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Interference is a two-part Doctor Who novel written by Lawrence Miles and published by BBC Books. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, and Samantha Jones alongside the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. Its two volumes, subtitled Shock Tactic and The Hour of the Geek, were both released on 2 August 1999.

Overview
As a multi-Doctor story, Interference's two volumes comprised the output of both BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures lines for August 1999. Since then, the two books have usually been counted as the 25th and 26th Eighth Doctor Adventures. , Interference is the only two-part novel ever published as part of a Doctor Who range.

The novel features one of the only prose-based regenerations of the Doctor. It is the final story for companion Samantha Jones and introduces Compassion, whose character arc would last until The Shadows of Avalon in February 2000.

Interference builds on the concepts of Faction Paradox and the War in Heaven, both of which were introduced in author Lawrence Miles' previous Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Alien Bodies. It introduces several elements, such as the Eleven-Day Empire and the Remote, which would later play important roles in the Faction Paradox series.

Each book is split into two distinct but linked stories, "What Happened on Earth" and "What Happened on Dust", the former of which occurs during the Eighth Doctor's life, the latter occurring during the Third Doctor's. Sarah Jane Smith and Fitz Kreiner are the only characters that appear in both. The stories are joined by a linking narrative called "Foreman's World", which features just the Eighth Doctor and I.M. Foreman.

What Happened on Earth
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What Happened on Dust
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Foreman's World
The Eighth Doctor, suspicious that his adventure on Earth was connected in some important way with his visit to Dust, arrives one morning on Foreman's World to consult with I.M. Foreman, in the hopes that she can refresh his memory and notice something he hasn't. The Doctor is fascinated with her universe-in-a-bottle, finding a little version of his prior self inside it, but they leave it on a hill so he can tell her what happened on Earth. He doesn't tire of talking until the sun has almost set, at which point Foreman decided it was her turn to tell her story about what happened on Dust.

After night has fallen, Foreman stops talking so the two can finish their dinner, and she tells the Doctor her theory about why the Time Lords are the way they are. Shock Tactic ends as she asks him if he wants to spend the night there.


 * Lawrence Miles' Faction Paradox short story Toy Story is set during in the Doctor's TARDIS during the night, while the Doctor is "going through the motions".

At the start of The Hour of the Geek, I.M. Foreman and the Doctor wake up from where they slept on the hillside. After the two watch the clouds together for a while, the Doctor presents a theory that the TARDIS was behaving so erratically during Sam's last few adventures because it wanted to prepare for what was about to happen. He then finishes telling Foreman what happened on Earth, concluding by reiterating his suspicions that something had changed, and that it was somehow connected to him, the Remote, and his time spent in the prison.

Foreman presents the Doctor a riddle about a goose in a bottle, then finishes her story about what happened on Dust. The Doctor ruminates on the identity of the Remote Father, saying he seems familiar in hindsight and that he feels as if the answer is obvious but his mind doesn't want him to work it out. This has been bothering him since his adventure on Earth, and he asks Foreman if, since she swallowed up the Father, she has access to the memories. She recognises this as his true motive for the visit. However, she reveals to the Doctor that she did not consume the Father: he had actually been sucked into the Time Vortex, and while she was making her bottle universe, she trapped him inside its Time Vortex.

The Doctor, disappointed, asks Foreman some questions about her World, then has a brief conversation with Magdelana Bishop, whose body Foreman is possessing. Foreman finally reveals the answer to the goose riddle and kisses him goodbye as he leaves in his TARDIS. I.M. Foreman returns to the hill to discover that her bottle universe has been stolen, likely by the High Council. This does not bother her much.


 * This leads into the events of Lawrence Miles' New Adventures novel Dead Romance, while the Eighth Doctor's adventures continue in The Blue Angel.

What Happened on Earth

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Samantha Jones
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * K9
 * Guest
 * Compassion
 * Kode
 * Badar
 * I.M. Foreman
 * Alan Llewis
 * Coldicott
 * Lost Boy
 * Mathara
 * Nathaniel Guest
 * Laura Tobin

What Happened on Dust

 * Third Doctor
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Magdelana Bishop
 * I.M. Foreman
 * Father Kreiner