Doctor Who: Burning Heart
by Dave Stone
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- January 1997
Back Cover Blurb
THERE'S A GOD IN THE MACHINE — AND THE GOD IS INSANE
In the self-contained habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. Twenty million humans and aliens are at each other's threats, the lid barely held on by the Church of Adjudication, who through their OBERON systems weild absolute power. And we all know what absolute power does.
Other things have been corrupted too. People, humans, and aliens alike, are changing — mutating into something that if left unchecked, could consume their entire enclosed world.
Arriving in this disintegrating cosmopolitan society, Peri falls in with the charismatic leader of Human First, a movement dedicated to bringing order out of chaos. Meanwhile, the Doctor is powerless, imprisoned and put to the Inquisition by a church that really thinks its God is coming back.
If somebody doesn't do something, and do it soon, nobody's getting out alive.
THERE'S A GOD IN THE MACHINE — AND THE GOD IS INSANE
In the self-contained habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. Twenty million humans and aliens are at each other's threats, the lid barely held on by the Church of Adjudication, who through their OBERON systems weild absolute power. And we all know what absolute power does.
Other things have been corrupted too. People, humans, and aliens alike, are changing — mutating into something that if left unchecked, could consume their entire enclosed world.
Arriving in this disintegrating cosmopolitan society, Peri falls in with the charismatic leader of Human First, a movement dedicated to bringing order out of chaos. Meanwhile, the Doctor is powerless, imprisoned and put to the Inquisition by a church that really thinks its God is coming back.
If somebody doesn't do something, and do it soon, nobody's getting out alive.
Regular Characters
Sixth Doctor / Peri Brown
Sixth Doctor / Peri Brown
Notes
- Burning heart takes place between the television stories Vengeance on Varos and The Mark of the Rani.
- Burning Heart was the only Missing Adventure to be written by Dave Stone, although he has written a number of other Doctor Who novels, as well as being one of the most prolific authors of original novels for the various series of Bernice Summerfield spin-offs.
Doctor Who: A Device of Death
by Christopher Bulis
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- February 1997
Back Cover Blurb
'AS A MEMBER OF AN INFERIOR RACE, YOU EITHER WORK TO SERVE THE CAUSE OF AVERON, OR DIE.'
Sarah is marooned on a slave world where the only escape is death. Harry is caught in the middle of an interplanetary invasion, and has to combine medecine with a desperate mission. And the Doctor lands on a world so secret it does not even have a name.
Why have the TARDIS crew been scattered across the stars? What terrible accident could have wiped the Doctor's memory? And what could interest the Time Lords in this war-torn sector of space?
Why have the TARDIS crew been scattered across the stars? What terrible accident could have wiped the Doctor's memory? And what could interest the Time Lords in this war-torn sector of space?
'AS A MEMBER OF AN INFERIOR RACE, YOU EITHER WORK TO SERVE THE CAUSE OF AVERON, OR DIE.'
Sarah is marooned on a slave world where the only escape is death. Harry is caught in the middle of an interplanetary invasion, and has to combine medecine with a desperate mission. And the Doctor lands on a world so secret it does not even have a name.
Why have the TARDIS crew been scattered across the stars? What terrible accident could have wiped the Doctor's memory? And what could interest the Time Lords in this war-torn sector of space?
Why have the TARDIS crew been scattered across the stars? What terrible accident could have wiped the Doctor's memory? And what could interest the Time Lords in this war-torn sector of space?
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith / Harry Sullivan
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith / Harry Sullivan
Notes
- A Device of Death takes place between the television stories Genesis of the Daleks and Revenge of the Cybermen.
- A Device of Death was the fifth and final Missing Adventure to be written by Christopher Bulis, and was also the only one of Virgin Publishing's Doctor Who books to feaure the classic line-up of Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan. It would be a further six years before Jacqueline Rayner's Wolfsbane returned to this line-up, and unbelievably that was the only one of the BBC's twelve Fourth Doctor Previous Doctor Adventures that did so.
Doctor Who: The Dark Path
by David A McIntee
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- March 1997
Back Cover Blurb
'HE'S ONE OF MY PEOPLE, VICTORIA, AND HE'S HUNTING ME.'
Darkheart: a faded neutron star surrounded by dead planets. But there is life on one of these icy rocks — the last enclave of the Earth Empire, frozen in the image of another time. As the rest of the galaxy enjoys the fruits of the fledgling Federation, these isolated Imperials bound to obey a forgotten ideal, harbour a dark obsession.
The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive to find that the Federation has at last come to reintegrate this lost colony, whether they like it or not. But all is not well in the Federation camp: relations and allegiances are changing. The fierce Veltrochni — angered by the murder of their kinsmen — have an entirely different agenda. And someone else is manipulating the mission for his own mysterious reasons — another time traveller, a suave and assured master of his work.
The Doctor must uncover the terrible secret which brought the Empire to this desolate sector, and find the source of the strange power maintaining their society. But can a Time Lord, facing the ultimate temptation, control his own desires?
