The Dalek Generation (novel)

The Dalek Generation
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Main enemy:	The Daleks Dalek time controller
Main setting:	Gethria, Sunlight 349, Carthedia
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books (UK) Broadway Paperbacks (US)]]
Writer:	Nicholas Briggs
Release details
Release date:	8 April 2013
Format:	Hardback (UK) Paperback (US)
ISBN:	ISBN 978-0385346740
BBC New Series Adventures
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The Dalek Generation is one of three Eleventh Doctor novels published in April 2013.

Publisher's summary

"The Sunlight Worlds Offer You A Life of Comfort and Plenty. Apply now at the Dalek Foundation."

Sunlight 349 is one of countless Dalek Foundation worlds, planets created to house billions suffering from economic hardship. The Doctor arrives at Sunlight 349, suspicious of any world where the Daleks are apparently a force for good – and determined to find out the truth. The Doctor knows they have a far more sinister plan – but how can he convince those who have lived under the benevolence of the Daleks for a generation?

But convince them he must, and soon. For on another Foundation planet, archaeologists have unearthed the most dangerous technology in the universe...

Plot

Lillian Belle, a journalist living on the Dalek Foundation world of Sunlight 349, arrives at the sight of a train crash where two locomotives have collides head on. As Lillian intervies a security guard, Daniel Ash, a Dalek arrives on the scene to investigate. Some medics with Mr Sezman, one of the drivers, approach the Dalek on the other side of the train - out of everyone's sight - to explain to it what happened. The Dalek murders them and leaves before the bodies can be found.

While the TARDIS is in flight through the Time Vortex, the Doctor receives a Hypercube, a much smaller one that he is used to. He then thinks that maybe he made it himself to send himself a message from his future. He is brought to the desert planet Gethria, where he sees a gathering of humanoids around a stone monument. They all depart as the Doctor realises the gathering was a funeral. An old woman stares at the Doctor as if she recognises him before leaving herself. The Doctor examines the gravestone and sees a toy spaceship embedded into it. He notes it was "Made in Carthedia" and then leaves. His departure is watched by the Dalek Time Controller who declares: "It is beginning..."

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• The Blakely Family
  • Sabel Blakely
  • Jenibeth Blakely
  • Ollus Blakely
  • Terrin Blakely
  • Alyst Blakely
• Klektids
  • Hogoosta
• The Daleks
  • Dalek Time Controller
  • Dalek Litigator
  • Dalek Supreme
• Lillian Belle
• Hellic Dansard
• Daniel Ash
• Mr Sezman
• Gill

References

• The Daleks establish the Dalek Foundation and the Sunlight Worlds.
• The Dalek time controller outranks the Dalek Supreme.

Notes

• This is the second appearance of the Daleks in a BBC New Series Adventure novel, the first being PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks (in which there is also mention of a Dalek Generation, although it is unrelated). A single Dalek also features in the Quick Reads novella, I Am a Dalek.
• As in COMIC: The Dalek Project, PROSE: Dark Horizons and PROSE: Plague of the Cybermen, the Doctor is travelling without a regular companion for this story. The Blakely children assist the Doctor as one-off companions.
• The standard bronze 2005 design of Dalek introduced in TV: Dalek is featured prominently throughout this story, similar to TV: Asylum of the Daleks and COMIC: The Dalek Project, instead of the New Dalek Paradigm design introduced in TV: Victory of the Daleks, although the Supreme Dalek does make an appearance.

Continuity

• The Doctor remembers the times he used a hypercube: a long time ago, (TV: The War Games) and just recently. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• This is the Dalek Time Controller's first encounter with the Doctor, and it is told that they will meet many times in the future. The Dalek Time Controller previously encountered the Sixth Doctor, (AUDIO: Patient Zero) and the Eighth Doctor. (AUDIO: To the Death)
• Daleks previously pretended to help humans in order to further their own objectives in TV: The Power of the Daleks and TV: Victory of the Daleks. They also lured the Thals into a trap by offering them friendship and food in TV: The Daleks.
• The Doctor mentions Dalek slave labour camps. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Day of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks, PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks)
• A few references to Robomen are made, including the Doctor's suggestion of raiding a Dalek ship with someone in disguise as a Roboman as in TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The Eleventh Doctor also encountered Robomen in COMIC: The Only Good Dalek. Duplicates are also mentioned. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
• At the end, the Doctor thinks about the lives his actions put in danger and decides "No more meddling". This is highly implied to be the event in which he made his decision to retire. (TV: The Great Detective) Numerous continuity points support this:
  • The reference to Dalek nanogenes and the appearance of a Dalek puppet places this story after TV: Asylum of the Daleks.
  • This means it also occurs after TV: The Angels Take Manhattan as Amy Pond and Rory Williams continued to travel with the Doctor from Asylum until Angels and they are absent here.
  • The interior of the TARDIS gives an "orange" glow like its 2010 design, rather than a blue glow following its 2012 redesign in TV: The Snowmen.

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