Millennial Rites (novel)
Publisher's summary
'The Millennium, Mel: the last New Year's eve of the Twentieth century. But it's definitely not party time.'
England, 1999: the Sixth Doctor and Mel have come to London to celebrate the new year with old friends - and to heal old wounds. But others are making more sinister preparations to usher in the new millennium. A software house is about to run a program that will change the fabric of reality. And an entity older than the universe is soon to be reborn.
When Anne Travers' fear of the Great Intelligence and millionaire philanthropist Ashley Chapel's secret researches combine, London is transformed into a dark and twisted mirror image populated by demons and sorcerers. Only the Doctor can put things right, but his friends have also been shockingly changed and he cannot trust anybody - least of all himself.
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Notes
- This is one of a number of stories (including NA: White Darkness, NA: All-Consuming Fire and EDA: The Taking of Planet 5) which equate various entities in the Doctor Who universe with the Great Old Ones of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
- Craig Hinton originally intended this story for the Second Doctor. [1]
Continuity
- I2, OffNet and Ashley Chapel all previously appeared in MA: System Shock.
- This story takes place contemporaneously with PDA: Millennium Shock, DWM: Plastic Millenium, DW: Doctor Who (1996), BFIW: The Panda Invasion and part of TW: Fragments.
- The Doctor had faced the Quarks and their Giant Wasps previously on Gano. (TVC: The Killer Wasps)
Timeline
- Millennial Rites occurs after VD: Fegovy
- Millennial Rites occurs before DW: Terror of the Vervoids (flash-forward scenes)
External links
- Millennial Rites at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Millennial Rites at The Whoniverse
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