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series= [[BBC | |image = FeastoftheDrowned.jpg | ||
number= | |series = [[BBC New Series Adventures]] | ||
doctor= | |number = 8 | ||
companions= [[Rose Tyler]]| | |doctor = Tenth Doctor | ||
enemy= | |companions = [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] | ||
|featuring = Mickey Smith | |||
writer= | |featuring2 = Jackie Tyler | ||
publisher= | |enemy = [[Waterhive]] | ||
release date= | |setting = [[London]], [[2007]] | ||
format= Hardcover | |writer = Stephen Cole | ||
isbn= ISBN 0-563-48644-9| | |publisher = BBC Books | ||
|release date = 13 April 2006 | |||
next | |format = Hardcover, 251 pages | ||
|}} | |isbn = ISBN 0-563-48644-9 | ||
|prev = The Stone Rose (novel) | |||
|next = The Resurrection Casket (novel) | |||
|clip = | |||
|read by = [[David Tennant]] | |||
|cover = [[Henry Steadman]] | |||
}}{{prose stub}} | |||
'''''The Feast of the Drowned''''' was the eighth novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Stephen Cole]] and featured the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]]. | |||
' | == Publisher's summary == | ||
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the [[North Sea]], all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, [[Keisha Selby|Keisha]], was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. | |||
As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over [[London]], the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser's wreckage was towed up the [[Thames]], what sinister force came with it? | |||
The river's dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion... | |||
== Plot == | |||
''to be added'' | |||
== Characters == | |||
* [[Tenth Doctor]] | |||
* [[Rose Tyler]] | |||
* [[Mickey Smith]] | |||
* [[Jackie Tyler]] | |||
* [[Keisha Selby]] | |||
* [[Jay Selby]] | |||
* [[Hive Queen]] | |||
* [[Vida Swann]] | |||
* [[Anne (The Feast of the Drowned)|Anne]] | |||
* [[Huntley]] | |||
* [[John Anthony Crayshaw]] | |||
* [[Kelper]] | |||
The | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Rose mentions [[Captain Bird's-Eye]]. | |||
=== Species === | |||
* Water-based lifeforms can dip into the human body and brain. They can export sensory information as alien pheromones via water molecules. | |||
** | |||
=== Food and Beverages === | |||
* The Doctor buys [[chips]] for Rose, Keisha and himself. He preferred the way chips tasted when they were wrapped in newspaper. | |||
=== Technology === | |||
* The waterhive has the mental ability to fuse hydrogen and oxygen in space into water. | |||
* Vida's company is developing new tracers – subatomic filaments in an aqueous base. Acting as tiny organic transmitters and receivers, that can tell where marine pollutants are in the ocean. | |||
** It has an inhibitive power which can be used along with the Doctor's mental power to unravel the DNA of the waterhive and undoing the genetic damage on the host. | |||
== | == Notes == | ||
*[[ | * Later reprints of this book removed the image of [[Billie Piper]] from the cover. | ||
* | * This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store. | ||
== | == Continuity == | ||
''to be | * Keisha mentions that Rose lived abroad for a year, "while [her] poor old mates left behind were worried sick". She thought that Mickey had "topped [her] or something". ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'') | ||
* Keisha comments that the Doctor isn't as Jackie described him to be. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') | |||
* Mickey recalls encounters with the [[Slitheen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'') and the [[Sycorax]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') | |||
* The Doctor mentions getting used to new teeth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') | |||
* Resonating concrete is mentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'') | |||
* The Doctor refers to himself as Sir John Smith ([[TV]]: [[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]) | |||
== | == Additional cover images == | ||
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Bbcnewseries8-ukhardback-alt.jpg|Alternate cover without Rose | |||
</gallery> | |||
== | == Audiobook == | ||
* This novel was released as an audiobook on [[3 July (releases)|3 July]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]] by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[David Tennant]]. | |||
== | <gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true"> | ||
Feast of Drowned audio.JPG|Audiobook cover | |||
</gallery> | |||
==External | == External links == | ||
* | * {{penguin|1071594/doctor-who--the-feast-of-the-drowned/}} | ||
* [http:// | {{dwrefguide|whobb908.htm|The Feast of the Drowned}} | ||
* {{whoniverse|ns08|The Feast of the Drowned}} | |||
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/feastdrowned.htm The Cloister Library: '''The Feast of the Drowned'''] | |||
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