The Gallifrey Chronicles (Parkin novel)

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For the John Peel book of the same name, see The Gallifrey Chronicles (Peel book).

The Gallifrey Chronicles
ISBN
0-563-48624-4
Preceded byTo the Slaughter 

The Gallifrey Chronicles is a

Trix MacMillan
. This book, along with a few others in the series, was reprinted in 2011 and is available as an e-book.

Plot

The

Trix MacMillan, overthrows the tyrant Mondova on an alien world, prevents a time-travelling alien from interfering in Ancient Roman history, and stops a Dalek (never named as such, but heavily implied) invasion of Mars
. Against this backdrop, Fitz and Trix have begun a relationship and decide to leave the TARDIS.

The Doctor returns to Earth in 2005, materialising at the grave of

K-9 Mark II has been aboard ever since Gallifrey's destruction, hidden behind a false wall, with orders from Lady President Romana
of Gallifrey to kill him. However, K-9 pauses once it scans the Doctor's mind and discovers the reason why the Doctor has lost his memory.

It transpires that, just prior to destroying Gallifrey, the Doctor (with the help of his former companion

first day on the job
.

The Doctor, Fitz, Trix and his allies travel to Africa with a Royal Navy Battle Group to confront the threat of the Vore. The novel and the Eighth Doctor Adventures end uncertainly, as the Doctor leaps into the very heart of the Vore hive.

Writing and development

This is the last novel of its series (which began with

Fear Itself (by Nick Wallace), a novel published subsequently featuring the Eighth Doctor but set before The Gallifrey Chronicles, came out as part of the Past Doctor Adventures
line.

The use of the seal of Rassilon on the cover mirrors its use on the cover of the first Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, The Eight Doctors.

References are made in this novel to the

Samantha Jones
, and various events that have occurred during the course of the Eighth Doctor Adventures.

Marnal was mentioned in

Red Fort (a proposed First Doctor historical story commissioned from Terry Nation).[citation needed
]

Possible threats to Gallifrey mentioned by Marnal include the Klade (

Trix[citation needed
]).

Larna speaks of a prophecy that, before its fall, Gallifrey will be attacked by several enemies. These include

Timewyrm (Timewyrm: Revelation
).

The TARDIS interior from the 1996 telemovie is destroyed by a cold fusion device, leaving the way clear for the redesigned interior seen from "The Day of the Doctor" onwards.

When Marnal is looking through the various timestreams for the Eighth Doctor, he observes that the Doctor has "three ninth incarnations" (page 62: 'As for his future. . . he has three ninth incarnations. I’ve never seen anything like it.').[1]

At one point in the novel, Marnal mentions that he was visited by his son in the 1970s.[2]

Notes

  1. Shalka Doctor" voiced by Richard E. Grant in the animated story Scream of the Shalka, and the official Ninth Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston
    .
  2. ^ In the author's AHistory: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe, the visit of Marnal's son, during which the unnamed son was "on the run", is set during UNIT's hunt for the Master (Doctor Who) in the television story Colony in Space, implying that Marnal's son is the Doctor's archenemy, the Master.

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