Doctor Who_ The Gallifrey Chronicles - Lance Parkin [0]
The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated.
The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has other problems – a mysterious signal is being received, a second moon appears in the sky, and a primordial alien menace waits to be unleashed. . .
The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation – for justice to be done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn’t going to be able to save everyone.
This adventure features the Eighth Doctor.
THE GALLIFREY CHRONICLES
LANCE PARKIN
DOCTOR WHO:
THE GALLIFREY CHRONICLES
Published by BBC Books, BBC Worldwide Ltd,
Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane, London W12 0TT
First published 2005
Reprinted 2005
Copyright © Lance Parkin 2005
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
Original series broadcast on BBC television
Format © BBC 1963
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of the British Broadcasting Corporation
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
ISBN 0 563 48624 4
Commissioning editors: Shirley Patton and Stuart Cooper Editor and creative consultant: Justin Richards Project editor: Christopher Tinker
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Certain dialogue and events within ‘Interlude: The Last of Gallifrey’ are reproduced from The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole (originally published by BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2000).
Copyright © 2000 Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole.
Quoted by permission of the authors.
Cover imaging by Black Sheep © BBC 2005
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To Brie Lewis
Thanks to Allan Bednar, Simon Bucher-Jones, Jon Blum, Mark Clapham, Mark Jones, Brie Lewis, Mark Michalowski, Jonathan Morris, Kate Orman, Philip Purser-Hallard, Justin Richards, Lloyd Rose, Jim Smith and Nick Wallace
Contents
Prologue
1
1: New and Missing Adventures
7
2: Gone
21
Interlude: The Girl Who Was Different
35
3: The Time Trap
45
4: Acquisitions
55
5: Deadly Reunion
73
Interlude: The Last of Gallifrey
89
6: And the Dream I Had Was True
99
7: The Edge of Destruction
113
Interlude: Intervention
131
8: WWDWD?
137
9: The Sphere of Our Sorrow
151
10: Ask Not. . .
167
11: The Vore Games
185
Interlude: Marnal’s Error
203
12: Reloaded
209
13: It’s the End. . .
221
Fitz’s Song: Contains Spoilers
231
The Gallifrey Chronicles: The Album
233
About the Author
235
The Doctor never loses.
Oh yeah, the whole concept behind [the album] came from Rick. He was into these books written by this crazy old guy. I guess you’d call it science fiction, but they weren’t, not really. They were all about this broken-down planet. Real weird stuff with giant fallen statues and old temples, and eternal life and huge libraries. The people there existed in all times at once, that was their thing. We live in three dimensions, they live in four, that was how Rick explained it. That made them gods, but they were, y’know, very English, too. They’d fought all types of monsters in the past, but it hadn’t worked out and they’d stopped all that. Forbidden it. One of them broke the rules, he went off and you never saw him again. Rick was always trying to get the rest of the band to read these things, but we weren’t too keen. There were more than a hundred books in the series, yeah? There were like two or three hundred, and you couldn’t just pick them up in the middle or anything.
Danny tried to read one of them, I think, but I’ve never been much of a