Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)

Timewyrm: Revelation is the fourth book in the New Adventures series, and the fourth (and final) book in the Timewyrm ark. It was written by Paul Cornell, and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Publisher's summary
The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?

Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. He’s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothy’s skull. She dies instantly.

The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Dances with Death.
 * Is called Ka Faraq Gatri / Destroyer of Worlds by the Daleks for destroying Skaro.
 * The Doctor's mind has seven regions for his past and present selves.


 * Ace
 * In an alternate timeline Chad Boyle bludgeons her with a brick, killing her.
 * Ace also walks out onto the surface of the moon; her lungs explode.
 * Is a fan of Happy Mondays.


 * Timewyrm
 * Will always exist in some form.
 * Its essence is placed in a baby by the Doctor and given to Emily and Peter Hutchings, with the name Ishtar Hutchings.


 * Chad Boyle
 * A childhood bully of Ace's.


 * Emily Hutchings
 * Mildly telepathic.
 * She's an old friend of the Doctor.
 * Has decided to become a novelist.


 * Peter Hutchings
 * Cambridge Mathematics professor.


 * Ernest Trelaw
 * Current vicar of St. Christopher's (Saul).
 * Knows about Saul.


 * Saul
 * A sentient church in Cheldon Bonniface.
 * Pushes Hemmings' head along the moon's surface through telekinesis alone.


 * Anthony Rupert Hemmings


 * Death
 * Is created by the Timewyrm.

The Doctors as they appear within the Seventh Doctor's mind
 * First Doctor
 * Is the librarian and keeper of the gardens.
 * Second Doctor
 * Third Doctor
 * The seventh Doctor is sometimes terrified of him.
 * Is haunted by the realisation that the Leader of the British Republic was his counterpart.
 * Fourth Doctor
 * The ferryman.
 * Fifth Doctor
 * Is enchained in the pit, but is freed by Ace.
 * He is the Doctor's conscience.

Continuity

 * Cheldon Bonniface is the location of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding in NA: Happy Endings.
 * The reasons why the Sixth Doctor doesn't make an appearance are revealed in NA: Head Games.
 * The Timewyrm claims to have been around during: DW: The Daleks' Master Plan, Earthshock, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric
 * Lt Hemmings last appeared in: NA: Timewyrm: Exodus and puts in an appearance in Happy Endings.

Timeline

 * This story occurs after NA: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
 * This story occurs before DWM: Cathedral Heart