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doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
companions= [[Ace]] |
companions= [[Ace]] |
enemy= the [[Timewyrm]] |
enemy= The [[Timewyrm]] |
writer= [[Paul Cornell]] |
writer= [[Paul Cornell]] |
year= [[Earth]], [[England]], [[Norfolk]], [[Cheldon Bonniface]], [[1992]] <br> [[The Moon]], [[1992]] |
year= {{bp|[[Earth]], [[England]], [[Norfolk]], [[Cheldon Bonniface]], [[1992]]|[[The Moon]], [[1992]]}} |
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
release date= [[December]], [[1991]] |
release date= [[December]], [[1991]] |
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'''''Timewyrm: Revelation''''' is the fourth book in the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] series, and the fourth (and final) book in the [[Timewyrm]] ark. It was written by [[Paul Cornell]], and features the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]].
'''''Timewyrm: Revelation''''' is the fourth book in the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] series, and the fourth (and final) book in the [[Timewyrm]] ark. It was written by [[Paul Cornell]], and features the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]].
==Publisher's summary==
==Publisher's summary==
The parishioners of [[Cheldon Bonniface]] walk to church on the Sunday before [[Christmas]], [[1992]]. [[Snow]] is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?  
The parishioners of [[Cheldon Bonniface]] walk to church on the Sunday before [[Christmas]], [[1992]]. [[Snow]] is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?  
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The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?
The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?
==Plot==
''to be added''


==Characters==
==Characters==
*[[Seventh Doctor | The Doctor]]
*[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
**Dances with [[Death]].
**Is called [[Ka Faraq Gatri]] / Destroyer of Worlds by the Daleks for destroying Skaro.
**The Doctor's mind has seven regions for his past and present selves.
 
*[[Ace]]
*[[Ace]]
**In an [[alternate timeline]] Chad Boyle bludgeons her with a brick, killing her.
**Ace also walks out onto the surface of the moon; her lungs explode.
**Is a fan of [[Happy Mondays]].
*[[Timewyrm]]
*[[Timewyrm]]
**Will always exist in some form.
**Its essence is placed in a baby by the Doctor and given to Emily and Peter Hutchings, with the name [[Timewyrm#As Ishtar|Ishtar Hutchings]].
*[[Chad Boyle]]
*[[Chad Boyle]]
**A childhood bully of Ace's.
*[[Emily Hutchings]]
*[[Emily Hutchings]]
**Mildly telepathic.
**She's an old friend of the Doctor.
**Has decided to become a novelist.
*[[Peter Hutchings]]
*[[Peter Hutchings]]
**Cambridge Mathematics professor.
*[[Ernest Trelaw]]
*[[Saul]]
*[[Anthony Rupert Hemmings]]
*[[Death]]


*[[Ernest Trelaw]]
==References==
**Current vicar of St. Christopher's (Saul).
**Knows about Saul.


*[[Saul]]
===[[:Category:Books|Books]]===
**A sentient church in Cheldon Bonniface.
* The Timewyrm tried to read [[The Green Book of Gallifrey]] and [[The Red Book of Gallifrey]].
**Pushes Hemmings' head along the moon's surface through telekinesis alone.


*[[Anthony Rupert Hemmings]]
===[[:Category:British locations|British locations]]===
* The Doctor has visited [[Cheldon Bonniface]] several times.


*[[Death]]
===[[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]]===
**Is created by the Timewyrm.
* The Doctor feels immense guilt over the deaths of: [[Katarina]], [[Sara Kingdom]] and [[Adric]].
*The Doctor's mind has seven regions for his past and present selves.
*The Doctor makes the sign of the [[Horns of Rassilon]] with his fingers.


'''The Doctors as they appear within the Seventh Doctor's mind'''
'''The Doctors as they appear within the Seventh Doctor's mind'''
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**Is enchained in the pit, but is freed by Ace.
**Is enchained in the pit, but is freed by Ace.
**He is the Doctor's conscience.
**He is the Doctor's conscience.
*[[Sixth Doctor]]
===[[:Category:Gallifrey|Gallifrey]]===
* [[Gallifrey]]'s highest peak is [[Mount Cadon]], the [[Prydonian]] Academy is on its slopes.


