Time Zero (novel)

Time Zero was the sixtieth release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Justin Richards. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor and Trix MacMillan.

Publisher’s summary
"It doesn’t take the creation of a whole new universe just to kill a cat."

With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied.

At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition’s journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice.

Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn’t the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved?

Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond... ...to Time Zero.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Fitz goes on an expedition with George Williamson after he strikes up a friendship following a lecture he attended in 1893.
 * Anji Kapoor
 * The Doctor returns her to 2001 three weeks after she left. She spends the next eighteen months working in her job as a futures trader, succeeding partially due to her travels with the Doctor and also because she’s got future copies of The Times.
 * Sabbath (alias Holiday)
 * Beatrice MacMillan (aka Trix)
 * Is one of Sabbath's agents but only loyal as long as the cheque book is.
 * George Williamson
 * Alexander Hartford
 * Alice Romanov
 * Andrew Jenkins
 * Basil Flanaghan
 * Chedakin
 * Control
 * Curtis Maxwell
 * Edward Parton
 * Gerhart Graul
 * Gilbertson
 * Hanson Galloway
 * Jonas
 * Lansing
 * Larry Withers
 * Lionel Correll
 * Miriam Dewes
 * Nesbitt
 * Ostrander
 * Paul Anderton
 * Penny Ashworth
 * Peter Caversham
 * St. John Price
 * Thorpe
 * Yuri Culmanov

Continuity

 * The fire elemental is first seen in PROSE: The Burning (which takes place after this novel).
 * Fitz met George Williamson in PROSE: Camera Obscura.
 * Fitz remembers the planet Hope, where the ruler is a mechanical man and the sea is made of acid. (PROSE: Hope)
 * Anji remembers Dave and talks with his mother. (PROSE: Escape Velocity)
 * There are various mentions to the Doctor's note during the Earth Arc.