Evolution (novel)

Evolution was the second novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by John Peel and 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 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 and Kipling face a terrifying transmogrification.

Plot
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Characters

 * 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
 * Jack Lamb
 * Bernard Faversham
 * Jim Brackley
 * Martinson
 * Jack Kinney

Worldbuilding

 * Sarah swims in the "tub" in the "bathroom" of the Doctor's TARDIS. The merchildren also stay in the "tub" on the trip to Andromeda.
 * Colonel Ross claims to be a special agent working directly under the command and authority of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and it is his job to investigate those matters that lie outside of the conventional.
 * The Doctor can speak fluent dolphin.

Continuity

 * Sarah refers to the planet Karn and her encounter with Morbius. (TV: )
 * The Doctor mentions Metebelis III and Argolis. (TV:, )
 * Sarah compares the moors to Karn and observes the effect that adventure has had on the Doctor's mood. (TV: )
 * Sarah refers to her first trip in the TARDIS to 13th century England and her encounter with Sutekh in 1911. (TV:, )
 * The Doctor would again encounter someone experimenting with human evolution. (TV: )