Camera Obscura (novel)

Camera Obscura was the fifty-ninth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Lloyd Rose. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher’s summary
''The Doctor sat alone and listened to the beat of his remaining heart. He had never got used to it. He never would. The single sound where a double should be. What was this new code hammering through his body? What did it mean? Mortal. No, he’d always known he could die. Not mortal. Damaged. Crippled. Through his shirt, his fingers sought the thick ridge of his scar. Human...''

The Doctor’s second heart was taken from his body — for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.

Characters

 * The Eighth Doctor
 * Nearly dies when a sandbag is dropped (from great height) onto his chest, crushing his remaining heart and smashing his ribs so hard they poke out his back onto the floor.
 * The Doctor tricks the Angel-Maker into stabbing him through the heart (in order to venture into Death’s realm).
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Sabbath (alias Mr G.K. Thursday)
 * Angel-Maker (aka Elizabeth Kelly)
 * She's a time sensitive.
 * Death
 * Constance Jane
 * George Williamson
 * Hugo Little
 * Micah Scale
 * Nathaniel Chiltern
 * Nora
 * Octave
 * O'Keagh
 * Sebastian Chiltern

Continuity

 * The Doctor speaks of Sabbath’s previous ploys including Station One and Barcelona. (PROSE: Anachrophobia, History 101)
 * When the Doctor is crushed by the sandbags, it is his connection to Sabbath through his second heart, which was removed in PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street and that Sabbath implanted in his own body, that keeps him from dying.
 * Fitz goes to a history lecture on Siberia and meets explorer George Williamson. The expedition appears in PROSE: Time Zero.
 * Fitz recalls his visit with the Doctor to San Francisco and shares his limited knowledge of biodata. (PROSE: Unnatural History)
 * Sabbath says that Scarlette was the only woman the Doctor ever got close to. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
 * When the Doctor and Sabbath agree to work together, the Doctor has a memory of being in league with a moral monster and falling, which is most likely a reference to the Fourth Doctor’s alliance with the and subsequent regeneration (TV: Logopolis)
 * After the Doctor’s chest is crushed, the Doctor briefly feels like his body’s just a coat he’s taken off and he’ll find another one around a corner, hinting at some buried memories of regeneration. During his dream, he studies his shadow and feels as though it should remind him of something, possibly its loss and replacement with a Faction-influenced shadow (PROSE: Unnatural History, The Ancestor Cell).
 * The flat rented by the Doctor is implied to be 221B Baker Street; the novel is set in 1893, during which time Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be dead.