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|image        = Ma-13.jpg  
|image        = Ma-13.jpg
|series      = [[Virgin Missing Adventures]]  
|series      = [[Virgin Missing Adventures]]
|range = Virgin Missing Adventures
|range = Virgin Missing Adventures
|number in range = 13
|number in range = 13
|number      = 13  
|number      = 13
|doctor      = Second Doctor  
|doctor      = Second Doctor
|companions  = [[Polly Wright|Polly]], [[Ben Jackson|Ben]]
|companions  = [[Polly Wright|Polly]], [[Ben Jackson|Ben]]
|enemy        = [[Godwanna]], [[Thorgarsuunela]], [[Atimkos]], [[Aysha|Queen Aysha]]
|enemy        = [[Godwanna]], [[Thorgarsuunela]], [[Atimkos]], [[Aysha|Queen Aysha]]
|setting      = {{il|[[Cumbria]], [[London]], [[Cat-People]] spaceship in [[Earth]] orbit, [[6 July|6]]-[[8 July]] [[1994]]|[[Baghdad]], 2000 years earlier|[[Sydney]], [[10 July]] [[1994]]|[[Hyper reality]]}}
|setting      = {{il|[[Cumbria]], [[London]], [[Cat-People]] spaceship in [[Earth]] orbit, [[6 July|6]]-[[8 July]] [[1994]]|[[Baghdad]], 2000 years earlier|[[Sydney]], [[10 July]] [[1994]]|[[Hyper reality]]}}
|writer      = [[Gary Russell]]
|writer      = Gary Russell
|cover        = [[Colin Howard]]
|cover        = [[Colin Howard]]
|publisher    = Virgin Books  
|publisher    = Virgin Books
|release date = [[17 August (releases)|17 August]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]]
|release date = 17 August 1995
|format      = Paperback Book; 7 Chapters, 256 Pages  
|format      = Paperback Book; 7 Chapters, 256 Pages
|isbn        = ISBN 0-426-20440-9
|isbn        = ISBN 0-426-20440-9
|prev        = The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)
|prev        = The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)
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:"Oh dear, so it will. Pass on my apologies to the [[human]]s, won't you?"
:"Oh dear, so it will. Pass on my apologies to the [[human]]s, won't you?"


[[Earth]] has been invaded. Twice. Thousands of [[year]]<nowiki/>s ago by a race searching for a new power source. More recently by the [[Galaxy|galactic]] marauders known as the [[Cat-Person|Cat-People]], who intend to continue the work done by the earlier visitors, with devastating results.
[[Earth]] has been invaded. Twice. Thousands of [[year]]s ago by a race searching for a new power source. More recently by the [[Galaxy|galactic]] marauders known as the [[Cat-Person|Cat-People]], who intend to continue the work done by the earlier visitors, with devastating results.


The recently [[Regeneration|regenerated]] [[Second Doctor|Doctor]], along with [[companion]]<nowiki/>s [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] and [[Polly Wright|Polly]], teams up with a group of amateur [[ghost]]-hunters and a mysterious [[white witch]] on a journey that takes them from [[20th century|twentieth-century]] [[Cumbria]] to the [[Arabian]] [[desert]]s of folklore and [[Australia]] 40,000 years in the past. Can the Doctor stop the invaders and disarm the [[bomb]]<nowiki/>s left buried beneath the planet's surface — or have the ancient [[Aborigine]]s of Australia sung the seeds of their own [[destruction]]?
The recently [[Regeneration|regenerated]] [[Second Doctor|Doctor]], along with [[companion]]s [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] and [[Polly Wright|Polly]], teams up with a group of amateur [[ghost]]-hunters and a mysterious [[white witch]] on a journey that takes them from [[20th century|twentieth-century]] [[Cumbria]] to the [[Arabian]] [[desert]]s of folklore and [[Australia]] 40,000 years in the past. Can the Doctor stop the invaders and disarm the [[bomb]]s left buried beneath the planet's surface — or have the ancient [[Aborigine]]s of Australia sung the seeds of their own [[destruction]]?


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Jodi]]
* [[Jodi]]
* [[Lotuss]] ([[Myra Frances]])
* [[Lotuss]] ([[Myra Frances]])
* [[Jayde]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowena_Wallace Rowena Wallace])
* [[Jayde]] ({{w|Rowena Wallace}})
* [[Aall]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Kirkpatrick Maggie Kirkpatrick])
* [[Aall]] ({{w|Maggie Kirkpatrick}})
* [[Nihmrod]] ([[Rosalind Lloyd]])
* [[Nihmrod]] ([[Rosalind Lloyd]])
* [[Nypp]] ([[Lois Baxter]])
* [[Nypp]] ([[Lois Baxter]])
* [[Tamora]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Dence Maggie Dence])
* [[Tamora]] ({{w|Maggie Dence}})
* [[Tensing]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_T._Wallace Julie T. Wallace])
* [[Tensing]] ({{w|Julie T. Wallace}})
* [[Tuq]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Siversen Louise Silversen])
* [[Tuq]] ({{w|Louise Silversen}})


