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companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | | companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | | ||
enemy= [[Azathoth]] | | enemy= [[Azathoth]] | | ||
year= [[Earth]], [[India]], [[Jabalhabad]], [[1843]] < | year= <ul><li>[[Earth]], [[India]], [[Jabalhabad]], [[1843]]</li></ul> <ul><li>[[Earth]], [[London]], [[1887]]</li></ul> <ul><li>[[Earth]], ''SS Matilda Briggs'', [[1887]]</li></ul> <ul><li>[[Earth]], [[India]], [[Bombay]], [[1887]]</li></ul> <ul><li>[[Ry'leh]], [[The Plain of Leng]], [[1887]]</li></ul> <ul><li>[[America]], [[San Francisco]], [[1906]]</li></ul> | | ||
writer= [[Andy Lane]] | | writer= [[Andy Lane]] | | ||
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] | | publisher= [[Virgin Books]] | | ||
release date= June, 1994 | | release date= [[June]], [[1994]] | | ||
format= Paperback Book, ? Pages | | format= Paperback Book, ? Pages | | ||
isbn= ISBN | isbn= ISBN 0-426-20415-8 | | ||
previous story= [[Theatre of War]] | | previous story= [[Theatre of War]] | | ||
next story= [[Blood Harvest]]}} | next story= [[Blood Harvest]]}} | ||
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[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] | [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] | ||
*Edits Watson's diaries (changing a few things here and there) and publishes them as fiction. | |||
[[Azathoth]] | [[Azathoth]] | ||
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* [[Shlangii]] are the most feared mercenaries in the universe. | * [[Shlangii]] are the most feared mercenaries in the universe. | ||
*The [[Shobogans]] are New Age [[Time Lord]] dropouts. | |||
*The planet [[Tersurus]] has clone banks and singing stones. | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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==Continuity== | ==Continuity== | ||
* [[The Empire of Glass]] reveals who founded the Library of St John the Beheaded. | *''[[MA]]:'' [[The Empire of Glass]] reveals who founded the Library of St John the Beheaded. | ||
:*It was first mentioned of in [[Theatre of War]]. | |||
:*It also appears in ''[[MA]]'' [[Millennial Rites]]. | |||
* [[Lloigor]] appeared in [[The Web Planet]], [[Yog-Sothoth]] appeared in [[The Abominable Snowmen]] and [[The Web of Fear]], The [[Gods of Ragnarok]] appeared in [[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]], [[Hastur the Unspeakable]] appeared in [[The Curse of Fenric]], [[Cthulhu]] appeared in [[White Darkness]]. | * [[Lloigor]] appeared in ''[[DW]]:'' [[The Web Planet]], [[Yog-Sothoth]] appeared in ''[[DW]]:'' [[The Abominable Snowmen]] and [[The Web of Fear]], The [[Gods of Ragnarok]] appeared in ''[[DW]]:'' [[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]], [[Hastur the Unspeakable]] appeared in ''[[DW]]:'' [[The Curse of Fenric]], [[Cthulhu]] appeared in [[White Darkness]]. | ||
* Holmes and Watson attend Benny's wedding in [[Happy Endings]]. | * Holmes and Watson attend Benny's wedding in [[Happy Endings]]. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na27.htm The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of '''All-Consuming Fire'''] | * [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na27.htm The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of '''All-Consuming Fire'''] | ||
* [http://www.whoniverse.org/discontinuity/NA27.php The Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide - All-Consuming Fire] | * [http://www.whoniverse.org/discontinuity/NA27.php The Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide - '''All-Consuming Fire'''] | ||
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whona27p.htm Prelude to ''All-Consuming Fire'' as published in DWM #213] | * [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whona27p.htm Prelude to '''All-Consuming Fire''' as published in DWM #213] | ||
{{Virgin New Adventure Series Box | before = [[Theatre of War]] | after = [[Blood Harvest]]}} | {{Virgin New Adventure Series Box | before = [[Theatre of War]] | after = [[Blood Harvest]]}} | ||
Revision as of 14:42, 9 November 2007
Publisher's Summary
'I’ve been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I’ve ever seen.'
England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to other worlds. Only one team can be trusted to solve the crime: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
As their investigation leads them to the dark underside of Victorian London, Holmes and Watson soon realize that someone else is following the same trail. Someone who has the power to kill with a glance. And they sense a strange, inhuman shape observing them from the shadows. Then they meet the mysterious traveller known only as the Doctor -- the last person alive to read the stolen books.
While Bernice waits in nineteenth-century India, Ace is trapped on a bizarre alien world. And the Doctor finds himself unwillingly united with England’s greatest consulting detective.
Characters
- At the Academy on Gallifrey the Doctor failed practical theology but was highly commended for landscape gardening.
- Says 19th ecntury Earth is the most alien place she's been.
- This is the first instance where it's suggested Ace lost her virginity to Sabalom Glitz.
- Blundgens Sherrigford to save Watson.
- Fancies Benny.
- The eldest Holmes brother.
- Is an agent of Azathoth.
- Edits Watson's diaries (changing a few things here and there) and publishes them as fiction.
- A god of anarchy and chaos.
- The Silurians venerated him/them.
- A cult of Shabogans also worshipped him.
- Is the weakest of the Great Old Ones.
References
- The First Doctor and Susan make a cameo at the beginning and end of the story, there he meets Sherlock's father Siger Holmes in Jaballhabad, India.
- The Third Doctor frequents the Diogenes Club.
- The Great Old Ones include: Lloigor (ended up on Vortis), Yog-Sothoth (encountered as The Great Intelligence), the Gods of Ragnarok, Hastur the Unspeakable (aka Fenric), Cthulhu (encountered by the Doctor and co in Haiti), Dagon (worshipped by the Sea Devils) and Nyarlathotep (who the Doctor hopes never to encounter).
- The TARDIS library has among its books Every Gallifreyan Child's Pop-Up Book of Nasty Creatures From Other Dimensions with four dimensional pop-ups.
- The Doctor dropped Ace early to Ry’leh to investigate.
- The Library of St John the Beheaded has been around for over 1000 years. It is located in London, St Giles Rookery.
- The Rakshassi are named after Hindu demons.
- Shlangii are the most feared mercenaries in the universe.
- The Shobogans are New Age Time Lord dropouts.
- The planet Tersurus has clone banks and singing stones.
Notes
- This novel is written from the point of view from Watson and Benny's diaries.
Continuity
- MA: The Empire of Glass reveals who founded the Library of St John the Beheaded.
- It was first mentioned of in Theatre of War.
- It also appears in MA Millennial Rites.
- Lloigor appeared in DW: The Web Planet, Yog-Sothoth appeared in DW: The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear, The Gods of Ragnarok appeared in DW: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Hastur the Unspeakable appeared in DW: The Curse of Fenric, Cthulhu appeared in White Darkness.
- Holmes and Watson attend Benny's wedding in Happy Endings.
External Links
- The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of All-Consuming Fire
- The Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide - All-Consuming Fire
- Prelude to All-Consuming Fire as published in DWM #213
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