System Shock (novel)

System Shock was the eleventh novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It featured the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan. This novel is one of two novels featuring Harry Sullivan, the other is A Device of Death.

Publisher's summary

 * "We’re dicing with death on the information superhighway to hell."

A rebellion on another planet. A kidnapping in central London. The head of MI5 assassinated. A hostage siege suddenly and violently ended by the SAS. A computer CD slipped into the Fourth Doctor’s pocket by a dead man...

It’s 1998, and the global information superhighway is about to come on line. OffNet controls everything digital from cars to sliding doors, from interactive television to military command and control systems.

The Doctor and Sarah must join forces with an old friend in a race against time: to prevent the breakdown of technological society and foil an unconventional alien takeover bid.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Harry Sullivan

The Doctor

 * The Doctor's CV mentions degrees from the Prydonian Academy.

Foods and beverages

 * 1997 was a bad year for Ginger beer.

Individuals

 * Winifred Bambera is still a Brigadier in charge of UNIT by 1998.

TARDIS

 * The Doctor blames the Helmic regulators for the TARDIS missing the year he was aiming for.

Continuity

 * I2 and OffNet are mentioned again in MA: Millennial Rites.
 * The 1950s BBC science fiction television series Nightshade is mentioned. The Seventh Doctor would later meet its star Edmund Trevithick in Crook Marsham in December 1968. (NA: Nightshade)

Timeline

 * System Shock occurs after: DWAN: The Sea of Faces
 * System Shock occurs before DW: The Masque of Mandragora