The Blue Angel (novel)

The Blue Angel
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eighth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Fitz Kreiner, Compassion
Main enemy:	Daedalus
Main setting:	The Enclave
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writers:	Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad
Release details
Release number:	27
Release date:	September, 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-55581-5

Publisher's summary

This is a story about Winter...

As the Doctor becomes involved in affairs aboard the Federation Starship Nepotist, his old friend Iris Wildthyme is rescuing old ladies who are being attacked by savage owls in a shopping mall.

And, in a cat’s cradle of interdimensional Corridors lies the Valcean City of Glass, whose King Dedalus awaits the return of his Angel son and broods over the oncoming war...

Characters

• The Doctor
• Fitz Kreiner
• Compassion
• Iris Wildthyme
• Sally
• King Daedalus
• Belinda
• Big Sue
• Canine
• Emba
• Garrett
• Icarus
• Maddy sharp
• Marn
• Nesta
• Robert B. Blandish
• Timon

References

• The Doctor may have a fat future incarnation who dresses in a Napoleon hat, waistcoat and eye patch, and has a large moustache.
• Daleks
• Cybermen
• Hyspero
• Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS
• Galactic Federation
• Samantha Jones
• The Fourth Doctor has visited Valcea.

Notes

• Each chapter title mirror's the first few words of the first sentence...giving chapter 25 the chapter title "Iris made Fitz come..."

• The Blue Angel's various chapters contains instances of metafiction, in that the chapters which seem to take place within the Obverse reference fictional events as fiction, and asks questions about the link between 'reality' and 'fiction' within its own fictional universe.

• There are also questions (and/or jokes) about Iris Wildthyme's status as a metafictional character.

• The Blue Angel has been adapted into a script (The Blue Angel Adapted by Piers Britton) for use in a university course.

Continuity

• Iris Wildthyme previously encountered the Eighth Doctor in The Scarlet Empress, where Iris regenerated into her current form.

• Mad Dogs and Englishmen, is the next appearance of Iris Wildthyme.

• The results of the Doctor connecting Compassion's receiver through the TARDIS fully come to pass in The Shadows of Avalon.

Timeline

• This story takes place after EDA: Interference - Book Two (Hour of the Geek)
• This story takes place before EDA: The Taking of Planet 5

External links

Doctor Who Reference Guide - The Blue Angel detailed Synopsis