Reckless Engineering (novel)

Reckless Engineering was the sixty-third release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Nick Walters. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher’s summary
"What right do you have to wipe out a whole reality?"

The history of the planet Earth has become splintered, each splinter vying to become the prime reality. But there can only be one true history.

The Doctor has a plan to ensure that the correct version of history prevails — a plan that involves breaking every law of Time. But with the vortex itself on the brink of total collapse, what do mere laws matter?

From the Bristol riots of 1831, to the ruins of the city in 2003, from a chance encounter between a frustrated poet and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to a plan to save the human race, the stakes are raised ever higher — until reality itself is threatened.

Chapter titles

 * Bristol, 1 November 1831
 * Bristol, 19 July 1843
 * 1) Across The Bridge
 * 2) The Ruined City
 * 3) Totterdown
 * 4) The Lost Decade
 * 5) A Forbidden Subject
 * 6) No Going Back
 * 7) The Cleansing
 * 8) The Island of Time
 * 9) The Utopian Engine
 * 10) The Outlaws
 * 11) Fighting Back
 * 12) Encounter on the Downs
 * 13) Uneasy Alliances
 * 14) The Assault
 * 15) The Reunion
 * 16) Fitz's Choice
 * 17) The Apparition
 * 18) Time's Prisoners
 * 19) Year Nought
 * 20) Victims
 * 21) Into the Eternium
 * 22) Between Universes
 * 23) A Matter of Memory
 * 24) The Anomalies
 * 25) The Return
 * 26) Reality Check
 * 19 July 1843

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Watchlar
 * Jared Malahyde
 * Gottlieb
 * Aboetta Cigetrais
 * Bryant
 * Cluny
 * Collins
 * Emily Riverston
 * Evelyn
 * George
 * Isambard Kingdom Brunel
 * Morgan Foster
 * Robin Larkspar

English railway stations

 * Brunel designed Paddington station.

Continuity

 * Fitz recalls the Doctor's heart growing back, and his change in behaviour since. (PROSE: Camera Obscura)
 * Anji and Fitz mention their trip to Edinburgh in the last alternate timeline they visited. (PROSE: The Domino Effect)