The Schizoid Earth (novel)

Lethbridge-Stewart was supposed to be in the mountains of the east, but things didn't quite go according to plan. On the eve of war, something appeared in the sky; a presence that blotted out the moon. Now it has returned, and no battle plan can survive first contact with this enemy.

Why do the ghosts of fallen soldiers still fight long-forgotten battles against living men? What is the secret of the rural English town of Deepdene? Lethbridge-Stewart has good reason to doubt his own sanity, but is he suffering illness or injury, or is something more sinister going on?

Plagued by nightmares of being trapped in a past that never happened, Lethbridge-Stewart must unravel the mystery of a man ten years out of his time; a man who cannot possibly still exist.

Plot

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Characters

Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Anne Travers
Professor Edward Travers
Major James Lethbridge-Stewart
Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart
Lieutenant Ben Knight
Lieutenant Colonel Walter Douglas
Major General Oliver Hamilton
Director Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Nikola Tesla
Larry Greene
Captain Marianne Kyle
Corporal Sally Wright
Maurice Palmer
Doctor John Angus Mackay
Doctor Henrietta Beswick
Sergeant Craig
Kashchei Stravinsky

References

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Notes

This book contains a foreward by Amanda Haisman.

Continuity

This serves as a prequel to TV: Inferno, showing the origin of the Brigade Leader Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, who comes from a reality in between the Inferno Earth and the normal Earth. In this story he is only fifteen years old, and his journey from one reality to the other costs him his left eye. His first name is spelt with an 'a' - Alastair, unlike the Lethbridge-Stewart from the main reality, which is spelt with an 'i' - Alistair.
Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart is sent to look into the upcoming concert of Ed Hill, the Revolution Man, at Wembley Stadium. (PROSE: The Revolution Man)
On the Inferno Earth, it was a young Alistair who died at Golitha Falls, and not James. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)
On the Inferno Earth, Professor Travers died in 1935 during his expedition to the Himalayas, and not John Mackay. (PROSE: The Abominable Snowmen)
On the Inferno Earth, Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart never joined the Royal Air Force and thus never went MIA in the 1940s. By 1959, he is Director of External Security for the Republic of Great Britain. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)
Marianne Kyle appears in this book as a captain of the Republic Army. She would later reappear in PROSE: The Face of the Enemy after the events of TV: Inferno.
The "Russian scientist" who helps Anne and Edward Travers is described as a "stocky man, with a short dark beard that was peppered with gray", is an acquaintance of Alistair, and uses the name Kashchei Stravinsky. This implies him to be the Master, although this is never explicitly confirmed.(TV: Terror of the Autons et al., PROSE: The Dark Path)

External links

The Schizoid Earth at Candy Jar Books