A short series of books produced by Big Finish Productions which explored some of the characters and ideas created for their Doctor Who audio adventures in further detail.
The series launched with the anthology Wildthyme on Top, which also led into a number of audio adventures featuring Iris Wilthyme.
The series launched with the anthology Wildthyme on Top, which also led into a number of audio adventures featuring Iris Wilthyme.
The Coming of the Queen
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.
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.
Project: Valhalla
by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright
- UK
- Hardback
- Big Finish Productions
- November 2005
Back Cover Blurb
++Transmission Begins++
From: Deputy Director, Forge Alpha Facility
F.A.O: Director, Department C4, Whitehall
Re: Project: Valhalla
Rogue xenotech crash-site located in Lapland.
Suspected negative environment effect. Local communications network down. Total satellite whiteout.
Senior Field Agent Nimrod dispatched with full extraction team for assessment and harvest. Primary reports indicate total disappearance of local Sámi community. Possible zombie infestation. Crash-site protected by forcefield.
No further communication.
Current status of extraction team: unknown.
Nature of xenotech: unknown.
Threat level: unknown.
++Transmission Ends++
++Transmission Begins++
From: Deputy Director, Forge Alpha Facility
F.A.O: Director, Department C4, Whitehall
Re: Project: Valhalla
Rogue xenotech crash-site located in Lapland.
Suspected negative environment effect. Local communications network down. Total satellite whiteout.
Senior Field Agent Nimrod dispatched with full extraction team for assessment and harvest. Primary reports indicate total disappearance of local Sámi community. Possible zombie infestation. Crash-site protected by forcefield.
No further communication.
Current status of extraction team: unknown.
Nature of xenotech: unknown.
Threat level: unknown.
++Transmission Ends++
Notes
- Project: Valhalla is an original novel which features the Forge, the covert organisation that first appeared in the Doctor Who audio play Project: Twilight in August 2001 and its sequel Project: Lazarus in June 2003. Both stories had featured the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe, although the later story was in two halves and featured the Seventh Doctor in the second half. Project: Valhalla takes place between the two audio adventures, and sees the return of both Nimrod and Cassie from the earlier story.
- Cavan Scott and Mark Wright have written numerous Doctor Who short stories for the Short Trips anthologies, and are currently in charge of the Iris Wildthyme series of audio dramas.
- Project: Valhalla was the third and final book to be published as part of Big Finish's New Worlds series.
