Set Piece (novel)

Publisher's summary
'''Dead. He was dead. How the hell was she supposed to do CPR on a man with two hearts?'''

There's a rip in the fabric of space and time. Passenger ships are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes. In an attempt to find out who's behind the disappearances, the Doctor and Ace allow themselves to be captured. But when Bernice's rescue attempt goes terribly wrong, the time travellers find themselves scattered throughout history.

Ace, stranded in Ancient Egypt, struggles to survive in an environment as alien as a distant planet: the Earth 3,000 years before she was born. She manages to find employment as a nobleman's bodyguard. And then she comes face to face with the metal horrors which have pursued her through time - the creatures she saw kill the Doctor.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Knows how to speak French (separate from the TARDIS).
 * Time calls the Doctor her champion.
 * First met Death on a Gallifreyan hill side.
 * Suffers a double cardiac arrest.
 * Has his 1000th birthday.


 * Ace
 * Ace's name is revealed as Dorothy McShane.
 * Becomes one of Sejet's bodyguards, she's called Tepy; meaning 'First One'.
 * Leaves the Doctor; aged 26.
 * Ace visits Denon in 1815; aged 28.
 * She goes to Glebe (Sydney, Australia); aged 37.
 * She at one point ends up in a relationship with one of Captain Sorin's ancestors, Count Nikolai Sorin.


 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Pain visits Benny in a dream telling her of the vulnerable nerve cluster on a Time Lords' shoulder.
 * Drinks absinthe and eats grapes in Cairo.


 * Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Her time machine has been knocking holes in space time.


 * Sedjet


 * Vivant Denon
 * Harbors Kadiatu.

Continuity

 * It's claimed here that Time Lord nanites can regrow limbs. A similar occurrence happens when the Doctor re-grows a hand in DW: The Christmas Invasion.


 * Whilst reading records of history of Egypt Ace finds references to Daleks in the Pyramids as seen in DW: The Daleks' Master Plan.


 * Kadiatu next appears in NA: The Also People.


 * Ace makes a cameo appearance in NA: Head Games and attends Benny's wedding in Happy Endings.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after NA: Warlock
 * This story takes place before NA: Infinite Requiem