Time Zero (novel)
Publisher’s Summary
‘It doesn’t take the creation of a whole new universe just to kill a cat.’
With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied.
At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition’s journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice.
Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn’t the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved?
Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond... ...to Time Zero.
Characters
- The Doctor
- Fitz Kreiner
- Fitz goes on an expedition with George Williamson after he struck up a friendship following a lecture he attended in 1893.
- Anji Kapoor
- The Doctor returns her to 2001 three weeks after she left, she then spends 18 months working in her job as a futures trader, succeeding partially due to her travels with the Doctor, and also because she’s got future copies of The Times.
- Sabbath (alias Holiday)
- Beatrix MacMillan (aka Trix)
- Is one of Sabbath's agents but only loyal as long as the cheque book is.
- George Williamson
References
- The origin of the fire elemental is revealed here.
Notes
Several time travel and physics theories / terms are brought up throughout Time Zero including:
- Schrödinger's Cat
- O-Regions
- Slow light Time Machines
- Quantum Theory
Continuity
- The fire elemental is first seen in EDA: The Burning (which takes place after this novel).
- Fitz met George Williamson in EDA: Camera Obscura.
