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|series=[[BBC Torchwood novels]] | |series=[[BBC Torchwood novels]] | ||
|number= 6 | |number= 6 | ||
|main character=Captain [[Jack Harkness]] | |main character=Captain [[Jack Harkness]] | ||
|featuring= Gwen Cooper | |featuring= Gwen Cooper | ||
|featuring2= Owen Harper | |featuring2= Owen Harper | ||
|featuring3= Ianto Jones | |featuring3= Ianto Jones | ||
|featuring4= Toshiko Sato | |featuring4= Toshiko Sato | ||
|enemy= [[Pwccm]]; [[The Dark (The Twilight Streets)|The Dark]]; [[Cafard Manger]] | |enemy= [[Pwccm]]; [[The Dark (The Twilight Streets)|The Dark]]; [[Cafard Manger]] | ||
|setting= [[Cardiff]], [[August]] [[2008]] | |setting= [[Cardiff]], [[August]] [[2008]] | ||
|writer= [[Gary Russell]] | |writer= [[Gary Russell]] | ||
|publisher= BBC Books | |publisher= BBC Books | ||
|release date= [[6 March (releases)|6 March]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]] | |release date= [[6 March (releases)|6 March]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]] | ||
|format= Hardcover Book, 256 Pages | |format= Hardcover Book, 256 Pages | ||
|isbn= ISBN 1-84607-439-8 | |isbn= ISBN 1-84607-439-8 | ||
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* The phrase ''Turn Left'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'') is used frequently to describe the events leading to an alternate future. | * The phrase ''Turn Left'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'') is used frequently to describe the events leading to an alternate future. | ||
* [[Bilis Manger]] predicts Owen's death on a couple of occasions, accompanied by a spectral image of the gun that kills him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'') | * [[Bilis Manger]] predicts Owen's death on a couple of occasions, accompanied by a spectral image of the gun that kills him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'') | ||
* Bilis Manger also appears to predict Ianto's death ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four]]'') while also hinting something about him by asking has anyone ever known who and what he really was. | * Bilis Manger also appears to predict Ianto's death ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]'') while also hinting something about him by asking has anyone ever known who and what he really was. | ||
* Bilis Manger states that Jack's evil is Abaddon's good. This is similar to a statement made by [[Sutekh]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]''. | * Bilis Manger states that Jack's evil is Abaddon's good. This is similar to a statement made by [[Sutekh]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]''. | ||
* Ianto mentions the last time Jack disappeared. Jack counters this by saying the team got a nice trip to [[Tibet]] out of it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') | * Ianto mentions the last time Jack disappeared. Jack counters this by saying the team got a nice trip to [[Tibet]] out of it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') | ||
Revision as of 21:03, 12 August 2019
The Twilight Streets was the sixth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.
Publisher's summary
It's the start of a Cardiff autumn - the days are getting shorter, the dark evenings settling in. There's a part of Cardiff that no one goes to much. No crime, no murders, just they stay away. A collection of old rundown houses and gloomy streets. Something's not quite right there, something is off-kilter. Except now, the Council are renovating the area. And a new company have been employed to do this. And look: they're going to organise street parties to show off the gentrified area. Clown and face-painters for the kids, street magicians for the adults. None of this is Torchwood's problem. Except that Tosh recognises the man sponsoring the street parties when she's passing one day: Bilis Manger!
Plot
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Characters
- Captain Jack Harkness
- Gwen Cooper
- Toshiko Sato
- Owen Harper
- Ianto Jones
- Bilis Manger
- Idris Hopper
- Rhys Williams
- Dr Tilda Brennan
- Llinos King
- Greg Bishop
- Rhydian
- Eric Lawson
- Cafard Manger
- Gideon Tarry
Alternate timeline
References
- Alan Turing made a Rift Predictor for Torchwood Three called The Bronze Goddess.
- Jack reflects that an ancestor of his must be walking about on Earth right now - then realises he's not actually sure if he's descended from humans.
- Jack once met a Hoix in the Sidings.
- Charlie Gaskell's team is stated to have first discovered and used Torchwood's alien cryo-tech in 1906.
- Silas Morgan died during the Tretarri fire.
Notes
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
Continuity
- The main story takes place between TV: Meat and TV: Reset (Rhys is aware of Torchwood and Owen is alive), although the featured alternate timeline takes place after TV: Reset as Owen is dead and Gwen and Rhys are married.
- The alternate future Rhys and Gwen make reference to his saving her life with the singularity scalpel. (TV: Something Borrowed)
- In the alternate timeline, Gwen and Rhys have a son whom they name Jack Ianto Geraint Williams, after Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, and Gwen's father Geraint. In the real timeline, they will have a daughter, Anwen. (TV: The New World)
- Idris Hopper, Margaret Blaine's secretary in TV: Boom Town is a major character in this novel.
- The main story takes place circa August 2008. Idris and Jack's conversation establishes that it has been 22 months since they last met, and that their last meeting was a month after TV: Boom Town. Boom Town took place circa September 2006, being six months after TV: World War Three.
- Toshiko Sato was responsible for The Toaster Incident, (TV: Exit Wounds) plus Tosh and UNIT "...are not mates". (TV: Fragments)
- An explanation is given that during the events of TV: Boom Town, Captain Jack confined the team to the Hub to stop them meeting his past self and contaminating his timeline.
- Rhys Williams and Gwen Cooper are making the final plans for their wedding. (TV: Something Borrowed)
- The phrase Turn Left (TV: Turn Left) is used frequently to describe the events leading to an alternate future.
- Bilis Manger predicts Owen's death on a couple of occasions, accompanied by a spectral image of the gun that kills him. (TV: Reset)
- Bilis Manger also appears to predict Ianto's death (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four) while also hinting something about him by asking has anyone ever known who and what he really was.
- Bilis Manger states that Jack's evil is Abaddon's good. This is similar to a statement made by Sutekh in TV: Pyramids of Mars.
- Ianto mentions the last time Jack disappeared. Jack counters this by saying the team got a nice trip to Tibet out of it. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
External links
- Official The Twilight Streets page at Penguin Books
- The Twilight Streets at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
