The Fall of Yquatine (novel)

The Fall of Yquatine was the thirty-second novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Nick Walters. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Compassion.

Publisher’s summary
Yquatine — cultural, political and economic centre of the Minerva System. A planet with a month to live.

Fitz knows. He was there when Yquatine fell. Now, trapped a month in the past, he doesn’t know if the Doctor survived. He doesn’t know where Compassion has gone. He doesn’t know who the invaders will be.

But he does know the date and time when he will die with the millions of others.

The Doctor teams up with Lou Lombardo — part-time dodgy temporal gadget salesman and full-time pie seller. Compassion is lost in time and space. And Fitz is living out his final days working in a seedy cocktail bar, where he meets Arielle, the President’s runaway girlfriend. But is she really the best person to shack up with?

As the Doctor tries to talk sense into the politicians and soldiers, and Compassion tries to avert the war, Fitz is about to discover that things can only get worse.

Chapter Titles
Part One: You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide Part Two: But at Least You Can Run Part Three: For How Long, Though? Part Four: As Long as Your Luck Holds Out
 * 1: ‘What the hell am I doing here?’
 * 2: ‘She’ll probably never trust you again.’
 * 3: ‘We want to get out of here, and quick’
 * 4: ‘In a few hours, nothing will be left alive'
 * 5: ‘Woman trouble?’
 * 6: ‘Don’t ask me, I’m just the pie man'
 * 7: ‘I want something removed from me'
 * 8: ‘You said Yquatine is gonna be... destroyed'
 * 9: ‘Take me back’
 * 10: ‘I’ve just got to get off this planet’
 * 11: ‘I don’t know if I believe you’
 * 12: ‘We have reached a turning point in our great history’
 * 13: ‘This isn’t the way I was made’
 * Interlude 1: Cloudbusting
 * 14: ‘You’ve got a lot of explaining to do’
 * 15: ‘If you even call me, it is over between us’
 * 16: ‘My need for hot, sweet tea has never been greater’
 * 17: ‘This is just what I’ve been waiting for!’
 * Interlude 2: Eternal FEAR
 * 18: ‘We don’t need your help anymore’
 * 19: ‘Escape? No, thank you very much!’
 * 20: ‘I wouldn’t stand too close if I were you’
 * 21: ‘The cellular damage is irreversible’
 * 22: ‘People of the Minerva System... ’
 * 23: ‘I suggest you surrender immediately’
 * 24: ‘Child of the universe’
 * 25: ‘All in a day’s work, eh?’
 * 26: ‘That’s fine, then’

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Is paranoid about being tracked by the Time Lords.
 * Is glad that he doesn't have to shave after seeing how dishevelled people have gotten after the Fall.
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Sides with Compassion over the Doctor's forcing of the Randomiser on Compassion.
 * Compassion
 * This is the first novel where Compassion is "the TARDIS" for the Doctor and Fitz.
 * She conceptualises her dematerialisation sequence as FEAR - Focus, Engage Engines, Artron Energy, Randomiser.
 * She makes use of her functioning chameleon circuit to gather information about the attack on Yquatine.
 * Finds it easier to track Fitz through time than the Doctor.
 * Lou Lombardo
 * President Stefan Vargeld
 * Arielle Markhof
 * Grand Gynarch
 * Ralf Petersen
 * Sorswo
 * Zendaak
 * Anthaurk

Continuity

 * Chateau Yquatine is known as being a relatively good wine in Dry Pilgrimage.
 * The Doctor mentions giant rats whilst in the sewers of Yquatine. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
 * Fitz remembers helping to save the creatures of the Dominion. (PROSE: Dominion)
 * Fitz remembers Filippa (PROSE: Parallel 59)