Invasion of the Cat-People (novel): Difference between revisions

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
m (standardising nomenclature; format of PREFIX + STORY TYPE)
Line 88: Line 88:
{{MA}}
{{MA}}
{{TitleSort}}
{{TitleSort}}
[[Category:Second Doctor novels]]
[[Category:Second Doctor novels]]
[[Category:Virgin Missing Adventure novels]]
[[Category:MA novels]]
[[Category:1995 novels]]
[[Category:1995 novels]]
[[Category:Stories set in Australia]]
[[Category:Stories set in Australia]]

Revision as of 05:53, 15 October 2011

RealWorld.png


Publisher's summary

‘Explode the buoys? But that will destroy the Earth!’
‘Oh dear, so it will. Pass on my apologies to the humans, won’t you?’

Earth has been invaded. Twice. Thousands of years ago by a race searching for a new power source. More recently by the galactic marauders known as the Cat-People, who intend to continue the work done by the earlier visitors, with devastating results.

The recently regenerated Doctor, along with companions Ben and Polly, teams up with a group of amateur ghost-hunters and a mysterious white witch on a journey that takes them from twentieth-century Cumbria to the Arabian deserts of folklore and Australia 40,000 years in the past. Can the Doctor stop the invaders and disarm the bombs left buried beneath the planet’s surface - or have the ancient Aborigines of Australia sung the seeds of their own destruction?

Characters

Cat-People

Euterpians

Professors and Students

People from Baghdad

References

  • When the Cat-People are searching around the Sol System they see signs of a lost civilisation. This could be a reference to the Ice Warriors or the Osirians.
  • The Doctor's regeneration caused the TARDIS to regenerate to some extent, shrinking fifteen centimetres.
  • Magnus (later known as the War Chief) was unconcerned about wasting regenerations, and never listened to the Doctor, who advised him not to waste them.
  • Ben finds clothes in the TARDIS wardrobe which have pockets that are bigger on the inside, much like the Doctor's own pockets.
  • There were books coated in reverse tachyon-chronons (RTC) on Gallifrey, but the Time Lord leaders decided that they were too dangerous and got rid of them.

Notes

  • At the beginning of this story, three weeks have passed since the Doctor's regeneration.
  • When commenting on the Cat-People, the Doctor mentions they are related to races outside of normal canon. These included: Lion-Men of Mongo, Caitians, Kzinti, and agents of the Aegis. He also references mercenaries from Gin-Seng and the natives of Vedela and Capella.

Continuity

Timeline

External links

prose stub