=== Euterpians ===
=== Euterpians ===
* [[Thorgarsuunela]] ([[Carolyn Seymour]])
* [[Thorgarsuunela]] ([[Carolyn Seymour]])
* [[Atimkos]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Law Jude Law])
* [[Atimkos]] ({{w|Jude Law}})
* [[Udentkista]] ([[John Normington]])
* [[Udentkista]] ([[John Normington]])
* [[Tarwildbaning]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Beacham Stephanie Beacham])
* [[Tarwildbaning]] ({{w|Stephanie Beacham}})
* [[Godwanna]] ([[Jacqueline Pearce]])
* [[Godwanna]] ([[Jacqueline Pearce]])


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* [[Professor]] [[Nicholas Bridgeman]] ([[Alan David]])
* [[Professor]] [[Nicholas Bridgeman]] ([[Alan David]])
* [[Marten Kerbe]] ([[Maurice Roëves]])
* [[Marten Kerbe]] ([[Maurice Roëves]])
* [[Peter Moore]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Constance Nathan Constance])
* [[Peter Moore]] ({{w|Nathan Constance}})
* [[Simon Griffiths]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fenton Simon Fenton])
* [[Simon Griffiths]] ({{w|Simon Fenton}})
* [[Carfrae Morgan]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_Neal Siri Neal])
* [[Carfrae Morgan]] ({{w|Siri Neal}})
* [[George Smithers]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_James Gerald James])
* [[George Smithers]] ({{w|Gerald James}})
* [[Charlie Coates]] ([[Colin Jeavons]])
* [[Charlie Coates]] ([[Colin Jeavons]])


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== Worldbuilding ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* When the Cat-People are searching around the [[Sol System]] they see signs of a lost civilisation.
* When the Cat-People are searching around the [[Sol System]], they see signs of a lost civilisation.
* Ben and Polly are reading [[Brian J Robb]]'s biography ''[[River Phoenix: A Short Life]]'' about the actor [[River Phoenix]] at [[W H Smith]].
* Ben and Polly read [[Brian J Robb]]'s biography ''[[River Phoenix: A Short Life]]'' about the actor [[River Phoenix]] at [[W H Smith]].
* The Doctor terms the concept that interfering with your own history having drastic consequences as [[chrono-chaos theory]].
* The Doctor terms the concept that interfering with one's own history having drastic consequences as [[chrono-chaos theory]].


=== Culture ===
=== Culture ===

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Invasion of the Cat-People was the thirteenth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by Gary Russell and featured the Second Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright.

Publisher's summary

"Explode the buoys? But that will destroy the Earth!"
"Oh dear, so it will. Pass on my apologies to the humans, won't you?"

Earth has been invaded. Twice. Thousands of years ago by a race searching for a new power source. More recently by the galactic marauders known as the Cat-People, who intend to continue the work done by the earlier visitors, with devastating results.

The recently regenerated Doctor, along with companions Ben and Polly, teams up with a group of amateur ghost-hunters and a mysterious white witch on a journey that takes them from twentieth-century Cumbria to the Arabian deserts of folklore and Australia 40,000 years in the past. Can the Doctor stop the invaders and disarm the bombs left buried beneath the planet's surface — or have the ancient Aborigines of Australia sung the seeds of their own destruction?

Plot

to be added

Characters

In brackets are the names Gary Russell lists as his preferred casting choices for if Invasion of the Cat-People had hypothetically been a TV story, and how he envisions each character's appearance. Not every character is assigned an actor.

TARDIS crew

Cat-People

Euterpians

The Grange Estate

Other humans

Worldbuilding

Culture

Individuals

TARDIS

  • The Doctor's regeneration caused the TARDIS to regenerate to some extent, shrinking fifteen centimetres. The Doctor tells Ben that it will continue to shrink into his fourth incarnation. The Doctor ties a knot in his hanky to remind himself to see about rectifiying the problem.
  • Ben finds clothes in the TARDIS wardrobe which have pockets that are bigger on the inside, much like the Doctor's own coat pockets.

Time Lords

  • Magnus was unconcerned about wasting regenerations and never listened to the Doctor, who advised him not to waste them.
  • There were books coated in reverse tachyon-chronons (RTC) on Gallifrey, but the Time Lord leaders decided that they were too dangerous and got rid of them.

Species

  • The Doctor suggests that a Cat-Person could be one of the Kzinti warriors.

Notes

Errors

  • It is repeatedly stated that the Euterpians arrived 40,000 years prior to 1994, however the chapter which depicted their arrive indicates a setting of 3978 BC.
  • It is suggested that Earth's contintents were significantly different 40,000 years ago, while in reality the geological timescales of continental drift are in the millions of years.
  • At Heathrow Airport, Thorgarsuunela asks an attendant what the date is, and is given the date 10 June. The story had previously established that the date was 8 July.
  • In Baghdad, the Doctor claims at different times that they've travelled twenty-thousand and two-thousand years back in time.

Continuity

External links

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Virgin Missing Adventures
First Doctor
Susan, Ian, Barbara
Ian, Barbara
Ian, Barbara, Vicki
Vicki, Steven
Dodo
Second Doctor
Ben, Polly
Jamie, Victoria
Jamie, Zoe
Third Doctor
Liz, UNIT
Jo, UNIT
Jo, Yates
Sarah, Jeremy,
The Brig
Fourth Doctor
Sarah, Harry
Sarah
Romana I, K9
Romana II, K9
Fifth Doctor
Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
Nyssa, Tegan
Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion
Turlough
Sixth Doctor
Peri
Grant
Mel
Seventh Doctor
Chris, Roz
Other
Victoria, Sarah, The Brig
Second, Third, Seventh Doctors
with Dodo and UNIT
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