Burning Heart (novel)
Burning Heart was the thirtieth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by Dave Stone and featured the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown. The novel takes place sometime after Vengeance on Varos.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
- There's a god in the machine — and the god is insane.
In the self-contained Habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. Twenty million humans and aliens are at each other's throats, the lid barely held on by the Church of Adjudication, who through their OBERON systems wield absolute power. And we all know what absolute power does.
Other things have been corrupted too. People, human and alien alike, are changing - mutating into something that, if left unchecked, could consume their entire enclosed world.
Arriving in this disintegrating cosmopolitan society, Peri falls in with the charismatic leader of Human First, a movement dedicated to bringing order out of chaos. Meanwhile, the Sixth Doctor is powerless, imprisoned and put to the Inquisition by a church that really thinks its God is coming back.
If somebody doesn't do something, and do it soon, nobody's getting out alive.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Sixth Doctor
- Peri Brown
- Avron Jelks
- Kane
- Draker
- High Churchman Garon
- Joseph Craator
- Nadia Chong
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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The story and the Adjudicator setup homages Judge Dredd, which author Dave Stone also wrote for and Virgin published tie-in books at the time. Craator's helmet and expression on the cover art are a visual reference to Dredd's own.
- The Doctor mentions the Aztec calendar and the French Revolutionary calendar.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This story is set between Vengeance on Varos and The Mark of the Rani.
- Mimsey™, a clear parody of Disney, was first mentioned in author Dave Stone's Judge Dredd novel Wetworks, which had been published by Virgin Books in 1995.
- Stone would reuse the name Shok-TAC for a similar group of heavily armed Judges in his later Dredd and Armitage stories.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Peri recalls the Doctor's most recent regeneration (TV: The Caves of Androzani) and his resigned attitude towards the TARDIS stalling. (TV: Vengeance on Varos)
- Xxigzzh is a Medusoid. (TV: Frontier in Space)
- Xxigzzh was arrested for selling Oolian luck-possets. (PROSE: Original Sin)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Burning Heart at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Burning Heart at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: Burning Heart
