Spiral Scratch (novel)

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Spiral Scratch was the seventy-first BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It was written by Gary Russell. It featured the Sixth Doctor and Mel. This was the final novel featuring the Sixth Doctor. It is also the final Sixth Doctor adventure overall, as the ending leads directly into TV: Time and the Rani.

Publisher's summary

Carsus: the largest repository of knowledge in the universe -- in any universe, for there is an infinite number of potential universes; or rather, there should be. So why are there now just 117,863? And why, every so often, does another one just wink out of existence?

The Doctor and Mel arrive on Carsus to see the Doctor’s old friend Professor Rummas -- but he has been murdered. Can they solve the mystery of a contracting multiverse, and expose the murderer?

With the ties that bind the Lamprey family to the past, present and future coming unravelled around him, only the Sixth Doctor can stop the descent into temporal chaos. But he is lost on Janus 8. And Schyllus. And a twentieth-century Earth where Rome never fell. And...

Plot

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Characters

References

The Doctor

Astronomical objects

Individuals

  • Rummas a Time Lord and a friend of the Doctor on Carsus.
  • An alternate version of Peri Brown is said to have sacrificed her life for her version of the Doctor.
  • Among the alternate versions of Mel is a human-Silurian Hybrid known as Melanie Baal.

Locations

Science

  • Among the phenomena mentioned by Professor Rummas is Strange matter fragments.

Notes

  • Before arriving on Carsus, the Doctor encounters one of his future incarnations outside the TARDIS Library. It is not specified which incarnation it is.

Continuity

External links

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