The Also People (novel)

Publisher's Summary
Just how technologically advanced are they?' The Doctor frowned. 'Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.

The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the closest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.

While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gear box.

Then the peace is shattered by murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artifical world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what she's always suspected -- that every paradise has its snake.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Once broke the Galactic record for continuous spoon playing: 67 hours worth.
 * Most likely would have killed Kadiatu had Benny not saved her.
 * Gets rescued by a parachute that designs apple trees in its spare time.


 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Has visited a Dyson Sphere before.
 * Despite everything, Benny still trusts the Doctor.


 * Roz Forrester
 * Roz's middle name is revealed here to be 'Inyathi' meaning 'buffalo'.
 * Roz decided in her youth that messy sex didn't offer anything a 3 pack of Martian ale and a long shower couldn't.
 * Has a sister: Lebe.
 * Roz's father collected Dalek poetry.


 * Chris Cwej
 * Chris's grandfather was colour blind.


 * saRa!qava
 * Bakes bread
 * Has a daughter, Dep.
 * Fancies Benny.


 * Dep
 * Sleeps with Chris and impregnates herself with his sperm.


 * aM!xitsa
 * Is a long time friend of the Doctor.
 * Is 'looking after' Kadiatu for the Doctor.


 * feLixi
 * Has a relationship with Roz.
 * He has a secret agent in the Proxy Wars.
 * Is the accomplace in the murder of vi!Cari.


 * God
 * Brings a weird yellow dip to parties that no one ever eats.
 * Insists he/it is not a computer.
 * Is a member of the Anti-Machine Interest Group.


 * kiKhali


 * agRaven


 * !C-Mel
 * Is the murderer of vi!Cari, the Doctor kills !C-Mel.


 * vi!Cari
 * Is murdered.


 * beRut


 * Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart


 * S-Lioness


 * R-Vene
 * Is a ship.
 * Murdered 200,000 beings in a moment of combat panic.
 * Got combat psychosis some years ago.

Continuity

 * saRa!qava attends Benny's wedding reception in NA: Happy Endings Kadiatu is also present.


 * The People / elements of the People's (or God itself) culture appear in BNA: Oh No It Isn't!, Down, Ghost Devices, Walking to Babylon and Where Angels Fear (in which also the final fate of !C-Mel is revealed).