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writer= [[Simon Messingham]] | | writer= [[Simon Messingham]] | | ||
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'''''The Face-Eater''''' was the eighteenth [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] it featured the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Samantha Jones]]. It is the first of two novels [[Simon Messingham]] has written for the EDAs (''[[The Infinity Race (novel)|The Infinity Race]]'' being the second). | |||
== Publisher’s summary == | == Publisher’s summary == | ||
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== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Eighth | * [[Eighth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Samantha Jones]] | * [[Samantha Jones]] | ||
* [[Helen Percival]] | * [[Helen Percival]] | ||
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=== [[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]] === | === [[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]] === | ||
* Falls down a hole and breaks his leg. | * Falls down a hole and breaks his leg. | ||
* The Doctor rambles as he talks to Jake Leary, mentioning a number of things. ''"I've seen it all over the galaxy. [[Werewolf|Werewolves]], manitous, [[shape shifter|shape-shifters]], Rutans, robots. Even [[the Master]] has been known to give it a whirl. And did I tell you about that time at [[Crook Marsham]]? Most memorable."'' | * The Doctor rambles as he talks to Jake Leary, mentioning a number of things. ''"I've seen it all over the galaxy. [[Werewolf|Werewolves]], [[manitous]], [[shape shifter|shape-shifters]], Rutans, robots. Even [[the Master]] has been known to give it a whirl. And did I tell you about that time at [[Crook Marsham]]? Most memorable."'' | ||
* The Doctor mentions the [[Hoothi]] to Leary. | * The Doctor mentions the [[Hoothi]] to Leary. | ||
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=== [[:Category:Technology|technology]] === | === [[:Category:Technology|technology]] === | ||
* Sam Jones is still a little bit paranoid about nanotech being in her body. | * Sam Jones is still a little bit paranoid about [[nanotech]] being in her body. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
Revision as of 04:54, 5 April 2012
The Face-Eater was the eighteenth BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures it featured the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones. It is the first of two novels Simon Messingham has written for the EDAs (The Infinity Race being the second).
Publisher’s summary
The Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II, one of the earliest planets colonised in humanity’s first big push into space. But instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest.
The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out. humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.
Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City. It seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well founded -- that the sinister Face-Eater from Proximan mythology has awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who would defile its world...
Plot
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Characters
- Eighth Doctor
- Samantha Jones
- Helen Percival
- Ben Fuller
- Joan Betts
- Jake Leary
- The Face-Eater
- de Winter
- Jeffries
References
Books
- Professor Joan Betts wrote The Life and Customs of the Marine Saurians after spending three years investigating the Sea Devil base that was involved in the attack on Sea Base 4 in 2084.
Colony planets
Corporations
- Global Mining Corporation has records of the Doctor and a female associate who uses several aliases including; Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith and Ace.
- The female associate is listed as having graduated from Geneva Corporate University in 2124.
The Doctor
- Falls down a hole and breaks his leg.
- The Doctor rambles as he talks to Jake Leary, mentioning a number of things. "I've seen it all over the galaxy. Werewolves, manitous, shape-shifters, Rutans, robots. Even the Master has been known to give it a whirl. And did I tell you about that time at Crook Marsham? Most memorable."
- The Doctor mentions the Hoothi to Leary.
Individuals
- Sam Jones gets blown up while breaking into an office and gets third degree burns, but recovers.
- Then gets into a car, and crashes it, the crash knocking her out and giving her numerous bruises.
Individuals' professions
- Helen Percival is colony executive.
- Joan Betts is a xenoanthropologist.
Species
- The Rutans gained their shape shifting ability through genetic tampering.
- Mention is made of a Bug Eyed Monster (BEM). This is how UNIT supposedly classifies such things.
- The Proximan natives are rodent creatures that can mimic others. They are telepathic and were once intelligent, but lose the telepathy and shared consciousness when the Face-Eater is destroyed.
- The Doctor claims that Mars has two indigenous species.
- Joan Betts is killed by a Face-Eater.
- The Face-Eater is also known native Proximans as F'Seeta, it is a shape shifter
Spacecraft
- The New Horizon was the first human large-scale colony transporter and arrived on Proxima 2 in 2128.
technology
- Sam Jones is still a little bit paranoid about nanotech being in her body.
Notes
- Page 215 contains what is possibly the only mention of the Doctor's bladder in a licensed work of Doctor Who fiction.
Continuity
- The events of DW: Warriors of the Deep are mentioned.
- The Doctor's imprisonment in EDA: Seeing I is mentioned by the shape shifter.
- There is a flashback sequence to DW: Planet of the Spiders
- Sam no longer has the nanotech in her body she accquired in EDA: Beltempest.
Timeline
- This story takes place after EDA: Beltempest
- This story takes place before ST: Femme Fatale
External links
- The Face-Eater at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Face-Eater at The Whoniverse
