Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)

Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)

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Timewyrm: Revelation
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	The Timewyrm
Main setting:	Earth, England, Norfolk, Cheldon Bonniface, 1992 The Moon, 1992
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Paul Cornell
Release details
Release number:	4
Release date:	December, 1991
Format:	Paperback Book, 220 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20360-7

Timewyrm: Revelation is the fourth book in the New Adventures series, and the fourth (and final) book in the Timewyrm ark. It was written by Paul Cornell, and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Publisher's summary

The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?

Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. He’s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothy’s skull. She dies instantly.

The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?

Plot

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Characters

• The Doctor
• Ace
• Timewyrm
• Chad Boyle
• Emily Hutchings
• Peter Hutchings
• Ernest Trelaw
• Saul
• Anthony Rupert Hemmings
• Death

References

Books

• The Timewyrm tried to read The Green Book of Gallifrey and The Red Book of Gallifrey.

British locations

• The Doctor has visited Cheldon Bonniface several times.

The Doctor

• The Doctor feels immense guilt over the deaths of: Katarina, Sara Kingdom and Adric.
• The Doctor's mind has seven regions for his past and present selves.
• The Doctor makes the sign of the Horns of Rassilon with his fingers.

The Doctors as they appear within the Seventh Doctor's mind

• First Doctor
  • Is the librarian and keeper of the gardens.
• Second Doctor
• Third Doctor
  • The seventh Doctor is sometimes terrified of him.
  • Is haunted by the realisation that the Leader of the British Republic was his counterpart.
• Fourth Doctor
  • The ferryman.
• Fifth Doctor
  • Is enchained in the pit, but is freed by Ace.
  • He is the Doctor's conscience.
• Sixth Doctor

Gallifrey

• Gallifrey's highest peak is Mount Cadon, the Prydonian Academy is on its slopes.

Individuals

• Johnny Chess was reviewed in the NME - 18th July 1998.
• Ace's fear of clowns is mentioned, as well as her having a lock of Cheetah Person fur in her jacket.
• Shreela and Midge are thought of and there is a vaugue reference to Manisha, Ace's friend whom she mentioned when she was at Gabriel Chase.
• Ace walks out onto the surface of the moon; her lungs explode.
• The Timewyrm's essence is placed in a baby by the Doctor and given to Emily and Peter Hutchings, with the name Ishtar Hutchings.
• Chad Boyle is a childhood bully of Ace's.
• Emily Hutchings is an old friend of the Doctor, she's recently decided to become a novelist.
• Peter Hutchings Cambridge University Mathematics professor.
• Saul is a sentient church (St Christopher's) in Cheldon Bonniface.
• The Doctor mentions having met Sherlock Holmes saying; "Just because somebody isn't real, it doesn't mean you can't meet them,"

Music

• Ace is a fan of the Happy Mondays

Personifications of concepts

• Death is created by the Timewyrm.
• The Doctor (literally) dances with Death.

Psychic powers

• Emily Hutchings is mildly telepathic.
• Saul pushes Hemmings' head along the moon's surface through telekinesis alone.

Species

• The Daleks call the Timewyrm Golyan Ak Tana, the twister of paths.
• The Doctor is called Ka Faraq Gatri / Destroyer of Worlds by the Daleks for destroying Skaro.
• The Timewyrm will always exist in some form.

Religion

• Ernest Trelaw is the current vicar of St. Christopher's (Saul), he knows about Saul's sentience.

Timelines

• In an alternate timeline Chad Boyle bludgeoned a young Ace with a brick, killing her.

Notes

• This is the final novel in the Timewyrm tetralogy.
• Paul Cornell based much of Timewyrm: Revelation on a short story called 'Total Eclipse';

In its original form as ‘Total Eclipse’, it was the last of a trilogy concerning Saul the sentient church, and two time travellers from a dictatorial future who’d come back to ‘fix’ the past, with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa getting in the way. (Said Cornell, "They were the TARDIS crew I wrote mostly for.")

• The name Mount Cadon was invented here, but has gone on to be referenced in several other stories.

Continuity

• Cheldon Bonniface is the location of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding in NA: Happy Endings.
• The reasons why the Sixth Doctor doesn't make an appearance are revealed in NA: Head Games.
• The Timewyrm claims to have been around during: DW: The Daleks' Master Plan, Earthshock, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric
• Lt Hemmings last appeared in: NA: Timewyrm: Exodus and puts in an appearance in Happy Endings.

Timeline

• This story occurs after NA: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
• This story occurs before BE: Cathedral Heart

For the first doctor (flashback):

• This story occurs after DW: The Daleks' Master Plan
• This story occurs before CC: Home Truths

External links

• Timewyrm: Revelation at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Timewyrm: Revelation at The Whoniverse
• Bewildering Reference Guide entry for Timewyrm: Revelation, with notes by the author