The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)
{{Infobox Novel|
novel name= The Gallifrey Chronicles |
image=
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series=Doctor Who -
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures |
number= 73 |
doctor=Eighth Doctor |
companions= Fitz Kreiner, Trix |
enemy= The Vore |
year= Earth, 2005 |
writer= Lance Parkin |
publisher= BBC Books |
release date= June, 2005 |
format= Paperback Book, --- Pages |
isbn= ISBN 0-563-48624-4|
previous story= To the Slaughter|
next story= Rose
Publisher’s Summary
The Doctor’s home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has other problems -- a mysterious signal is being received, a second moon appears in the sky, and a primordial alien menace waits to be unleashed...
The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation -- for justice to be done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn’t going to be able to save everyone.
Characters
References
- Faction Paradox and their attack on Gallifrey.
- The TARDIS materialises in a graveyard showing Samantha Lynn Jones’s gravestone in 2002.
- The Eye of Harmony opens briefly and a voice comes from it, (assumedly the Master, who got stuck in there during the events surrounding the Doctor's regeneration).
- Marnal makes reference to many events, characters, and places from previous novels:
- Marnal was placed in the care of a Mrs Gate in 1883, (the only Mrs Gate mentioned previously is Penelope Gate).
- K-9 is revealed to be the scratching thing behind the TARDIS walls.
- The Doctor sends K9 to the planet Espero.
- Gallifrey was said to be attacked by Omega, the Sontarans, Tannis, the Faction Paradox, Varnax, Catavolcus, and the Timewyrm.
Notes
- The events of The Ancestor Cell are...re-interpreted to take on a slightly different meaning, which in turn makes more sense…sort of, than that original book.
- Marnal lists the Eighth Doctor's companions as; Lorenzo, Delilah, Frank, Claudia, Deborah, Jemima-Katy, Miranda, Nina, Anji, and Beatrice. Of the list only Miranda (Miranda Dawkins) and Anji Kapoor can be positively identified as having previously appeared. One could assume "Beatrice" to be a reference to Trix, especially considering it's a pseudonym that she herself uses later on in the book, (Page 215) but even this is not entirely clear.
Continuity
- The Doctor's battle with the Master in DW: Doctor Who: The TV Movie is referenced.
- The events of EDA: The Ancestor Cell are revisited and analysed.
- The Klade first appeared in EDA: Father Time (and were last mentioned in EDA: Trading Futures).
- The grave for Samantha Lynn Jones seen here might contradict events in Interference - Book Two where it's implied that Sam Jones will lead a long life (beyond 22), however Samantha Lynn Jones, was Sam's original timeline (aka Dark Sam) seen last in EDA: Unnatural History.
- The Doctor (Marnal discovers) has 3 Ninth incarnations as seen in: WC: The Scream of the Shalka, DW: The Curse of the Fatal Death and DW: Rose.
- Gallifrey was attacked by; Omega in DW: The Three Doctors, the Sontarans in DW: The Invasion of Time, Tannis in WC: Death Comes to Time, the Faction Paradox in EDA: The Ancestor Cell, Catavolcus in DWM: The Neutron Knights, the Timewyrm in NA: Timewyrm: Revelation and Varnax in an unmade movie from the 1990s (detailed in REF: The Nth Doctor).
