''The Infinity Doctors'' is a
BBC Books original novel written by
Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British
science fiction television series ''
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 u ...
''. The book was released to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the series, and features several references to the series' past.
Synopsis
During the Dark Time, the Gallifreyan scientist Omega leaves his wife to travel to the star that will give his people the power to become Lords of Time when he causes it to go supernova. But things do not go as planned and Omega is lost inside a black hole.
Millions of years later, an unknown version of the Doctor, his friend the Magistrate and star pupil Larna, together with the rest of the Time Lords are preparing to host a peace conference between the
Sontarans and the
Rutans to end their thousand-year war. But behind the scenes a masked figure arranges a kidnapping and robbery in the Doctor's rooms and a strange anomaly appears across the universe, which seemingly has the power to alter the past and future. The epicentre of the effect is a black hole at the end of the universe to which the Doctor and his friends must travel to prevent disaster.
Interpretations
Incarnation of the Doctor
Among the possible explanations for which incarnation of the Doctor is featured include a young
First Doctor who has yet to leave
Gallifrey, a future Doctor past the last known incarnation (at the time the book was written, the
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Paul McGann.
The character was introduced in the 1996 TV film ''Doctor Who'', a back-door pilo ...
was the current incarnation) or
the Other
In phenomenology, the terms the Other and the Constitutive Other identify the other human being, in their differences from the Self, as being a cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person; as acknowledgement of being real; he ...
, who may or may not be the Doctor.
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/ref> Parkin himself stated: "He's clearly not the eighth Doctor of mainstream continuity. He does look like Paul McGann."
Chronology
Parkin's guide to Doctor Who chronology, ''AHistory'', contains a footnote stating that "fan consensus" places the novel on the reconstructed Gallifrey implied by the end of Parkin's '' The Gallifrey Chronicles'' (that is, between ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' and " Rose").[
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References
External links
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The Cloister Library - ''The Infinity Doctors''
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1998 British novels
1998 science fiction novels
Past Doctor Adventures
Novels by Lance Parkin
The Master (Doctor Who) novels