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Night of the Humans (novel)

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Night of the Humans was the second Eleventh Doctor novel.

prose stub

Publisher's summary

"This is the Gyre – the most hostile environment in the galaxy."

250,000 years’ worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all – the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and humans, and the clock is already ticking. There’s a comet in the sky, and it’s on a collision course with the Gyre...When the Doctor is kidnapped, it’s up to Amy and “galaxy-famous swashbuckler” Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?

Plot

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Characters

References

Anatomy and physiology

Colleges and universities

  • Charlie's father mentions him going to the Lux Academy.

Cultural references from the real world

  • The Gyre humans' names are all taken from so-called "Spaghetti Westerns".
  • The human leader Django shares his name with the eponymous hero of the 1966 film; Tuco is a character appearing in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which was also released in 1966; while Manco is the name given to Clint Eastwood's "Man With No Name" in For a Few Dollars More.
  • Lake Mono, the lake of acid the humans use to execute their prisoners, may be named after Mono Lake, California, a location used in the Western High Plains Drifter.
  • Charlie plays Ella Fitzgerald's Stairway to the Stars to Amy before Amy and the Doctor leave.

The Doctor

locations

Planets

  • Amy had been expecting the 'planet' to look a more like the moon.
  • Charlie and Slipstream mention the planet of Gold, Voga, along with another Gold planet, Midas Superior (This is a reference to the ancient Greek myth of King Midas, who turned things to gold through touch). They also mention that, because of the discovery of these Golden planets, gold was now much less valuable.
  • Dirk Slipstream was once a prisoner on Prison planet Volag-Noc.
  • Amy refers to Star-Whales and 'intergalactic felons'.
  • Dirk Slipstream claims to have earned a medal for bravery during the battle of Krontep.

Spacecraft

TARDIS

  • The Doctor's TARDIS is unable to translate the Sittuun language, despite the Doctor claiming it can translate any language.

Notes

  • The smaller craft used by the Sittuun take their names from 20th Century jazz musicians. The buggy, Ella, is named after the singer Ella Fitzgerald, while the "helipod", Bird, takes its name from saxophonist Charlie Parker, whose nickname was "Bird".
  • The Gyre is located in the Battani 045 system. Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (c. 858CE - 929CE) was an Arab astronomer and mathematician.
  • This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity

Timeline

Audio release

  • The story was released as an audiobook on 4x CD read by Arthur Darvill.
  • The audiobook is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.

Gallery

External links

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