Red Planet (short story)

Red Planet

Doctor:

Fourth Doctor

Companion(s):

Leela

Main enemy:

Sycorax

Main setting:

Asteroid

Key crew

Writer:

Dave Rudden

Read by:

Dave Rudden

Release details

Part of:

Twelve Angels Weeping

Release date:

11 October 2018

*Twelve Angels Weeping*
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You may be looking for the audio story "Red Planets".

Red Planet was the third short story published in Twelve Angels Weeping. It featured the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

Summary[]

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Plot[]

An Ice Warrior named Kyrss is imprisoned in the cage, a gladiatorial arena belonging to the Sycorax. He looks on as a gate on the other side of the arena begins to rise.

Characters[]

Worldbuilding[]

to be added

Notes[]

The Great Desolatrix bears a remarkable similarity to the Flux, the omnipotent threat of series 13 of Doctor Who, which premiered in 2021. However, no evidence suggests that the Flux is based on the Great Desolation, or if they're the same storm.

Continuity[]

The gladiators include a Rutan and a Nimon. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock, The Horns of Nimon)

v • e BBC New Series Adventures anthologies

Summer Falls and Other Stories	About the Authors • Summer Falls: Introduction • Summer Falls • The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery • Devil in the Smoke: An Adventure for the Great Detective

Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand	Tales of Trenzalore • Let it Snow • An Apple a Day... • Strangers in the Outland • The Dreaming

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who	Sunset Over Venus • The Lost Generation • The Room with All the Doors • The Hungry Night • All the Empty Towers • Rewriting History • Silver Mosquitoes • In Search of Lost Time • Natural Regression • Potential Energy • The Arboreals • The Piper • The Girl Who Stole the Stars • The Mercy Seats • The Constant Doctor

Time Lord Fairy Tales	The Garden of Statues • Frozen Beauty • Cinderella and the Magic Box • The Twins in the Wood • The Three Little Sontarans • Jak and the Wormhole • Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday • Little Rose Riding Hood • The Gingerbread Trap • The Scruffy Piper • Helana and the Beast • Andiba and the Four Slitheen • The Grief Collector • The Three Brothers Gruff • Sirgwain and the Green Knight • The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes

The Legends of Ashildr	The Arabian Knightmare • The Fortunate Isles • The Triple Knife • The Ghosts of Branscombe Wood

The Legends of River Song	Picnic at Asgard • Suspicious Minds • A Gamble with Time • Death in New Venice • River of Time

Twelve Doctors of Christmas	All I Want for Christmas • A Comedy of Terrors • The Christmas Inversion • Three Wise Men • Sontar's Little Helpers • Fairy Tale of New New York • The Grotto • Ghost of Christmas Past • The Red Bicycle • Loose Wire • The Gift • The Persistence of Memory

Tales of Terror	Murder in the Dark • Something at the Door • The Monster in the Woods • Toil and Trouble • Mark of the Medusa • Trick or Treat • The Living Image • Organism 96 • The Patchwork Pierrot • Blood Will Out • The Mist of Sorrow • Baby Sleepy Face

The Missy Chronicles	Dismemberment • Lords and Masters • Teddy Sparkles Must Die! • The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone • Girl Power! • Alit in Underland

The Day She Saved the Doctor	Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes • Rose and the Snow Window • Clara and the Maze of Cui Palta • Bill and the Three Jackets

Twelve Angels Weeping	Halfway Into the Dark • Grey Matter • Red Planet • Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir • Ghost in the Machine • Student Bodies • A Soldier's Education • The Red-Eyed League • The Heist • The King in Glass • The Third Wise Man • The Rhino of Twenty-Three Strand Street • Anything You Can Do

The Wintertime Paradox	He's Behind You • Father of the Daleks • Inflicting Christmas • For the Girl Who Has Everything • Visiting Hours • We Will Feed You to the Trees • Christmas with the Plasmavores • A Girl Called Doubt • A Perfect Christmas • Missing Habitas Frond • A Day to Yourselves • The Paradox Moon • Canaries

I Am The Master	Anger Management • The Dead Travel Fast • Missy's Magical Mystery Mission • A Master of Disguise • The Night Harvest • The Master and Margarita

Adventures in Lockdown	A Message from the Doctor • Things She Thought While Falling • The Terror of the Umpty Ums • Doctor Who and the Time War • Revenge of the Nestene • Rory's Story • One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes • The Simple Things • The Tourist • Press Play • The Shadow Passes • Shadow of a Doubt • The Shadow in the Mirror • Fellow Traveller • Listen • The Secret of Novice Hame

Origin Stories	Chemistry • My Daddy Fights Monsters • The Myriapod Mutiny • The Last of the Dals • Murmuration • The Big Sleep • Doctor Jones • The Girl Who Tore Through the Universe • Clara Oswald and the Enchanted Forest • Velvet Hugs • Tempered

The Adventures Before	The Boy and the Dalek • The Roots of Evil • Little Did She Know • The Four Faces of Immortality • Becky's Impossible Day • Smiley's Mirror Effect • The Fall of Apalapucia • The Morning of the Day of the Doctor

v • e Sycorax stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Sycorax story" is one in which one living, authentic Sycorax plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. Stories like The Pandorica Opens and Revolution of the Daleks are also not included due to the Sycoraxs' cameos being of no consequence to the plot of the story.

Television	The Christmas Invasion

Audio	Harvest of the Sycorax

Prose	The Final Darkness • Red Planet

Comics	Agent Provocateur • The Widow's Curse • Ghost Stories • Into Control

Video games	Eye of the TARDIS

Complete list of appearances

v • e Ice Warrior stories

For the purposes of this list, an "Ice Warrior story" is one in which one living, authentic Ice Warrior plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story.

Television	The Ice Warriors • The Seeds of Death • The Curse of Peladon • The Monster of Peladon • Cold War • Empress of Mars

Audio	Red Dawn • Frozen Time • The Bride of Peladon • The Judgement of Isskar • Mission to Magnus • Deimos / The Resurrection of Mars • Thin Ice • The Dance of the Dead • The Prisoner of Peladon • Lords of the Red Planet • Cold Vengeance • Cry of the Vultriss • Fire and Ice • God of War • The Ordeal of Peladon • The Truth of Peladon • Wrath of the Ice Warriors • Ice Heist! • Run • The Martian Dilemma

Prose	Mission to Magnus • Legacy • GodEngine • The Dying Days • Beige Planet Mars • Cold • The Silent Stars Go By • Let it Snow • Sirgwain and the Green Knight • The Jeopardy of Solar Proximity • Christmas on Mars • Dr. Third • Red Planet

Comics	Deathworld • 4-Dimensional Vistas • A Cold Day in Hell! • The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic • Descendance / Ascendance • Cold Blooded War! • Bazaar Adventures • A Stitch in Time • The Wolves of Winter

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors • Lost in Time

Complete list of appearances