The Eye of the Giant (novel)

The Eye of the Giant was the twenty-first novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It featured the Third Doctor, Liz Shaw, the Brigadier, Mike Yates and John Benton. Set after the events of Inferno this is one of several a few novels showing Liz Shaw's adventures with the Doctor continued longer than was shown in the television stories.

Publisher's summary

 * "I might have known it," the Brigadier said tersely. "The Doctor and Miss Shaw have managed to lose themselves on an island that doesn’t exist."

1934: Salutua, a legendary lost island in the Pacific. Millionaire Marshal J Grover’s expedition arrives to uncover and exploit its secrets. But the task is complicated by a film star’s fears and ambitions and a scientist’s lethal obsession.

Nearly forty years later: UNIT headquarters, London. The Doctor and Liz Shaw are asked to identify a mysterious artefact and trace its origin. The trail leads them back in time to Salutua and a gigantic discovery. Meanwhile, the Brigadier faces an epidemic of UFO sightings and supernatural occurrences that threaten to bring about global panic. Only the Doctor can help him -- but he’s trapped on a mythical island four decades in the past.

Plot
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Characters

 * Third Doctor
 * Liz Shaw
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Mike Yates
 * Sgt. Benton

Individuals

 * Mike Yates sees inside the TARDIS for the first time.
 * Benton had an aunt who read tea leaves.
 * The Brigadier has been talking to Sir John Sudbury of C19.

Species

 * Grold are flourosilicone life forms; their bodies are more like stone than flesh and require massively high temperatures to function.

TARDIS

 * The time phase oscillator, photon accelerator coils and tachyon beam collimator are all parts of the TARDIS console.

Technology

 * The Doctor still has the Time-Space Visualiser in the TARDIS.

Continuity

 * Mike Yates has been on clean-up duties for Autons (DW: Spearhead from Space) and the "Cave Monsters" (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians).
 * There is a mention of the Doctor visiting a parallel universe. (DW: Inferno)
 * Species similar to the Grold feature in DW: The Fires of Pompeii.

Timeline
In terms of television adventures, this story clearly happens between Seasons 7 and 8. Positive reference is made to the events of DW: Inferno, leaving no placement but after Inferno and before the arrival of Jo Grant and promotion of Mike Yates to Captain.


 * Considering stories from all media, the story may be more specifically placed between DWY: Reconnaissance and the main narrative in CC: The Blue Tooth