Hope (novel)

Hope was the fifty-third novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Mark Clapham. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher's summary
In the far future, the city of Hope isn't a place for the weak.

The air is thick with fog. The sea burns. Law and order are a thing of the past. Headless corpses are being found at the edge of the city, and the militia can't find the killer. Members of a deranged cult mutilate themselves while plotting the deaths of their enemies.

Even the Doctor can't see any possibility of redemption for this cursed place. All he wants to do is leave, but to do so he needs the TARDIS — and the TARDIS is lost in the depths of a toxic sea. When the most powerful man on the planet offers to retrieve the TARDIS — for a price — the Doctor has no choice but to accept.

But while the Doctor is hunting a killer, another offer is being made — one which could tear the Doctor and his companions apart...

Chapter Titles
I: Headhunt II: Escalation III: Beyond the Sea IV: The Silver Age
 * Prologue – Don't Forget to Catch Me
 * 1. Out of the Box
 * 2. The Only Way is Up
 * 3. A Fistful of Fingers
 * 4. Fight Pub
 * 5. Fear of Flying
 * 6. No More Time Outs
 * 7. Secret Origins
 * 8. Turning on a Dime
 * 9. Downward Spirals
 * 10. Human Factors
 * 11. Storm Front
 * 12. Blue Sky Propositions
 * 13. Paranoia
 * 14. Chaingun Diplomacy
 * 15. Same Old Brand New You
 * 16. Closure
 * Epilogue – Tonight We Fly

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Silver
 * Joshua Kent
 * Kyrro
 * Maria (Hope)
 * Miraso
 * Pazon
 * Powlin
 * Stephens

Continuity

 * This is the same sort of "end of the universe" setting as seen in PROSE: The Infinity Doctors and PROSE: Father Time.
 * The Imperial family of the universe is implied to be the one mentioned in PROSE: Father Time. The Miranda comic series confirms that Endpoint is in fact within the Emperor's empire.
 * The Doctor is still affected by the loss of his second heart (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street), learning during this story that the loss of his heart has also deprived him of his ability to process toxins in his bloodstream and his respiratory bypass system.
 * Anji is still feeling loss over the death of her boyfriend, Dave Young. (PROSE: Escape Velocity)
 * Anji mentions Ceres Alpha and Albert. (PROSE: Dark Progeny, Grimm Reality)
 * Anji recalls the climactic storm on Hitchemus. (PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers)
 * The Doctor gives Anji and Fitz golden discs from the equipment of the humans they had met on the planet Albert. (PROSE: Grimm Reality)