The Colony of Lies (novel)

The Colony of Lies
Doctor:	[[doctor::Second Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Jamie McCrimmon Zoe Heriot
Main enemy:	Administrator Greene The Tyrenians
Main setting:	Axista Four, 2539
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Colin Brake
Release details
Release number:	61
Release date:	July 2003
Format:	Paperback Book, 272 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-48606-6

Publisher's summary

According to popular legend, the great humanitarian Stewart Ransom founded the Independent Earth Colony on Axista Four in the year 2439, but the truth is not as neat and simple as the legend would suggest...

The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four, the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists -- the 'Realists' -- has abandoned Ransome's Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement. The 'Loyalists' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction.

Meanwhile, a spaceship from Earth has arrived with news that 80,000 refugees are about to descend upon the planet; the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship, and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet's first colonists are beginning to awake.

Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administrator Greene? And what really happened when the colony ship crash-landed on Axista Four 100 years ago?

Characters

• Second Doctor
• Jamie McCrimmon
• Zoe Heriot

References

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Notes

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Continuity

• Zoe recalls the Cybermen's invasion of the Wheel in DW: The Wheel in Space, but doesn't think of their attack on 20th-century Earth in DW: The Invasion. Although the Doctor and Jamie have told her about the Daleks via the thought projections at the end of The Wheel in Space, she has yet to meet any.
• The Second Doctor compares the sealed panels on the colony ship to the tombs of Telos. (DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
• The Doctor compares Plymouth Hope City to Tombstone, Arizona, which he visited. (DW: The Gunfighters)

Timeline

For the Second Doctor

• This story occurs after ST: uPVC
• This story occurs before: DWAN: The Dragons of Kekokro

For the Seventh Doctor

• This story occurs after BFA: The Genocide Machine
• This story occurs before: PDA: Prime Time

External links

• The Colony of Lies at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Colony of Lies at The Whoniverse