Salvation (novel)


 * You may be looking for the concept of salvation.

Publisher's summary
The gods have returned, and they're here to save our world.

New York, 1965. A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land. In the midst of this turmoil, people cry out to their gods.

And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call. Walking the slums and tenements of downtown Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshippers.

Steven wants to believe in miracles, but the First Doctor is more sceptical. What are the strangers' real motives, and why does history make no mention of these events? As New York begins to tear itself apart, the First Doctor's principles are tested to their limits. Which side should he choose to help? And what part will a London schoolgirl named Dorothea Chaplet play in the ensuing chaos?

What price is humankind willing to pay for salvation?

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Steven Taylor
 * Dodo Chaplet
 * Charles Marchant
 * Kathy Marchant
 * Byron Carter
 * Alexander Lullington-Smythe

Continuity

 * The Doctor says that not even the first syllable of his name can be pronounced. In BBCR: Slipback Peri Brown too said that she had been told it can't be pronounced, although River Song was able to pronounce it (DW: Forest of the Dead). (Though technically she is a Time Lord. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)
 * The Tzun and Dalek races are mentioned by the Doctor as examples of hostile aliens intent on invading Earth.
 * General Marchant has seen evidence of "metal monsters in Shoreditch" (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks) and "strange goings on at Corman in Nevada (NA: First Frontier).
 * When listing the Doctor's interferences in history, the Patriarch mentions championing Greece (DW: The Myth Makers), leaving the French Protestants to be massacred (DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve), burning Rome (DW: The Romans), sabotaging Barbara Wright's attempt to save the Aztecs (DW: The Aztecs), arranging Rebecca Nurse's death (PDA: The Witch Hunters) and dragging Katarina into a conflict that she could neither understand or survive (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan).
 * The Doctor says his body may be "wearing a bit thin." He later repeated this assessment, not long before his first regeneration. (DW: The Tenth Planet)

Timeline

 * Salvation occurs after DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
 * Salvation occurs before DW: The Ark