Love and War (novel)

Love and War
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace, Benny (introduction)
Main enemy:	Hoothi
Main setting:	Heaven, Joycetown
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Paul Cornell
Release details
Release number:	9
Release date:	October 1992
Format:	Paperback Book, 235 Pages
ISBN:	0426203852

Publisher's Summary

On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.

Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.

But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?

Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord's plans.

This time, has the Doctor gone too far?

Characters

The Doctor

• This is the first time the Doctor is mentioned as Time's Champion.
• He can blow fire using an oil lamp.
• Deliberately 'killed' the sixth Doctor (though he was unborn at the time) , knowing that Time would need a champion.

Ace

• Is formerly engaged to Jan by Máire.
• Leaves in shock from loosing Jan (among other things).
• She leaves the Doctor's company.

Bernice Summerfield

• Is 30 years old.
• She was raised on Beta Carisis.
• The 20th century is her favorite era.
• Benny joins the Doctor.

Jan Rydd

• Has pyrokinetic powers.
• His secret name is Aradath.

Christopher

• Is sexless due to military experiments, he has extensive mental powers.

Máire

• Was a Dalek Killer.

Roisa

Death

References

• The Doctor goes to Joycetown library on Heaven to get a book to take to the Monks of Felsecar.
• The Travellers are a group of people who originated on Earth as anarchists and unhappy people, currently there are 30 Travellers on Heaven.

• They use Puterspace instead of drugs to attain higher states of consciousness.

• Dalek eyestalks are worth 20 decacredits in bounty at an imperial base.
• The First Law of Time is a moral law as well as a legal one.
• Heaven is a planet on the edge of both Human and Draconian space and is considered neutral ground.

• It was settled after the Dragon Wars.

• Máire mentions Abslom Daak a Dalek Killer who has also met the Doctor.
• Chad Boyle suddenly started mailing everyone (from his schoo days) Christmas cards.
• Earth Reptile is the politically correct term for Silurian.
• Cruk a swear word is mentioned and used in conversation for the first time.
• The Vacuum Church believe only death and suicide can believe the pain of life.
• The Hotthi; fungoid creatures which can exist as spores or as a planet sized gass filled sphere travelling through space. They live off decaying organic matter.

• The know of the Time Lords and the Doctor.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Chad Boyle first appeared in Timewyrm: Revelation which also explains why he suddenly starts sending Christmas cards.
• Dalek Killers were first mentioned in Doctor Who Magazine comic.
• The Draconians first appeared in Frontier in Space.
• IMC is on Heaven, they were first mentioned in Colony in Space.
• Further Spacefleet experiments on people are reveled in Return of the Living Dad.
• Ace returns in Deceit.
• The origins of the work Cruk are explained in Death and the Daleks.

External Links

• Love and War Prelude By Paul Cornell
• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Love and War
• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide to Love and War