The Eight Doctors (novel)

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Publisher's Summary

Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the Doctor falls foul of a final booby trap set by his arch-enemy, the Master.

When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the TARDIS, and his hands move over the controls of their own accord.

The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and Samantha Jones, a rebellious teenager from Coal Hill School.

But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely-familiar faces...

Characters

References

Notes

  • There are several...discontinuities within The Eight Doctors (owed perhaps to Dicks's tendency to insert continuity links everywhere).
  • Flavia is president, however according to continuity so far Romana is President (Dicks' own novel NA: Blood Harvest established it).
  • Borusa's time scoop was previously destroyed in MA: Goth Opera is now eaten.
  • In this novel the Seventh Doctor has a "mid life crisis" while trying to deal with his approaching death...which was more or less addressed in NA: The Room With No Doors and Lungbarrow.
  • By the end of the novel:
  • All 8 of the Doctors have appeared.
  • Two versions of the Master (Roger Delgado and another) have appeared.
  • At one point there are two Sixth Doctors.
  • Borusa testifies in a future where he's still locked in the Dark Tower.

Continuity

  • This novel also makes for one of the more continuity heavy novels with Terrance Dicks referencing: DW: State of Decay (which he had previous written a sequel as NA: Blood Harvest). Also DW: The Five Doctors (also by Dicks) is references heavily here.
  • The BBC audio Bounty follows directly from this.

Timeline

For the Eighth Doctor

For Individual Doctors

The Eighth Doctor vists certain Doctors between various stories:

External Links

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