Wild Blue Yonder (novelisation)

The Doctor and Donna are trapped on board a mysterious spacecraft. Fate of the crew: unknown. Fate of the universe if what's on board gets out: terminal.

Based on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who's 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.

Chapter titles

Prologue: Apple
Fenslaw
Coliss
Brate
Gilvane
Stond
Ratico
Vandeen
Blinss
Sensill
One
Tacsladia

Characters

(In order of appearance)

Worldbuilding

Shaun once advised Donna to do yoga when Rose was facing difficulty transitioning.

Notes

The trilogy of novelisations was announced on 14 July 2023.^[1]
A BBC Books spokesperson told Doctor Who Magazine about the excitement of being able to publish ebooks so close to a television event such as the 60th Anniversary Specials.^[2]
The cover implicitly reveals one of the twists of the story, that there are duplicates of the Doctor and Donna.
The chapter titles also allude to the mystery of the unknown language. Each chapter is revealed to have been counting down from ten to zero, with the penultimate title translated into "one" because the Doctor and Donna finally figure out the captain's plan to self-destruct the ship to defeat the not-things.

Deviations from televised story

Dialogue is switched around or slightly altered in some places compared to how it was spoken on screen.
The prologue elaborates that Isaac Newton had been up all night completing De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas, as well as the location of the scene being his family home, Woolsthorpe Manor in the Lincolnshire hamlet of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth.
The Doctor mentions that, by contrast, dropping a cup of tea into the TARDIS controls does no harm.
Donna uses part of the buggy frame to attack the Not-Donna's hand when the Not-things chase them.
There is an additional moment where Donna is startled by her reflection in a door, thinking it's her Not-thing self.
When the TARDIS rematerialises, the Doctor opens the doors by clicking his fingers.
There is an additional moment where the Doctor turns off the HADs physically on the TARDIS console and takes longer to realise he had chosen the wrong Donna.

Continuity

to be added

Gallery

The pre-artwork cover
The finalised cover
A promo picture of the unfinished The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder, and The Giggle
A promo picture of the final The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder, and The Giggle
Wild Blue Yonder audiobook