SkyPoint was the eighth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series. It was the final novel to feature Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It's the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it's where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When Torchwood discover that residents have been going missing from the tower block, one of the team gets her dream assignment. Soon, SkyPoint's latest newly married tenants are moving in. And Toshiko Sato finally gets to make a home with Owen Harper. Then something comes out of the wall...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Rhys and Gwen have just returned from their ten-day honeymoon to Cuba.
- Owen hears Evanescence playing from one of the flats in SkyPoint.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The novel takes place at the exact same time as the short story Plant Life, both featuring Gwen's first day back to work after her honeymoon. In both Gwen tells Jack that she is retaining her name professionally.
- This book is set just over two weeks after Something Borrowed, and Toshiko mentions that it's September. However the novel Pack Animals takes place in early November, just after Halloween, and is set before Gwen's wedding in Something Borrowed.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Gwen remembers getting pregnant on her hen night (TV: Something Borrowed) and the first time she saw a Weevil in the Royal Cardiff Infirmary. (TV: Everything Changes) The reference is made to the fact that Rhys has encountered a few aliens in the past few months. (TV: Meat, Something Borrowed, COMIC: Harm's Way, PROSE: Pack Animals)
- Gwen suspects that Brian Shaw was taken by the Rift, a concept that is further explored in TV: Adrift.
- It has been two months since TV: Reset and just under two weeks since TV: Something Borrowed.
- Jack recalls his last day on the Boeshane Peninsula. (TV: Adam)
- Jack remembers his first death, by Dalek. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)
- Jack had visited SkyPoint. (AUDIO: The Conspiracy)
- The book mentions that Gwen and Rhys' honeymoon took place in Cuba, despite it being placed in Paris in TV: From Out of the Rain.
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official SkyPoint page at Penguin Books
- SkyPoint at the Doctor Who Reference Guide