Sabbath (Doctor Who)
Sabbath is the name of a recurring villain from the Eighth Doctor Adventures — spin-off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The character was created by Lawrence Miles and first appeared in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street''. Originally, Miles had intended Sabbath to be a one-off character, but BBC Books editor Justin Richards asked to use the character in a continuing story arc. Sabbath was born in 1740. He was educated at Cambridge before being initiated into the Secret Service in 1762. He then defected from the service in 1780. The Doctor first encountered Sabbath in 1782. In appearance, Sabbath was a large muscular man with a shaven head. He commanded intelligent ape creatures called Babewyns which also crewed his ship, the ''Jonah''. Visually, the ''Doctor Who'' version is said to be based on Orson Welles. Despite suggestions to the contrary, Sabbath is not based on the equally corpulent character Sunday from the novel ''Th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each acto ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kabalistic
Kabbalah ( he, קַבָּלָה ''Qabbālā'', literally "reception, tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal ( ''Məqūbbāl'' "receiver"). The definition of Kabbalah varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its origin in medieval Judaism to its later adaptations in Western esotericism (Christian Kabbalah and Hermetic Qabalah). Jewish Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between the unchanging, eternal God—the mysterious ''Ein Sof'' (, ''"The Infinite"'')—and the mortal, finite universe (God's creation). It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism. Jewish Kabbalists originally developed their own transmission of sacred texts within the realm of Jewish tradition and often use classical Jewish scriptures to explain and demonstrate its mystical teachings. These teachings are held by K ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stephen Cole (writer)
Stephen Cole (born 1971) (also credited as Steve Cole, Tara Samms and Paul Grice) is an English author of children's books and science fiction. He was also in charge of BBC Worldwide's merchandising of the BBC Television series ''Doctor Who'' between 1997 and 1999 and as executive producer on the Big Finish Productions range of List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish, ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas. In 2013, Ian Fleming Publications announced that Cole would continue the Young Bond series first penned by Charlie Higson, with the addition of four new books to the series. The first of these, ''Shoot to Kill (novel), Shoot to Kill'', was published in the UK in November 2014, where Cole is credited as 'Steve Cole'. Early life and career Cole was brought up in rural Bedfordshire and attended the University of East Anglia between 1989-92, where he studied English literature and film studies, graduating with first class honours. After a brief time working in local radio with BBC Ra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Timeless (Doctor Who)
''Timeless'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Stephen Cole and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Anji and Trix. Plot The Doctor takes a huge risk to restore the collapsing multiverse The multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The di .... External linksThe Cloister Library - ''Timeless''* {{Eighth Doctor stories, selected=Books 2003 British novels 2003 science fiction novels Eighth Doctor Adventures Novels by Stephen Cole ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Domino Effect (novel)
''The Domino Effect'' is a BBC Books original novel written by David Bishop and based on the long-running British science fiction television Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary ... series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, Fitz, Anji Kapoor, Anji and Trix MacMillan, Trix. Plot summary It's 2003 and the Scottish capital of Edinburgh is being terrorized by a bombing campaign. The Doctor's friends are entrapped by these events and the Doctor himself crippled by bizarre chest paints. The problems are not limited to Scotland, as evidence shows London is somehow connected. And through that, the entirety of all time and space. And the Doctor keeps feeling worse... Reception ''The Domino Effect'' won Worst Book in the 2003 Jade Pagoda Awards. Au ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Justin Richards
Justin Richards (born 14 September 1961) is a British writer. He has written science fiction and fantasy novels, including series set in Victorian or early-20th-century London, and also adventure stories set in the present day. He has written many spin-off novels, reference books and audio plays based on the long-running BBC science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', and he is Creative Consultant for the BBC Books range of '' Doctor Who'' novels. Life Richards was born in Epping, Essex, on 14 September 1961. After attending Dean Close School in Cheltenham he obtained a BA (Hons) in English and Theatre at the University of Warwick. As well as his literary career, Richards has worked as a technical writer, editor, programmer, and user interface designer at IBM, and as an errand boy in a hotel. Richards is married with two sons, and lives in Warwickshire. Work Richards' first published novels were based on '' Doctor Who'', published in the ''Virgin New Adventures ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Time Zero
