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* [[Lynx (Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)|Lynx]], the silver cat which has been popping up, is generated by the TARDIS. | * [[Lynx (Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)|Lynx]], the silver cat which has been popping up, is generated by the TARDIS. | ||
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* The Doctor refers the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]''. | * The Doctor refers the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]''. | ||
* The mention of King Arthur is an indirect reference to [[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield]]''. | * The mention of King Arthur is an indirect reference to [[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield]]''. | ||
* The Doctor refers to the time he took his past companion [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] to a Welsh holiday camp in the [[1950s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]'') | |||
* Ace mentions that she used to be waitress and remembers the time she met the [[Cheetah People]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'') She also remembers the time she went to [[1963]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') | |||
* When the demons are fought off using faith, Ace thinks of the [[Haemovore]]s, aliens which were similarly fought off. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'') | |||
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Revision as of 17:49, 4 June 2013
Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark is the seventh novel in the Virgin New Adventures series and the final book in the Cat's Cradle arc. It was written by Andrew Hunt and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
Publisher's summary
"Spare no sympathy for those creatures. They were witches, they deserved to die."
A coach crashes on the M40. All the passengers are killed. The bodies carry no identification; they are wearing similar new clothes. And each has a suitcase full of banknotes.
A country vet delivers a foal. The mare has a deep wound in her forehead. In the straw, the vet finds a tapered horn.
In the darkening and doomed world known to its inhabitants as Tír na n-Óg, the besieged humans defend the walls of their citadel Dinorben against mythical beasts and demons.
The TARDIS's link with the Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.
Plot
to be added
Characters
- The Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- Lynx
- Herne
- Goibhnie
- Bathsheba
- Inspector Graham Stevens
- Hugh
- Janet
- Rhys
- Constable Hughes
- Stuart Taylor
References
Books
- The Book of Rassilon starts with "In the beginning...".
The Doctor
- The Doctor is still afraid of fire.
Foods and beverages
- The Doctor and Ace eat potato and leek soup.
- The Doctor fries up bacon for everyone.
- Ace doesn't like Spam.
- The Doctor claims that there's a fish and chip shop in Rhyl "whose Spam sandwiches can't be equalled this side of the Crab Nebula."
Individuals
- Ace is not very religious.
- Lynx, the silver cat which has been popping up, is generated by the TARDIS.
- Stuart Taylor is the local vet.
Organisations
- Scotland Yard has a one-man Paranormal Investigations Team.
Planets
- Earth is widely recognised as one of the causal nexus points of the galaxy.
Species
- A speck of demonic protoplasm infects the TARDIS.
Notes
- This is the final novel in the Cat's Cradle Trilogy.
Continuity
- Clones of the Doctor and Ace appear in PROSE: Return of the Living Dad.
- In PROSE: Deceit the effects of the protoplasm on the Doctor are revealed.
- Ace refers to events/experiences of TV: Dragonfire, Remembrance of the Daleks, and Survival.
- The Doctor refers the events of TV: Delta and the Bannermen.
- The mention of King Arthur is an indirect reference to TV: Battlefield.
- The Doctor refers to the time he took his past companion Mel to a Welsh holiday camp in the 1950s. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen)
- Ace mentions that she used to be waitress and remembers the time she met the Cheetah People. (TV: Survival) She also remembers the time she went to 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
- When the demons are fought off using faith, Ace thinks of the Haemovores, aliens which were similarly fought off. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
External links
- Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark at The Whoniverse
- Bewildering Reference Guide entry to Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark, with notes by the author
