Interference - Book One (novel)

Publisher's summary
''Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and found out that her entire life had been stage-managed by a time-travelling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn’t it?''

Now Sam’s back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge, and good old-fashioned depravity. But she’s about to learn the first great truth of the universe: that however corrupt and amoral your own race might be, there’s always someone in the galaxy who can make you look like a beginner.

Ms Jones has just become a minor player in a million-year-old power struggle... and as it happens, so has the Doctor.

Both of him, actually.

What Happened on Earth

 * The Doctor
 * Spends a great deal of time in a cell somewhere, being tortured, for no actual reason.
 * Tells Badar about his imprisonment on Ha'olam
 * Tells Badar his name, it's very long.


 * Samantha Jones
 * Sam has encountered Ogrons before.
 * Sam uses binoculars (given to her by the Doctor) made in the Filipino Protectorate in 4993. The binoculars have lip-reading software on them.
 * Is 22 years old.


 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Is 29 years old when he arrives on Earth with the Doctor and Sam.
 * Fitz goes from 1996 to 2593 in the Cold. In 2593 he celebrates his 626th birthday.
 * Upon finding himself in 2593/2594 decides to join the Faction Paradox.


 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Is using the alias Sarah Bland
 * Has met Ogrons before
 * Sarah Jane Smith masquerades as working for International Procurement Services to get into COPEX.
 * Sarah's memories of the events on Dust are somewhat blurry.


 * K9
 * K9's database is currently 20 googolbytes big.
 * K9 can drive Sarah's Land Rover
 * Can detect artron energy.


 * Guest
 * Fronts The Remote's contingent to Earth to sell The Cold.


 * Compassion
 * Puts a receiver in/on Sam to expose her to the transmissions.


 * Kode
 * At one point tells Compassion to "Spack off".
 * It has been two years since Kode was remembered.
 * Pretends to drive the self driving cars.


 * Badar
 * Is a journalist who was locked up for
 * With the Doctor discusses the Doctor's travels and together build a world of ideas, that he can retreat into, to escape the torture he endures.
 * On the 20th August 1996 he is executed.


 * I.M. Foreman (Gallifreyan)
 * Has recently read The Lord of the Rings.
 * Is currently female.

What Happened on Dust

 * The Doctor
 * Gets hot coffee thrown in his face by Magdelana Bishop.


 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Sarah screams when the TARDIS starts to bleed
 * She and the Doctor have just left Quiescia, before that they were in Peladon.
 * They're heading back to Earth at Sarah's request.
 * Experiences some flash-forwards of her possible-future.


 * Magdelana Bishop
 * Is the assigned defender of the township on Dust.


 * I.M. Foreman (Gallifreyan)
 * Is on dust with his travelling show.
 * Is currently male.


 * Father (member of the Faction Paradox
 * Has the heads of several Time Lords on his walls, including The Master and The Rani.

Books

 * In the UN's building in Geneva Fitz finds a book with UNISYC seals called Theoretical Monsters: A Credibility Test. Of which he reckons the Xxxxxxxxxlanthi and Kalekani are not real.
 * It lists:
 * The Cybermen
 * The Xxxxxxxxxlanthi (mind-chewers from the Fifth Universe)
 * Gell Guards
 * Kalekani (that use a terraforming virus on biospheres to replace all land with flats and slopes of green, on Earth it's called "golf".)

Gallifrey

 * The order that IM Foreman was a part of devolved into the monk the Doctor knew on the hillside on Gallifrey.
 * I.M. Foreman (Gallifreyan) operates I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show.

Gallifreyan technology

 * Bowships are described/seen by Sam to have "huge spikes fitted to the prows of the ships, glittering gold in the light from the nearest stars"
 * The TARDIS is modelled out of pure mathematics, it is a complex space-time event. Its very existence and position in relation to the rest of the continuum was just an intricate code series.
 * The Rassilon Imprimatur maps a Time Lord "on to the vortex by numbers, linked to the heart of space-time by an umbilical cord of pure mathematics."

Human politicians

 * According to the Doctor the order of American presidents so far is; Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Dering, Springsteen, Norris...
 * The order of who was/is British prime minister is: Heath, Thorpe, Williams, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Clarke... Major.

Locations

 * Fitz has an apartment in Augustine City on Ordifica.
 * The Eleven-Day Empire is the Faction Paradox's home base.
 * The Remote's home is called Anathema.

Organisations

 * There are Ghanaians, Iranians, Saudi Arabians, Indonesians, Russian Mafia and British at COPEX.
 * COPEX has been running since at least 1992. It is an arms fair.
 * Lewis knows about 'black' technology that C19 has.
 * UNISYC is in the process of being established.
 * UNIT, UNISYC, the ISC are holding some of the technological balance of power.
 * Order of the Rectangle, the Cult of the Black Sun and the Luminus were all created by the Faction Paradox.

Planets

 * Dust (planet) and Quiescia are on opposite sides of the Mutter's Spiral.
 * Ordifica is the planet Fitz is brought out of the Cold on.
 * The Ogron home planet is located at coordinates 0110011 by C2.

Races and species

 * The Doctor states: "Trade-dependant races are quite common in this part of the galaxy.The Selachians are always trying to unload arms on planets like this one.The Mentors are even worse.And the Arcturans would sell their own souls, if they had any."
 * Guest, Compassion and Kode use Ogrons for security.

Technology

 * The Remote's transmitters use block-transfer formulae.
 * According to Compassion (speaking to Sam) "You're not supposed to have transmats on Earth. Not in the twentieth century."
 * A court case was brought against Microsoft because of its software provided to the robots at the Festival of Ghana. Bill Gates is still apologising for his company's part in it and that it wasn't his fault the robots started killing people.
 * The Cold is quite possibly related to validium.
 * "Contact with the Cold can create large-scale interference in any local transmissions"
 * Sarah's Land Rover has a computer system powered by I2 technology.

The Doctor's items

 * UNIT uses the space-time telegraph to contact the Doctor which now looks like a red London phone box after it was expunged from the TARDIS console following its refit.
 * It starts ringing in the TARDIS and states: "At the third stroke, it will be seventeen minutes past midnight on the eighth of August, 1996. Precisely."


 * The Doctor left the space-time telegraph with the UN in the 1970s or the 1980s.

Continuity

 * Faction Paradox first appeared in EDA: Alien Bodies.
 * Sam was put through the emotional and temporal wringer in EDA: Unnatural History, that was a couple of months ago for Sam.
 * At the end of EDA: Autumn Mist Sam told the Doctor the next time they landed on Earth close to her original time she would be leaving him and the TARDIS.
 * The novel / story is continued in EDA: Interference - Book Two.
 * The space time telegraph was first mentioned in DW: Revenge of the Cybermen.
 * Lewis mentions the events of DW: The Tenth Planet, saying he remembers all the fuss from the 1980s and the worry over the new Z-bomb that could destroy the Earth.
 * IM Foreman refers to bottle universes and the Time Lords using it as an escape route which is in part some of the plot to BNA: Dead Romance.
 * Sam's bad drug experience appears here it was first mentioned in EDA: Longest Day.
 * Fitz recalls his indoctrination by the Chinese in EDA: Revolution Man.
 * The Festival of Ghana is a references to DW: The Chase.
 * I2 appeared in MA: System Shock

Timeline
For the Third Doctor:
 * This story takes place after DW: The Monster of Peladon
 * This story takes place before EDA: Interference - Book Two (Hour of the Geek)

For the Eighth Doctor:
 * This story takes place after EDA: Autumn Mist
 * This story takes place before EDA: Interference - Book Two (Hour of the Geek)