Byzantium! (novel)

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Publisher's summary

"Life is cheap in Byzantium. Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are."

Byzantium. The imperial city - rising dramatically, as if by a trick of the light, from the peninsula of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Its domes and towers and minarets overlook a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder.

Romans, Greeks, Zealots, Pharisees ... all meet in the market squares of the great city, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife.

Into this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilisation of the Roman Empire. But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval. In the eye of the hurricane they must each face the possibility of being stranded, alone and far from their own times, in an alien culture bunker.

Characters

References

  • There is a flash-forward scene which reveals Ian and Barbara will have a son; John Alydon Ganatus Chesterton.
  • The Doctor has faced the "fifty-eight terrors of the universe".
  • The Doctor has visited Mondas.
  • The Doctor has been traveling in the TARDIS for 60 years, making him 296 during this story.

Notes

Continuity

  • The novel reveals that Vicki's last name is Pallister; it was never mentioned in any televised episode.
  • Vicki states that her mother wanted to call her Tanni, but her father preferred Vicki. This is a sly reference to the fact that the new companion's name in DW: The Rescue was originaly going to be Tanni.


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