Birthright (novel)

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Birthright is the seventeenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It was written by Nigel Robinson, published in 1993, and featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Benny.

Publisher's summary

"I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace." "I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players."

The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.

In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?

In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.

And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.

These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away.

Plot

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Characters

References

Crime

  • Springheel Jack is similar to Jack the Ripper, except Springheel is a Charrl who has emerged through a time portal.

Cults

Diseases and illnesses

  • Bernice contracts the flu.

Individuals

Languages

Locations

Planets

TARDIS

Theories and concepts

Time travel

  • The Great Divide, a temporal portal from approximately 22,000 to 1909.
  • Ace gets transported to the year 22,000.
  • Bernice gets transported to 1909.

Notes

Continuity

External links