Seeing I (novel)

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Publisher’s Summary

He has no idea why Samantha Jones ran away from him.

Sam is homeless on the streets of the colony world of Ha'olam, trying to face what’s just happened between her and the Doctor. He’s searching for her, and for answers. While she struggles to survive in a strange city centuries from home, the Doctor comes across evidence of alien involvement in the local mega-corporation, INC - and is soon confined to a prison that becomes a hell of his own making.

Where did INC’s mysterious eye implants really come from? What is the company searching for in the deserts? What is hiding in the shadows, watching their progress?

Faced with these mysteries, separated by half a world, Sam and the Doctor each face a battle - Sam to rebuild her life, the Doctor to stay sane. And if they find each other again, what will be left of either of them?

Characters

  • Uses the alias James Alistair Bowman
  • Goes into detail of how he was held prisoner by the Tractites.
  • Seems to indicate he was taught by Leonardo da Vinci
  • Still carries everlasting matches.
  • Becomes a little bit claustrophobic after three years of being locked awayas a prisoner.
  • When Sam left the Doctor she was nearly seventeen. She is now nearly eighteen.
  • She spends three years on Ha'olam and is now twenty-one.
  • Sam remembers sleeping with a bat (Jasper in the TARDIS).
  • Mentions the Daleks and the Cybermen.
  • At the novel's end Sam gives the Doctor a long passionate kiss, and feels no compulsion to do it again...though she wouldn't say no.
  • Sam's flatmate for a while.
  • Gets an eye implant / replacement.
  • Sam’s first lover.
  • Was in the wars.
  • Another of Sam's lovers.
  • Is Moral Facilitator at the Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre.
  • Is an artificial intelligence based on the Doctor, sounds a bit like him.
  • Goes travelling with another AI called FLORENCE
  • Is the head guard at the Doctor's prison.
  • Is slowly driven mad and almost beats the Doctor to death.

References

Corporations

  • The Eurogen Village is a partially a project assisted by Livingspace.
  • The Doctor uses data umphs to search through several companies data bases including Imogen and resulting in"Kisumu Interplantary's intranet collapsed." Kisumu most likely refers to the Dione-Kisumu company. The data umphs also attack Gray Corporation's systems.

Cultural references

  • The Doctor describes what a perigosto stick is for; "...You use it in a game of four-dimensional juggling".

Foods and Beverages

  • Sam drinks coffee, she never used to after she had an experience with drugs.
  • Number 15 is a system of moves that the Doctor and Sam came up with.
  • Number 15 involves the Doctor using a banana and pretending it to be a gun to hold someone up, while in the confusion Sam takes the guard's gun.

Gallifrey

  • The Doctor explains to Sam what happened to Savar; "It happened back when I was a student. Savar was a Time Lord who went on a mission in his TARDIS, but something went wrong and he had to abandon ship.".

Individuals

  • Sam's 'Dark Sam' personality is referred to several times.
  • The DOCTOR mentions to the Doctor "I could name half a dozen of your school chums and all sorts of ancient lore and legends from Gallifrey.".
  • The Doctor tells Sam that he met his granddaughter Susan whilst searching for her.
  • It's been three and a bit years since the Doctor last saw Sam, it was also the same amount of time that Ace spent in the Spacefleet (the Doctor mentions this "It was about three years after she left me that I saw Ace again.")

Planets

Prisons

Species

Technology

Notes

  • The beginning of the book contains a quote from NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible by Paul Cornell.
  • Continuing what could be considered a trend for Kate Orman novels, the Doctor gets tortured in extreme and interesting ways.
  • At one point there was an explicit reference that Sam was bisexual however

the line about "three years and three relationships under the bridge" was originally something like "three years and a couple of boyfriends and a couple of girlfriends under the bridge".[1]

Continuity

Timeline

Reprint

BBC Books has announced that a "print on demand" reprint edition of this novel will be made available as of 30th September 2011 as the imprint revisits adventures featuring the first eight Doctors.

External links

Footnotes