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The Gallifrey Chronicles was the seventy-third and final novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Lance Parkin, released 2 June 2005 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Trix MacMillan.
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Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has other problems — a mysterious signal is being received, a second moon appears in the sky, and a primordial alien menace waits to be unleashed...
The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation — for justice to be done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn't going to be able to save everyone.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The TARDIS materialises in a graveyard containing Samantha Lynn Jones's gravestone in 2002.
- The Eye of Harmony opens briefly and a voice comes from it.
- Marnal was placed in the care of a Mrs Gate in 1883.
- K9 is revealed to be the scratching thing behind the TARDIS walls.
- The Doctor sends K9 to the planet Espero.
- Gallifrey was said to be attacked by Omega, the Sontarans, Tannis, the Faction Paradox, Varnax, Catavolcus and the Timewyrm.
- There is a flashback to Marnal's time on Gallifrey with Ulysses, Penelope Gate and Mr Saldaamir.
- The Klade, Centro, Tractites and the Ongoing are all races Marnal believes could have destroyed Gallifrey.
- Fitz knows at least three Beatles songs from a parallel universe: "Little Girl", "Back Home" and an alternate "Jealous Guy".
- The twin Towers of Canonicity and Likelihood, as well as the Three Minutes Cities, existed on Gallifrey as Marnal remembers it.
- Among the components in the Doctor's TARDIS not working are the absence detectors, all of the aesthetics gauges, the ahistorical contextualiser, the ambiguous resolver, the animal-language translation circuits, the aprioritron, the art device, the assimilation contrastor, and the axiomator.
- GM-TV lists the celebrities believed to have been killed during the Vore invasion, including cast members from both Coronation Street and EastEnders as well as Ant from Ant & Dec.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The novel was originally planned to be released in March 2005, just before the transmission of Rose, but the BBC feared consumers would misunderstand it as a necessary prerequisite for understanding Series 1, so it was shifted down the release schedule. (DWM 356)
- The events of The Ancestor Cell are re-interpreted, making more sense than that original book.
- The Doctor's final line in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series is; "Shall we?"
- Marnal lists the Eighth Doctor's companions as Lorenzo, Delilah, Frank, Claudia, Deborah, Jemima-Katy, Miranda, Nina, Anji, and Beatrice. "Jemima-Katy" is a reference to an applicant for the position of assistant to the Third Doctor in AUDIO: The Skivers, and "Claudia" is a reference to the 1997 erotic novel The Stranger, which also featured a thinly-veiled copyright-free version of the Eighth Doctor, and which had been previously referenced in Parkin's novel Father Time.
- A reference to the Harry Potter novels is made, indicating that the Doctor possesses a set of ten books.
- The book ends on a cliffhanger, leaving how the Doctor stops the Vore and returns Gallifrey open ended. However, the Doctor saw Gallifrey and the Time Lords restored in a vision of his future in The Tomorrow Windows. It should be made clear, however, that the EDA writers only alluded to Gallifrey being back as they, reasonably, presumed Gallifrey would be returned in the new series, which it wasn't.
Jackie Tyler holds The Gallifrey Chronicles.
- Russell T Davies briefly discussed this book in the Production Notes of DWM 356. The illustration accompanying this article showed Jackie Tyler holding The Gallifrey Chronicles.
- The author stated in AHistory that the four surviving Time Lords were intended to be the Master, Iris Wildthyme (or possibly Romana), the Minister of Chance, and the Infinity Doctor or the Emperor.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor's battle with the Master in San Francisco in December 1999 is referenced, referencing TV: Doctor Who (TV story)
- The events of PROSE: The Ancestor Cell are revisited and analysed.
- The Klade first appeared in PROSE: Father Time (and were last mentioned in PROSE: Trading Futures).
- The grave of Samantha Lynn Jones seen here might seem contradict events in Interference - Book Two where it's implied that Sam Jones will lead a long life (beyond twenty-two). However Samantha Lynn Jones was (a version of) Sam's original timeline (aka "Dark Sam"), seen last in PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]
- Marnal says Time Lord civilisation is 20,000 centuries old. The Doctor, at another point, concurs that the Matrix was invented only two million years earlier, (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)
- Gallifrey was attacked by Omega in TV: The Three Doctors and TV: Arc of Infinity, the Sontarans in TV: The Invasion of Time, Faction Paradox in PROSE: The Ancestor Cell, Catavolcus in COMIC: The Neutron Knights, the Timewyrm in PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation.
- The Doctor is prophesied to find the Lost Scrolls of Rassilon and lead Gallifrey from darkness, which is also referenced in PROSE: Unnatural History, The Infinity Doctors)
- During the events of The Ancestor Cell (novel) the Doctor compressed the entire Matrix into his mind, causing the amnesia he had since The Burning. This allows the Doctor to restore the Time Lords and Gallifrey to the universe.
- The Time Lords were seen, restored and on Gallifrey in the Doctor's future. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows)
- The Doctor mentions Sabbath as a human time-traveller who fancied himself a lord of time. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street) He also mentions watching for months as universes die. (PROSE: Time Zero, Sometime Never...)
- K9 describes Romana as "President of the High Council of Time Lords, keeper of the legacy of Rassilon, defender of the laws of time, protector of Gallifrey." The Doctor gave these titles to himself in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks.
Reprint[[edit] | [edit source]]
BBC Books has announced that a "print on demand" reprint edition of this novel will be made available as of 31 August 2011 as the imprint revisits adventures featuring the first eight Doctors.
This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.