The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)

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Publisher’s Summary

The Doctor’s home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has other problems -- a mysterious signal is being received, a second moon appears in the sky, and a primordial alien menace waits to be unleashed...

The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation -- for justice to be done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn’t going to be able to save everyone.

Characters

References

  • Marnal makes reference to many events, characters, and places from previous novels:
  • Marnal was placed in the care of a Mrs Gate in 1883, (the only Mrs Gate mentioned previously is Penelope Gate).

Notes

  • The events of The Ancestor Cell are...re-interpreted to take on a slightly different meaning, which in turn makes more sense…sort of, than that original book.
  • Marnal lists the Eighth Doctor's companions as; Lorenzo, Delilah, Frank, Claudia, Deborah, Jemima-Katy, Miranda, Nina, Anji, and Beatrice. Of the list only Miranda (Miranda Dawkins) and Anji Kapoor can be positively identified as having previously appeared. One could assume "Beatrice" to be a reference to Trix, especially considering it's a pseudonym that she herself uses later on in the book, (Page 215) but even this is not entirely clear. Missing from this list are Grace Holloway (often identified as a companion of the Eighth Doctor, and Bernice Summerfield, who served as companion in NA: The Dying Days. As both only shared one known adventure with the Eighth Doctor, they may have been overlooked in deference to companions he travelled with for longer. The list also omits the companions he travelled with in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip (i.e. Izzy Sinclair and Destrii and the Big Finish audio productions, particularly Charley Pollard and Lucie Miller (although the latter wouldn't be introduced until nearly two years after this book as published.

Continuity

  • The grave for Samantha Lynn Jones seen here might contradict events in Interference - Book Two where it's implied that Sam Jones will lead a long life (beyond 22), however Samantha Lynn Jones, was Sam's original timeline (aka Dark Sam) seen last in EDA: Unnatural History.

External Links

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