Wooden Heart (novel)

Wooden Heart was the ninth Tenth Doctor novel released.

Publisher's summary
The Castor, a vast starship, seemingly deserted, spinning slowly in the void of deep space. Martha and the Doctor explore the drifting tomb, and discover that they may not be alone after all... Who survived the disaster that overcame the rest of the crew? What continues to power the vessel? And why has a stretch of wooded countryside suddenly appeared in the middle of the craft? As the Doctor and Martha journey through the forest, they find a mysterious, fogbound village — a village traumatised by missing children and tales of its own destruction...

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Martha Jones
 * Petr
 * Kristine
 * Saul
 * Jude
 * The Dazai
 * Thom

Organisations

 * New Rome Institute
 * Pacific Rim Cooperative

Planets

 * Aractus
 * Ralafea

Species

 * Ralafean
 * A creature with prominent, ridged bones, eviscerating skin, slender limbs and scarlet eyes. It has an emaciated lizard-like face and body, huge bat wings and a large spiked tail.
 * An animal with a bristly brown hide, a mouth full of tusks and black eyes. A purplish creature with thick, multijointed legs, stunted wings covered with barbs and pustules, a tapering neck, a vertically flattened face and lidless black eyes.
 * A creature with globular appendages that pulse with internal light and might be extra brains or heads, as well as smaller limbs that ebb and flow like hair, and a central body made up of rounded shapes

Technology

 * Castor
 * Chimera Project
 * Pollux

Continuity

 * The Doctor mentions trying to believe "Six impossible things before breakfast" a reference to. TV: The Five Doctors and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol.
 * Martha reflects on blood-sucking monsters. (TV: Smith and Jones)
 * The Doctor talks about time windows and makes a reference to Madame de Pompadour. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
 * Martha recalls encountering 'rhino-headed storm troopers' (TV: Smith and Jones) and 'witches on broomsticks' (TV: The Shakespeare Code)
 * Martha mentions that the Doctor could have his arm chop off and he'll grow a new one. (TV: Christmas Invasion)

Audio release

 * The story was released as an audiobook on 2x CD read by Adjoa Andoh.
 * The audiobook is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.