Kursaal (novel)

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Publisher's summary

Kursaal is a pleasure world, a huge theme park for the Cronus System — or rather it will be if it isn't destroyed during construction.

Eco-terrorists want the project halted to preserve vital archaeological sites -- areas containing the last remains of the long-dead Jax, an ancient wolf-like race whose remains are being buried beneath the big-business tourist attractions.

Sam falls in with the environmentalists, and finds her loyalties divided. Meanwhile, the Eighth Doctor's own investigations lead him to believe the Jax are not extinct after all.

Cut off from the TARDIS, separated from his companion and pursued for murder, the Doctor discovers Kursaal hides a terrible secret — and that Sam is being affected by events more than anyone would guess...

Characters

  • The Doctor
  • Samantha Jones
    • Failed year 7 biology.
    • When Sam is taken over by the Jax, her eyes glow green rather than her natural blue.
    • When Sam's mind is controlled, she desires the Doctor as her consort.
    • She kills Paul Kadijk while controlled.
    • Still agonises over the Tractite she killed.
  • Security Chief Paul Kadijk.
    • Kursaal’s head of security
  • Professor Amy Saraband
    • Leader of the archaeological dig on Kursaal, hired by Gray
  • Maximilian Gray
    • Owner of GrayCorp.
    • attacked by the Jax and is infected whilst he was alive, resulting in him becoming the a Jax leader.
  • Bernard Cockaigne
    • Leader of the protest movement, HALF.
  • Claire Johnson
    • HALF Activist
    • gets killed by the Jax and becomes a Jax Drone
  • Porlock
    • assistant of Kadjik
  • Bandros
    • Kadjik's assistant in the not too distant future

References

  • The Doctor mentions the Mars-Venus run.
  • HALF are a protest group. (Their name stands for Helping All Life Forms.)

Species

Notes

  • In The Eight Doctors Sam's eyes are blue, in Alien Bodies they're green, in this novel they're green when she's possessed and blue when she's not.

Continuity

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