The Forgotten Son (novel)

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The Forgotten Son was the first novel published by Candy Jar Books and premiered their Lethbridge-Stewart series. The series was licensed by Henry Lincoln and the Mervyn Haisman estate and is set following the events of The Web of Fear.

Publisher's summary

The Great Intelligence has been defeated. And Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart’s world has changed.

For Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart his life in the Scots Guards was straightforward enough; rising in the ranks through nineteen years of military service. But then his regiment was assigned to help combat the Yeti incursion in London, the robotic soldiers of an alien entity known as the Great Intelligence. For Lethbridge-Stewart, life would never be the same again.

Now he has a mammoth task ahead of him – the repopulating of London; millions of civilians need to be returned home after being evacuated so suddenly. On top of that, he also has his engagement to think about.

Meanwhile in the small Cornish village of Bledoe a man is haunted by the memory of an accident thirty years old. The Hollow Man of Remington Manor seems to have woken once more. And in Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, Mary Gore is plagued by the voice of a small boy, calling her home.

What connects these strange events to the recent Yeti incursion, and just what has it all to do with Lethbridge-Stewart?

Plot

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Characters

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Notes

Continuity

  • There are several mentions of a secret vault in Northumberland, where the Yeti and other technology left over from the London Event are stored, (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice, AUDIO: Tales from the Vault, etc) and where Anne Travers went to work on behalf of the British Army. (PROSE: One Cold Step)
  • Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart is aware of the United Nations creating new protocols the previous year. When he contacted the Toclafane, the Saxon Master violated the first contact protocols established by the Security Council in 1968. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
  • Lethbridge-Stewart sees his future, which includes allusions to various incarnations of the Doctor, his wives (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice, TV: Battlefield) his children (HOMEVID: Downtime, PROSE: Transit) and his grandchildren. He also sees his resurrection as a Cyberman, and the final salute to the Twelfth Doctor. (TV: Death in Heaven) He does not retain any of this information, however.
  • It is suggested that the Intelligence had existed before The Snowmen. The events of the story are the earliest concrete memory that consciousness has, but it recalled being called a "great intelligence" in Tibet (where it had taken over a monks body long before The Abominable Snowmen). The the events of the story are relayed without reference to The Doctor or Clara by name, and dates are given to previously undated events. The Intelligence uses the appearance of Walter Simeon throughout the book.
  • The Intelligence takes on the appearance of Walter Simeon twice throughout the book.
  • The Great Intelligence seen in this book is the one who entered the Doctor's time stream in Name of the Doctor. It is weakened by Clara jumping in after him, and finds her defeating him at every end. He attempts to change the events of the The Web of Fear, but another encounter with Clara deters this. Realizing that she will always be there to protect the Doctor from him, he instead travels down Lethbridge-Stewart's timeline in an attempt to kill the Doctor's greatest ally. This book claims to show the final end of the Great Intelligence, but notes that the original Intelligence not from the future is still "out there."

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