The Taking of Chelsea 426 (novel)

The Taking of Chelsea 426

Key crew

Publisher:

[[publisher::BBC Books]]

Writer:

David Llewellyn

Release details

Release number:

Release date:

3 September, 2009

Format:

Hardcover, 241 Pages

ISBN:

ISBN 978-1-84607-758-6

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Published in September 2009, The Taking of Chelsea 426 was one of the last set of three original novels published featuring the Tenth Doctor in the standard BBC New Series Adventures line.

Publisher's summary

The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so the Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem.

As the Doctor investigates, he becomes more and more worried. Who is shopkeeper Mr Pemberton acting so strangely? And what is Professor Wilberforce's terrible secret?

They are close to finding the answers when a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, they're not here to arrange flowers..

Characters

References

The Rutans and the Sontarans are present. The Doctor says that they have been at war for around fifty thousand years.
According to The Doctor (on page 54) it is early in the 26th Century ("...about due for the Third Renaissance...").
The Doctor cannot stand pears (Page 21), which was also revealed in a deleted scene in TV: Human Nature.

Notes

This book continues the theme set by the BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures line for 2009, featuring returning monsters from the TV series. It also continues a series of novels in which the Doctor travels without a companion.
David Llewellyn also wrote the Torchwood novel PROSE: Trace Memory.
The title is a reference to the novel and film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. The number is also reminiscent of The 456, an alien race introduced a few months prior to the book's release in TV: Children of Earth.
The Doctor asks Vienna "The city or the song". The song may be a referrence to the Owl City song Dear Vienna, or the 80's song by Ultravox.
This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

The Audiobook cover.

Continuity

The Sontarans last appeared on screen in TV: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky and TV: Enemy of the Bane. They last appeared in print in PROSE: The Sontaran Games.
The Rutans last appeared on screen in TV: Horror of Fang Rock. To date, this is their only on-screen appearance.
The events of TV: The Two Doctors and The Time Warrior are mentioned.
Chelsea 426 was founded by the Interplanetary Mining Corporation (TV:Colony in Space.)
The Doctor mentions a Krynoid (p. 84)
While in the TARDIS Jake plays with the crate of items beginning with C, last seen in TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp. Its contents include an Agatha Christie novel, the Carrionite globe and a Cyberman's chest plate.
At the end of the novel, The Doctor looks around the empty TARDIS. he also did this before his second meeting with Donna Noble. (TV: Partners in Crime)

Audio release

The story was released as an audiobook on 4x CD read by Christopher Ryan.
The audiobook is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.

External links

BBC New Series Adventures

Ninth Doctor

Main book series

Rose	The Clockwise Man • The Monsters Inside • Winner Takes All

Rose and Jack	The Deviant Strain • Only Human • The Stealers of Dreams

Tenth Doctor

Main book series

Rose	The Stone Rose • The Feast of the Drowned • The Resurrection Casket • The Nightmare of Black Island • The Art of Destruction • The Price of Paradise

Martha	Sting of the Zygons • The Last Dodo • Wooden Heart • Forever Autumn • Sick Building • Wetworld • Wishing Well • The Pirate Loop • Peacemaker • Martha in the Mirror • Snowglobe 7 • The Many Hands • The Story of Martha

Donna	Ghosts of India • The Doctor Trap • Shining Darkness • Beautiful Chaos • In the Blood

Alone	The Eyeless • Judgement of the Judoon • The Slitheen Excursion • Prisoner of the Daleks • The Taking of Chelsea 426 • Autonomy • The Krillitane Storm

Quick Reads

Rose	I Am a Dalek

Martha	Made of Steel • Revenge of the Judoon

Alone	The Sontaran Games • Code of the Krillitanes

Audiobooks

Donna	Pest Control • The Forever Trap • The Nemonite Invasion

Alone	The Rising Night • The Day of the Troll • The Last Voyage • Dead Air

Eleventh Doctor

Main book series

Amy	Apollo 23 • Night of the Humans • The Forgotten Army • The Coming of the Terraphiles

