The Dalek Generation (novel)

The Dalek Generation is one of three Eleventh Doctor novels published in April 2013.

Publisher's summary
"The Sunlight Worlds Offer You A Life of Comfort and Plenty. Apply now at the Dalek Foundation."

Sunlight 349 is one of countless Dalek Foundation worlds, planets created to house billions suffering from economic hardship. The Doctor arrives at Sunlight 349, suspicious of any world where the Daleks are apparently a force for good – and determined to find out the truth. The Doctor knows they have a far more sinister plan – but how can he convince those who have lived under the benevolence of the Daleks for a generation?

But convince them he must, and soon. For on another Foundation planet, archaeologists have unearthed the most dangerous technology in the universe...

Plot
Lillian Belle, a journalist living on the Dalek Foundation world of Sunlight 349, arrives at the sight of a train crash where two locomotives have collides head on. As Lillian intervies a security guard, Daniel Ash, a Dalek arrives on the scene to investigate. Some medics with Mr Sezman, one of the drivers, approach the Dalek on the other side of the train - out of everyone's sight - to explain to it what happened. The Dalek murders them and leaves before the bodies can be found.

While the TARDIS is in flight through the Time Vortex, the Doctor receives a Hypercube, a much smaller one that he is used to. He then thinks that maybe he made it himself to send himself a message from his future. He is brought to the desert planet Gethria, where he sees a gathering of humanoids around a stone monument. They all depart as the Doctor realises the gathering was a funeral. An old woman stares at the Doctor as if she recognises him before leaving herself. The Doctor examines the gravestone and sees a toy spaceship embedded into it. He notes it was "Made in Carthedia" and then leaves. His departure is watched by the Dalek Time Controller who declares: "It is beginning..."

Characters

 * Eleventh Doctor
 * The Blakely Family
 * Sabel Blakely
 * Jenibeth Blakely
 * Ollus Blakely
 * Terrin Blakely
 * Alyst Blakely
 * Klektids
 * Hogoosta
 * The Daleks
 * Dalek Time Controller
 * Dalek Litigator
 * Dalek Supreme
 * Hellic Dansard
 * Lillian Belle
 * Daniel Ash
 * Mr Sezman

Continuity

 * The Doctor remembers the times he used a hypercube: a long time ago, (TV: The War Games) and just recently. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
 * The Dalek time controller previously encountered the Sixth Doctor, (AUDIO: Patient Zero) and the Eighth Doctor. (AUDIO: To the Death)
 * Daleks previously pretended to help humans in order to further their own objectives in TV: The Power of the Daleks and TV:  Victory of the Daleks. They also lured the Thals into a trap by offering them friendship and food in TV: The Daleks.

Audio release
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