Infinite Requiem (novel)
Infinite Requiem is the thirty-sixth New Adventures novel. It features the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield travelling alone for the first time since The Pit, following Ace's departure in the previous novel, Set Piece.
Publisher's summary
"The whole structure of the cosmos could be at stake - and the focus of the danger is here on Earth," Bernice sighed. "Charity begins at home."
Kelzen, a chaotic force in the mind of an unborn twentieth-century earthling. Jirenal, intent on conquering a future society of dreamers and telepaths. Shanstra, evil incarnate - the conflicts on Gadrell Major are her sport and the tragedies of humans are her entertainment.
They are Sensopaths, their minds attuned to the collective unconscious, their power unleashed like a wild animal into the physical world. One by one, the TARDIS has located them. While Bernice faces the life-and-death struggle of a colonial war, with only a hologram of the Doctor to help her, the Doctor himself must confront the all-powerful trinity.
Chapter Titles
- Prologue: The Wanderers
I: A Phoenix Hour
- 1: Dreams Burn Down
- 2: Some Days Are Better Than Others
- 3: Memory Lane Ahead
- 4: Don't Need No Thought Control
- 5: Damaged
- 6: Mind Over Matter
- 7: Splintering Heart
II: Broken Land
- 8: Chances Are We Are Mad
- 9: From Out of Nowhere
- 10: Womb Service
- 11: No Escape from Reality
- 12: Alive in the City
- 13: Armageddon Days
- 14: Time Out
- 15: The Dead in Mind
III: Mind Citadel
- 16: Media, Messages
- 17: Ruined in a Day
- 18: Wake Up, Little Suzi
- 19: Stupid and Contagious
- 20: Travelling Hopefully
- 21: Misguided Tour
IV: Dark Trinity Ascendant
- 22: Dreaming of Me
- 23: You Win Some
- 24: Pretty Occupied
- 25: Connected
- 26: The Quality of Mercy
- 27: Redemption
- 28: No Other Way
- Epilogue: And Study War No More
Plot
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Characters
- Seventh Doctor
- Bernice Summerfield
- Captain Darius Kieran Cheynor
- Colm Oswyn
- Horst Leibniz
- Jirenal
- Kelzen
- Shanstra
- Livewire
- Nita Bedi
- Phil Tarrant
- Sanjay
- Suzi Palsson
- Tilusha Meswani
- Trinket
References
The Doctor's items
- The Doctor gives Bernice a pyramid that projects a somewhat interactive version of himself.
Individuals
- The Doctor is afraid of dying alone and has been since Susan left.
- It's been six years since Darius met the Doctor and Bernice.
Technology
- The Time-Space Visualiser has kept a record of all the Doctor's adventures since its installation.
Species
- Sensopaths are the most powerful telepaths the Doctor has ever encountered. They are from far in the future and regard the Time Lords as legends.
Vehicles
- Phracton ground ships are powered by hymetusite.
Notes
Continuity
- Darius Cheynor first met the Doctor and friends in PROSE: The Dimension Riders.
- The Time Space Visualiser was constructed by the Doctor in TV: The Chase.
- The Doctor created a hologram which may have been interactive in TV: The Parting of the Ways, similar to the hologram in this story.
External links
- Infinite Requiem at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Infinite Requiem at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: Infinite Requiem
- Prelude to Infinite Requiem as published in DWM#223