==References==
===[[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]]===
* The Doctor has visited [[Cheldon Bonniface]] several times.
* [[Johnny Chess]] was reviewed in the ''NME'' - 18th July 1998.
*Ace's fear of [[clown]]s is mentioned, as well as her having a lock of [[Cheetah Person]] fur in her jacket.
*[[Shreela]] and [[Midge]] are thought of and there is a vaugue reference to [[Manisha]], Ace's friend whom she mentioned when she was at [[Gabriel Chase]].
*Ace walks out onto the surface of the moon; her lungs explode.
*The Timewyrm's essence is placed in a baby by the Doctor and given to Emily and Peter Hutchings, with the name [[Timewyrm#As Ishtar|Ishtar Hutchings]].
*[[Chad Boyle]] is a childhood bully of Ace's.
*[[Emily Hutchings]] is an old friend of the Doctor, she's recently decided to become a novelist.
*[[Peter Hutchings]] [[Cambridge University]] Mathematics professor.
*[[Saul]] is a sentient church (St Christopher's) in [[Cheldon Bonniface]].
*The Doctor mentions having met [[Sherlock Holmes]] saying; ''"Just because somebody isn't real, it doesn't mean you can't meet them,"''<ref>''Timewyrm: Revelation'', pg.15</ref>


* The Doctor feels immense guilt over the deaths of: [[Katarina]], [[Sara Kingdom]] and [[Adric]].
===[[:Category:Music|Music]]===
*[[Ace]] is a fan of the [[Happy Mondays]]


* [[Gallifrey]]'s highest peak is [[Mount Cadon]], the [[Prydonian]] Academy is on its slopes.
===[[:Category:Personifications of concepts|Personifications of concepts]]===
*[[Death]] is created by the Timewyrm.
*The Doctor (literally) dances with [[Death]].


* The Timewyrm tried to read [[The Green Book of Gallifrey]] and [[The Red Book of Gallifrey]].
===[[:Category:Psychic powers|Psychic powers]]===
*[[Emily Hutchings]] is mildly [[telepathic]].
*Saul pushes Hemmings' head along the moon's surface through [[telekinesis]] alone.


===[[:Category:Races and species|Races and species]]===
* The [[Dalek]]s call the Timewyrm ''Golyan Ak Tana'', the twister of paths.
* The [[Dalek]]s call the Timewyrm ''Golyan Ak Tana'', the twister of paths.
*The Doctor is called Ka Faraq Gatri / Destroyer of Worlds by the Daleks for destroying [[Skaro]].
*The [[Timewyrm]] will always exist in some form.


* [[Johnny Chess]] was reviewed in the ''NME'' - 18th July 1998.
===[[:Category:Religion|Religion]]===
*[[Ernest Trelaw]] is the current vicar of St. Christopher's (Saul), he knows about Saul's sentience.


*Ace's fear of [[clown]]s is mentioned, as well as her having a lock of [[Cheetah Person]] fur in her jacket.
===[[:Category:Timeline|Timelines]]===
 
*In an [[alternate timeline]] [[Chad Boyle]] bludgeoned a young [[Ace]] with a brick, killing her.
*[[Shreela]] and [[Midge]] are thought of and there is a vauge reference to [[Manisha]], Ace's friend who was mentioned in ''[[Ghost Light]]''.


