Strange England (novel)

Strange England
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace, Benny
Main enemy:	the Quack
Main setting:	An asteroid in the Jupiter belt Earth, England, London, 1873
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Simon Messingham
Release details
Release number:	29
Release date:	August 1994
Format:	Paperback Book, 276 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20419-0
Virgin New Adventures
← Previous	Blood Harvest
Next →	First Frontier

Strange England is the twenty-ninth New Adventures novel. It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield. This was Simon Messingham's only contribution to the Virgin Books range of novels. His next Doctor Who novel was the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Face-Eater in 1999.

Publisher's summary

'The more the Doctor dreams,' the Quack said, 'the more real I become. He has not yet dreamed me fully, but he will.'

When the TARDIS lands in the idyllic gardens of a Victorian country house, Ace knows that something terrible is bound to happen. The Doctor disagrees. Sometimes things really are as perfect as they seem.

Then they discover a young girl whose body has been possessed by a beautiful but lethal insect. And they meet the people of the House: innocents who have never known age, pain, or death -- until now.

Now their rural paradise is turning into a world of nightmare. A world in which the familiar is being twisted into something evil and strange. A world ruled by the Quack, whose patent medicines are deadly poisons and whose aim is the total destruction of the Doctor.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• The Doctor
• Ace
• Bernice Summerfield
• Galah
• The Quack

References

Foods and beverages

• Bernice enjoys light German wine on summer days.

Individuals

• Ace's skin is pale from being in space for so long.
• Bernice Summerfield doesn't get hay fever.

Music

• The Doctor has a moment of spoon playing.

TARDISes

• A TARDIS Protyon Unit is the reason why some TARDISes have independent thought.
• The Quack is a creation of Galah's TARDIS trouble-shooting program.

Time Lords

• Galah is a pacifist. She lived a long tedious life as a Gallifreyan sculptor.
• The Doctor and Galah both went to the Academy together but weren't close.

Notes

• A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 215
• Author Simon Messingham has commented on more than one occasion that he was unhappy with this novel.

Continuity

to be added

Footnotes

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External links

• Prelude to Blood Harvest as published in DWM #215
• Strange England at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Strange England at The Whoniverse