All Flesh is Grass (novel)

All Flesh is Grass
Main character(s):	Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor and Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Brian
Featuring:	Kotturuh
Main enemy:	Dalek Time Squad
Main setting:	Birinji
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Una McCormack
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Release number:	66
Release date:	10 December 2020
ISBN:	ISBN 9781785946332
Time Lord Victorious
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All Flesh is Grass was the second of two novels released as part of the Time Lord Victorious series. It was written by Una McCormack and featured the Eighth Doctor, the Ninth Doctor, the Tenth Doctor, Brian, the Daleks and the Kotturuh. It followed on from The Knight, The Fool and The Dead.

Publisher's summary

A wasteland. A dead world… No, there is a biodome, rising from the ash. Here, life teems and flourishes, with strange and lush plants, and many-winged insects with bright carapaces – and one solitary sentient creature, who spends its days watering the plants, talking to the insects, and tending this lonely garden. This is Inyit, the Last of the Kotturuh.

In All Flesh is Grass we are transported back to The Dark Times. The Tenth Doctor has sworn to stop the Kotturuh, ending death and bringing life to the universe. But his plan is unravelling - instead of bringing life, nothing has changed and all around him people are dying. Now he must confront his former selves - one in league with their greatest nemesis and the other manning a ship of the undead...

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Ninth Doctor
• Tenth Doctor
• Brian
• Dalek Executioner
• Dalek Prime Strategist
• Dalek Scientist
• Dalek Time Commander
• Inyit
• Ikalla

References

to be added

Notes

• A scene from chapter 8 of this novel was previously released abridged as the short story Mission to the Known.

Continuity

• Rose is recovering elsewhere. (COMIC: Monstrous Beauty)
• The Ninth Doctor recalls the Untempered Schism. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
• The Eighth Doctor believes that the Dalek Prime Strategist continues to use a Dalek War Machine out of pride. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks)
• The Doctors unite by uttering "contact". (TV: The Three Doctors)
• The Tenth Doctor explains to his past selves that he was motivated to war against the Kotturuh because of Estinee's demise, (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead) noting that the Eighth Doctor can understand being motivated by a child's death. (PROSE: Museum Peace)
• The Ninth Doctor recalls his rage against the Vampires for what they did to Rose. (COMIC: Monstrous Beauty)
• The Daleks refer to the TARDIS' "philosophy of movement". (TV: The Daleks)
• The Eighth Doctor remembers meeting Brian, (AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not) and ponders if the TARDIS is responsible for the Ood reaching the Dark Times. (PROSE: What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious")
• Gallifrey's galactic coordinates are "10-0-11-00:02", relative to Galactic Zero Centre. (TV: Pyramids of Mars, Full Circle, Death in Heaven)
• The Ninth and Tenth Doctors have subdued reactions to the idea of "a universe without Gallifrey". (TV: The End of the World)
• The Doctors try to avoid touching out of fear of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
• The Ninth and Tenth Doctors recall the story of Godfather Death and ponder its moral. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)
• The Eighth Doctor mentions President Romana. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
• The Ninth Doctor ends this story in possession of a rejuvenated Hector. (COMIC: Monstrous Beauty)

External links

• Official All Flesh is Grass page at Penguin Books