Consequences (anthology)

Consequences is the most recent release from BBC Books in its series of novels based upon Torchwood. Unlike previous releases, however, this book takes the form of short stories by five authors -- the first time such a format has been used for Torchwood.

Publisher's Summary
Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre, and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a shopping center? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto's actions at a local publisher have a cost for Torchwood more than half-a-century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past...

Characters
The Baby Farmers 


 * Emily Holroyd
 * Charles Gaskell
 * Alice Guppy
 * Captain Jack Harkness

Kaleidoscope


 * Toshiko Sato
 * Gwen Cooper
 * Owen Harper
 * Ianto Jones

The Wrong Hands


 * Captain Jack Harkness
 * Gwen Cooper
 * Ianto Jones

Virus


 * Captain Jack Harkness
 * Gwen Cooper
 * Ianto Jones
 * Detective Kathy Swanson
 * Rhys Williams

Consequences


 * Captain Jack Harkness
 * Gwen Cooper
 * Ianto Jones
 * Nina Rogers

Continuity

 * The Baby Farmers is set in 1899
 * Kaleidoscope is set between End of Days and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
 * The Wrong Hands presumably takes place after Exit Wounds as Tosh and Owen are not involved.
 * Virus takes place immediately after The Wrong Hands
 * Consequences occurs after DW: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

The short story Consequences refers to many events to have occurred in Doctor Who and Torchwood including DW: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, BBCR: Lost Souls, Exit Wounds as well as the Torchwood novels Sky Point, Into the Silence and Bay of the Dead

The short story Consequences is told from the perspective of Nina Rogers who was a character in Bay of the Dead