==Notes==
==Notes==
* This is the final novel in the Timewyrm tetralogy.
* This is the final novel in the Timewyrm tetralogy.
*Paul Cornell based much of ''Timewyrm: Revelation'' on a short story called 'Total Eclipse';
*Paul Cornell based much of ''Timewyrm: Revelation'' on a short story called 'Total Eclipse';
<blockquote>''In its original form as ‘Total Eclipse’, it was the last of a trilogy concerning Saul the sentient church, and two time travelers from a dictatorial future who’d come back to ‘fix’ the past, with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa getting in the way.  (Said Cornell, "They were the TARDIS crew I wrote mostly for.")''<ref>[http://www.voxbomb.net/?p=718 Vox Bomb - Flashback Interview: Paul Cornell] <small>accessed 17th June 2009</small></ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>''In its original form as ‘Total Eclipse’, it was the last of a trilogy concerning Saul the sentient church, and two time travelers from a dictatorial future who’d come back to ‘fix’ the past, with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa getting in the way.  (Said Cornell, "They were the TARDIS crew I wrote mostly for.")''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://voxbomb.com/post/203048207 |title=Flashback Interview: Paul Cornell |author= |date of source=2002 |website name=Vox Bomb |accessdate=11th August 2011}}</ref></blockquote>
 
*The name Mount Cadon was invented here, but has gone on to be referenced in several other stories.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oocities.org/rico.briggs/reve.html |title=timewyrm: revelation  |author= Eric Briggs|coauthors=Paul Cornell |date of source=1999 |website name=The Doctor Who Bewildering Reference Guide |accessdate=11th August 2011}}</ref>


==Continuity==  
==Continuity==  
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*This story occurs after [[NA]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]''
*This story occurs after [[NA]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]''
*This story occurs before [[DWM]]: ''[[Cathedral Heart]]''
*This story occurs before [[DWM]]: ''[[Cathedral Heart]]''
==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
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*[http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/reve.html Bewildering Reference Guide entry for '''Timewyrm: Revelation''', with notes by the author]
*[http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/reve.html Bewildering Reference Guide entry for '''Timewyrm: Revelation''', with notes by the author]


==Footnotes==
{{NA}}
{{reflist}}
 
{{Virgin New Adventure Series Box | before = [[Timewyrm: Apocalypse]] | after = [[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]}}
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Timewyrm: Revelation is the fourth book in the New Adventures series, and the fourth (and final) book in the Timewyrm ark. It was written by Paul Cornell, and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Publisher's summary

The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?

Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. He’s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothy’s skull. She dies instantly.

The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?

Plot

to be added

Characters

References

Books

British locations

The Doctor

  • The Doctor feels immense guilt over the deaths of: Katarina, Sara Kingdom and Adric.
  • The Doctor's mind has seven regions for his past and present selves.
  • The Doctor makes the sign of the Horns of Rassilon with his fingers.

The Doctors as they appear within the Seventh Doctor's mind

Gallifrey

Individuals

Music

Personifications of concepts

  • Death is created by the Timewyrm.
  • The Doctor (literally) dances with Death.

Psychic powers

Races and species

  • The Daleks call the Timewyrm Golyan Ak Tana, the twister of paths.
  • The Doctor is called Ka Faraq Gatri / Destroyer of Worlds by the Daleks for destroying Skaro.
  • The Timewyrm will always exist in some form.

Religion

  • Ernest Trelaw is the current vicar of St. Christopher's (Saul), he knows about Saul's sentience.

Timelines

Notes

  • This is the final novel in the Timewyrm tetralogy.
  • Paul Cornell based much of Timewyrm: Revelation on a short story called 'Total Eclipse';

In its original form as ‘Total Eclipse’, it was the last of a trilogy concerning Saul the sentient church, and two time travelers from a dictatorial future who’d come back to ‘fix’ the past, with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa getting in the way. (Said Cornell, "They were the TARDIS crew I wrote mostly for.")[2]

  • The name Mount Cadon was invented here, but has gone on to be referenced in several other stories.[3]

Continuity

Timeline

Footnotes

  1. Timewyrm: Revelation, pg.15
  2. Flashback Interview: Paul Cornell. Vox Bomb (2002). Retrieved on 11th August 2011.
  3. Eric Briggs; Paul Cornell (1999). timewyrm: revelation. The Doctor Who Bewildering Reference Guide. Retrieved on 11th August 2011.

External links