SkyPoint (novel)

SkyPoint
Main character(s):	Captain Jack Harkness
Featuring:	Gwen Cooper Toshiko Sato Owen Harper Ianto Jones Rhys Williams
Main enemy:	Besnik Lucca
Main setting:	Earth, Wales, Cardiff
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Phil Ford
Release details
Release number:	8
Release date:	2nd October, 2008
Format:	Hardcover Book, 251 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84607-575-0

Publisher's summary

SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It's the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it's where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When Torchwood discover that residents have been going missing from the tower block, one of the team gets her dream assignment. Soon, SkyPoint's latest newly married tenants are moving in. And Toshiko Sato finally gets to make a home with Owen Harper. Then something comes out of the wall...

Characters

• Captain Jack Harkness
• Gwen Cooper
• Toshiko Sato
• Owen Harper
• Ianto Jones
• Rhys Williams
• Besnik Lucca
• Brian Shaw
• Carmen
• Ewan Lloyd
• Wendy Lloyd
• Alison Lloyd

References

• Harwood's Haulage

• Gwen mentions Rhys' job. Harwood's use Freightliner trucks.

• Gwen keeps her maiden name for work purposes
• Jack dies twice
• Rhys and Gwen have just returned from their 10-day honeymoon to Cuba.

Notes

• The novel takes place at the exact same time as the short story TWM: Plant Life, both featuring Gwen's first day back to work after her honeymoon and in both Gwen tells Jack that she is retaining her name professionally.
• Tosh has gone through the records of past team members and had noted all had died 'on the job'. But in TWN: Trace Memory it indicates Charles Cromwell leaves Torchwood in 1975 and lived for another 30 years.

Continuity

• Gwen remembers getting pregnant on her hen night (TW: Something Borrowed), the first time she saw a Weevil in the Royal Cardiff Infirmary (TW: Everything Changes), the reference is made to the fact that Rhys has encountered a few aliens in the past few months. (TW: Meat, Something Borrowed, TWM: Harm's Way, TWN: Pack Animals)
• Gwen suspects that Brian Shaw was taken by the Rift, a concept that is further explored in TW: Adrift.
• It has been two months since TW: Reset and just under two weeks since TW: Something Borrowed.

Timeline

• SkyPoint occurs between: TWN: Something Borrowed and TW: Exit Wounds

External links

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