The Schizoid Earth (novel)
The Schizoid Earth was the second novel in the Lethbridge-Stewart series, released by Candy Jar Books in 2015.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Lethbridge-Stewart was supposed to be in the mountains of the east, but things didn't quite go according to plan. On the eve of war, something appeared in the sky; a presence that blotted out the moon. Now it has returned, and no battle plan can survive first contact with this enemy.
Why do the ghosts of fallen soldiers still fight long-forgotten battles against living men? What is the secret of the rural English town of Deepdene? Lethbridge-Stewart has good reason to doubt his own sanity, but is he suffering illness or injury, or is something more sinister going on?
Plagued by nightmares of being trapped in a past that never happened, Lethbridge-Stewart must unravel the mystery of a man ten years out of his time; a man who cannot possibly still exist.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Anne Travers
- Professor Edward Travers
- Major James Lethbridge-Stewart
- Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart
- Lieutenant Ben Knight
- Lieutenant Colonel Walter Douglas
- Major General Oliver Hamilton
- Director Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Nikola Tesla
- Larry Greene
- Captain Marianne Kyle
- Corporal Sally Wright
- Maurice Palmer
- Doctor John Angus Mackay
- Doctor Henrietta Beswick
- Sergeant Craig
- Kashchei Stravinsky
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Anne works for The Vault and by extension the Ministry of Technology.
- A man known as "the General" runs the Vault.
- Greene goes to Cologne and is taken by Douglas and Hamilton to Spandau in West Berlin.
- Alistair had set out for Cyprus on 14 April and three weeks later meets with Hamilton on 3 May.
- Greene, Douglas and Palmer discuss how to find Alistair at an airport in Brunswick, located southwest of Hamburg.
- The meeting in Wiltshire consists of members of NASA and the British Rocket Group.
- Nanga Parbat is a mountain in Pakistan.
- The nearest city to Deepdene is Leipzig.
- In the parallel universe, the Soviet Union was defeated by White Russia in the 1920s.
- Alistair recalls fighting in Aden.
Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This book contains a foreward by Amanda Haisman.
- The "Russian scientist" who helps Anne and Edward Travers David A. McIntee's own creation "Koschei", using a variant spelling of the alias. Interestingly, his description as a "stocky man, with a short dark beard that was peppered with grey", and as already being an acquaintance of Alistair's, suggests that this is Koschei at some point after the events of The Dark Path — that is, after he became the Master. However, because the book only had McIntee's license to work with, the character's more famous aspect as the villainous Master could not be used.
- This book replaced Horror of Det-Sen as the second book in the series.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This serves as a prequel to TV: Inferno, showing the origin of the Brigade Leader Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, who comes from a reality in between the Inferno Earth and the normal Earth. In this story he is only fifteen years old, and his journey from one reality to the other costs him his left eye. His first name is spelt Alastair rather than Alistair.
- Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart is sent to look into the upcoming concert of Ed Hill, the Revolution Man, at Wembley Stadium. (PROSE: Revolution Man)
- On the Inferno Earth, it was a young Alistair who died at Golitha Falls, and not James. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)
- On the Inferno Earth, Professor Travers died in 1935 during his expedition to the Himalayas, and not John Mackay. (PROSE: The Abominable Snowmen)
- On the Inferno Earth, Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was not killed during the Second World War as that war never happened in this reality. By 1959, he is Director of External Security for the Republic of Great Britain. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)
- Marianne Kyle appears in this book as a captain in the British Army. She would later reappear in PROSE: The Face of the Enemy after the events of TV: Inferno.
- Downphilly Tracking Station is mentioned. (COMIC: The Enemy from Nowhere)
- Hamilton gives Alistair the task of investigating the band Kathmandu and their lead singer Ed Hill, known as the "Revolution Man", who is due to have a concert in Wembley soon. This is reference to PROSE: Revolution Man [+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"]
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Schizoid Earth page at Candy Jar Books
- Official The Schizoid Earth audiobook page at Fantom Publishing
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