The Tomorrow Windows (novel)

The Tomorrow Windows was the sixty-ninth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was notable for referencing many past stories, televised and from other media.

Publisher’s Summary
There’s a new exhibition at Tate Modern -- ‘The Tomorrow Windows’.

The concept is simple: look through a Tomorrow Window and you’ll see into the future. You’ll get ‘The Gist of Things to Come’. According to the press pack, The Tomorrow Windows exhibition will bring about an end to war and suffering.

Which is why someone decides to blow it up.

Investigating this act of wanton vandalism, the Doctor, Fitz and Trix visit an Astral Flower, the show-world of Utopia and Gadrahadradon -- the most haunted planet in the galaxy. They face the sinister Ceccecs, the gratuitously violent Vorshagg, the miniscule Micron and the enigmatic Poozle. And they encounter the doomsday monks of Shardybarn, the warmongers of Valuensis, the politicians of Minuea and the killer cars of Estebol.

They also spend about half an hour in Lewisham.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Trix
 * Poozle of the Varble
 * Looks like a giant floating lava lamp.
 * Astrabel Zar
 * Bimble Wantige
 * Charlton Mackerel
 * Dittero Shandy
 * Dreylon Pewt
 * Fim
 * Galvakis
 * Grigsby
 * Jadrack
 * Jarkle Winkitt
 * Ken Livingstone
 * Kera
 * Martin
 * Nimbit
 * Prubert Gastridge
 * Sheabley McMung
 * Tadek
 * Tunt
 * Welwyn Borr
 * Zoberly Chesterfield
 * Pigboy Caroon
 * Emmanuel Bloater
 * Moop
 * Question Innotation

Continuity

 * Ken Livingstone mentions events of DW: The Web of Fear, DW: Spearhead from Space, DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs and NA: The Dying Days.
 * Darp, Gidi, Ranx, Vij and Zil are all planets stored on Tryst’s CET machine in DW: Nightmare of Eden.
 * The Doctor recalls meeting the Kandyman. (DW: The Happiness Patrol)
 * The events of Halflife are mentioned, specifically the fact that Trix was possessed by Reo and the Doctor and Fitz are wondering if she has been possessed by Martin.
 * In one of the Doctor's pockets is an A-Z of Hitchemus. (EDA: The Year of Intelligent Tigers)
 * Prubert Gastridge once voiced Zagreus in a cartoon. (BFA: Zagreus)
 * When looking through the Tomorrow Windows, the Doctor sees the Time Lords standing in a cathedral of turqouise, revealing that the Doctor restores the Time Lords. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles)
 * Looking through the Tomorrow Windows into his future, the Doctor sees a Nimon emerge from a sphere. (BFA: Seasons of Fear)
 * The Doctor sees various possible future incarnations of himself in the Tomorrow Windows. All the possible Ninth Doctors seen in the Tomorrow Windows eventually merge into one definitive Ninth Doctor, who is shown giving his enemies a menacing glance. (DW: Rose et al)

Timeline

 * This story takes place after EDA: Halflife
 * This story takes place before EDA: The Sleep of Reason