The Glamour Chase (novel)
Publisher's summary
‘Why are you here? I mean – who are you, exactly?’
An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... And – as the Doctor, Amy and Rory realise – another place. Another planet. But if Enola Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilisation, how come she isn’t famous? Why has Rory never heard of her? Added to that, since Amy’s been travelling with him for a while now, why does she now think the Doctor is from Mars?
As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be literal fabrications – and very deadly indeed. Who can the Doctor believe when no one is what they seem? And how can he defeat an enemy who can bend matter itself to their will? For the Doctor, Amy and Rory – and all of humanity – the buried secrets of the past are very much a threat to the present...
An alien spaceship belonging to the Weave crashes, and puts them into hibernation. A young boy, Wulf, touches the craft and his given the burden to live forever. Hundreds of years later, just after the First World War, Olly has just got engaged to his partner Daisy. However, aliens arrive, searching for the Weave and kill everyone, including Daisy, bar Olly, who is their new beacon. Half a decade later, the Doctor finds himself at the bottom of a hill in sheep dip. Rory is there too, and he discovers he fell from the TARDIS down a hill and into some sheep dip. Finally picking himself up, the Doctor rescues Rory from two farmers, Tom Benson and Nathaniel Porter, and Porter offers them a place to stay at the Manse. The village does not have a church, and Nathaniel reveals it is an old name for the large manor. On their way to the Manse, Amy joins the pair after Benson tells her where they are. She tells them that she now knows Benson on a first name basis, which makes Rory jealous. They investigate the Manse, and meets an old friend of the previous Mrs Porter, Olly Marks. The Doctor likes Olly, but he has a fit and says they are coming. The Doctor wants to investigate the town and the archeological dig that is going on on the school field, run by Nathaniel's second wife, Enola Porter. Rory goes to the library, where he meets Nancy Thirman, the mysterious librarian. However, when he looks for her later she is a load of wool. He runs back to alert the Doctor, who is with a man called Old John and Olly. Amy goes to visit Tom Benson (Rory is jealous), but he leads her to a wood where he is blacked out and taken to a mysterious place. The crashed Weave tell her she will go to sleep while a Weave will take her place to find out more about the Doctor and Rory. The Doctor learns more about Olly's past, and Rory arrives and diagnoses him PTSD (Post-Tramatic Stress Disoder). Amy arrives (Weave Amy) and the Doctor susses her out and meets the Weave. They
Characters
- The Doctor
- Amy Pond
- Rory Williams
- Enola Porter
- Nathaniel Porter
- Oliver Marks
- Daisy Conlan
- Nancy Thirman
References
- When listing the greatest archeologists, the Doctor mentions Howard Carter, Indiana Jones, Benny Summerfield, and Enola Porter.
- When seeing a drawing of himself the Doctor says that the old brown suit that appears in the picture he's "not fitted into for a while". Which is probably a reference to the outfit worn by his previous incarnation.
Notes
- The original title was Adorable Illusion, but the previews in the books Apollo 23, Night of the Humans and The Forgotten Army confirmed that the title was changed to The Glamour Chase.
- Glamours previously appeared in Ghosts of India.
Continuity
- The last pages contain references to Rio de Janeiro where the Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams planned to go to at the beginning of The Hungry Earth.
Timeline
- This story occurs after: DW: Vampires of Venice
- This story occurs before: DW:The Hungry Earth
External links
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