Bullet Time (novel)
Bullet Time was the forty-fourth novel in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures series. It was written by David A. McIntee, released 6 August 2001 and featured the Seventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.
Sarah was not travelling with the Doctor; rather the Doctor's actions drifted into Sarah's contemporary life.
Publisher's summary
"You're not the Doctor I knew."
"Perhaps you never knew the Doctor."
Hong Kong 1997: the handover to Chinese rule is imminent, and investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith is on the trail of corruption in the Far East.
Street gangsters lurk round every corner. And when one decides to confide in Sarah, she is thrown headlong into danger. What are UNIT doing in Hong Kong, and why are they following missing backpackers? What is causing a spate of strange and unnatural deaths? And how is Sarah's old and trusted friend the Doctor involved? More importantly, whose side is he on?
The truth can now be told, and the outcome of Sarah's investigations revealed. But will her world ever be the same again?
Plot
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Characters
- Seventh Doctor
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Ah Fei
- Ah Wing
- Bonnie Ling
- Borisovich
- Chiu
- Danny Taylor
- Davis
- Emily Ko
- Fiona Clark
- Gennady Morozich
- Gibson
- Harris
- Hong Yi Chung
- Julie Palmer
- Eddie Siao
- Katie Siao
- Kurt Williams
- Kutzov
- Kyle
- Lung Tau
- Mark Sing
- Nomura
- Russell Barry
- Tom Ryder
- Tranh
- Tsang
- Tse Hung
- Yue Hwa
Worldbuilding
- The Seventh Doctor has been drug dealing with aliens. He is just below the head of the Chinese mafia.
Vehicles
- The Qe'shaal was shot down by the USS Westmoreland.
Notes
- Although they are never mentioned by name, the aliens that appear on this novel are (or are similar to) the Tzun. The Tzun was introduced in First Frontier which was also written by David McIntee.
- It is implied that Sarah Jane Smith may have died at the end of this novel. It was eventually revealed that she did, in fact, die. Her death, along with other former companions of the Doctor, had been engineered by the Council of Eight. Fortunately, the Eighth Doctor defeated the Council, averting the alterations that the Council had made to the timeline, and undoing the deaths of all the companions they had killed, including Sarah. (PROSE: Sometime Never...) Later appearances by her confirmed her survival. (TV: School Reunion)
- This is the only BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel to feature the Seventh Doctor but not Ace.
- David McIntee came up with Tom Ryder's name from having the same initials with Star Trek: Voyager actor Tim Russ.
Continuity
- Iris Wildthyme is mentioned as one of UNIT's scientific advisers, although she is currently on vacation. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two)
- The Doctor speaks about Al Capone as an old friend. (PROSE: Blood Harvest)
- General Kyle is possibly Commander Marianne Kyle from The Face of the Enemy and The Schizoid Earth both of which were also written by David McIntee.
External links
- Bullet Time at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Bullet Time at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: Bullet Time
