City at World's End (novel)

City at World's End
Doctor:	First Doctor
Companion(s):	Susan, Barbara, Ian
Main enemy:	Monitor, the Taklarians
Main setting:	Sarath
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Christopher Bulis
Release details
Release number:	25
Release date:	6 September 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, 37 Chapters, 281 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-55579-3
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
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City at World's End was the twenty-fifth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the First Doctor, Susan, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. This was the second novel of the BBC series to feature this line up of Doctor and companions. Along with Interference - Book One this is the first novel to feature the new blue Doctor Who logo; previous to this novel the logo was silver coloured.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor and his companions land in the city of Arkhaven, the last bastion of civilisation on a doomed world.

The inhabitants of the city are pinning all their hopes on a final desperate gamble for survival. Behind the scenes there are jealous factions at work, secretly contesting for the chance to shape the destiny of a new world. Beneath its ordered surface, Arkhaven is a city of secrets and mysteries where outward appearances can be deceptive.

Is the thing they call the "Creeper" really at large in Arkhaven's eerie outer zone — and is it beast or machine? What is the hidden force at work that has acted so strangely upon Susan?

With Barbara lost and the countdown to doomsday drawing to a climax, the Doctor must discover the true nature of the final enemy — or is that enemy simply fear itself?

Chapter Titles

• Prologue

1. The City
2. The Mayor of Arkhaven
3. The Wall Zone
4. Underground
5. Hospital
6. Break-out
7. End of the Tunnel
8. Sport
9. Visitors?
10. The Survivors
11. Puppet Show
12. The Deception
13. Nightmare
14. Class Barriers
15. The Thing in the Dark
16. Questions Without Answers
17. So Close
18. The Ship
19. Lost and Found
20. Investigation
21. '...You Are Nothing.'
22. Inquisition
23. Skin Deep
24. The Plateau
25. Flesh and Blood
26. Tidal Stress
27. Rift
28. Exodus
29. The Will to Live
30. The Taking of the Ship
31. Last Chance
32. Reunion
33. Justification
34. Masquerade
35. At World's End

• Epilogue

Plot

to be added

Characters

• The First Doctor
• Susan
• Ian Chesterton
• Barbara Wright
• Mayor Brantus Draad
• Supervisor Curton
• Lesitor
• Bishop Fostel
• Harlo Gelvert
• Monitor
• Android Susan
• Captain Benadik Lant
• Plaxander Vendham
• Prince Keldo
• Nyra Shardri
• Professor Tovel Jarrasen
• Zeckler
• Thorken
• Tressel
• Seamanov
• Commandant Breen
• Commander Pardek
• Captain Terrel

References

Biology

• After being injured, Susan thinks that it's time to "begin the change". She thinks it would have occurred a long time in her future and her grandfather would have been there to help it happen.

Computers

• Monitor is a computer created to help the Mayor and to control the Ship.

Individuals

• Keldo is Prince of the Taklarians.

Politics

• Brantus Draad is mayor of Arkhaven.

Religion

• Bishop Fostel is leader of the Church.

Notes

• This is the first novel in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line to use the blue Doctor Who logo on its cover and spine. Before this it was a silver logo.

Continuity

• Ian mentions the Daleks. (TV: The Daleks)

External links

• City at World's End at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: City at World's End at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: City at World's End