In the of the Cat was a 2003 audio story in the Faction Paradox series.
Publisher's summary[]
Faction Paradox website[]
An automaton provides a lesson in astrology; a monster is revealed to be sleeping in the royal bedchambers; the city's prostitutes prove that they know a thing or two about the Higher Powers; the trial of Grandfather Paradox is reconvened; Eliza fights the country in order to save the world; and new alliances are made while the Faction suffers one more casualty of War.
BBV Productions website[]
PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)
4: THE MUNIFICENT ARMY OF PEKING
Era: human historical (later period).
Technology: Military (self-contained), non-time-active.
By the end of the fifth millennium AD, the homunculi created by the human species -- clones, cross-breeds, fighting-machines and artificial intelligences of all descriptions -- outnumbered humanity by more than thirteen to one: but even so, there were no creations like those of Peking. Heading a thousand-strong army of individually-crafted automata, the twelve commanders were self-aware embodiments of the oriental zodiac, forged to a strict astrological design and said to incorporate history itself in their operating program. After the fall of Peking, however, most were never accounted for...
Plot[]
to be added
Cast[]
- Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
- Lord Sandwich - Michael Chance
- The Sieur d'Eon - Jo Castleton
- Cousin Eliza - Emma Kilbey
- Mistress Culver - Jackie Skarvellis
- King George III - Eric MacLennan
- Queen Charlotte - Caroline Burns-Cook
- The Earl of Bute - Mark Grieg
- Annabel - Linda Bartram
Worldbuilding[]
- Mistress Culver is revealed to be Compassion.
Notes[]
- The letters "ANOT" were hidden in the skulls on the page for this story on the Faction Paradox website.[1]
Continuity[]
- One of the Peking Homunculi — the Pig — previously disappeared in TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
- Justine remarks that 50 years of War have transformed the Great Houses into "beasts", which they were shown to be in PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).
Footnotes[]
External links[]
- Official In the Year of the Cat audio download page at bbvproductions.co.uk
- Official In the Year of the Cat CD page at bbvproductions.co.uk
- Script of In the Year of the Cat at factionparadox.co.uk
- In the Year of the Cat at the Faction Paradox wiki
- In the Year of the Cat at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
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