by Iain McLaughlin & Claire Bartlett
- UK
- Hardback
- Big Finish Productions
- October 2005
Back Cover Blurb
An extraordinary discovery in the Valley of the Kings leaves historians bemused and asking the question...
...Who was Erimem?
The only daughter of the great Pharaoh Amenhotep II, Princess Erimemushinteperem has lived a comfortable, privileged life safe in Pharaoh's luxurious palace in Thebes, surrounded by servants, slaves and friends. But her sixteenth year will bring Erimem and her brothers into contact with war, death, treachery, assassins and tragedy, and will lead her to a destiny she had never imagined...or wanted.
Notes
- The Coming of the Queen is an original novel featuring Erimem, the Egyptian Queen who was created by Iain McLaughlin for the audio play Doctor Who: The Eye of the Scorpion, released by Big Finish in September 2001.
In a feat of continuity twisting, Big Finish had managed to create a gap between Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani — the stories which had introduced Peri and seen the Fifth Doctor regenerate respectively — and it was into this space that Erimem was introduced. At the end of the adventure she joined them on their travels in the TARDIS.
The book was the first full-length novel to be published as part of the New Worlds range.
- The Coming of the Queen isn't the only occasion on which Erimem has appeared in print.
The complete script to Eye of the Scorpion, Erimem's debut adventure, was published in The Audio Scripts — Volume Two in July 2003. January 2004 saw Telos Publishing release Iain McLaughlin's Blood and Hope, the penultimate volume in the range of Doctor Who novellas, which saw the TARDIS land in the United States during the American Civil War. Needess to say, Erimem has also featured in a number of short stories from Big Finish which were included in their various Short Trips anthologies.