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just need culture, a culture that can hold all of us together. Here in this century of the mass media, we’ve finally got a shot at building a utopia, a society without any of the tyrants or generals or businessmen who have, for these last few unhappy centuries, been killing and torturing the rest of us at will, just to prove who’s the top gorilla […] we want an end to authority, and, for the first time in recorded history, we’ve actually got a chance of getting it.’

– From the third manifesto of the Black Seed Movement, 2043.

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Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd,

Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane

London W12 0TT

First published 1999

Copyright © Lawrence Miles 1999

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Original series broadcast on the BBC

Format © BBC 1963

Doctor Who and TARDIS are trademarks of the BBC

ISBN 0 563 55582 3

Imaging by Black Sheep, copyright © BBC 1999

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham

Cover printed by Belmont Press Ltd, Northampton

Table of Contents

Interference Book Two:The Hour of the Geek

WHAT HAPPENED ON EARTH(PART TWO)

WHAT HAPPENED ON DUST(PART TWO)

FOREMAN’S WORLD:MORNING ON THE SECOND DAY

14: The Darker Side of Enlightenment(Sam learns about the birds, the bees and the remembrance tanks)

Travels with Fitz (VII)

15: Realpolitik(from London to the TARDIS)

16: Sacrifices, Episode One(what the aliens learned from Sam)

Travels with Fitz (VIII)

17: Rewired(it’s bigger on the inside. Aren’t we all?)

18: Sacrifices, Episode Two(could you then kill that child? Well, yes, actually.)

Travels with Fitz (IX)

19: The Nature of the Beast(Mr Llewis gets down to business)

20: Multiple Homecoming(six more short trips)

Travels with Fitz (X)

21: Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation(Sam finally gets a sense of perspective)

22: Voodoo Economics(the final edit)

Travels with Fitz (XI)

23: Indestructible, Ms Jones? You Don’t Know the Meaning of the Word(finally, the Cold)

24: Cool(eleven characters, eleven loose ends)

Travels with Fitz (XII)

Coda 1:Coming Down to Earth

FOREMAN’S WORLD:AFTERNOON ON THE SECOND DAY

6: How I Was Made(prototypes and consequences)

7: Face-Off(in which the villain tears off his mask, to reveal the features of…)

8: Army of Me(the Magnificent Thirteen, or the Dirty Baker’s Dozen)

9: Building the Perfect Monster(one of those solutions that may well be worse than the problem)

10: Control(everything falls into place, more or less)

Coda 2:Interference Patterns

FOREMAN’S WORLD:EVENING ON THE SECOND DAY