World Game (novel)

World Game was the seventy-third BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It was written by Terrance Dicks. It featured the Second Doctor and Lady Serena. This novel includes psychic paper, introduced in 2005 in Series 1 of Doctor Who it is one of the only occurrences of the new series being referenced in a PDA.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people, accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. That much is history.

But now the truth can be told — the Doctor does not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want, with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn.

Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo?

Prelude

 * Following the passing of the Gallifreyan Freedom of Information Act, the true story of the Doctor's exile is to be released. The following is an exert from the genuine summary of the Doctor.

The Doctor's trial was near its end. He was accused of breaking two Gallifreyan laws: first, stealing a TARDIS; second, breaking the law of non-interference. The Doctor stated that he was proud of his interference, as he had stopped many foes. The Time Lords understood his plea, but found his interference too great a crime and sentenced him to death.

Chapter One
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Serena
 * Napoléon Bonaparte
 * Horatio Nelson
 * Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Gallifreyan technology

 * Psychic paper is said to be a CIA invention.

Continuity

 * At the end of the novel, the Time Lords send the Doctor on a mission to Space Station Chimera. (DW: The Two Doctors)
 * The Doctor mentions his recent encounter with his eighth incarnation. (EDA: The Eight Doctors)
 * This story posits that psychic paper is a Time Lord invention and that the Doctor first started using it as far back as his second incarnation. Neither has ever been said on television. Psychic paper first appeared in DW: The End of the World.
 * This story posits the second significant encounter between the Second Doctor and Horatio Nelson. However, the Doctor meets him at a much later point in his second incarnation's life but at an earlier point in Nelson's life. At no point does the Doctor mention having met Nelson in the company of Ben Jackson and Polly Wright, as he did in DWAN: H.M.S. TARDIS.
 * The Third Doctor would later describe Lord Nelson as a "close personal friend" (DW: The Sea Devils) whereas the Fourth Doctor claimed to have had breakfast with him the day before the Battle of Trafalgar. (PDA: Eye of Heaven)
 * Later in his personal timeline, the Sixth Doctor would also be present at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. (BFA: The Curse of Davros)
 * The Eighth Doctor's companion Charley Pollard would later befriend the elderly Duke of Wellington in 1851. (BFA: Other Lives)
 * The Doctor says that an encounter with a vampire is one of the few things that can make a Time Lord afraid. (DW: State of Decay)

Timeline

 * World Game occurs directly after DW: The War Games.
 * The November 1915 sequence of PDA: Players occurs during the early chapters of the novel.
 * World Game occurs directly before DW: The Two Doctors.