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|series = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
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|enemy =[[Kimmi Waller]], [[Cal Tyko]]   
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|setting = [[Arkannis Major]], [[2775]]
|setting = [[Arkannis Major]], [[2775]]
|writer = [[Steve Lyons]]
|writer = Steve Lyons
|publisher = BBC Books
|publisher = BBC Books
|read by = [[Camille Coduri]]
|read by = [[Camille Coduri]]
|release date = {{il|[[8 September (releases)|8 September]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]|[[4 September (releases)|4 September]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]] (Kindle)|[[7 November (releases)|7 November]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]] (audio)}}
|release date = 8 September 2005
|format = Hardcover, 245 Pages
|format = Hardcover, 245 Pages
|isbn = ISBN 0-563-48638-4
|isbn = ISBN 0-563-48638-4

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The Stealers of Dreams was the sixth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Steve Lyons and featured the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness.

Publisher's summary

In the far future, the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has been outlawed. A world where it's a crime to tell stories, a crime to lie, a crime to hope, and a crime to dream.

But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A pirate TV station urges people to fight back. And the Doctor wants to help -- until he sees how easily dreams can turn into nightmares.

With one of his companions stalked by shadows and the other committed to an asylum, the Doctor is forced to admit that fiction can be dangerous after all. Though perhaps it is not as deadly as the truth...

Plot

Rose, Jack and the Doctor end up on Colony World 4378976.Delta-Four where fiction is banned… but all is not what it seems. Hal Gryder, the supposed spreader of fiction, turns people “Fiction-mad” as they are taken to the Big White House, the Home for the Cognitively Disconnected.

The Doctor sets off on a journey to find out why fiction is so dangerous, while Rose and Jack make new friends, Domnic Allen and a beggar man claiming to be Hal Gryder.

Characters

Worldbuilding

Foods and beverages

  • The chips on the colony are made from a local vegetable which is blue. They are soft, oily and peppery.

Individuals

Locations

Objects

  • The Doctor thinks that using his psychic paper to pretend to pay his hotel bill is justified because he's probably about to save the hotelier's world.

Story notes

  • There is a reference to the events of Boom Town, placing it after that story. However, at the end of Boom Town, the Doctor stated they were going to Raxacoricofallapatorius. Then, in Bad Wolf, he said they went from there to Japan, before being caught in the transmat.
  • This is the last Ninth Doctor novel.
  • This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity

Editions published outside Britain

  • Published in France by Milady in in 2012 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in China by New Star Press in 2020 as a paperback edition.

Audiobook

External links