Time Zero

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28.6% complete

Author(s):

Justin Richards

First Pub:

2002

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2002

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Internal ID:

377

Series:

<- Camera Obscura - The Infinity Race ->

Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

#60 of 73

Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.

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1) The Eight Doctors
2) Vampire Science
3) The Bodysnatchers
4) Genocide
5) War of the Daleks
6) Alien Bodies
7) Kursaal
8) Option Lock
9) Longest Day
10) Legacy of the Daleks
11) Dreamstone Moon
12) Seeing I
13) Placebo Effect
14) Vanderdeken's Children
15) The Scarlet Empress
16) The Janus Conjunction
17) Beltempest
18) The Face-Eater
19) The Taint
20) Demontage
21) Revolution Man
22) Dominion
23) Unnatural History
24) Autumn Mist
25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) The Blue Angel
28) Taking of Planet 5
29) Frontier Worlds
30) Parallel 59
31) Shadows of Avalon
32) The Fall of Yquatine
33) Coldheart
34) The Space Age
35) The Banquo Legacy
36) The Ancestor Cell
37) The Burning
38) Casualties of War
39) The Turing Test
40) Endgame
41) Father Time
42) Escape Velocity
43) Earthworld
44) Vanishing Point
45) Eater of Wasps
46) The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) The Slow Empire
48) Dark Progeny
49) City of the Dead
50) Grimm Reality
51) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Hope
54) Anachrophobia
55) Trading Futures
56) The Book of the Still
57) The Crooked World
58) History 101
59) Camera Obscura
60) Time Zero
61) The Infinity Race
62) The Domino Effect
63) Reckless Engineering
64) The Last Resort
65) Timeless
66) Emotional Chemistry
67) Sometime Never...
68) Halflife
69) The Tomorrow Windows
70) The Sleep of Reason
71) The Deadstone Memorial
72) To the Slaughter
73) The Gallifrey Chronicles

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This is another paradox story. A different twist on this one but still, done to death. There is a tie in with The Burning though.

Synopsis (may contain spoilers)

This is the 60th novel published by the BBC to feature the 8th Doctor. His companions are Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

The Doctor has dropped off Fitz in the 1800's to journey to Siberia. He has also dropped Anji off in 21st century London, three weeks after she originally left, to continue her life.

Fitz meets up with dangerous dinosaur like creatures from an alternate reality that have passed into the 'real' world. Anji gets taken by a group of Americans to capture a time machine that does not exist. The Doctor just happens to be going there too.

Fitz dies (or maybe he doesn't) and there are two possibilities created in the same universe. Before Fitz dies, he uses a grenade near a black hole to release an incredible amount of energy that causes the 'split.' The Doctor and Anji work together with some of the visitors to stop the American commando team, on orders from Control, from killing everyone.

Fitz is liberated from the 'possibility' trap and everything is put to rights. Sabbath's hand is revealed in the paradox. He leaves on the Jonah, but not before the Doctor, Anji and Fitz see them.

When the Doctor stops off to see that a certain event that happened in the past will happen again, they discover that they have entered into an alternate universe and that they must not return Anji to London. They must put wrong to right again…

Extract (may contain spoilers)

A man stands. Frozen in time. The chill breeze from the open door ripples the cracked pages of the book he holds.
The Doctor hesitates. Should he buy the book anyway? A curiosity? A coincidence? Or a distraction. He has more than enough to do.
With a sudden dust-clouding movement that makes the old woman blink and shiver, he snaps the book shut. He refolds his piece of paper, a quick well-practised routine.
And he reaches out to replace the book on the shelf.
The book slides easily into its dusty place. But the Doctor hesitates, the book half-in and half-out. A decision, a turning point. If he leaves it now, he will never know for sure. And what does he have to lose?
He pulls the book out again, and turns to smile at the old woman counting the money.

Dramatis Personae

Character

Affiliation

Doctor 8

Doctor

Fitz Kreiner

Companion

Anji Kapoor

Companion

Sabbath

Unaffiliated

Added: 24-Jan-2003

Last Updated: 09-Apr-2020

Publications

02-Sep-2002

BBC Books

Date Issued:

02-Sep-2002

Pages*:

275

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

235

Publisher:

BBC Books

ISBN:

0-563-53866-X

ISBN-13:

978-0-563-53866-0

Printing:

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Black Sheep - Cover Artist

It doesn't take the creation of a whole new universe just to kill a cat.'

With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied.

At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition's journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice.

Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn't the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendant of the last Tsar, involved?

Soon the Doctor is caught up in a polt that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond...

...to Time Zero.

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