Shell Shock (novel)

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Shell Shock
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Peri
Main enemy:	The Memory
Main setting:	Island G12
Key crew
Publisher:	Telos Publishing
Writer:	Simon A. Forward
Illustrator:	Bob Covington
Release details
Release number:	8
Release date:	19 May 2003
Format:	Hardback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-903889-16-2 (Standard), ISBN 1-903889-17-0 (Limited)
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Shell Shock was the eighth Telos Doctor Who novella. It featured the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown. This is the only story in Telos' novella range to feature the Sixth Doctor.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor is washed up — literally — on an alien beach with only intelligent crabs and a madman for company.

How can he possibly rescue Peri who was lost at sea the same time as he and the TARDIS? But Peri has problems of her own. "Rescued" from drowning by an intelligent sponge growth, she has been adopted by the life form as its own personal God.

As the denizens of the beach come under increasingly vicious attack, the Doctor must discover the vital truth in time to save all their lives.

Plot

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Characters

• Sixth Doctor
• Peri Brown
• Ranger
• Meathook
• Scrounger

Worldbuilding

Individuals

• The Memory explores Peri's most traumatic memories. These include her transformation on Varos, the Doctor's brief attempt to strangle her following his regeneration, Sharaz Jek's fawning over her and her near drowning on Lanzarote.
• Peri's stepfather Howard Foster sexually abused her when she was a teenager, telling her that it was their secret and that she wasn't to tell her mother Janine Foster.

Notes

Cover illustration.

• This novella featured a front piece illustration by Bob Covington.
• The novella's forward was written by Guy N. Smith.
• The characterisation of Peri in this novel was expanded in the author's short story Pincer Movement printed in the fanzine Myth Makers 14.

Continuity

• As Peri retreats into her memories she recalls:
• Being nearly drowned in Lazarote in TV: Planet of Fire.

• Encountering Sharaz Jek in TV: The Caves of Androzani.
• The Doctor trying to strangle Peri in TV: The Twin Dilemma.
• Being momentarily transformed into an avian hybrid in TV: Vengeance on Varos.

External links

• Shell Shock at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Shell Shock at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: Shell Shock