Peacemaker (novel)
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Peacemaker was the twenty-first novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by James Swallow and featured the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones.
Publisher's summary
The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for 'the healer'. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground, using guns that shoot bolts of energy instead of bullets...
In the town of Redwater, the Doctor and Martha learn of a snake-oil salesman whose patent medicines actually cure his patient. But when the Doctor and Martha investigate, they discover the truth is stranger, and far more dangerous. Caught between the law of the gun and the deadly plans of intergalactic mercenaries, the Doctor and Martha are about to discover just how wild the West can become...
Plot
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Characters
- Tenth Doctor
- Martha Jones
- Clades
- Jenny Forrest
- Alvin Godlove
- Hank Kutter
- Tangleleg
- Matthew Belfield
- Celeste Belfield
- Mrs Weems
- Walking Crow
- Mr Vogel
- Fess
- Loomis Teague
- Nathan Blaine
- Mrs Toomey
- Zachariah Hawkes
- Joseph Pitt
- K9
- Rose Tyler
- Mickey Smith
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Jack Harkness
Worldbuilding
- The Doctor refers to the starship Brilliant.
- The Doctor took some Nanogenes from New New York Hospital which help save a woman's life.
- The Movellans and the Racnoss are mentioned.
- The Doctor mentions defeating the Geomatide Macros.
- The Shadow Proclamation is again invoked.
- Martha Jones says she bought her jacket at Henrik's.
- The Doctor says that Jules Verne took a lot of convincing to cut out the stuff about the Silurians.
- When asking Martha what movie she wants to see, the Doctor suggests Pirates of the Caribbean VI, The Starship Brilliant Story, and Casablanca.
- The Doctor mentions Peacemakers.
- Redwater and Denver are located in Colorado Territory. Dekkerville, Ironhill and St Louis are places in the US.
- Martha remembers riding a horse in the Lake District.
- Kansas is a territory located along the Smoky Hill Trail.
- Other territories include Dakota and the Black Hills.
- The Doctor mentions Utah and Roswell.
Food and Beverages
- The Doctor orders a sarsaparilla in Redwater.
- Martha eats honey cake in Redwater. She buys corned beef sandwiches in Redhill.
Science and Technology
- The Doctor describes the metal found in Godlove's box as a fractal construction, an artificially manufactured metal, spun from an atomic lattice loom in a zero-gravity environment with a bio-organic component, cultured metastatic cellular membranes for electro-chemical data transfer and energy flux regulation.
- Similar structures are on Gagrant Necro-Harvesters and Earth Empire bio-colony transporters.
- Scans of the metal with the sonic shows signs of hyperspatial vortex fractures, and forced gravitational alignment in the molecular structure.
Notes
- This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
Continuity
- The Doctor previously visited the Wild West in TV: The Gunfighters and AUDIO: A Town Called Fortune. He will do so again in his eleventh incarnation in TV: A Town Called Mercy.
- The starship Brilliant last appeared in PROSE: The Pirate Loop.
- Martha recalls wearing a long, broad black dress a while ago and that wasn't her style. (TV: Human Nature)
- The Doctor sings the Venusian lullaby. (TV: The Curse of Peladon)
- The Doctor and Martha share another kiss, this particular incident being the first time Martha kisses the Doctor. Like their kiss in TV: Smith and Jones, it was not fully intended to be romantic, but it was indeed necessary in order to save everybody's lives.
- Martha finds Rose's jacket in the TARDIS. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
- The Doctor "borrowed" a medical kit from the hospital on New Earth when he last visited there with Rose. (TV: New Earth)
- When talking of things that could alter the minds of townsfolk, the Doctor mentions "something buried beneath a church". In his fifth incarnation, he encountered an alien that was buried behind the walls of a church and was using its psychic abilities to influence the residents of the village. (TV: The Awakening)
Audiobook
- This novel was released as an audiobook on 10 July 2008 by BBC Audio and read by Will Thorp.
Audiobook cover
External links
- Peacemaker at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Peacemaker at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: Peacemaker
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