Sting of the Sasquatch (audio story)
Sting of the Sasquatch was an audiobook in the Audio Originals range from BBC Audio featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday, written by Darren Jones, released on 7 November 2024.
The story was read by Genesis Lynea.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
A brand new adventure featuring the 15th Doctor and Ruby, as played on TV by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson.
A full-throttle adventure in America for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday, as played on TV by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson.
In a National Park in North-West America, the Doctor and Ruby are pursued by large, ape-like creatures who seem to literally disappear into the trees. When Ruby falls ill after apparently being stung, the Doctor believes the infection is extra-terrestrial in origin.
They meet Dixie and Greg, two Bigfoot hunters determined to track down the mythical Sasquatch. Standing in their way is Ranger Peone, who's adamant that the forest is too dangerous to explore. Dozens of people have vanished, or reappeared with no memory, in the last month alone.
Then the ape creatures kidnap Ruby, and the Doctor is determined to both save her life and solve the mystery of the Sasquatch.
Genesis Lynea, who played Harriet Arbinger in the BBC TV series, reads this tense and dramatic original story by Darren Jones.
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- Writer - Darren Jones
- Read by Genesis Lynea
- Producer - Morrison Ellis
- Sound Design - David Roocroft
- Project Editor - John Ainsworth
- Executive Producer for BBC Audiobooks - Michael Stevens
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor and Ruby have recently been to a pink ice planet.
- In order to protect his trainers from mud, the Doctor changes into hiking boots, which perfectly match his leather trenchcoat.
- The Doctor's jacket is described as "tan" in colour.
- Wade is tall, wears round glasses and purple trainers, and has a mullet.
- Dixie has severe hay fever. She's a zoology student, and has built a makeshift Bigfoot detector which detects pheromones, using parts from Wade's games console.
- Wade was "fighting dragons" with his gamer friends until late at night. He found a +3 shortsword.
- Dixie and Wade have acquired a camping permit.
- They're 40 miles from Seattle.
- The Sasquatch have developed a method of teleportation called arboportation.
- The Sleekers are susceptible to antihistamines. The Doctor manages to use them to kill off the Sleeker nest, thus saving the recent victims.
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor and Ruby are still wearing the same outfits seen in TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"] and COMIC: Mancopolis [+]Loading...["Mancopolis (comic story)"]. The Doctor changes into boots for the first time, from Ruby's perspective.
- River Song previously encountered (potentially another version of) Bigfoot, as mentioned in PROSE: Suspicious Minds [+]Loading...["Suspicious Minds (short story)"].
- The Doctor says he's met "a few Yeti" a number of lifetimes ago. By this, he means the Robot Yeti the Second Doctor encountered in TV: The Abominable Snowmen [+]Loading...["The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)"].
- The Doctor agrees that robots dogs are amazing. (TV: The Invisible Enemy [+]Loading...["The Invisible Enemy (TV story)"], et al.)
- The Doctor refers to himself as "the man who found the Loch Ness Monster", though this is "all hush-hush". This took place in TV: Terror of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Zygons (TV story)"], in which the Fourth Doctor discovers it's a Skarasen.
- The Doctor understands that the Sasquatch built their own kind of "Void Ship". He had previously seen another Void Ship, built by the Cult of Skaro to traverse the Void, in TV: Army of Ghosts [+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"].
- Ruby thinks she recognises a greying blonde woman among the infected in the forest. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
- The Doctor uses the phrase "hadi ama" before setting off. He had previously used it in TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"].
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Sting of the Sasquatch page at Penguin Books