Amy and Rory	Nuclear Time • The King's Dragon • The Glamour Chase • Dead of Winter • The Way Through the Woods • Hunter's Moon • Touched by an Angel • Paradox Lost • Borrowed Time • The Silent Stars Go By

Alone	Dark Horizons • Plague of the Cybermen • The Dalek Generation

Clara	Shroud of Sorrow

Quick Reads

Amy and Rory	Magic of the Angels

Alone	The Silurian Gift

Audiobooks

Amy	The Ring of Steel • The Runaway Train • The Jade Pyramid • The Hounds of Artemis • The Gemini Contagion

Amy and Rory	The Eye of the Jungle • Blackout • The Art of Death • Darkstar Academy • Day of the Cockroach • The Nu-Humans • The Empty House • Sleepers in the Dust • Snake Bite

2-in-1 books

Amy and Rory

Death Riders / Heart of Stone • System Wipe / The Good, the Bad and the Alien • Alien Adventures (The Underwater War/Rain of Terror) • Sightseeing in Space (Web in Space! / Terminal of Despair) • Monstrous Missions (Terrible Lizards / Horror of the Space Snakes) • Step Back in Time (Extra Time / The Water Thief)

Twelfth Doctor

Main book series

Clara	The Blood Cell • Silhouette • The Crawling Terror • Royal Blood • Deep Time

Benny	Big Bang Generation

Bill	The Shining Man • Diamond Dogs

Bill and Nardole	Plague City

Audiobooks

Clara	The Gods of Winter • The House of Winter • The Sins of Winter • The Memory of Winter

Alex and Brandon	The Lost Angel • The Lost Planet • The Lost Magic • The Lost Flame

Alone	Death Among the Stars • Rhythm of Destruction

Thirteenth Doctor

Main book series

Ryan, Yaz and Graham	The Good Doctor • Molten Heart • Combat Magicks

Ryan, Yaz, Graham and Ace	At Childhood's End

Sontaran stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Sontaran story" is one in which one living, authentic Sontaran plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as The Halloween Apocalypse and Survivors of the Flux are not counted due to the Sontarans' appearance being defined by their importance to following stories. Stories like The End of Time and The Time of the Doctor are also not included due to the Sontarans' appearance being no consequence to the plot of the story. Stories featuring Strax of the Paternoster Gang are only included on the Paternoster Gang story template.

Television

Broadcast	The Time Warrior • The Sontaran Experiment • The Invasion of Time • The Two Doctors • The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky • The Last Sontaran • The Pandorica Opens • The Time of the Doctor • Flux: War of the Sontarans / The Vanquishers

Home video	Untitled 3 • Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans • Mindgame • Battlefield • A Fix with Sontarans

Audio

Silent Warrior • Old Soldiers • Conduct Unbecoming • The Eleven Day Empire • The Shadow Play • Heroes of Sontar • The Five Companions • The First Sontarans • Starlight Robbery • The King of Sontar • Master of the Daleks • Terror of the Sontarans • The Sontaran Ordeal • The Eternity Cage • The Sontarans • The Eternal Battle • The Sontaran Project • Portrait of a Lady • Peepshow • The Moonrakers • The Great Sontaran War • Rearguard • Salvation Nine • The Last Day • The Battle of Giant's Causeway • Born to Die • In Name Only

Prose

Shakedown • Lords of the Storm • The Infinity Doctors • The Sontaran Games • The Taking of Chelsea 426 • Blind Terror • The Dream • The Three Little Sontarans • The Three Brothers Gruff • Sontar's Little Helpers • Dr. Tenth • A Soldier's Education • For the Girl Who Has Everything

Comics

The Final Quest • The Outsider • Dragon's Claw • The Gods Walk Among Us • The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic • Pureblood • Conflict of Interests • Unnatural Born Killers • The Betrothal of Sontar • When Worlds Collide • In Their Nature • The Instruments of War • The Judas Goatee • The Honourable Burger • Supremacy of the Cybermen

Video games

Destiny of the Doctors • Dalek Supremacy • The Keys of Time • The Gunpowder Plot • The Doctor and the Dalek

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