Big Bang Generation (novel)

Big Bang Generation is one of three Twelfth Doctor novels in the series The Glamour Chronicles published in September 2015. Notably, it marked the first official time that Bernice Summerfield met an incarnation of the Doctor from the revived series.

Publisher's summary
“I'm an archaeologist, but probably not the one you were expecting.”

Christmas 2015, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Imagine everyone's surprise when a time portal opens up in Sydney Cove. Imagine their shock as a massive pyramid now sits beside the Harbour Bridge, inconveniently blocking Port Jackson and glowing with energy. Imagine their fear as Cyrrus "the mobster" Globb, Professor Horace Jaanson and an alien assassin called Kik arrive to claim the glowing pyramid. Finally imagine everyone's dismay when they are followed by a bunch of con artists out to spring their greatest grift yet.

This gang consists of Legs (the sexy comedian), Dog Boy (providing protection and firepower), Shortie (handling logistics), Da Trowel (in charge of excavation and history) and their leader, Doc (busy making sure the universe isn't destroyed in an explosion that makes the Big Bang look like a damp squib).

And when someone accidentally reawakens The Ancients of the Universe - which, Doc reckons, wasn't the wisest or best-judged of actions – things get a whole lot more complicated…

Plot
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Characters

 * Twelfth Doctor
 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Peter Summerfield
 * Ruth
 * Jack
 * Keri
 * Horace Jaanson
 * Kik the Assassin
 * Cyrrus Globb
 * Tomas G. Schneidter
 * Roderika Schneidter
 * Sergeant Rhodes

Continuity

 * Benny thinks back to when she first met the Seventh Doctor on Heaven, where they encountered the Hoothi. (PROSE: Love and War) She also thinks of how she has met more than one incarnation of the Doctor. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
 * Bernice attributes her youthful looks to using time rings. The Doctor gave Bernice and Jason Kane time rings for their wedding. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
 * Bernice knows that without the Doctor she would never have met Irving Braxiatel. (PROSE: Theatre of War)
 * Bernice recalls when her body was controlled by someone else. (PROSE: The Squire's Crystal, AUDIO: The Curse of Fenman)
 * The Doctor visited the White Rabbit. (AUDIO: Everybody Loves Irving)
 * The Doctor says the last time people repeated his words, things didn't go so well for him. (TV: Midnight)
 * A group of scholars try to get information about the Glamour from the Panopticon archives in the Obverse. (PROSE: The Blue Angel)
 * Keri first appeared in PROSE: Legacy.
 * The Doctor remarks on how much older Peter looks than the last time he saw him. (PROSE: ...Be Forgot)
 * Benny's last encounter with the Doctor was on Skaro with the Seventh Doctor after Ace stole an Omega device. (AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro)
 * One of the Papal Mainframe soldiers mentions Colonel Octavian. (TV: The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone)
 * The Doctor tells Bernice that Gallifrey is missing. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
 * Bernice says that she will never forget how the Doctor was there for her after Guy de Carnac died. The Doctor says that every time he visits France he thinks of him. (PROSE: Sanctuary)
 * Stacy Townsend and Ssard are briefly seen celebrating their eighteenth wedding anniversary. (PROSE: Placebo Effect)
 * Peter uses a Deindum maser. (AUDIO: Escaping the Future)

Audio release
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