Eternity Weeps (novel)

Publisher's summary

'The flood is come! Oh God save us all; the day of judgement is come!'

Turkey, 2003: Bernice and Jason join two rival expeditions attempting to find Noah's Ark. While one team follows the Bible and its own beliefs, the other relies on a more exact science - but both paths lead to the same revelation. And, as the region moves ever closer to war, they uncover the key to a timeless mystery and a terrible secret.

The Seventh Doctor and Chris are called in to a situation fast getting out of control, as countless numbers flee a biological terror. The world is about to undergo a new genesis. While Chris gets himself a job with NASA, the Doctor must unravel the ties between Mount Ararat, the moon, and an ancient exodus.

Mankind faces apocalypse. But can the aid of a far older race, alongside companions past and present, prevent the planet being twisted into the image of a long-dead world?

Plot

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Characters

The Doctor

Can pilot a helicopter.
Kills six hundred million humans to save the Earth.

Chris Cwej

Can't bring himself to kill Liz Shaw.

Bernice Summerfield

Joins an expedition to find Noah's Ark.
Gets infected with Agent Yellow, but is cured by the Doctor.

Jason Kane

Spends one thousand years in stasis (while mildly aware of events outside of stasis) after messing around with time travel in order to try and change the future. He just makes it worse.
Is beginning to think sex with Benny is boring.

Liz Shaw

Dies from Agent Yellow. She dies cursing Chris for not euthanising her.

Imorkal

A Silurian.

References

The Cthalctose are crystal sea...things, that live for a long, long, long time (a performance of art can last 300 years), they live in sulphuric acid seas. The Cthalctose homeworld is 16 Alpha Leonis One.
Agent Yellow a Cthalctose terraforming virus which turns oxygen into sulphuric acid (including the oxygen in your body).
Bernice and Jason get divorced following a series of events. They divorce on the moon.
The Doctor sings Tobacco Road.

Notes

With this book, the Virgin New Adventures series undergoes a cover format change; the Doctor Who logo is no longer featured on the front cover.
Liz's death here is contradicted by the 2010 The Sarah Jane Adventures serial Death of the Doctor, where she is mentioned to be alive and well, and working in UNIT's Moon Base.

Continuity

Benny remembers the alternate Earth Liz Shaw from NA: Blood Heat.
Liz Shaw previously appeared in DW: Inferno, MA: The Scales of Injustice, PDA: The Wages of Sin.
In SJA: Death of the Doctor Liz was still alive in 2010.

Timeline

This story takes place after NA: Bad Therapy
This story takes place before ST: Too Rich for My Blood

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