Shadows of Avalon

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Author(s):

Paul Cornell

First Pub:

2000

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2000

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Internal ID:

797

Series:

<- Parallel 59 - The Fall of Yquatine ->

Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

#31 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: "But between these sounds there came another sound, one so familiar that Lethbridge-Stewart was now certain he was dreaming.

A wheezing, groaning sound.

The sound of time and space parting.

But this time the wheezing and groaning were those of a dying man, the sound warped and painful, as if its source was being torturously dragged into a point it could not, would not, fit.

Compassion started screaming.

The Brigadier swung round his head and looked at the spot where the packing crates stood. The familiar blue police box was heaving into existence, the light on its roof pulsing insanely, the exterior stretching and warping into shapes that his mind couldn't grasp.

The pressure built.

The sound reached a pitch of screaming nothingness.

The police box could not hold.

The Brigadier slowly flung himself over Compassion, without thought, putting his body between her and the blast.

Which came.

The TARDIS exploded into a ball of flame and matter.

And the sky swept down and crushed them between it and the land."

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Dramatis Personae

Character

Affiliation

Doctor 8

Doctor

Fitz Kreiner

Companion

Compassion

Companion

Added: 01-Jan-2001

Last Updated: 08-Apr-2020

Publications

07-Feb-2000

BBC Books

Date Issued:

07-Feb-2000

Pages*:

274

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

Internal ID:

694

Publisher:

BBC Books

ISBN:

0-563-55588-2

ISBN-13:

978-0-563-55588-9

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Black Sheep - Cover Artist

The Brigadier's wife is dead. A terrible accident. Grieving, he searches for death, and finds his way to Avalon, the other-dimensional Kingdom of the Catuvelauni.

The Doctor is also in Avalon, marooned. He's lost his companions, his TARDIS… and his hope for the future.

Now is seems they'll have to make a new life for themselves with the Celts who live in the Dreamlands. Perhaps even help the Celts' negotiate with the Unseelie, the sinister original inhabitants of Avalon, who live far to the North.

But then a gateway opens between Earth and Avalon. The British Army arrives in force. And the Brigadier negotiates a treaty that will lead to war in the Land of Dreams.

With fearsom dragons duelling jet fighters, vicious Gallifreyan agents causing havoc, and Compassion fighting against her ultimate fate, can the Doctor save the world, his best friend, and himself?

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