'HE'S ONE OF MY PEOPLE, VICTORIA, AND HE'S HUNTING ME.'
Darkheart: a faded neutron star surrounded by dead planets. But there is life on one of these icy rocks — the last enclave of the Earth Empire, frozen in the image of another time. As the rest of the galaxy enjoys the fruits of the fledgling Federation, these isolated Imperials bound to obey a forgotten ideal, harbour a dark obsession.
The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive to find that the Federation has at last come to reintegrate this lost colony, whether they like it or not. But all is not well in the Federation camp: relations and allegiances are changing. The fierce Veltrochni — angered by the murder of their kinsmen — have an entirely different agenda. And someone else is manipulating the mission for his own mysterious reasons — another time traveller, a suave and assured master of his work.
The Doctor must uncover the terrible secret which brought the Empire to this desolate sector, and find the source of the strange power maintaining their society. But can a Time Lord, facing the ultimate temptation, control his own desires?
Regular Characters
Second Doctor / Jamie McCrimmon / Zoe Heriot
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Master
Second Doctor / Jamie McCrimmon / Zoe Heriot
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Master
Notes
- The Dark Path takes place between the television stories The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep and after the novel Twilight of the Gods.
- The Dark Path was the last of David A McIntee's three novels for the Missing Adventures to be published and, like Lords of the Storm and The Shadow of Weng-Chiang, it featured elements from the past — in this case it was the Master, as first seen in the Third Doctor television story The Terror of the Autons. Where The Dark Path was unusual, was that it was set firmly within the era of the Second Doctor, when he was still on the run from the Time Lords. By the time the book had finished, the character had shed his real name — Koschei — and was set on the (dark) path to universal domination...
Doctor Who: The Well-Mannered War
by Gareth Roberts
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- April 1997
Back Cover Blurb
'DESTROY THEM! DESTROY THEM ALL — NOW!'
Barclow — an Earth-type planet on the fringe of space at an inestimably distant point in the future. Two factions have laid claim to it: humans from the nearby colony world of Metralubit, and a small group of Chelonian troopers. But in nearly two hundred years of conflict not one shot has been fired in anger, there are regular socials in the trenches, and the military commanders are the best of friends.
The Doctor, Romana and K-9, arriving in the midst of these bizarre hostilities, find there's real trouble to come. A crucial election on Metralubit is looming, and K-9 is forced to begin a new career as a politician. Meanwhile, Romana meets an old friend and the Doctor discovers that a sinister hidden force may be attempting to alter the war's friendly nature.
What are the plans of Galatea, leader of the beautiful but robotic Femdroids? Who is killing soldiers on both side of the battle lines? And will K-9's oratory save the day?
Just what is going on?
'DESTROY THEM! DESTROY THEM ALL — NOW!'
Barclow — an Earth-type planet on the fringe of space at an inestimably distant point in the future. Two factions have laid claim to it: humans from the nearby colony world of Metralubit, and a small group of Chelonian troopers. But in nearly two hundred years of conflict not one shot has been fired in anger, there are regular socials in the trenches, and the military commanders are the best of friends.
The Doctor, Romana and K-9, arriving in the midst of these bizarre hostilities, find there's real trouble to come. A crucial election on Metralubit is looming, and K-9 is forced to begin a new career as a politician. Meanwhile, Romana meets an old friend and the Doctor discovers that a sinister hidden force may be attempting to alter the war's friendly nature.
What are the plans of Galatea, leader of the beautiful but robotic Femdroids? Who is killing soldiers on both side of the battle lines? And will K-9's oratory save the day?
Just what is going on?
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / K9 Mark II / Romana II
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Menlove Stokes / The Chelonians / The Black Guardian
Fourth Doctor / K9 Mark II / Romana II
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Menlove Stokes / The Chelonians / The Black Guardian
Notes
- The Well-Mannered War takes place between the television stories Shada and The Leisure Hive.
- The Well-Mannered War was the last of Gareth Roberts' four novels for the Missing Adventures range. In fact, it was the very final Missing Adventure, as Virgin's licence to publish Doctor Who fiction expired just weeks later.
- As with The Romance of Crime and The English Way of Death, The Well-Mannered War was set within Season Seventeen of the television series. Returning from that first book was the character of Menlove Stokes who, at the conclusion of The Well-Mannered War, would be deposited on the planet Dellah where he becomes Professor of Applied Art and is therefore able to get caught up in the adventures of Bernice Summerfield, beginning with the first Doctor-less book in the New Adventures series, Oh No It Isn't!.
Menlove Stokes wasn't the only returning character, however, as the Black Guardian made his first appearance in Doctor Who since since the end of The Armageddon Factor, and the Chelonians also re-appeared, having originally been created by Gareth Roberts for his first Doctor Who novel, The Highest Science in 1993. - The Well-Mannered War was made available as a downloadable eBook on the BBC's Doctor Who website from February 2003, and was accompanied by extensive background notes from Roberts and brand-new illustrations from Daryl Joyce.
