Doctor Who_ Return of the Living Dad - Kate Orman [107]
Bit by bit, over the years, he learnt all the things about himself he’d kept locked away, realized what the name he’d been given so long ago really meant.
The more he gave away, the more he had.
Now tell me: what would you do if your name wasn’t real? Say, if the man you got it from turned out to be a con artist (or at least, you thought he was)? And the fancy titles you’d fixed on the front were fakes?
It’s a long road from pretend to real. But if you walk the same path as that hermit took, you can put yourself back together, you can make those names ring true. Putting your husband’s name in front of your father’s. And finally earning the right to put ‘Doctor’ in front of your own.
Doctor. Bernice. Kane. Summerfield.
Their names fit really well together, don’t you think?
Acknowledgements
Paul Cornell and I wrote the plot for this book together, in a sort of reverse of Human Nature. Though I added bits (notably the ghost)’ it’s still quite close to our original storyline.
Many thanks to the women of Greenham Common for their kind help. I hope I got it right! A luta continua.
Jon Blum contributed numerous brilliant ideas’ the Prologue and Epilogue, and I love him.
The epitaphs: Jon again, Paul again, Jason Miller.
The read-through crew: Todd Beilby, Aaron Brockbank, Steven Caldwell, Peter Griffiths, Stephen Groenewegen and Kyla Ward. Thanks folks!
Special thanks to Special K.
Quick plug: contact the Doctor Who Club of Australia at GPO Box 2870, Sydney, NSW 2001.
Document Outline
Front Cover
Back Cover
Prologue
PART ONE 1 Find
2 Earth
3 On Youkali, a cold wind was blowing
4 From Here to Paternity
5 Little Caldwell appreciates carefuldrivers
6 Dad on arrival
7 Taking stock
8 One of our extraterrestrials
9 Benny
10 Knight on Earth
PART TWO 11 The morning after
12 Interrogation Blues
Alekto
13 Abduction Greys
14 Aliens R Us
15 Interlude, With Tabby
16 Belling the cat
17 Rescue
18 Chris Chris bang bang
19 Jacqui
20 Watch the Skies
PART THREE In Joel�s dream
21 Albinex...
Alekto
22 The name of the Roz
23 Jason
Alekto
24 Plan B
25 Conference
Simon Kyle
26 Demons
Alekto
Albinex
27 Fury
PART FOUR Falling
28 Recovery
Dad�s Army
Meanwhile, in space
29 The quick and the dad
Claire
30 Father makes good
31 We got the bombs
Alekto
32 Out to launch
Denouement
33 Thank you for the lovely present
34 The bits not on Joel�s video
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Prologue
PART ONE
1 Find
2 Earth
4 From Here to Paternity
6 Dad on arrival
7 Taking stock
8 One of our extraterrestrials
9 Benny
10 Knight on Earth
PART TWO
11 The morning after
12 Interrogation Blues
Alekto
13 Abduction Greys
14 Aliens R Us
16 Belling the cat
Fifty miles away
17 Rescue
18 Chris Chris bang bang
19 Jacqui
20 Watch the Skies
PART THREE
21 Albinex...
Alekto
23 Jason
Alekto
24 Plan B
25 Conference
Simon Kyle
26 Demons
Alekto
Albinex
27 Fury
PART FOUR
Falling
28 Recovery
Claire
30 Father makes good
31 We got the bombs
Alekto
32 Out to launch
Denouement
Epilogue
Acknowledgements