Matrix (novel)

Matrix (novel)

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	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
	Ace
	The Valeyard
	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
	Robert Perry and Mike Tucker
	16
	October 1998
	Paperback Book, ? Pages
	ISBN 0-563-40596-1

You may be looking for the titular construct.

Publisher's summary

"I won't fight you."

"Oh, but you will." The voice twisted and cracked. Fury and madness tore through it. "You will fight me, Doctor!"

The Doctor is on the run from a faceless enemy that knows his every thought and move. He flees to his past, planning to leave Ace in safe hands in order to fight on alone. But his enemy has other plans, and the Doctor's history no longer exists.

The TARDIS is finally drawn to London in the winter of 1888, where the Doctor and Ace discover a dark secret from Gallifrey's past, and the name of their unseen opponent. It is Jack the Ripper.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Ace
• Ian Chesterton
• Barbara Wright.
• The Valeyard

• has mastery over the Dark Matrix

References

• the Valeyard's schemes bring the Seventh Doctor face-to-face with dark alternate versions of his other selves who have been corrupted by him, these include:
  • The First Doctor who murdered other Time Lords to depart Gallifrey in the first place. (NA: Lungbarrow)
  • The Fourth Doctor who destroyed the Daleks at their beginning. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)
  • The Fifth Doctor who allowed Peri to die while taking the antitoxin for himself. (DW: The Caves of Androzani)

Notes

• This story is a sequel to the Trial of a Time Lord.
• Perry and Tucker originally pitched this novel from the Virgin New Adventures.
• The comic book story IDW: Ripper's Curse and TV episode DW: A Good Man Goes to War provide different accounts for Jack the Ripper.

Continuity

• The Dark Matrix is remarkably similar of the Garvond. (NA: The Dimension Riders)

Timeline

• Matrix occurs after: PDA: Illegal Alien
• Matrix occurs before: PDA: Storm Harvest

External links

• Matrix at the Doctor Who Reference Guide