Snowfall (novel)

Snowfall (novel)

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Snowfall
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy and Rory
Main setting:	South America, Tomb of the Bear, 1934 London 2009
Key crew
Writer:	Gavin Collinson Mark B. Oliver
Release details
Printed in:	BBC Website, December 2010

Snowfall, released in its entirety as Doctor Who: Snowfall, was an December 2010 online novella published on the BBC's Doctor Who Website as part of the 2010 Adventure Calendar. It was released by chapter, in such a way that it appeared to be somewhat separate stories. However, once all chapters had been made available as a single volume, it was more obviously a unified story.

Summary

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Plot

Chapter 1: Frozen

David Kershaw notices that something is strange; it is Christmas Eve but no one is around. He then realizes that it is 8:20 p.m. and he must have fallen asleep on the train, but he realizes he is not at Waterloo, the end of the line, as he had previously thought when he left the train. The platform is covered in even snow that is inches deep as if no-one had been on the platform in several days, except at the end of the platform he can see a square patch where the snow has only just begun to cover, yet there are no tracks leading from the area. He tries to call his wife, but there is no signal on his mobile phone. Planning to wait for the next train, he spots a small cafe labeled "Refreshment Room" in which he can see the silhouettes of two people.

The only customer, called Big Jack, is in the Refreshment Room after a mistake when reading the announcements for his train. Behind the counter is a red-haired girl and a man in a porter's uniform. Jack is surprised when David enters the room and orders tea. David, seemingly angry at seeing Jack, pulls up a chair to his table and asks how long it has been since they last saw each other. He estimates it is about ten years, which Jack says is "not long enough". David, believing it suspicious that the two of them would end up in the middle of nowhere, says that the square in the snow outside looked about the size of the TARDIS. To David's astonishment, Jack understands the reference and knows about the Doctor as well, from an adventure he begins to tell.

Chapters 2 and 3: Cold Snap

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Chapter 4: The Thaw

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Chapters 5 and 6: Vampire Hurricane

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Chapter 7: Station Pressure

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Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Rory Williams
• David Kershaw
• Big Jack
• Louie Rollins
• Millie Peterson
• Aunty Rachael
• Hawke Lyttle the Third
• General Marze

References

• The Doctor was fighting the Gendhi on Visperon when he was called by Millie Peterson.
• The sudden freeze is caused by a mother and young Brakari.
• The Doctor hitched a lift from Bom-borradohs.
• Until the events of the story, the Doctor had never had couscous.

Notes

• Because of the fact that this story was originally published by chapter, its chapter titles have more significance than the typical work of prose fiction. In order, the chapters were: "Frozen", "Cold Snap, Part One", "Cold Snap, Part Two", "The Thaw", "Vampire Hurricane, Part One", "Vampire Hurricane, Part Two", and "Station Pressure". Most were written by Collinson; Oliver wrote "Cold Snap".

Continuity

• Louie Rollins and Millie Peterson from The Night After Hallowe'en reappear. Several references to the adventure is made.
• The Doctor mentions how Amy Pond ran away on her wedding night, as seen in The Eleventh Hour.
• When attacked by the vampire children, the Doctor tells them to go to their room, as he tried in The Doctor Dances. This time, it doesn't work.

Timeline

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External links

• The entire illustrated text of Snowfall