In the Year of the Cat (audio story)

In the Year of the Cat
Script release:	online here
Main character(s):	Justine, Eliza
Featuring:	Lord Sandwich
Main enemy:	Sabbath, Lolita
Main setting:	London, 1762
Key crew
Publisher:	BBV Productions
Writer:	Lawrence Miles
Director:	Nigel Fairs
Release details
Release date:	April 2003
Format:	1 CD
ISBN:	none
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In the Year of the Cat was a 2003 audio story in the Faction Paradox series.

Publisher's summary

Faction Paradox website

An automaton provides a lesson in astrology; a monster is revealed to be sleeping in the royal bedchambers; the city's prostitutes prove that they know a thing or two about the Higher Powers; the trial of Grandfather Paradox is reconvened; Eliza fights the country in order to save the world; and new alliances are made while the Faction suffers one more casualty of War.

BBV Productions website

PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)
4: THE MUNIFICENT ARMY OF PEKING

Era: human historical (later period).
Technology: Military (self-contained), non-time-active.

By the end of the fifth millennium AD, the homunculi created by the human species -- clones, cross-breeds, fighting-machines and artificial intelligences of all descriptions -- outnumbered humanity by more than thirteen to one: but even so, there were no creations like those of Peking. Heading a thousand-strong army of individually-crafted automata, the twelve commanders were self-aware embodiments of the oriental zodiac, forged to a strict astrological design and said to incorporate history itself in their operating program. After the fall of Peking, however, most were never accounted for...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
• Lord Sandwich - Michael Chance
• The Sieur d'Eon - Jo Castleton
• Cousin Eliza - Emma Kilbey
• Mistress Culver - Jackie Skarvellis
• King George III - Eric MacLennan
• Queen Charlotte - Caroline Burns-Cook
• The Earl of Bute - Mark Grieg
• Annabel - Linda Bartram

Worldbuilding

• Mistress Culver is revealed to be Compassion.

Notes

• The letters "ANOT" were hidden in the skulls on the page for this story on the Faction Paradox website.

Continuity

• One of the Peking Homunculi — the Pig — previously disappeared in TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• Justine remarks that 50 years of War have transformed the Great Houses into "beasts", which they were shown to be in PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 ^[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"]

External links

• Official In the Year of the Cat audio download page at bbvproductions.co.uk
• Official In the Year of the Cat CD page at bbvproductions.co.uk
• Script of In the Year of the Cat at factionparadox.co.uk
• In the Year of the Cat at the Faction Paradox wiki
• In the Year of the Cat at the Doctor Who Reference Guide