Genocide (novel)
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Publisher's summary
Years after leaving UNIT, Jo Grant receives a plea for help from an old acquaintance. A palaeontological study of the earliest known humans is apparently under threat from a UNIT force led by a captain who does not officially exist. Investigating further, she begins to find herself out of her depth - and out of the twentieth century altogether...
Meanwhile, the Eighth Doctor and Sam visit Earth in 2109 - but there is no trace of the human race. Earth is home of the Tractites, a peaceful race who have been living there for hundreds of thousands of years. Astonished and appalled, the Doctor travels back in time to see just what went wrong in Earth's prehistory.
Why have Jo and the expedition been taken back in time? Are the Tractites all they seem? Finally, separated from the TARDIS, the Doctor's last chance to put things right rests with Sam - but has even she turned against him?
Characters
- The Eighth Doctor
- Mentions Davros in talking to Sam "My old friend Davros".
- Sam Jones
- Jo Grant
- Blasts away Tractites to make sure her future would still be there.
- John Benton
- Is now in a purely administrative position at UNIT.
- Rowenna Michaels
- Attacked and killed by wild dogs.
- Julie Sands
- Killed by wild dogs.
- Mauvril
- Mentions Earth Reptiles.
- Kitig
- Axeman
- Gavril
- Jacob Hynes
- Kitig
- Narunil
References
- Cliff Jones and Jo Grant are separated, they have a son; Matthew.
- The Time Trees allowed for barely controlled time travel.
- The Time Vortex and the universe was thrown into chaos from the temporal paradox cause by the Sam, the Doctor and the time tree's interference.
- Jo has been on the UNIT books since the 1970s.
- Tractis is the home planet of the Tractites. The Tractites are half-horse, half-ox with four eyes and two hands with three fingers.
- The Doctor is still wearing the shoes that Grace Holloway gave him.
- Paratractis is the name of Earth in the alternate timeline.
- Humans from the Earth Empire invaded Tractis.
- Brigadier Winifred Bambera is Benton's superior
- At one point Jo thinks to herself: "She made herself remember the jungles of Spiridon, the Daleks cruising through the mist. Autons, faceless faces turning the corner - Sea Devils, Xarax, deadly parasitic Axons." (page 149)
- The Doctor and Sam go and see the Empress and see Earth Reptiles, Draconians, Ice Warriors, Zygons, GorEntelech and Tractites kneeling to her. The Doctor doesn't kneel so neither does Sam.
Notes
- The alternate cover (below main cover) is is a pre-press cover which is used on some internet sites such as Amazon.com.
- This novel was advertised on several Doctor Who VHS releases as one of several new novels, it was advertised with a background showing Jo Grant.
Continuity
- DW: The Green Death introduced Cliff Jones and showed him and Jo planning to get married.
- The last contact the Doctor had with Jo was in the form of a letter (DW: Planet of the Spiders)
- The model train set from ST: Model Train Set is seen.
- The Doctor mentions Davros in this novel and later meets him in EDA: War of the Daleks.
- Jo saw the jungles of Spiridon in DW: Planet of the Daleks, Axons in The Claws of Axos, Sea Devils in The Sea Devils, Autons in Terror of the Autons and Xarax in MA: Dancing the Code.
- The depiction of Jo in this book is somewhat difficult to reconcile against her later appearance in SJA: Death of the Doctor. We can perhaps imagine that this book takes place in a "rough patch" of Jo's marriage, but she is well and truly on her own here. The word "divorce" doesn't appear in the book, but it's clear she has total financial responsibility for her and her child. Moreover, she's only got one child in this story, Matthew, and he's just started high school. Death to the Doctor says she's got 7 kids. It's hard to see how she could have six more kids after Matthew, with Cliff, starting at roughly the age of 35. Additionally the separation/divorce from Cliff has left her having to hold down two jobs in Hackney. How exactly she was supposed to be globetrotting given this somewhat bleak reality is unclear.
- Russell T Davies stated in an interview about SJA: Death of the Doctor that he wanted to rework the life of Jo Grant after her time with the 3rd Doctor, stating that he didn’t feel it right that Jo would eventually divorce the man she left the Doctor and all of time and space for.
- Jo also states that she never saw the Doctor again between the events of DW: The Green Death and SJA: Death of the Doctor.
Timeline
- This story takes place after EDA: The Bodysnatchers
- This story takes place before ST: Dead Time
