The Last Resort (novel)

The Last Resort
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor
Main setting:	Alternate Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Paul Leonard
Release details
Release number:	64
Release date:	2 June 2003
Format:	Paperback Book; 28 Chapters, 288 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-48605-8
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The Last Resort was the sixty-fourth release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Paul Leonard. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor and Trix MacMillan.

Publisher’s summary

"I think time and space just fell apart."

Anji isn’t sure, but then it’s hard to be sure of anything now. Good Times Inc. promised a new tourist experience, with hotels in every major period of human history — but that kind of arrogance comes with a price, and it’s a price the Doctor doesn’t want to pay.

As aliens conquer an alternative Earth, Anji and Fitz race to find out how to stop Good Times without stopping time itself. But they find that events are out of control — they can’t even save each other. And when the Doctor tries to help, it gets far worse. At the Last Resort, only Sabbath can save the day. And then the price gets even higher...

Chapter Titles

• Prologue: The King Is Dead
• Chapter One: There is No ...
• Chapter Two: Happy Days
• Chapter Two: Happy Days are Here Again
• Chapter Two: ...And Again
• Chapter One: ...Alternative
• Chapter Three: A Day in the Life of the Time Police
• Chapter Four: It's a Kind of Magic
• Chapter Five: Multiplication, That's the Name of the Game
• Chapter Six: Last Boat on the River Nile
• Chapter Seven: Down Among the Dead Men
• Chapter Eight: You Can Run but You Can't Hide
• Chapter Nine: Wanna Live For Ever
• Chapter Ten: Just the Two of Us
• Chapter Eleven: Don't Wanna Live For Ever
• Chapter Twelve: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like
• Chapter Thirteen: Bad Moon Rising
• Chapter Fourteen: The King is Dead ...
• Chapter Sixteen: Feels Like Starting Over
• Chapter Fifteen: ...Long Live the King
• Chapter Seventeen: Not the End, Not Even the Beginning of the End ...
• Chapter Eighteen: ...But the End of the Beginning
• Chapter Nineteen: It's Not Better Than Anything
• Chapter Two: Happy Days Are Here [Yet Again]
• Chapter Twenty: There is No Alternative
• Chapter Twenty: No Alternative
• Chapter Twenty-One: No
• Epilogue: Goin' Back

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Fitz Kreiner
• Anji Kapoor
• Trix
• Sabbath
• Jack Kowaczski
  • Jack builds a time machine (using some valves amongst other things) and travels back in time. Many versions of himself also travel back in time.
• Aaron Kowaczski
• Ak
• Akhenaton
• Cheops
• Grania Flynn
• Iyeeye
• Jim Lamarra
• Man'ofret
• Sio'phut

References

• Anji sees a Dalek in the time vortex. It is escaping one of the realities. She doesn't recognise it as a Dalek.
• The Time Police follow and stop errant time travellers.
• Fitz saw all nine Star Wars films at a cinema in the 2040s.
• The Doctor, Fitz and Anji die several times in alternative time lines.
• Jack creates a new species who become the dominant race of Mars.

Notes

• Much of this novel’s story structure shares similarities with the movie Groundhog Day.

Continuity

• Trix first appeared in PROSE: Time Zero and stowed away on the TARDIS, but only revealed this to Iyeeye.

External links

• The Last Resort at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Last Resort at The Whoniverse