The Scarlet Empress

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Author(s):

Paul Magrs

First Pub:

1998

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

1998

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Internal ID:

781

Series:

<- Vanderdeken's Children - The Janus Conjunction ->

Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

#15 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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TARDIS: (Iris Wildthyme's) "Between the chopping blocks and the Empress's tall glass jar, the air started to buckle and tremble and then solidify. A tremendous wheezing, groaning sound rent the air. A breeze plucked up out of nowhere and the scimitars were lowered in puzzlement and dismay. The Empress put her hands to her ears and howled out her pain rage, and Sam's heart jumped into her mouth as, in the middle of the bloody marble floor, a red double-decker bus quickly made itself apparent."

Synopsis (may contain spoilers)

This was a good read. One of those stories where the universe in NOT in desperate peril. A good ole adventure story. I did not like the first person sections (especially the ones involving the Doctor). I have to agree with the Virgin standards that first person for the Doctor should be OUT. This book too humanizes the Doctor. Other than that it was a good lighthearted story.

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Dramatis Personae

Character

Affiliation

Doctor 8

Doctor

Samantha Jones

Companion

Added: 01-Jan-2001

Last Updated: 08-Apr-2020

Publications

07-Sep-1998

BBC Books

Date Issued:

07-Sep-1998

Pages*:

277

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

Internal ID:

678

Publisher:

BBC Books

ISBN:

0-563-40595-3

ISBN-13:

978-0-563-40595-5

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Colin Howard - Cover Artist

Arriving in the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught in a bizarre struggle for survival.

Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers - powers that a member of the Doctor's own race is keen to possess herself: the eccentric time traveler and philanderer known only as Iris Wildthyme.

As the real reasons for Iris's obsession becomes clear, the Doctor and Sam must embark on a perilous journey across deserts, mountains, forests and oceans. Both friends and foes are found among spirits, djinns, alligator men and golden bears - but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?

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