''Time Zero'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Fitz (pronounced "fits") was a patronymic indicator used in Anglo-Norman England to help distinguish individuals by identifying their immediate predecessors. Meaning "son of", it would precede the father's forename, or less commonly a title held b ... and Anji and introduces a new companion, Trix. Plot A story arc about the Multiverse collapsing begins in this novel, ending in '' Timeless'' External linksThe Cloister Library - ''Time Zero''* {{Eighth Doctor stories, selected=Books 2002 British novels 2002 science fiction novels Eighth Doctor Adventures Novels by Justin Richards ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lloyd Rose
Lloyd Rose is an American writer most associated with her work on various ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs. She has also written for the American television series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' and '' Kingpin''. She often jokes in her biographies that her name is the pen name of a writer called Sarah Tonyn (a pun on serotonin), although (despite the information on her IMDb entry) she has not had any professional writing published under this name. Work Rose was the theatre critic for the ''Washington Post''. She adapted the autobiographical comics stories of Harvey Pekar into a stage version of '' [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Camera Obscura (Doctor Who)
''Camera obscura'' is a novel by Slovenian author Nejc Gazvoda. It was first published in 2006. See also *List of Slovenian novels A list of Slovene novels: 0-9 * 5 do 12h A * Abadon (novel) * Alamut (1938 novel) * Angie * Aritmija (novel) * Ata je spet pijan B * Balerina, balerina * Bela dama Devinska * Bobri (novel) * Boštjanov let C * Čaj s kraljico *Camera obscura ... Slovenian novels 2006 novels {{2000s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trading Futures
''Trading Futures'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji. One of the enemies in the book are the Onihr, a large rhinoceros-like species, notable due to their similarity to the Judoon. The cover and elements of the story are spoofs of the James Bond movies. The novel features a Bond-like character named Jonah Cosgrove, described by the author thus: “Cosgrove is (and I mean ‘is’ here in the very precise, non-trademark violating, sense of the word) the Sean Connery Bond, but one who never retired and who's been a secret agent for fifty years. So he's about eighty, and all the time he's just been piling on more muscles and getting more wrinkled, and ever more set in his ways and bitter and anachronistic. He's Sean Connery in The Rock, as drawn by Frank Miller, and by now he's been promoted to M.” See also * Outline of J ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anachrophobia
''Anachrophobia'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Jonathan Morris and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji. Plot Whilst travelling in time, the TARDIS suddenly shakes violently. The Eighth Doctor shuts it down, concluding that it is tearing itself apart attempting to escape a force that is forcing it to land. As the Doctor, Anji and Fitz emerge onto a wasteland, they are captured by soldiers. They learn that they have landed on a planet that is host to a war between two factions of humans: the Plutocratic empire and rebels known as Defaulters. Both sides have weapons that can slow the flow of time, or speed it up in small areas, but because of this, both sides have reached a stalemate. The soldiers take the Doctor to an officer called Lane. She assumes that the Doctor is the time expert the Plutocrats were sending, and the Doctor decides to agree. Lane takes them to a military ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Time Lord
The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', of which the series' main protagonist, The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor, is a member. Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their Nonlinear narrative, non-linear perception of time. Originally, they were described as a powerful and wise race from the planet Gallifrey, from which the Doctor was a renegade; details beyond this were very limited for the first decade of the series. They later became integral to many episodes and stories as their role in the universe developed. For the first eight years after the History of Doctor Who#2000s, series resumed in 2005, the Time Lords were said to have been destroyed during the Time War (Doctor Who), Last Great Time War at some point in the show's continuity between the original series' cancellation in 1989 and the show's revival. In 2013, the 50 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |