Requiem (unproduced novel)

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 was a was an unproduced Doctor Who novel by Lawrence Miles. The novel was pitched as the first of six books to be published over the course of two years in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures series. While it was never written down, he proposed the miniseries to Stephen Cole in the lobby of BBC Worldwide in late 1998.

The miniseries would have been about a potential future incarnation of the Doctor and a potential future Gallifrey during the War in Heaven. A major plot point in Requiem was a "huge, black, bone-like thing" that materialised over Gallifrey. The Doctor arrives and is the only one who can get inside it because the artefact is "linked to his destiny". He then discovers it is all a set-up by Faction Paradox following the damage they did to his biodata in Interference.

Miles noted that eight months after he pitched the idea, Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole wrote The Ancestor Cell which also featured a bony structure (the Edifice) appearing over Gallifrey in a Faction Paradox conspiracy storyline.

"Stephen calls me up and starts haranguing me, saying things like "it's not remotely like your story, what are you talking about?" ... From what I can gather, what's on board the black boney thing in THE ANCESTOR CELL is completely different to what was on board the black boney thing in REQUIEM, so I'd say there isn't enough similarity for a lawsuit or anything."

- Lawrence Miles