Millennial Rites (novel)

Millennial Rites was the fifteenth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It featured the Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush in an adventure that takes place before the events seen in DW: Terror of the Vervoids.

Publisher's summary

 * "The Millennium, Mel: the last New Year's Eve of the Twentieth century. But it's definitely not party time."

England, 1999: the Sixth Doctor and Mel have come to London to celebrate the new year with old friends - and to heal old wounds. But others are making more sinister preparations to usher in the new millennium. A software house is about to run a program that will change the fabric of reality. And an entity older than the universe is soon to be reborn.

When Anne Travers' fear of the Great Intelligence and millionaire philanthropist Ashley Chapel's secret researches combine, London is transformed into a dark and twisted mirror image populated by demons and sorcerers. Only the Doctor can put things right, but his friends have also been shockingly changed and he cannot trust anybody - least of all himself.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Melanie Bush
 * Ashley Chapel
 * The Valeyard

Individuals

 * Tobias Vaughn

Libraries and archives

 * Library of St John the Beheaded

Species

 * Yog-Sothoth
 * Saraquazel

Continuity

 * I2, OffNet and Ashley Chapel all previously appeared in MA: System Shock.
 * This story takes place contemporaneously with PDA: Millennium Shock, DWM: Plastic Millenium, DW: Doctor Who (1996), BFIW: The Panda Invasion and part of TW: Fragments.
 * The Doctor had faced the Quarks and their Giant Wasps previously on Gano. (TVC: The Killer Wasps)
 * James Stevens had been directed to Ashley Chapel when researching the death of Tobias Vaughn. (MA: Who Killed Kennedy)

Timeline

 * Millennial Rites occurs after VD: Fegovy
 * Millennial Rites occurs before DW: Terror of the Vervoids (flash-forward scenes)