The Eyeless was the twenty-fourth Tenth Doctor novel released. It was the first book in the series to have the Tenth Doctor travelling alone.
Publisher's summary
At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It's a brutal structure placed here by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic war that's long ended. Fifteen years ago, the entire population of the planet was killed in an instant by the weapon housed deep in the heart of the Fortress. Now only the ghosts remain.
The Doctor arrives, and determines to fight his way past the Fortress's automatic defences and put the weapon beyond use. But he soon discovers he's not the only person in Arcopolis. What is the true nature of the weapon? Is the planet really haunted? Who are the Eyeless? And what will happen if they get to the weapon before the Doctor?
The Doctor has a fight on his hands. And this time he's all on his own.
Plot
The Doctor lands, alone, on an uninhabited, green skied planet in Galaxy Seven, originally the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, almost exactly 290,000 lightyears from Earth, around the year 292009, near Arcopolis, to disable a weapon that wiped out the population. He wanders through the city, looking at the futuristic technology. A six fingered ghost hand touches the TARDIS.
MOre soon.
Characters
- Tenth Doctor
- Alsa
- Jeffip
- Gar
- Dela
- Jennver
- Fladon
- Qerl
References
- The weapon the Doctor seeks is capable of wiping out everyone who ever heard of its target.
- It is implied, but never directly stated, that the weapon was used in the Last Great Time War.
- The Doctor's pockets contain his sonic screwdriver, psychic paper, a ball of string, anti-radiation pills, a pocket Gallifreyan-Cymraeg phrasebook, a bag of kola nuts, a yo-yo, a collection of coins from a dozen different planets, everlasting matches, and the TARDIS key.
Notes
- This is the first book in the BBC New Series Adventures series to only feature just one person on the top half of the cover (discounting reissues with Rose Tyler removed from the cover) and the first in which he is not travelling with a companion.
- This is the only "companionless" Tenth Doctor Adventure in which the Doctor does not combat a returning alien race.
- This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
Continuity
- The Doctor says that ghosts could be explained as being Gelth (TV: The Unquiet Dead), time travellers with a dodgy temporal feedback circuit (TV: Day of the Daleks), an osmic projection (TV: The Time Warrior), Waterhive (PROSE: The Feast of the Drowned), or Cybermen (TV: Army of Ghosts).
- The Doctor recalls the deaths of the last Racnoss (TV: The Runaway Bride), the Pyroviles (TV: The Fires of Pompeii), and Richard Lazarus (TV: The Lazarus Experiment).
- It is suggested that the Ninth Doctor travelled by himself for a while after he regenerated, explaining why he appears in Clive Finch's photographs without Rose as a travelling companion. (TV: Rose)
- In the Last Great Time War, Gallifrey was destroyed in the same manner as it had been previously at the aversion of the War. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)
Audio release
- The story was released as an audiobook on 2x CD read by Russell Tovey.
- The audiobook is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.
External links
- The Eyeless at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Cloister Library: The Eyeless
- Lance Parkin's Blog on writing The Eyeless
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