The Burning (novel)
Publisher’s Summary
The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the centre of the Empire.
Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.
But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the Society for Psychical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artefacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: a man with no name, no history.
Only one man can unravel the mysteries; only one man can begin to understand the forces that are gathering; only one man can hope to fight against them. And only one man knows that this is just the beginning of the end of the world.
Only one man can stop The Burning.
Characters
- The Doctor
- Roger Nepath
- Colonel Wilson
- Reverend Stobbold
- profesor dobbs
- lord ultron
- lady urton
- betty stobbold
- delvin
References
to be added
Notes
- This is the first story in the ‘Earth Arc’
- The Doctor has a note from Compassion which reads Meet me in St. Louis, February 8, 2001. Fitz.
- The novel plays with the imagery that usually sorounds the Doctor's arrival and description (ie someone looking mournfully at a body, or a wild haired gentleman making unusual conversations at dinner). The Doctor actually arrives paragraphs before the reader realises he's there at dinner.
Continuity
- The Doctor revisits Reverend Stobbold’s daughter Betty in Father Time.
Timeline
- This story takes place after EDA: The Ancestor Cell
- This story taker place before ST: Evergreen
External links
Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: The Burning
