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The Resurrection Casket was the ninth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Justin Richards and featured the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler.

It was released on 13 April 2006, just two days before the first episode of David Tennant's first series was aired.

Publisher's summary[]

Starfall — a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS.

The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come, for the romance of it, or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint — scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit...

Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket — the key to eternal life — really exist? With the help of new friends, and facing terrifying enemies, the Doctor and Rose aim to find out...

Plot[]

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Characters[]

Worldbuilding[]

Planets[]

  • Scotia is a mining colony outside the zeg.

TARDIS[]

  • The EMP of the zeg, which renders the TARDIS inoperative and causes the console to explode. As a safety measure, the TARDIS doors shut and won't open until the ship has repaired itself and is no longer in danger.
    • Only the sprockets, wockets, and mergin nuts are invulnerable

Food and Beverages[]

  • The Doctor drinks grog in the Broken Spyglass. Rose drinks grog and water.
  • Kevin eats kronkburgers

Species[]

  • Krarks live in space and resemble sharks without fins and with tails that end in a sharp point. They can store immense amount of an oxygen-rich gas and move by releasing it in bursts from tiny round holes in their sides. They suck the gas out of the upper atmosphere of planets or moons and compress it, so that they can store it for months. They will rip ships apart to get at the gas inside, including the gas stored in people's lungs.

Science & Technology[]

  • Kevin detects the Black Shadow parchment from the way it resonates between the dimensions due to the precise polygonal structure of the shape and the molecular composition of the ink.
  • A zeg is a zone of electromagnetic radiation that interferes with anything that has an electrical circuit.
  • A mining belt near the Starfall zeg is rich in trisilicate.
  • Nucleo-burn engines have unique energy signatures that can be tracked, and this signature can be calculated by analysis of objects that have been on board the ship.
  • Escape pods from Dressonian freighter has an atmosphere and rudimentary propulsion based on gas turbines.
  • The Doctor speculates the Casket works by DNA extrapolation to repair and rejuvenate bodies
  • Resurrection Casket is based on a cloning technique using DNA sampling and reconstituting the subject from living tissue.

Notes[]

  • There are some instances where Jimm is misspelled "Jim".
  • Later reprints of this book removed the image of Billie Piper from the cover.
  • This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity[]

Editions published outside Britain[]

  • Published in China by New Star Press in July 2021 as a paperback edition.

Additional cover images[]

Audiobook[]

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