Interference - Book Two (novel)

Interference - Book Two
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eighth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner
Main enemy:	The Faction Paradox The Remote
Main setting:	Earth, 1996
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Lawrence Miles
Release details
Release number:	26
Release date:	August, 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0 563 55582 3

Publisher's Summary

They call it the Dead Frontier. It’s as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.

But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown. The past is meeting the present, cause is meeting effect, and the TARDIS crew is about to be caught in the crossfire.

The Third Doctor. The Eighth Doctor. Sam. Fitz. Sarah Jane Smith. Soon, one of them will be dead; one of them will belong to the enemy; and one of them will be something less than human...

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Third Doctor
  • Is infected with a Faction Virus.
  • Is shot and regenerates on Dust.
• Sam Jones
  • Stays with Sarah Jane Smith.
• Fitz Kreiner
  • Joins the Faction Paradox, and ends up becoming Father Kreiner.
  • Is restored by the TARDIS using a remembrance tank.
• Sarah Jane Smith
• K-9 Mark III
• Father Kreiner
  • Is who Fitz Kreiner became after a century (or more) in the Faction Paradox.
  • Had a dwarf star alloy glove.
• Kode
  • Is what Fitz Kreiner became after a century or re-remembering.
• Compassion
• Guest
• Magdalena
  • Shoots the third Doctor.
  • Merges with Number 13 and the planet Dust.
• I.M. Foreman (Gallifreyan)

References

• UNIT call the Doctor to Earth via the Space Time Telegraph.

• Fitz is placed in The Cold and is not removed until some time in the future on the colony Ordifica, he escapes when the colony is attacked with the Faction Paradox and joins The Remote.

• Anathema is situated on the side of a giant warship which has spent over a century travelling through space towards Earth.

• Quiescia is in the same system as Ordifica.

• The Cold may be composed of something similar to Validium.

• A Faction Warship (created from the body of a Dæmon) travels to the planet Dust to deliver the Faction Virus and watch as events unfold there.

• There are some enlightening ideas/images/narrative exploring elements of Rassilon, Ancient Gallifrey, the war against the vampires.

• I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show is a complex space-time event.

• The Eighth Doctor talks with I.M. Foreman in zn attempt to get events straight in his mind.

Note

• There is some issue with whether the Doctor regenerated on Dust and the affects on the rest of his regenerations, this is addressed (partially in the novel) and partially in EDA: The Ancestor Cell.

Continuity

DW: Revenge of the Cybermen, EDA: Seeing I

• Alien Bodies was the first appearance of the Faction Paradox.

• Sam was put through the emotional and temporal wringer in Unnatural History.

• At the end of Autumn Mist Sam told the Doctor she wanted to go home.

• The novel / story is continued from Interference - Book One.

• The Blue Angel is the next novel and the first novel to show Compassion as a genuine companion.

• The Taking of Planet 5 and The Shadows of Avalon illustrate Compassion's development involving her receiver.

• The Ancestor Cell brings all that happens in this novel (and those in between) to a conclusion.

• DW: Silver Nemesis shows validium and exactly what it is.

• EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles attempts to explain / re-interpret many of the events that lead up to and followed this novel.

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Interference: Book Two detailed synopsis