The Blue Angel (novel)

The Blue Angel was the twenty-seventh BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures. It was written by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad. It was the first novel to feature Compassion as a companion along side Fitz Kreiner and the Eighth Doctor. Blue Angel also featured the second appearance in the EDAs of Iris Wildthyme.

Publisher's summary

This is a story about Winter...

As the Doctor becomes involved in affairs aboard the Federation Starship Nepotist, his old friend Iris Wildthyme is rescuing old ladies who are being attacked by savage owls in a shopping mall.

And, in a cat’s cradle of interdimensional Corridors lies the Valcean City of Glass, whose King Dedalus awaits the return of his Angel son and broods over the oncoming war...

Chapter Titles

Door's Stiff. Frozen...?
The Ladies Were Having a Day Out...
Captain's Log. Stardate Etc., Etc....
He Met Her That Afternoon...
It Might Have Been Any Time of Day...
I Used to be a Lot Bigger...
When They Come it Will be Across the Waves...
At Last the Captain Deigned to Come Out...
This is a Story About Winter...
The City of Glass Was Raised Up...
They Call Me Big Sue...
The Doctor Advances Blithely...
Someone Has to Take Charge...
The First Thing You Notice...
One Night I Decided I Needed to Get...
The Back Stairs...
Over the Years, Sally...
He Wasn’t Huge...
He Was Meant to be a Man...
This is What...
The Doctor Rolled Over...
It’s a Place I Sometimes Go to
That’s Another Directive You’ve Breached...
The Astonishing Thing is...
Many Tales Are Told...
It Was Mad, Really...
In the Corridors...
Never Had Belinda...
Belinda’s Mother...
After Six Years of Treaties...
Before She Knew It...
Even Aboard the Bus...
The Bus Is Rattling...
Existential Angst is an Embarrassment, But...
Iris Made Fitz Come...
I Was Panicking Over Dinner...
Now The Great Beast...
He Was Astonished To Find...
The Throne Room Was...
Iris Had Come Down...
After I’d Had A Few Drinks...
As The Doctor Waited...
My Mother Warned Me...

Plot

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Characters

References

The Doctor

An incarnation of the Doctor makes a suggested appearance. He is overweight, has a large moustache and dresses in a Napoleon hat, waistcoat and eye patch.

Individuals

Iris asks about Sam Jones.

Planets

The Fourth Doctor has visited Valcea.

Species

Daleks
Cybermen
A group of Steigertrudes raid Earth's art treasures.

TARDIS

Iris pretends her TARDIS has a "bookmark" feature to return to a certain point.

Notes

Each chapter title mirror's the first few words of the first sentence...giving chapter 25 the chapter title "Iris made Fitz come..."

The Blue Angel's chapters contains instances of metafiction. The chapters which seem to take place within the Obverse reference fictional events as fiction and ask questions about the link between 'reality' and 'fiction' within its own fictional universe.

There are also questions (and/or jokes) about Iris Wildthyme's status as a metafictional character.

The Blue Angel has been adapted into a script (The Blue Angel Adapted by Piers Britton) for use in a university course.

Continuity

Iris Wildthyme previously encountered the Eighth Doctor in PROSE: The Scarlet Empress, where Iris regenerated into her current form.
PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen is the next appearance of Iris Wildthyme.
The results of the Doctor connecting Compassion's receiver through the TARDIS fully come to pass in PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon.
The Doctor recalls kissing Grace Holloway in San Francisco on 31 December 1999. (TV: Doctor Who)
Iris mentions meeting the Doctor and Sam Jones in New York City on 3 June 1968. (PROSE: Femme Fatale)
Daedalus knows that the Doctor once had the chance to avert the creation of the Daleks. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)

Tardis