The Colony of Lies (novel)
Publisher's summary
According to popular legend, the great humanitarian Stewart Ransom founded the Independent Earth Colony on Axista Four in the year 2439, but the truth is not as neat and simple as the legend would suggest...
The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four, the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists -- the 'Realists' -- has abandoned Ransome's Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement. The 'Loyalists' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction.
Meanwhile, a spaceship from Earth has arrived with news that 80,000 refugees are about to descend upon the planet; the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship, and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet's first colonists are beginning to awake.
Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administrator Greene? And what really happened when the colony ship crash-landed on Axista Four 100 years ago?
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Continuity
- Zoe recalls the Cybermen’s invasion of the Wheel in The Wheel in Space, but doesn’t think of their attack on 20th-century Earth in The Invasion. Although the Doctor and Jamie have told her about the Daleks, via the thought projections at the end of The Wheel in Space, she has yet to meet any.
- The Second Doctor compares the sealed panels on the colony ship to the tombs of Telos. (DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
The Doctor compares Plymouth Hope City to Tombstone, Arizona, which he visited. (DW: The Gunfighters)
Timeline
For the Second Doctor:
- This story occurs after ST: uPVC
- This story occurs before: DWA: The Dragons of Kekokro
For the Seventh Doctor:
- This story occurs after BFA: The Genocide Machine
- This story occurs before: PDA: Prime Time
