Legacy of the Daleks (novel): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|image=Legacy of the Daleks.jpg

|series=[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  

|doctor=Eighth Doctor  

|companions= [[Susan Campbell|Susan Foreman Campbell]]

|enemy= {{Delgado|c}}, [[Dalek]]s  

|writer= [[John Peel]]

|cover=[[Black Sheep]]

|release date= [[6 April (releases)|6 April]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]]

|format= Paperback Book; 17 Chapters, 246 Pages  

'''''Legacy of the Daleks''''' was the tenth [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel. It featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Susan Foreman]], {{Delgado}} and the [[Dalek]]s. This novel is the second and final novel of BBC Books' Eighth Doctor range to feature the Daleks. Like the first, ''[[War of the Daleks]]'', it was written by [[John Peel]]. It bridges the gap between [[Roger Delgado]]'s portrayal of the Master and [[Peter Pratt]]'s decaying version of the same villain, wherein the Master is severely deformed by his own [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] and left in a moribund state.

[[England]] in the late [[22nd century]] is slowly recovering from the devastation that followed [[22nd century Dalek invasion|the Daleks' invasion]]. The Doctor's very first travelling companion — his granddaughter, [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] — is where he left her, helping to rebuild Earth for the survivors. But danger still remains all around...

While searching for his lost companion, [[Sam Jones|Sam]], the Doctor finds himself in Domain London. But it seems that Susan is now missing too, and his efforts to find her lead to confrontation with the ambitious Lord Haldoran, who is poised to take control of southern England through all-out war. With the help of a sinister advisor, Haldoran's plans are already well advanced. Power cables have been fed down a mineshaft, reactivating a mysterious old device of hideous power. But has the Dalek presence on Earth really been wiped out? Or are there still traps set for the unwary?

* {{Delgado|c}}

* [[Lord Haldoran|Mark, Lord Haldoran]]

* [[Dalek|The Daleks]]

== References ==

* The Daleks from the Dalek Artefact begin creating [[roboman|robomen]].

* [[Peace Officer]]s are a group of people who investigate and make safe artefacts and remnants of the [[22nd century Dalek invasion|Dalek invasion]]. They have unrestricted access to the domains.  

* The Doctor tells Donna about fighting [[Dalek]]s, [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] and [[Ice Warrior]]s.

* England has been broken into Domains, originally more than a hundred, now around ten including [[London]], [[Canterbury]], [[Salisbury]], [[Devon]], Edmonds, and Haldoran. (The last two are not named after real world counties)

 

* There hasn't been a monarch in 38 years. (This would mean there was still a monarchy sometime into the Dalek occupation)

* Susan uses [[the Master's TARDIS]]' [[telepathic circuits]] to attack him; the shockwave from that contacts the Doctor through [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS']] telepathic circuits.

* The Doctor and the Master speak a couple of sentences in Esperanto each on page 138-139, though no translation is given in the novel.

:"Doktoro, Mi ĝojas ke vi estas tiu kiun mi bezonis por kompletigi la ludon."

:The Doctor spun around to stare at the newcomer. "Tiam kiam mi audis la nomon 'Estro', mi opiniis ke tiu devas esti vi. Via vanteco estos la fino de vi, estro de malbonestroj."

 

:The Doctor spun around to stare at the newcomer. "That time I heard the name 'Master', I thought it had to be you. Your vanity will be the end of you, master of masters of evil."

 

* The third edition of ''[[AHistory]]'' speculates that the events of this novel became an [[alternate timeline]] when [[the Monk]] and the [[Dalek Time Controller]] rewrote history to enable a second Dalek invasion in the 2180s, as seen in ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]'' and ''[[To the Death]]'', but admits that this doesn't explain how Susan can have a child with David, or how the Master ended up on Tersurus in his decayed form.

* The Doctor receives Susan's message "before" the event occurs and arrives "before" it occurs. A similar event occurs in [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]''.

* Before David's death at the hands of the Master, he and Susan are unable to have children and all their children are adopted. This is later contradicted by [[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]''. The children themselves come from [[The Five Doctors (novelisation)|the ''Five Doctors'' novelisation]].  

* The circumstances of the Master's disfigurement are given a different account in ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'', in which the Master's disfigured state is result of a confrontation with his own future self. However, since the novel only depicts the Master being thrown from his TARDIS and later being discovered by Goth, rather than explicitly stating that he is reduced to his crippled state by the destruction of his equipment, this suggests that the two can be reconciled with the assumption that the younger Master survived Susan's attack unharmed and found another TARDIS to begin his raid on the Terserus compound before being attacked by his future self.

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