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Falls the Shadow was the thirty-second New Adventures novel featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield. It was author Daniel O'Mahony's first novel, and his only contribution to the Virgin New Adventures range.

Publisher's summary

"We are deranged. We are psychopaths, sociopaths, up the garden path," said Tanith. "We are mad, and you are trapped with us."

The TARDIS is imprisoned in a house called Shadowfell, where a man is ready to commence the next phase of an experiment that will remake the world.

A stranger dressed in grey watches from a hillside, searching for the sinister powers growing within the house. A killer appears from the surrounding forest, determined to carry out her deadly instructions. In the cellar, something lingers, observing and influencing events, waiting to take on flesh and emerge. And trapped in alien darkness, the last survivor of a doomed race mourns for the lost planet Earth.

Chapter Titles

  • Prologue: Apocalypse Now
  1. The Man with the Child in His Eyes
  2. Ace of Wands
  3. Edge of Darkness
  4. Stairway to Heaven
  5. The Atrocity Exhibition
  6. The Man in the High Castle
  7. The English Assassin
  8. Anything Done for the First Time Unleashes a Demon
  9. Virtual Murder
  10. Love Among the Ruins
  11. The Masque of the Red Death
  12. Notes from Underground
  13. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
  14. The Painter of Modern Life
  15. Götterdämmerung
  16. Blood Circuit
  17. The Waste Land
  18. The World, The Flesh and the Devil

Plot

Prologue: Qxeleq awakes to find her world dead, the Hive empty and all six million people, including her mate and the embryos in her womb, gone. She is surrounded in darkness, unable to scream as she doesn't have a mouth. She wonders if she actually did survive the apocalypse.

A man in grey watches a house called the Shadowfell, encountering a girl named Rose, looking for her brother. He sneaks into the basement, tracking an anomaly, and finds her brother just before he dies, having been tortured by two balls of light. They attack and kill the Grey Man. A woman dreaming in darkness decides to call herself "Jane Page" this time.

The TARDIS travellers find the ship has been plunged into darkness, but things like life support still work, and the ship is still moving towards an unknown destination. A blinding light emerges from the time rotor and fills the console room. The TARDIS materialises in the basement of the house. The two lights know what it is and are excited.

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Characters

References

Biology

  • Bernice loses two pints of blood when she's attacked by vampire orchids.
  • The metahedron caused several mutations of animals and plants in the jungles around it, including insects with(out) extra wings, legs, and heads, and the vampire blooms.

The Doctor

Individuals

Psychology

Locations

  • The TARDIS exists outside of the real universe and so Gabriel and Tanith cannot enter it.
  • The first humanoids evolved on a world 30 billion light-years from Earth.
  • Cathedral is a metacultural engine programmed to, essentially, introduce "greyness" into places where the duality of black and white persist. It is ruled by the Mandelbrot Set after being created by the Grey Man.

Concepts

  • Winterdawn is experimenting with interstitial time based on notes by a Professor Carl Thascales, who died after driving his car into a wall, his body burned beyond all recognition.
  • Gabriel and Tanith are the suffering of the universe, but are not (yet) responsible for all of its ills. They draw their power from the structure of reality.
  • There is a Gallifreyan quote that "There is always still-time, and there is always flowing-time."
  • A war was fought against the Great Snake millions of years ago.

Notes

Continuity

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