Heart of TARDIS (novel)


 * for the core of the TARDIS, see heart of the TARDIS

Publisher's summary
''In the American Midwestern town of Lychburg, something is afoot. Its citizens are being killed in inexpressibly horrible and brutal ways and the police don't have a clue who's responsible. The only suspects are a mysterious and sinister stranger, who calls himself the Doctor, and his young companions Jamie and Victoria.''

The Fourth Doctor and Romana, meanwhile, have been summoned by the Gallifreyan High Council. A force has been unleashed into the space/time continuum... a force so unimaginably terrible that it is set to rip the universe itself apart and plunge it into primal, screaming chaos from which nothing will survive.

Of course, since something of this nature happens every other day of the week, the Doctor's really far more interested in finding out what's happened to a close personal friend, who seems to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. And quite right, too. The fate of a universe plunging into foetid and unending chaos can look out for itself for a change...

Characters

 * Second Doctor
 * Has small, neat handwriting.
 * Can play the recorder while hanging upside down.
 * Cannot remember if you should see a body in a morgue on an empty stomach or a full one.
 * Jamie McCrimmon
 * Can now write in English although it's broken and spelt phonetically.


 * Victoria Waterfield
 * Is afraid of rats and spiders.
 * Has trouble coping with escilators.


 * Fourth Doctor
 * Abandons the quest for the Key to Time the moment he thinks the Brigadier is in danger.
 * Romana I
 * Is cold and aloof rather then attempting to fit in and be personable (placing the story closer to the Ribos Operation then any other story)


 * K9 Mark II
 * Can climb stairs unlike K9 Mark I.


 * The Brigadier
 * Meets Romana I.
 * Knows enough things about the esoteric fields UNIT and the Doctor move in, as well as more mundane military matters to make him a prime target for enemy agents.


 * John Benton
 * Was exposed to something during his career in UNIT that enables him to hold off the effects of an anaesthetic dart for a short time.

Continuity

 * The Fourth Doctor is on his quest for the Key to Time. (DW: The Ribos Operation, etc)
 * As the TARDIS malfunctions, the Fourth Doctor says "Oh no, not again!" Something his Eighth regeneration would later say in a similar situation. (DW: Doctor Who)
 * The Fourth Doctor claims to have witnessed some Time Wars, which might explain why he knows about the Charon from Sky Pirates!
 * Delbane uses the Brigadear's spacetime telegraph to contact the Fourth Doctor. (DW: Revenge of the Cybermen, Terror of the Zygons)
 * Victoria mentions her father. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks)
 * Jamie mentions his first meeting with the Doctor. (DW:The Highlanders)
 * Victoria, although used to technology in her travels, cannot cope with the idea of escalators. To try and cope, she reminds herself that she has seen "...metal men who walked (DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen) and people living in crystal bubbles."

For the Second Doctor

 * Heart of TARDIS occurs after: CC: The Great Space Elevator
 * In The Lost Jamie has yet to learn how to write.


 * Heart of TARDIS occurs before: PDA: Independence Day (flashback)

For the Fourth Doctor

 * The Fourth Doctor elements are between his and Romana's quest for the Key to Time.


 * Heart of TARDIS occurs after: MA: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
 * Heart of TARDIS occurs before: CC : Ferril's Folly