Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)

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Publisher's Summary

The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?

Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. He’s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothy’s skull. She dies instantly.

The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?

Characters

  • The Doctor
    • Dances with Death.
    • Is called Ka Faraq Gatri / Destroyer of Worlds by the Daleks for destroying Skaro.
    • The Doctor's mind has seven regions for his past and present selves.
  • Ace
    • In an alternate timeline Chad Boyle bludgens her with a brick (killing her).
    • Ace also walks out onto the surface of the moon; her lungs explode.
  • Timewyrm
    • Will always exist in some form.
    • Its essence is placed in a baby by the Doctor and given to Emily and Peter Hutchings, with the name Ishtar Hutchings.
  • Emily Hutchings
    • Mildly telepathic.
    • She's an old friend of the Doctor.
    • Has decided to become a novelist.
  • Ernest Trelaw
    • Current vicar of St. Christopher's (Saul).
    • Knows about Saul.
  • Saul
    • A sentient church in Cheldon Bonniface.
    • Pushes Hemmings' head along the moon's surface through telekinesis alone.
  • Death
    • Is created by the Timewyrm.

The Doctors as they appear within the Seventh Doctor's mind

  • First Doctor
    • Is the librarian and keeper of the gardens.
  • Second Doctor
  • Third Doctor
    • The seventh Doctor is sometimes terrified of him.
    • Is haunted by the realisation that the dictator in the 'Inferno' Earth was his counterpart.
  • Fourth Doctor
    • The ferryman.
  • Fifth Doctor
    • Is enchained in the pit, but is freed by Ace.
    • He is the Doctor's conscience.

References

  • Aces fear of clowns is mentioned, as well as her having a lock of Cheetah Person fur in her jacket.
  • Shreela and Midge are thought of and there is a vauge reference to Manisha, Ace's friend who was mentioned in Ghost Light.

Notes

  • This is the final novel in the Timewyrm tetralogy.
  • Paul Cornell based much of Timewyrm: Revelation on a short story called 'Total Eclipse';

In its original form as ‘Total Eclipse’, it was the last of a trilogy concerning Saul the sentient church, and two time travelers from a dictatorial future who’d come back to ‘fix’ the past, with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa getting in the way. (Said Cornell, "They were the TARDIS crew I wrote mostly for.")[1]

Continuity

Timeline

External Links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Vox Bomb - Flashback Interview: Paul Cornell accessed 17th June 2009

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