Transit (novel)

Publisher's summary
'Oh no, not again...'

It's the ultimate in mass transit systems, a network of interstitial tunnels that bind the planets of the solar system together. Earth to Pluto in forty minutes with a supersave non-premium off-peak travelcard.

But something is living in the network, chewing its way to the very heart of the system and leaving a trail of death and mutation behind it.

Once again a reluctant Doctor is dragged into human history. Back down amongst the joyboys, freesurfers, chessfans, politicians and floozies, where friends are more dangerous than enemies and one man's human being is another's psychotic killing machine.

Once again the Doctor is all that stands between humanity and its own mistakes.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Gets drunk celebrating the universe's birthday with Kadiatu.
 * The Doctor states he's visited "all three Atlantises".


 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Doesn't look when she walks out of the TARDIS and falls down a hole.


 * Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Dreams of Pythia.
 * Is related (by both adoption and some of the genetics used to create her) to Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.
 * Is the only surviving "super soldier" created after the Thousand Day War with Mars (the rest were killed by her adoptive father).


 * Francine
 * Old Sam
 * Zamina
 * Roberta
 * Blondie
 * Ming

Continuity

 * Kadiatu reappears in: NA: Set Piece, The Also People and Happy Endings (also a brief cameo appearance in NA: The Dying Days). She also reappears and re-meets Bernice Summerfield in BFBS: The Final Amendment.
 * The Doctor's House last appeared in NA: Cat's Cradle: Warhead.
 * The infection of the TARDIS is referred to once more, it occured in NA: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark.
 * FLORENCE appears again in NA: Sleepy and EDA: Seeing I.
 * The unknown future incarnation of the Doctor that first appeared in Marc Platt's novelisation of Battlefield reappears here in a cyberspace encounter with a supporting character.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWM: Younger and Wiser
 * This story takes place before VD: Playback