Project Valhalla (novel)

Project: Valhalla was a Big Finish Productions novel under the brand New Worlds published in 2005. It focused on the character of William Abberton, also known as "Nimrod", who first appeared in the Doctor Who audio story Project: Twilight.

Publisher's summary

 * ++Transmission Begins++
 * From: Deputy Director, Forge Alpha Facility
 * F.A.O: Director, Department C4, Whitehall
 * Re: Project: Valhalla
 * Rogue xenotech crash-site located in Lapland.
 * Suspected negative environment effect. Local communications network down. Total satellite whiteout.
 * Senior Field Agent Nimrod dispatched with full extraction team for assessment and harvest. Primary reports indicate total disappearance of local Sámi community. Possible zombie infestation. Crash-site protected by forcefield.
 * No further communication.
 * Current status of extraction team: unknown.
 * Nature of xenotech: unknown.
 * Threat level: unknown.
 * ++Transmission Ends++

Chapter titles

 * Prologue
 * 1: Twilight's End
 * 2: The Northern Light
 * 3: Terror in the Dark
 * 4: Cassie
 * 5: Briefing
 * 6: Mind of Evil
 * 7: Fallen Star
 * 8: Suited and Booted
 * 9: Death on Ice
 * 10: The End of Innocence
 * 11: Night Flight
 * 12: Bailing Out
 * 13: Dead Town
 * 14: Stallo
 * 15: Deadly Radiation
 * 16: Flight into Danger
 * 17: Trapped
 * 18: Breaking Down the Door
 * 19: Ghosts of the Past
 * 20: Descent
 * 21: Attack of the Dead
 * 22: Ashes to Ashes, Dusk to Dusk
 * 23: A Crack in the Glass
 * 24: Nyathoggoth
 * 25: Connection
 * 26: Countdown
 * 27: The Final Lesson
 * 28: Endings and Beginnings

Plot
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Main Characters

 * William Abberton
 * Lysandra Aristedes
 * Edith Crumpton
 * Cassandra Schofield
 * Sergeant Martin Frith

Other Forge Personnel

 * Charles Crichton
 * Private Mark Bradley
 * Ricketts
 * Private Dann
 * Private Tebbutt

Sami

 * Jukka Somby
 * Otto Somby

Other

 * John
 * Patricia
 * Robert Wilkins

Characters in flashbacks

 * Evelyn Smythe
 * Reggie Mead
 * William Moore

Continuity

 * Charles Crichton from TV: The Five Doctors is Deputy-Director of the Forge. In his early days in the British Army, he was friends with William Dalton and Archie Brimmicombe-Wood.
 * Major Philip Kirby from UNIT audio AUDIO: The Longest Night appears as a Whitehall special envoy, not yet working as the Prime Minister's Press Secretary.
 * ICIS villain Sergeant French (from AUDIO: The Coup) was in the Forge. He's recently been promoted from corporal and transferred to ICIS when the story takes place.