The Star Beast was the first of three Target novelisations based upon the 2023 specials of Doctor Who,[1] published on 30 November 2023[2] by Target Books and written by Gary Russell.[1][3]
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Star Beast (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
Publisher's summary
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Chapter titles
- The Hunt
- The Star Beast
- The Psychedelic Sun
- Hour of the Beast
- Revenge of the Wrarth
- Countdown to Apocalypse
- Here We Go Again
Deviations from televised story
- The milkman who appeared in The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], here named as Stew Ferguson, is given a central role in the story.
- The exact state of Donna's memories after having everything related to the Doctor removed is expanded on;
- From Donna's perspective, Lance Bennett simply disappeared on their wedding day, and her family removed all mention of him from her social media.
- Sylvia, Shaun and Wilf banned all mention of science fiction to prevent Donna being at risk of remembering the Doctor.
- Fudge and Rose mention their friend Sharon Allen.
- It is mentioned that the Wrarth Warriors are working under the authority of Judge Scraggs.
- Fudge is stated to be working towards a new controller for his PlayStation.
Characters
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Worldbuilding
- The Nobles' home address is 23 Bachelor Road.
Notes
- The trilogy of novelisations was announced on 14 July 2023.[1]
- The novelisation was released as an eBook on 30 November 2023,[2] and as a paperback on 11 January 2024.[3]
- This novelisation was released as an audiobook on 1 February 2024,[4] complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Jacqueline King.
- The novel ends with a dedication to every single person to write a Doctor Who book who had died at the time of publication.
- 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 2023 specials.[2]
Continuity
- Stew remembers the events of The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]/Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"], mentioning "that time all them planets appeared in the sky".
- Stew recalls that his grandfather was a police officer after the war; evidently PC Ferguson from The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"].
- The Doctor sees Megabyte City, the shop that Rose Tyler saw being looted in The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], which has long since gone out of business and remains boarded up.
- Wilf has since thrown away his copy of Joshua Naismith's Fighting the Future, the book Donna gave him for Christmas in The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"].
Gallery
The pre-artwork cover
The finalised cover
A promo picture of the unfinished covers for The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder, and The Giggle
A promo picture of the final covers for The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder, and The Giggle
The pre-artwork audiobook cover
The artwork audiobook cover
External links
- Official The Star Beast page at Penguin Books