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=== Locations ===
=== Locations ===
* Lebenswelt is an extremely wealthy Earth colony with an extreme disparity between its wealth and actual development.
* Lebenswelt is an extremely wealthy Earth colony which, despite its extreme wealth, is filled with filth and grime due to nobody actually wanting to clean up the filth and grime of the streets. The largest city on the planet is also called Lebenswelt and has a Gothic aesthetique. Red, bat-like creatures tear each other to shreds in the atmosphere as the people of Lebenswelt mindlessly party.
* The planet [[Porconine]] is uninhabited.
* The planet [[Porconine]] is uninhabited.
* Sirius One Bee (presumably Sirius 1B) is a human colony world. Rhian Salmond is a native of the planet.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==

Revision as of 16:10, 5 May 2024

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The Book of the Still was the fifty-sixth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Paul Ebbs (with the title page saying it is "from a story by Paul Ebbs and Richard Jones"), released 6 May 2002 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher's summary

The Unnoticed are bound to keep themselves isolated from all history, or face a complete collapse from existence.

The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers — write your location, sign your name and be instantly rescued. When the Unnoticed learn that within the book someone has revealed both their existence and whereabouts they are forced into murderous intercession to find it.

Fitz knows where it is, but then he's the one who stole it. Carmodi, addicted to the energies trapped in frequent time travellers, also knows where it is. But she's the one who's stolen Fitz. Anji, alone on a doomed planet, trying to find evidence of a race that has never had the decency to exist, doesn't know where anybody is.

Embroiled in the deadly chase, the Doctor is starting to worry about how many people he can keep alive along the way...

Plot

An unknown figure falls through the skies of Lebenswelt, falling towards "The Library of Closed Books". Using a stasis field, they tunnel through the various floors of the Library until they reach the exhibit for The Book of the Still. Once they reach it, they use a nanovirus that simulates dysentery to take out the robotic guards and prepare to escape the Library using the same stasis field. Unfortunately, one of the robotic guards has survived and jams the stasis field. Guards surround the figure - who is revealed to be the Doctor.

A young native of "Sirius One Bee" named Rhian Salmond (who declares that she is DEFINETLY NOT the kind of girl to be thrown in prison) is brought to a Lebensweltian prison. While waiting to be brought to her cell, she sees a prisoner being brought into the prison in a bag. After being processed and fed (an extremely meager gruel), Rhian is brought to her cell. Unfortunately, the prisoner in the bag (who seemingly scares the guards at the prison) is also in the cell. Rhian is thrown into the cell with the prisoner, who reveals himself to be the Doctor.

Characters

Worldbuilding

Locations

  • Lebenswelt is an extremely wealthy Earth colony which, despite its extreme wealth, is filled with filth and grime due to nobody actually wanting to clean up the filth and grime of the streets. The largest city on the planet is also called Lebenswelt and has a Gothic aesthetique. Red, bat-like creatures tear each other to shreds in the atmosphere as the people of Lebenswelt mindlessly party.
  • The planet Porconine is uninhabited.
  • Sirius One Bee (presumably Sirius 1B) is a human colony world. Rhian Salmond is a native of the planet.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

External links

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