The Forgotten Army (novel)

The Forgotten Army
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Brian Minchin
Release details
Release number:	39
Release date:	April 22, 2010
Format:	Hardcover Book, --- Pages

The Forgotten Army is one of the first three announced Eleventh Doctor novels, released on April 22, 2010.

Publisher's Summary

Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack.

New York – one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth...

But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they're only three inches high. With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn't, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army?

Characters

• The Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Sam Horwitz
• Polly Vernon
• NYPD Officer Oscar Henderson
• NYPD Commander Jackie Stebbins
• Trinity Wells
• Vykoids

References

• The Doctor can cause the TARDIS to go 5 seconds out of sync with the rest of time by clicking his fingers.

Notes

• Trinity Wells makes her first appearance in a Doctor Who novel. The Doctor comments that he has never met her, but says that when she's on the telly he knows the world is in danger. This paraphrases a quote by Russell T Davies on Doctor Who Confidential.
• This is a "comidic" style book.
• There is a large ammount of "Toilet Humor" in this story. Upon awakening, the Mamoths first action is to poo (Despite the fact that it is actualy an alien spaceship) later on Amy slips in dung, The Mamoth farts (again, ignoring the fact that it is an alien spaceship) and the Doctor says the "Asteroid" mines of the Vykroid homeworld are actualy excriment of a large space animal that became extinct.

Continuity

• The Doctor makes reference to the last time he was in New York City (DW: Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks).
• References are made to nobody feeling "safe at Christmas", following recent events.
• Barack Obama is mentioned as being President of the United States of America, following on from his appearance in DW: (The End of Time).
• Joe Hudson's father still talks about the time Joe "froze and started chanting" (TW: Children of Earth: Day One)
• Colonel Mace of UNIT is mentioned, and is still in Vancouver.
• The Doctor mentions all the clocks resetting to zero (DW: The Eleventh Hour) - this was apparantly due to a computer fault.
• A Judoon, three Graske and a Cat Person are among the aliens eating at a New York Diner.

Timeline

• This story occurs after DW: Victory of the Daleks

External Links

BBC Shop - The Forgotten Army