaks and negotiates with.
*Christine reads about [[Tyler's Folly]].
*Khiste takes Christine to [[Ordifica]].
*The Time Lords give [[regeneration|regenerative]] powers to their agents, Chris Cwej included.
*Christine after being dropped off on Ordifica visits a number of colony worlds including: [[Shristostophon]], [[Gardener's World]], [[Hai Dow Seven]], [[Lubellin]], [[Shatner's Climax]], [[Ultra Caprisis]], then onto [[Gallifrey]] before heading towards [[Dellah]].
*Christine writes much of her journal in the ruins of [[Gallifrey]].
*[[The Enemy]] might have been referred to.
*Lady Diamond's shop is on [[Henrietta Street]].
*The large machine intelligence is [[Pool]] the gestalt from above [[Arcadia]].


==Notes==
=== Locations ===
*At the start of the novel it contains a note from Miles which states:
* Lady Diamond's shop is on [[Henrietta Street]].
:''Note for continuity purists and nobody else: the universe in which much of 'Dead Romance' takes place - the universe of the Gods, the planet Dellah and Bernice Summerfield - is the same universe in which 'Christmas on a Rational Planet, 'Down' and indeed every other New Adventure takes place. However, this absolutely and positively isn't the same universe in which any other books I might have written are set.''
:''Believe me.''
This referred to Miles' attempt, here and in ([[EDA]]:''[[Interference]]''), to use the device of bottle universes nested inside each other to establish that the [[NA]]s and [[EDA]]s occured in separate continuities. This has been roundly ignored and contradicted by most other writers, and Miles admits in the foreword to the Mad Norweigian edition of Dead Rommance that it was a bad idea anyway.


*Starting on page 199 is a discussion through the Summerfield Family Tree (from the 'real' universe, ie Bernice Summerfield's family tree).
=== Planets ===
*The cover of the novel is actually part of the plot, it is the photo Christine takes of London, shortly after the Time Lords take over the bottle Earth.
* The [[bottle universe]] is kept on [[Simia KK98]].
* [[Simia KK98]] is a colony of Cwej's employers. Inside is an eight-armed statue of [[Rassilon|their founder]] holding various artefacts.
* Cwej takes Christine to a market on [[Cygni 8.6]], where she sees some [[liquid cat]]s, which may be related to [[wetworks facility]] technology.
* [[Shada]] is described.
* Christine reads about [[Tyler's Folly]].
* Khiste takes Christine to [[Ordifica]].
* Christine, after being dropped off on [[Ordifica]], visits a number of colony worlds including [[Shristostophon]], [[Gardener's World]], [[Hai Dow Seven]], [[Lubellin]], [[Shatner's Climax]], [[Ultra Caprisis]], then onto [[the Homeworld (Dead Romance)|the Homeworld]], before heading towards [[Dellah]].


===Mad Norwegian Reprint===
=== Species ===
* Cwej comes back from a meeting with [[Dalek|machine people]]. Supposedly his employers "made a deal with them. Years ago," to let them build [[time machine]]s.
* Cwej's employers are the [[Great House]]s.
* Cwej's employers alter their treaty with [[the People]], which means they can build time machines. [[God (The Also People)|God]] was present.
* [[The enemy]] is obliquely referred to.


== Notes ==
* At the start of the original novel was a note from Miles which stated:
::''Note for continuity purists and nobody else: the universe in which much of 'Dead Romance' takes place - the universe of the Gods, the planet [[Dellah]] and Bernice Summerfield - is the same universe in which 'Christmas on a Rational Planet, 'Down' and indeed every other New Adventure takes place. However, this absolutely and positively isn't the same universe in which any other books I might have written are set.''
::''Believe me.''
:This referred to Miles' attempt, here and in the novel ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]'', to use the device of nested [[bottle universe]]s to establish that the [[Virgin New Adventures]] and [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] occurred in separate continuities. However, Miles admitted in a foreword to the [[Mad Norwegian Press]] edition that this was a bad idea and rightfully ignored.
* Starting on page 199 is a discussion of Bernice Summerfield's family tree.
* The cover of the novel is the photo Christine takes of London shortly after Cwej's employers invade [[Earth (Dead Romance)|the bottle Earth]].


Reprinted in 2004 by Mad Norwegian, not strictly as part of their Faction Paradox range but as a companion to it, the newer edition includes some additional material.
== Continuity ==
* The Gods from which Cwej's employers are preparing to escape appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Where Angels Fear (novel)|Where Angels Fear]]''.
* Chris Cwej last appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Oblivion (novel)|Oblivion]]''.
* Roz Forrester died in [[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]''.
* Father Kreiner fell into the vortex in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]''.
* The [[Time Lord-People Treaty]] was first mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]''.
* The concept of Time Lords regenerating for particular purposes/for war first appears in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', and Time Lords in non-bipedal forms appear in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]''.
* The bottle that appears is implied to be the bottle [[I.M. Foreman]] has in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]''. ''Interference'' also mentioned that the Time Lords are making "[[Ogron Lord]]s" by altering them to be time compatible; this concept is first introduced in this novel.
* [[Simia KK98]] was first mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'' and would later appear in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]''.
* Wetworks technology appears in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Genocide Machine (audio story)|The Genocide Machine]]''.
* [[Henrietta Street]] features more heavily in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]''.
* In [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow Play (audio story)|The Shadow Play]]'', Christine (now called Eliza) mentions that one of the [[Great House]]s was responsible for the invasion of [[Earth (Dead Romance)|her Earth]].
* [[Pool (Deceit)|Pool]] appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]''.
* The bronze spheres Christine saw above Simia KK98 were [[90-form]] [[TARDIS|timeships]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
* Chris Cwej claims that the reproductive system usually the first to go once [[Nanite]]s repair a damaged body. Previously, [[Ace]] had wondered if she would still be able to get pregnant after they entered her system. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece (novel)|Set Piece]]'')
* A [[Eternal War|Time Lord-Vampire war]] is mentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'')
* In a newspaper, Christine reads about [[sea serpent]]s sighted on [[Tyler's Folly]] in [[2593]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Down (novel)|Down]]'')
* The message from the [[Ouija board]] includes the lines "WE ARE ALL IN THE BOTTLE AND ONE DAY THE BOTTLE WILL BREAK" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') and "CHRISTINE ON A RATIONAL PLANET". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'')


