The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)

The Taking of Planet 5
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eighth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Fitz Kreiner, Compassion
Main enemy:	Fendahl, Future Time Lords
Main setting:	Planet 5, 12 Million Years ago, Antarctica, 1999
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham
Release details
Release number:	28
Release date:	October, 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0 563 55578 5

Publisher's summary

Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And it’s alive.

Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.

Outside the ordered universe, things move. They’re hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.

In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene -- but it’s more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Fitz Kreiner
  • Still thinks of himself as "James Bond in space".
• Compassion
  • Is so dispassionate that she can calmly eat toast while observing someone conducting an autopsy.
• Professor Nathaniel Hume
  • Is actually Humonculette

References

• Museum of Things That Don't Exist (aka Professor Mildeo Twisknadine's Wandering Museum of the Verifiably Phantasmagoric)
• H. P. Lovecraft
• War TARDIS
• TARDIS cradle
• Mictlan
• Homunculette
• Urmungstandra
• The Matrix
• The Enemy
• Aspirin
• Gallifreyan Looms
• Future Time Lords
• The Demat Gun
• UNIT
• The House of the Redloom
• Fendahl Predator
• 1980's children television
• The Transformers

Continuity

• This is a sequel to Image of the Fendahl.

• Vorg the magnificent (from Carnival of Monsters) is mentioned by the Doctor whilst at the Museum of Things That Don't Exist.

• A temporal anomaly disgorges the Borad (from Timelash) and is dealt with by temporal investigators.

• Alien Bodies, Unnatural History, Interference, The Shadows of Avalon are all points where when the Doctor (and companions) have encountered elements of the Time Lord's Future War with the Enemy, and/or the Faction Paradox.
• The Doctor admits to being fascinated by 1980s children's television. Including something about "robots in disguise" (with accompanying hand gestures and "chk-chk-chk" sound effect).
• The future TARDISes refer to the Doctor's TARDIS in a reverential fashion because the Doctor "freed" his TARDIS from his control.

External links

Doctor Who Reference Guide - The Taking of Planet 5 Detailed Synopsis

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