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Author: John Peel
ISBN: 0 426 20335 0
Published: June 1991
Editor: Peter Darvill-Evans
Placement: After Survival (Season 26)
Links: The first book in the Timewyrm arc. Leads into Exodus, Apocalypse, and Revelation. |
| Doctor: |
The Seventh 
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The Seventh Doctor is short, dark-haired, and speaks with a slight scottish accent. He thinks of himself as "Time's Champion", deliberately seeking out situations to "put right". He usually has a plan, and is willing to manipulate everyone - including his companions - to achieve it. |
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The Fourth (cameo) 
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The fourth Doctor is tall, has curly brown hair, a distinctive smile, a floppy hat, and a ridiculously long scarf. He comes across as otherworldly and bohemian. |
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The Third (cameo) 
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The third Doctor has white hair, a large nose, and tends to dress as a society dandy. He has a love of technology, historical name-dropping, and vehicles. |
| Companions: |
Ace: 
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Ace was swept away from Perivale in a timestorm caused by a powerful being called Fenric. She arrived on Iceworld in the far future, where she met the Doctor in Dragonfire (Season 24). Ace is a bit of a teenaged delinquent, but has grown up during her time with the Doctor. She uses a home-made explosive called nitro-nine, and prefers her nickname of Ace to her real name of Dorothy. She calls the Doctor "Professor".
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| Recurring Characters: |
The Timewyrm: |
The Timewyrm is a character introduced in this novel who will play a major part in the next three novels. |
| Recommended Viewing: |
In The Invasion of Time (Season 15), the fourth Doctor spent some time inside the Matrix on Gallifrey. |
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In The Time Monster (Season 9), we saw a Time Ram - a catastrophic event caused by two TARDISes trying to occupy the same space, and also the Chronovores, creatures that live and feed in the Time Vortex. |
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In Ghost Light (Season 26), the Doctor met a Neanderthal called Nimrod, who had been preserved by a being called Light, and so survived into at least the 19th Century. |
| Recommended Reading: |
The book leads into the rest of the Timewyrm series. So read Timewyrm: Exodus, Timewyrm: Apocalypse, and Timewyrm: Revelation after this book to discover the fate of the Timewyrm. |
| Recommended Listening: |
None. |
