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Doctor Who: The Ancestor Cell (Doctor Who)

 
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For the uninitiated: Between 1997 after the Doctor Who TV movie and 2005 when the new TV series started, BBC Books published a range of novels featuring the Eighth Doctor as played by Paul McGann. As with the Virgin Adventures before them, the novels were a chance to take Doctor Who into much more complicated story-telling, featuring new companions and enemies never seen on TV. One of the appealing things about the series was that there were several Story Arcs that sometimes ran for over a year. This book is a crucial turning point in the biggest Story Arc that ran through these books, namely the Faction Paradox. So if character names like Fitz and Compassion mean nothing to you, this book will leave you totally and absolutely stumped- and you'd best start at the beginning of the arc, which is (pretty much) "Unnatural History" by the brilliant writer Kate Orman. So this book is EPIC in terms of what it accomplishes and how it changes the Doctor's situation (it's difficult to explain ... read more.

Written by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole.
Published 03 July 2000.
Published by BBC Books.
rrp £5.99.
288 pages Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN: 0563538090
ISBN-13: 9780563538097
 
 
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