Evolution (novel)

Evolution was the second novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by John Peel. It featured the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

Publisher's summary
"Someone is tampering with the fabric of the human cell," the Doctor said darkly, "perverting its secrets to his own dark purposes."

Sarah Jane wants to meet her fellow journalist Rudyard Kipling, and the Doctor sets the co-ordinates for England, Earth, in the Victorian Age. As usual, the TARDIS materialises in not quite the right place, and the time travellers find themselves pursued across Devon moorland by a huge feral hound.

Children have gone missing; at the local boarding school, the young Rudyard Kipling has set up search parties. Lights have been seen beneath the waters of the bay, and fishermen have been pulled from their boats and mutilated. Graves have been robbed of their corpses. Something is going on, and Arthur Conan Doyle, the ship's doctor from a recently berthed arctic whaler, is determined to investigate.

The Doctor and Doyle join forces to uncover a macabre scheme to interfere with human evolution — and both Sarah Jane and Kipling face a terrifying transmogrification.

Chapter Titles

 * 1: Childhood's End
 * 2: Predators
 * Interlude 1
 * 3: Bodies
 * 4: Wild Hunt
 * 5: Hounded
 * 6: Swimming with the Sharks
 * Interlude 2
 * 7: Grave Events
 * 8: Explanations and Mutations
 * Interlude 3
 * 9: Survival of the Fittest
 * Coda

Plot
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Characters

 * The Fourth Doctor
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Rudyard Kipling
 * Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Sir Edward Fulbright
 * Sir Alexander Cromwell
 * Josh Anders
 * Ben Tolliver
 * Edmund Ross
 * Abercrombie
 * Percival Ross
 * Billy
 * Tobias Breckinridge
 * Captain John Gray
 * Roger Bridewell
 * Alice Fulbright
 * Lucy
 * Cherry
 * Brogan
 * Raintree
 * Jen Walker

Continuity

 * Sarah refers to the planet Karn and the encounter with Morbius. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)
 * The Doctor mentions Metebelis III and Argolis. (TV: Planet of the Spiders, The Leisure Hive)
 * Sarah compares the moors to Karn and observes the effect that adventure has had on the Doctor's mood. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)
 * Sarah refers to her first trip in the TARDIS to 13th century England and her encounter with Sutekh in 1911. (TV: The Time Warrior, Pyramids of Mars)