Dead Romance (novel)

Publisher's summary
All right, let's start with the basics. The world ended on the twelfth of October, Nineteen Seventy...

I don't know why I'm writing this. It's not like anybody's going to read it. At least, nobody who cares about the fact that I'm a desperate, dying, 23-year-old human being who's just had the whole of history taken away from her.

To whoever's out there, to whatever's left, this is the way things were, just before the end. This is the story about the last days of London, about murder and love and waking up in the ruins, about all the people buried in the wreckage...

I'm lying, obviously. This is my story. This is what I was doing, when October the twelfth came. Because, let's face it, I'm the only one who really matters.

I'm the only one who got out alive.

Characters

 * Christine Summerfield
 * Probably no relation to Bernice Summerfield, except in name.
 * Lost her virginity at 15.


 * Chris Cwej
 * Is an agent of the Time Lords.
 * The Time Lords have altered his biology to make him more suited to dealing in their affairs. They also changed his memory of his time with the Doctor, making him the 'Evil Renegade' instead.
 * After meeting with the Daleks Chris comes back to Christine and has sex with her.


 * Khiste
 * Has regenerated at least once (quite possibily more than once).
 * Has sex with Christine to prove a point.


 * The Horror
 * A gestalt of all the stuff lost in the vortex.


 * Cwej's Employers
 * The Time Lords.


 * The Sphinxes

Mad Norwegian Reprint
Reprinted in 2004 by Mad Norwegian, not strictly as part of their Faction Paradox range but as a companion to it, the newer edition includes some additional material.


 * A new foreword by Miles.
 * The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic - An essay on the mechanics and cosmogony of universes and bottle universes. Originally intended as source material for other writers in the Faction Paradox range, it is nevertheless written 'in universe', like The Adventuress of Henrietta Street or The Book of the War.
 * A reprint of Toy Story, originally published in Perfect Timing 2.
 * Grass, a Faction Paradox related short story originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction.

Within the main text of the novel, the terminology the BNAs had used to avoid mentioning the Time Lords directly was amended to the terminology the Faction Paradox range now uses for a similar purpose.

Continuity

 * The Gods (which the Time Lords are preparing to escape from) appeared in BNA: Where Angels Fear.
 * Chris Cwej last appeared in BNA: Oblivion.
 * Roz Forresster died in NA: So Vile a Sin.
 * Father Kreiner fell into the vortex in EDA: Interference - Book Two.
 * The Time Lord - The People treaty was first mentioned in NA: The Also People.
 * The concept of Time Lords regenerating for particular purposes/for war first appears in EDA: Alien Bodies and Time Lords in non-bipedal forms appear in EDA: The Taking of Planet 5.
 * The bottle that appears is implied to be the bottle I.M. Foreman has in EDA: Interference - Book One.
 * Also in Interference it's mentioned that the Time Lords are making 'Ogron Lords' by altering them to be time compatible, this concept is first introduced in this novel.


 * Wetworks technology appears in BFA: The Genocide Machine.
 * Henrietta street features more heavily in EDA: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
 * Pool appeared in NA: Deceit.