Consequences (anthology)

Consequences
Main character(s):	Captain Jack Harkness
Main setting:	Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Joseph Lidster James Moran Andrew Cartmel David Llewellyn Sarah Pinborough
Release details
Release number:	15
Release date:	15 October 2009
Format:	Hardcover Book
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84607-784-5
BBC Torchwood novels
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For the short story collection, see Decalog 3: Consequences.

Consequences was the fifteenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series. Unlike previous releases, this book takes the form of short stories by five authors -- the first time such a format has been used for Torchwood.

Publisher's summary

Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre, and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a shopping center? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto's actions at a local publisher have a cost for Torchwood more than half-a-century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past...

Individual Stories

Title	Author	Featuring
The Baby Farmers	David Llewellyn	Emily Holroyd Charles Gaskell Alice Guppy Captain Jack Harkness
Kaleidoscope	Sarah Pinborough	Toshiko Sato Gwen Cooper Owen Harper Ianto Jones
The Wrong Hands	Andrew Cartmel	Captain Jack Harkness Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones
Virus	James Moran	Captain Jack Harkness Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Detective Kathy Swanson Rhys Williams Nina Rogers
Consequences	Joseph Lidster	Captain Jack Harkness Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Nina Rogers

Originally released cover art

References

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Notes

• This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity

• Among the incidents recalled by Nina Rogers are the bombing of Cardiff (TV: Exit Wounds), the Dalek invasion (TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End), an astrologer on TV taking people over through their star signs (TV: Secrets of the Stars), a serial killer targeting people with singing talent (PROSE: Into the Silence), and the zombie attack (PROSE: Bay of the Dead).

Notes

• The originally released cover art for the book only credited three authors: Moran, Lidster and Cartmel. Additional names were added to the cover when BBC Books made its official release announcement in July 2009. BBC Books also released a revised version of the cover art.