The Last Dodo (novel)

The Last Dodo was the eighth Tenth Doctor novel released.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo, and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day, all still alive and in Suspended animation.

Preservation is the museum's only job - collecting the last of every endangered species from all over the universe. But exhibits are going missing...

Can the Doctor solve the mystery before the museum's curator adds the last of the Time Lords to her collection?

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Martha Jones
 * Eve
 * Tommy
 * Rix
 * Frank
 * Celia
 * Vanni
 * Nadya
 * Douglas Dunnock
 * Albert
 * Hr'oln

Planets

 * Belepheron was a planet where the air smelled of bad eggs and boiled cabbage and the natives greeted visitors by smothering them in green slime and cooking them over a fiery pit.
 * Kinjana was the planet on which Frank was born. The humanoid inhabitants of the planet looked enough like humans that Frank was able to get a job in the Earth section of the Museum of the Last Ones.

Species

 * The Elipig, the Fruzin, the Fuffox, the Kivurd the Vish and the Dodo are all extinct species.

Galaxies

 * The Kinrexian, M82, M83, M84 galaxies are all mentioned by the doctor as galaxies Eve would have to wipe out before she would be close to destroying all life in the universe.

Continuity

 * In both this story and PROSE: The Doctor Trap a being is trying to capture the Doctor for his status as the last member of his species.

Audio release

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