The Space Age (novel)

The Space Age
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Fitz Kreiner, Compassion
Main enemy:	The Makers, Mods & Rockers
Main setting:	Earth, England, 1965 / 2019 (see Notes)
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Steve Lyons
Release details
Release number:	34
Release date:	May, 2000
Format:	Paperback Book, 237 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53800-7
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The Space Age was the thirty-fourth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Steve Lyons. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Compassion.

Publisher’s Summary

This is the city: a technological paradise built by an advanced race. Its glittering towers reach proudly for the stars, and its spires are looped by elevated roadways.

The people that lived here were enlightened and contented. They travelled in bubble-topped saucer cars, along moving pavements or in anti-gravity tubes. Obedient robots tended to their every whim. Disease, war, famine and pollution had been eradicated. Food machines synthesised all essential nutrients into pill form, and personal rocket ships brought the solar system within reach. The people of the city befriended Venusians and Martians alike.

The city is self-cleansing. Its systems harness solar power and static electricity. Its buildings are constructed from a metal that will never rust or tarnish. It will stand forever as a monument to the achievements of the human race.

This is Earth. The year is 2000 AD. This is your future.

Welcome to the Space Age.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Fitz Kreiner
• Compassion
• Davey
• Alec Redshaw
• Deborah
• Gillian
• Rick
• Sandra
• Vince

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor carries a metal comb and a silver yo-yo in his pockets.

Drugs and medicines

• Fitz still carries cigarettes in his pocket.

Individuals

• Fitz is still trying to form a friendship with Compassion and dislikes the idea of treating Compassion as anything other than a human being, unlike the Doctor.

• Compassion is attracted to the Makers because they operate on the same "levels" that she does.
• Compassion still distrusts the Doctor because of the randomiser he forcibly fitted to her.

Species

• Fitz mentions Meeps.
• Fitz also mentions the Remote and Faction Paradox.

TARDISes

• Compassion is becoming more arrogant and detached from her humanity as she comes to terms with her nature as a TARDIS.

Notes

• The year is perceived by those within the city as 2019, but it is questionable if this is really the year.

Continuity

• The Doctor defeats the Maker’s supercomputer using the riddle he used on BOSS in TV: The Green Death and his Nelly the pink elephant riddle from TV: Destiny of the Daleks.
• The Doctor recalls meeting Fitz in 1963. (PROSE: The Taint)
• The Doctor mentions Macra. (TV: The Macra Terror)
• Fitz mentions his time spent in Mechta (PROSE: "Parallel 59 (novel)")

External links

• The Space Age at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Space Age at The Whoniverse