The Forgotten Army (novel)

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The Forgotten Army is one of the first three announced Eleventh Doctor novels, released on April 22, 2010.

Publisher's summary

Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack.

New York – one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth...

But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they're only three inches high. With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn't, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army?

Characters

References

  • The Doctor can cause the TARDIS to go 5 seconds out of sync with the rest of time by clicking his fingers.

Notes

  • Trinity Wells makes her first appearance in a Doctor Who novel. The Doctor comments that he has never met her, but says that when she's on the telly he knows the world is in danger. This paraphrases a quote by Russell T Davies on Doctor Who Confidential.
  • This is a 'comedic' style book.
  • There is a large amount of "toilet humour" in this story. Upon awakening, the Mammoth's first action is to defecate in spite the fact that it is actually an alien spaceship. Later on Amy slips in dung, the Mammoth farts (again, ignoring the fact that it is an alien spaceship) and the Doctor says the "Asteroid" mines of the Vykroid homeworld are actualy excrement of a large space animal that became extinct.

Continuity

Timeline

External Links

BBC Shop - The Forgotten Army