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=== [[:Category:Culture|Culture]] ===
=== [[:Category:Culture|Culture]] ===
*Chris wears an earring in his right ear, unknowingly identifying with gay culture ([[1980s]] gay culture dictated that the right was the 'gay' ear).
* Chris wears an earring in his right ear, unknowingly identifying with gay culture ([[1980s]] gay culture dictated that the right was the 'gay' ear).


=== [[:Category:Diseases and illnesses|Diseases and illnesses]] ===
=== [[:Category:Diseases and illnesses|Diseases and illnesses]] ===
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=== [[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]] ===
=== [[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]] ===
*Chris has [[sex]] with David.
* Chris has [[sex]] with David.
*Roz smokes [[cigarette]]s (as her [[30th century]] metabolism will not allow the cigarette to cause any harm to her body).
* Roz smokes [[cigarette]]s (as her [[30th century]] metabolism will not allow the cigarette to cause any harm to her body).
* [[Harry Sullivan]] is still alive in [[2015]].
* [[Harry Sullivan]] is still alive in [[2015]].
* A man in [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] clothing is featured at the end of the novel and is implied to be the [[Eighth Doctor]].
* A man in [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] clothing is featured at the end of the novel and is implied to be the [[Eighth Doctor]].


=== [[:Category:Psychic powers|Psychic powers]] ===
=== [[:Category:Psychic powers|Psychic powers]] ===
*[[Gabriel Tyler]] is a low level [[psychic]].
* [[Gabriel Tyler]] is a low level [[psychic]].


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=== [[:Category:Species|Species]] ===
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=== [[:Category:Weapons|Weapons]] ===
=== [[:Category:Weapons|Weapons]] ===
*The Doctor mentions an anti-[[Dalek]] weapon he built during the [[Shoreditch Incident]].
* The Doctor mentions an anti-[[Dalek]] weapon he built during the [[Shoreditch Incident]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==

Revision as of 02:29, 29 January 2012

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Damaged Goods is the fifty-fifth Virgin New Adventures novel, published in 1996. It features the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. The novel is notable in as that it was written by Russell T Davies, nearly a decade before he revived the Doctor Who television franchise as executive producer.

Publisher's summary

'Wherever this cocaine has travelled, it hasn't gone alone. Death has been its attendant. Death in a remarkably violent and inelegant form.'

The Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz, arrive at the Quadrant, a troubled council block in Thatcher's Britain. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved. And so, amidst the growing chaos, a bizarre trio moves into number 43.

The year is 1987: a dead drug dealer has risen from the grave, and an ancient weapon is concealed beneath human tragedy. But the Doctor soon discovers that the things people do for their children can be every bit as deadly as any alien menace - as he uncovers the link between a special child, an obsessive woman, and a desperate bargain made one dark Christmas Eve.

Plot

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Characters

References

Culture

  • Chris wears an earring in his right ear, unknowingly identifying with gay culture (1980s gay culture dictated that the right was the 'gay' ear).

Diseases and illnesses

  • Twenty years after meeting Chris, David contracts HIV1.

Gallifreyan technology

  • N-Forms exist in a pocket dimension.

Individuals

Psychic powers

Species

  • Haemovores became extinct as their evolution fed on itself.

Technology

Time Lords

  • Patrexes are a Gallifreyan Chapter of artists, aesthetes and shallow Epicureans with pretentious minds. They think there's something beautiful about the death of suns.

Weapons

Notes

  • This novel written by New Series creator Russell T Davies, features a council estate and a family named Tyler, a similarity to the Tyler family of the TV series.

Continuity

Timeline

External links

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