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Citadel of Dreams

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2001
2001
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Citadel of Dreams © Dave Stone 2001
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So little comes down to us, when we try to grasp it.  We are born, and born again, into worlds that shift in ways we cannot begin to imagine, for the single reason that they were made while our minds were occupied elsewhere.  What we feel is incidental slips away, and we only later realise that the incidental was the point.  We lose so much by not paying attention.
    The thing about losing things, reflected Magnus Solaris, was that one didn't miss them until the lack of them turned around and bit.
    His debilitation, once started, had run its course quickly.  For as long as he could remember, he had been able to send his mind and will out into his City, with no more effort and thought than if he were moving his hand.  And now it was as if he were suddenly blinded, the nerves controlling that hand abruptly severed.  It was impossible to recapture the trick of it.
    Worse, it was becoming increasingly difficult to remember how it had felt.
    Through the windows of the Gutter Palace, when one pulled back the drapes, the City seemed as it ever had: bright and perfect and eternal.  There seemed a lack of depth to the vista, however: a sense that it was merely that, an image painted on some putative arrangement of scaffolding and to all real intents no thicker than a breath.  No sense whatsoever of what might lie behind it.
    Or what might lie in general.

Dramatis Personae
Character
Affiliation
Doctor 7
Doctor
Ace
Companion

 

Added: 21-Feb-2003
Last Updated: 01-May-2020

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 28-Mar-2002
Telos Publishing
Hardback
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Date Issued:
28-Mar-2002
Format:
Hardback
Pages*:
104
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Once
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Internal ID:
260
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ISBN:
1-903-88904-9
ISBN-13:
978-1-903-88904-6
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Andrew Cartmel - Foreword
Lee Sullivan - Illustrator
In the city-state of Hokesh, time plays tricks; the present is unreliable, the future impossible to intimate. A derelict street child, Joey Quine, finds himself subject to horrifying visions and fugues. His only friend in this, the only one to whom he can turn for help, is a mysterious stranger who calls herself Ace.

And in an unknowable future the Doctor is busily inciting a state of bloody unrest, on the basis that one must be cruel to be kind -- simultaneously, for preference. The Glorious Ruler of the city, Magnus Solaris, is worried: his memory is failing him; his influence deserting him; his city is falling apart. What is happening to him truly? Only the Doctor knows -- and he’s not telling.

There is worse to come. As both world and time crumble, Magnus Solaris and Joey Quine will unearth secrets the like of which nobody in Hokesh could have ever possibly suspected.
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Author(s)

Dave Stone  
Birth: 12 Jun 1964
Notes:
From About the Author from the book Citadel of Dreams:

Dave Stone has written any number of things, from comics and radio scripts to full-length novels, which currently include Heart of TARDIS and The Slow Empire for the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who range and Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus for Big Finish.  This is the first work published in the novella form, as opposed to a short story which didn't know when to stop, and he thought that with the relatively low word count it would be easy!

He thought that, but…

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