Time of Your Life (novel)

Time of Your Life was the eighth book in the Virgin Missing Adventures series.

Publisher's summary

 * "Organic bugs must be purged from the system," the screen told him. Then, more succinctly, "You die."

The Network broadcasts entertainment to the planets of the Meson system: Death-hunt 3000, Prisoner: The Next Generation, Bloodsoak Bunny... Sixteen channels, and not one of them worth watching. But for the citizens of poverty-stricken Torrok, television offers the only escape from a reality too horrible to face.

Angela, a young inhabitant of Torrok, leaps at the chance to travel to the Network with a hermit who calls himself the Doctor. However, all is not well on the giant, chaotic space station. A soap star has murdered his wife’s lover; the robotic regulars of Timeriders are performing random kidnappings; and a lethal new game show is about to go on the air.

Can the Doctor uncover the cause of the apparently random disturbances - or will his appearance as a competitor on Death-hunt 3000 be the last of his life?

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Grant Markham
 * Krllxk
 * Angela Jennings
 * Anjor
 * Anson Hammond
 * Dan Brookes
 * Dominic Shepherd
 * Firn Kaerson
 * Giselle
 * Glynda
 * Jak Martyn
 * Mae Jordan
 * Miriam Walker
 * Nik Calvin
 * Raymond Day
 * Stuart Revell
 * Terry Marston

Continuity

 * The Doctor was put on trial by the Time Lords in DW: The Trial of a Time Lord and faced the Valeyard, an evil future incarnation of himself, in DW: The Ultimate Foe.
 * Reference is made to Drathro, the L3 maintenance robot in DW: The Mysterious Planet.
 * The Celestial Intervention Agency make an appearance, vaguely mimicking scenes seen (and heard) in DW: The Brain of Morbius and BFA: Blood of the Daleks.
 * The "shadow that hung heavy over the Doctor's future" may be a reference to the series' hiatus in 1985 or to the Valeyard.
 * The mass transit systems were outlawed long ago (NA: Transit).

Timeline

 * Time of Your Life occurs immediately after: DW: The Ultimate Foe
 * Time of Your Life occurs before: MA: Killing Ground