Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)

	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
	Ace
	The Timewyrm
	Earth, Mesopotamia, 2700 BC
	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
	John Peel
	1
	June 1991
	Paperback Book, 230 pages
	ISBN 0426203550

Publisher's Summary

Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.

Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind's long progress to the stars.

And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor’s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm.

Characters

• The Doctor
  • Has enhanced night vision.
• Ace
  • Gets temporary amnesia.
  • Sings Irish folk songs.
  • Drinks beer that tastes not quite unlike pig vomit.
• Ishtar (aka Qataka)
• Gilgamesh
  • Has wandering hands; Ace consequently wears layers to protect herself.
• Ninani
• Utnapishtim
• Agga
• Avram
• Belkeli
• Dumuzi
• En-Gula
• Enkidu
• Ennatum
• Gudea
• Lagash
• Puabi
• Ta-Nin
• Urshanabi

References

• The Chronovores name the reborn Ishtar the Timewyrm.
• The Doctor uses the the Doctor's TARDIS's telepathic circuits to delete some superfluous memories, accidentally deleting Ace's; he gives them back but accidentally gives her some of Melanie Bush's also, allowing her to remember Paradise Towers.

Notes

• This is the first novel in the Timewyrm four-novel series.
• This is the first officially licensed novel featuring the Doctor to ever exceed 200 pages in length. The only official Doctor Who-related novel to exceed this milestone before this point was Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma, in which the Doctor did not appear.
• Cover art by Andrew Skilleter.

Continuity

• The Fourth Doctor gained knowledge of the Timewyrm when he was in the Matrix in DW: The Invasion of Time; he left a time-delayed message in the TARDIS for himself.
• Ace still feels some of the after effects of the Cheetah Virus she became infected with in DW: Survival.

Timeline

• This story occurs after BFA: The Angel of Scutari
• This story occurs before NA: Timewyrm: Exodus

External Links

• Timewyrm: Genesys at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Timewyrm: Genesys at The Whoniverse
• Bewildering References Guide to Timewyrm: Genesys