Eternity Weeps (novel)

Eternity Weeps
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Chris
Featuring:	Benny, Jason, Liz
Main enemy:	Cthalctose / Agent Yellow
Main setting:	Turkey, 2003 Tranquillity Base, 2003 16 Alpha Leonis One, 6 billion BC
Key crew
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Writer:	Jim Mortimore
Release details
Release number:	58
Release date:	16 January, 1997
Format:	Paperback Book; 14 Chapters, 246 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20497-2
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Eternity Weeps is the fifty-eighth Virgin New Adventures novel. It features the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej, Bernice Summerfield, Jason Kane and Liz Shaw. It ultimately led to the divorce between Bernice and Jason.

Publisher's summary

"The flood is come! Oh God save us all; the day of judgement is come!"

Turkey, 2003: Bernice and Jason join two rival expeditions attempting to find Noah's Ark. While one team follows the Bible and its own beliefs, the other relies on a more exact science - but both paths lead to the same revelation. And, as the region moves ever closer to war, they uncover the key to a timeless mystery and a terrible secret.

The Seventh Doctor and Chris are called in to a situation fast getting out of control, as countless numbers flee a biological terror. The world is about to undergo a new genesis. While Chris gets himself a job with NASA, the Doctor must unravel the ties between Mount Ararat, the moon, and an ancient exodus.

Mankind faces apocalypse. But can the aid of a far older race, alongside companions past and present, prevent the planet being twisted into the image of a long-dead world?

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Chris Cwej
• Bernice Summerfield
• Jason Kane
• Liz Shaw
• Imorkal
• Astronomer Royal
• Ahadi
• Bill Raelsen
• Candy DuFries
• Dilaver
• Ed Levinson
• Ellie Noble
• Goddard Schofield
• Captain Imrud Tammuz
• James Edward Allen
• Janice Tanner
• Jeremy Fielding
• Jules Noorbergen
• Kazan
• Kuresh
• Mehmet Ozer
• Major Raykal
• Sam Denton
• Colonel Samran
• Terry Sehna

References

Diseases and illnesses

• Agent Yellow is a Cthalctose terraforming virus which turns oxygen into sulphuric acid (including the oxygen in your body).
• Bernice gets infected with Agent Yellow, but is cured by the Doctor with the antidote he created called Agent Scarlet.
• Agent Yellow spreads to Ankara.

The Doctor

• The Doctor kills six hundred million humans to save the Earth.

Individuals

• Chris can't bring himself to (mercy) kill Liz Shaw.
• Liz Shaw dies from Agent Yellow. She dies cursing Chris for not euthanising her.
• Bernice and Jason get divorced following a series of events. They divorce on the moon.
• Imorkal is a Silurian.
• Bernice Summerfield joins an expedition to find Noah's Ark.
• Jason Kane is beginning to think sex with Bernice is boring.

Music

• The Doctor sings "Tobacco Road".

Species

• The Cthalctose are crystal sea things that live for a long, long, long time (a performance of art can last three hundred years). They live in sulphuric acid seas. The Cthalctose homeworld is 16 Alpha Leonis One.

Time travel

• Jason spends one thousand years in stasis (while mildly aware of events outside of stasis) after messing around with time travel to try to change the future. He just makes it worse.

Vehicles

• The Doctor can pilot a helicopter.

Notes

• With this book, the Virgin New Adventures series undergoes a cover format change; the Doctor Who logo is no longer featured on the front cover.
• Liz's death here is contradicted by the 2010 The Sarah Jane Adventures serial Death of the Doctor, where she is mentioned to be alive and well, and working in UNIT's Moon Base.

Continuity

• Benny remembers meeting a version of Liz Shaw from an alternate Earth. (PROSE: Blood Heat)

External links

• Eternity Weeps at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Eternity Weeps at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: Eternity Weeps