Festival of Death (novel)

 was the thirty-third BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 Mark II.

2000 BBC Books edition
The Beautiful Death. The ultimate theme-park ride. For twenty galactic credits, you can find out what it's like to be dead.

But something has gone wrong. Visitors expecting a sightseeing tour of the afterlife have been transformed into mindless zombies, set on a killing rampage.

The TARDIS arrives in the aftermath of the disaster and, to the Doctor's baffled delight, he is immediately congratulated for saving the population from certain and terrible destruction.

The only problem is, he hasn't actually done it yet.

Aided and abetted by a drug-addled hippie lizard, a hard-hitting investigative reporter and a suicidal ship's computer, the Doctor has no choice but to travel back in time and discover exactly how he became a hero.

And then he finds out. He did it by sacrificing his life.

2013 BBC Books edition
The Beautiful Death is the ultimate theme-park ride: a sightseeing tour of the afterlife. But something has gone wrong, and when the Fourth Doctor arrives in the aftermath of the disaster, he is congratulated for saving the population from destruction – something he hasn't actually done yet. He has no choice but to travel back in time and discover how he became a hero. And then he finds out. He did it by sacrificing his life.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Romana
 * K9
 * Byson
 * Durkan
 * ERIC
 * Evadne Baxter
 * Gallura
 * Harkan Batt
 * Hoopy
 * Jeremy
 * Koel Paddox
 * Metcalfe
 * Nyanna
 * Repulsion
 * Rige
 * Rochfort
 * Tarie
 * Vinnie

The Doctor

 * The Doctor has met General George Armstrong Custer.

Species

 * Alabast elephosaurs are highly immune to painkillers.

Spaceships

 * Yetraxxi spaceships have a hairdryer design to them.

Continuity

 * Romana states that if not for his sonic screwdriver, he would probably still be trapped in a cellar in Paris in 1979. (TV: City of Death)
 * The TARDIS previously jumped a time track in TV: The Space Museum.