* A new foreword by Miles.
== Cover gallery ==
* ''[[The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic]]'' - An essay on the mechanics and cosmogony of [[universe]]s and bottle universes. Originally intented as source material for other writers in the [[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]] range, it is nevertheless written 'in universe', like [[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]] or [[The Book of the War]].
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true">
* A reprint of ''[[Toy Story]]'', originally published in ''[[Perfect Timing 2]]''.
Dead Romance.jpg|''[[Virgin New Adventures]]'' cover
* ''[[Grass]]'', a Faction Paradox related the short story originally published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction''.
Dead Romance (Mad Norwegian Press).jpg|''[[Mad Norwegian Press]]'' cover
</gallery>


Within the main text of the novel, the terminology the [[BNA]]s had used to avoid mentioning the [[Time Lords]] directly was ammended to the terminology the [[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]] range now uses for a similar purpose.
== External links ==
* {{madnorwegian|192/books/dead-romance-faction-paradox-tie-in/}}
{{fpx|Dead Romance (novel)|''Dead Romance''}}
{{dwrefguide|who_na80.htm|Dead Romance}}
* {{whoniverse|na80|Dead Romance}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/deadroma.htm The Cloister Library: '''Dead Romance''']
* [http://pagefillers.com/dwrg/deadr.htm The Doctor Who Ratings Guide: Reviews of '''Dead Romance''']


==Continuity==
{{BNA}}{{FP series}}
*The Gods (which the Time Lords are preparing to escape from) appeared in [[Where Angels Fear]].
{{TitleSort}}
*Chris Cwej last appeared in [[Oblivion]].
*Roz Forresster died in ''[[NA]]:'' [[So Vile a Sin]].
*Father Kreiner fell into the vortex in ''[[EDA]]:'' [[Interference: Book Two]].
*The Time Lord - The People treaty was first mentioned in ''[[NA]]:'' [[The Also People]].
*The concept of Time Lords regenerating for particular purposes/for war first appears in ''[[EDA]]:'' [[Alien Bodies]] and Time Lords in non-bipedal forms appear in ''[[EDA]]:'' [[The Taking of Planet 5]].
*The bottle that appears here might/is/could be the bottle I.M. Foreman has in ''[[EDA]]:'' [[Interference: Book One]].
:*Also in Interference it's mentioned that the Time Lords are making 'Ogron Lords' by altering them to be time compatible, this concept is first introduced in this novel.
*Wetworks technology appears in ''[[BFA]]:'' [[The Genocide Machine]].
*Henrietta street features more heavily in ''[[EDA]]:'' [[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]].
*Pool appeared in ''[[NA]]:'' [[Deceit]].


==External Links==
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield sources]]
*[http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na80.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: '''Dead Romance''']
*[http://pagefillers.com/dwrg/deadr.htm - The Doctor Who Ratings Guide: Reviews of '''Dead Romance''']
 
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Dead Romance was the eightieth Virgin New Adventures novel and the second in a row not to feature Bernice Summerfield in the main narrative. This story almost entirely focuses on Christine Summerfield and Chris Cwej. In 2004, it was reprinted by Mad Norwegian Press as a "tie-in" to their Faction Paradox line.

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

"All right, let's start with the basics. The world ended on the twelfth of October, Nineteen Seventy..."

I don't know why I'm writing this. It's not like anybody's going to read it. At least, nobody who cares about the fact that I'm a desperate, dying, 23-year-old human being who's just had the whole of history taken away from her.

To whoever's out there, to whatever's left, this is the way things were, just before the end. This is the story about the last days of London, about murder and love and waking up in the ruins, about all the people buried in the wreckage...

I'm lying, obviously. This is my story. This is what I was doing, when October the twelfth came. Because, let's face it, I'm the only one who really matters.

I'm the only one who got out alive.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

First notebook (128 pages)[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Second notebook (128 pages, 12 missing)[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Third notebook (128 pages, 8 blank)[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Biology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Cwej's employers give regenerative powers to their agents, Chris Cwej included.

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Literature[[edit] | [edit source]]

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Cwej comes back from a meeting with machine people. Supposedly his employers "made a deal with them. Years ago," to let them build time machines.
  • Cwej's employers are the Great Houses.
  • Cwej's employers alter their treaty with the People, which means they can build time machines. God was present.
  • The enemy is obliquely referred to.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • At the start of the original novel was a note from Miles which stated:
Note for continuity purists and nobody else: the universe in which much of 'Dead Romance' takes place - the universe of the Gods, the planet Dellah and Bernice Summerfield - is the same universe in which 'Christmas on a Rational Planet, 'Down' and indeed every other New Adventure takes place. However, this absolutely and positively isn't the same universe in which any other books I might have written are set.
Believe me.
This referred to Miles' attempt, here and in the novel Interference, to use the device of nested bottle universes to establish that the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures occurred in separate continuities. However, Miles admitted in a foreword to the Mad Norwegian Press edition that this was a bad idea and rightfully ignored.
  • Starting on page 199 is a discussion of Bernice Summerfield's family tree.
  • The cover of the novel is the photo Christine takes of London shortly after Cwej's employers invade the bottle Earth.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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