The Infinity Race was the sixty-first release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Simon Messingham. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.
Publisher’s summary
Comic preview from DWM 324. Illustration by Mike Collins.
Welcome to the Selonart Trans-Global Regatta — The ultimate sporting event in the universe!
The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn.
Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart — a planet famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful demonstration of power by Earth’s ruthless multi-stellar corporations.
Is Sabbath’s goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart native?
As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises that he is being manoeuvred into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him?
Characters
- Eighth Doctor
- Fitz Kreiner
- A Warlock slits Fitz’s throat, but the Doctor undoes time, preventing it.
- Anji Kapoor
- Anji is annoyed that not only is she back travelling with the Doctor, but she may not be in the same universe anymore.
- Sabbath
- Count Toriman de Vries
- Bloom
- Warner
- Whalen
- Arken
- Banard
- Bloch
- Levin
- Marius
- Marleen Kallison
- Peck
- Valeria
- Trudeau
References
- The Doctor uses time crystals to erase the Warlocks of Demigest from the universe.
- Marleen Kallison once bought a genetically-engineered mare in Wyoming.
- Fitz gets locked in a cell on board the Jonah.
- Banard met his passenger on Proxima II. He takes his passenger to Demigest.
- Anji Kapoor mentiones that she felt alive on the yacht and that she could have thrown off everything and run to the bow with arms outstretched. She further mentions that any references to Kate Winslet would be punishable by death.
Notes
- This is the first novel in the ‘alternate universe’ arc.
Continuity
- The boat is still on the console after it was left there by Sabbath in PROSE: Time Zero.
- At the end of this novel, the Doctor believes he can take Anji home. He is revealed to be wrong in PROSE: The Domino Effect.
External links
- The Infinity Race at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Infinity Race at The Whoniverse
