Lungbarrow (novel)

Lungbarrow was an original Doctor Who novel written by Marc Platt. Published in Virgin Books' New Adventures range, it was the last of that range to feature the Seventh Doctor.

It is considered the final novel under any banner to feature the Seventh Doctor as the "current" Doctor, although McGann's Eighth Doctor had already made his televised appearance by the time the novel was published. Due to a publication delay, however, an earlier-commissioned novel, So Vile a Sin, also featuring the Seventh Doctor, would be published later (although it takes place earlier than Lungbarrow in continuity). One additional Eighth Doctor novel would be published under the Virgin New Adventures banner before the series was handed over to Bernice Summerfield.

Publisher's summary
"Nonsense, child," retorted the Doctor. "Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!"

All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history.

At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the House of Lungbarrow in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.

673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last.

In this, the Seventh Doctor's final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.

Plot
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Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Chris Cwej
 * Ace
 * Leelandredloomsagwinaechegesima (aka Leela)
 * Castellan Andred
 * President Romana
 * K9 Mark I
 * K9 Mark II
 * Rodan
 * Lord Ferain
 * Badger

Flashback / In-memory characters

 * Susan (appears in flashback-like sequence)
 * The Other

The Doctor's Cousins

 * Innocet
 * Satthaltrope
 * Jobiska
 * Rynde
 * Arkhew
 * Maljamin
 * Farg
 * Celesia
 * Almund
 * DeRoosifa
 * Chovor
 * Salpash
 * Luton
 * Owis
 * Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathageyyilungbarrowmas (aka Quences)
 * Glospinninymortheras (aka Glospin)

Books

 * Lord Ferain kept a book called An Alternative History of Skaro: The Daleks without Davros.
 * The books The Triumphs of Rassilon, The Book of Rassilon and The Record of Rassilon are books that contain interpretations of Rassilon, Omega and the Other.

The Doctor

 * The Doctor was nicknamed "Snail" and "Wormhole" by his cousins (because he has a bellybutton).
 * Before leaving Gallifrey the Doctor worked in the Bureau of Possible Events as a Scrutationary Archivist.
 * The Doctor departs Gallifrey for a final mission to Skaro as requested by Romana.

Gallifreyan culture

 * Sepulchasm is a Time Lord game (and quite possibly a swear word).
 * The play Mystery of the New Time is usually conducted during Otherstide.

Gallifreyan lifeforms

 * Gallifreyan forests have striped pig bears in them.

Gallifreyan locations

 * The Doctor returns to Gallifrey and his house Lungbarrow.

Gallifreyan technology

 * Looms create new Gallifreyans.
 * The Hand of Omega befriended the Doctor because it sensed the Other's essence in him.

Gallifreyan organisations

 * The CIA kill Ace for twenty minutes and upload her memories to the Matrix.
 * An organisation called Space-Time Accessions Bureau exists.
 * The Ordinal-General does not allow members of the House of RedLooms into the Bureau of Temporal Anomalies.

Individuals

 * Leela, now also known as Leelandredloomsagwinaechegesima, is pair bonded to Andred and is pregnant.
 * K9 Mark I learns Andred's security codes.
 * K9 Mark II has recently returned from E-Space.
 * Lord Ferain is part of the CIA.

Individual Gallifreyans

 * Andred belongs to House of the Redlooms.
 * Rodan is Leela's friend. She has recently been sent on a cross-cultural liaison course.
 * Susan's mother died as Pythia cursed Gallifrey.
 * Susan was the Other's granddaughter.
 * Susan's nanny was called Mamlaurea.
 * The Other, along with Rassilon and Omega, was part of the Trimuvate that ruled Gallifrey.
 * The Other threw himself into the original Loom.
 * Pythia threw herself into the Crevice of Memories That Will Be.
 * Omega was lost in the constellation of Ao.

Plants

 * Leela still carried janis thorns.

Planets

 * Karn is in conjunction with Polarfrey.

Species

 * President Romana is negotiating with the Tharils and it is going well.
 * Romana did not attend the reception for the Chelonian envoy.
 * Fledershrews are present in the House of Lungbarrow.

Relatives of the Doctor

 * Innocet loved the Doctor. She has telekinesis and telepathy.
 * Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathageyyilunbarrowmas (aka Quences) lived for seven thousand years.
 * He was the the 422nd Kithriarch of Lungbarrow and served as Ordinal-General of the Brotherhood of Kithriarchs (head of the Houses of Gallifrey).


 * Glospinninymortheras (aka Glospin) is in his fourth regeneration. He's 1,711 years old.
 * Satthaltrope is Housekeeper to the house of Lungbarrow. She became Housekeeper when she was 302 years old. She dismissed the hermit as he was too expensive.
 * Jobiska is old and senile.
 * Rynde was Epicurla Overseer to the Dromeian Chapterhouse.
 * Arkhew is dead.
 * Maljamin
 * Farg died 200 years ago.
 * Celesia
 * Almund
 * DeRoosifa
 * Chovor the Various
 * Salpash is multi-chinned.
 * Luton got stuck in the east chimney of the House of Lungbarrow.
 * Owis is 675 years old. He was loomed to replace the Doctor. He is considered "quite stupid". He killed Cousin Arkhew.

Continuity

 * The hermit that lived on the mountain near the Doctor's home was mentioned in TV: The Time Monster (and more details given in TV: Planet of the Spiders).
 * The Sisterhood of Karn debuted in TV: The Brain of Morbius. They would later be responsible for the Eighth Doctor's regeneration. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)
 * Leela met Andred in TV: The Invasion of Time.
 * Romana returned from E-space in PROSE: Blood Harvest, and became president in Happy Endings.
 * A lot of Gallifreyan history revisited in this novel first appeared in PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.
 * Romana gives the Doctor her sonic screwdriver, which she built in TV: The Horns of Nimon.
 * The Doctor used the Hand of Omega in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks.
 * The Doctor goes on one final mission to pick up the Master's remains, leading into TV: Doctor Who.
 * Gallifrey's renewed ties with the Sisterhood of Karn abolishes Pythia's curse of sterility upon the population. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)