Longest Day (novel)

Longest Day was the ninth BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel featuring the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones. It is the beginning of a brief story arc centring around Sam's brief departure from the Doctor. Longest Day is the first of two Doctor Who novels written by Michael Collier. The other is The Taint which introduces Fitz Kreiner.

Publisher’s summary
Its surface ravaged by colliding time-fields, the planet Hirath is a patchwork of habitable areas separated by impenetrable zones of wild temporal fluctuation.

The planet’s unique biosphere is being exploited by an uncaring company happy to rent out temporally isolated chunks of the planet to the highest bidder — no questions asked. But the controlling computer seems to be malfunctioning, and the viability of the whole planet hangs in the balance — along with countless thousands of lives.

Arriving at Hirath’s control base, the Doctor and Sam are soon separated and trapped on the dying planet. While Sam becomes the focus of attention in a barren penal settlement, the Doctor discovers the secret of Hirath’s unique condition — just as a race of hideous bloodthirsty alien creatures arrive in force to reclaim it.

Caught up in a desperate struggle for survival, it seems time has run out for every living creature on Hirath — not least Sam and the Doctor...

Plot
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Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Samantha Jones
 * Anstaar
 * Felbaac
 * Nashaad
 * Sangton
 * Tanhith
 * Vasid
 * Vost
 * Yost

Books

 * The TARDIS library first editions of Charles Dickens' books and unfinished drafs of Alpha Centauran poetry.

Individuals

 * When regaining consciousness the Doctor mentions the names Liz and Simon, and they got married at St Oswalds.

Planets

 * Felbaac was imprisoned on Ipmuss.

The Doctor

 * Sam admits her undying love for the Doctor and seizes upon his unconscious state to kiss him before running away.
 * The Doctor has books stored on LEGO bricks.
 * At the Academy the Doctor was taught that "the universe is nothing but a functional chain of causality at every level, governed by the oldest and simplest laws".
 * The Doctor says that his tutor at the Academy was the most attractive person he has ever seen.

Time travel

 * Time Trees grow in heavy-metal rich soil.

Vehicles

 * The Doctor's Volkswagen Beetle gets driven through the corridors of the space station.

Continuity

 * Sam thinks back to when she fought Krotons (PROSE: Alien Bodies) and Daleks. (PROSE: War of the Daleks)