Anachrophobia

Anachrophobia is a novel written by Jonathan Morris. Released in 2002, it is the fifty-fourth book in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and tells of a planet wracked in a seemingly infinite war.

Characters[]

Eighth Doctor
Fitz Kreiner
Anji Kapoor
Sabbath (or "Mr. Mistletoe")
Dr. Paterson - a scientist conducting experiments in time travel
Dr. Hammond - an android doctor unaware of his nature as an android
Shaw - the "clockwatchman" on Isolation Station Forty
Lane - an officer on Isolation Station Forty
Bishop - a soldier with an arm deformed by time fields
Bragg - the commander of Isolation Station Forty
Ash - a worker on Isolation Station Forty
Norton - a worker on Isolation Station Forty
Charlotte - Paterson's wife
Georgia - Norton's lover

Publisher's summary[]

Imagine a war. A war that has lasted centuries, a war which has transformed an entire planet into a desolate No Man's Land. A war where time itself is being used as a weapon.

You can create zones of decelerated time and bring the enemy troops to a standstill. You can create storms of accelerated time and reduce the opposition to dust in a matter of seconds.

But now the war has reached a stalemate. Neither the Plutocrats nor the Defaulters have made any gains for over a hundred years.

The Doctor, Fitz and Anji arrive at Isolation Station Forty, a military research establishment on the verge of a breakthrough. A breakthrough which will change the entire course of the war.

They have found a way to send soldiers back in time. But time travel is a primitive, unpredictable and dangerous business. And not without its own sinister side effects...

In-universe continuity[]

The Doctor also uses the analogy that backwards time travel requires more energy because its uphill in Morris' audio drama Legacy of Death.
The clock-people reappear in Jayce Black's Faction Paradox short story The Story So Far... and Aristide Twain's P.R.O.B.E. short story Out of the Box. Fitz later mentions them in Paul Ebbs' The Book of the Still.

Sources[]

TARDIS Wiki

The Eighth Doctor Adventures
1997 The Eight Doctors, Vampire Science, The Bodysnatchers, Genocide, War of the Daleks, Alien Bodies 1998 Kursaal, Option Lock, Longest Day, Legacy of the Daleks, Dreamstone Moon, Seeing I, Placebo Effect, Vanderdeken's Children, The Scarlet Empress, The Janus Conjunction, Beltempest 1999 The Face-Eater, The Taint, Demontage, Revolution Man, Dominion, Unnatural History, Autumn Mist, Interference duology, The Blue Angel, The Taking of Planet 5, Frontier Worlds 2000 Parallel 59, The Shadows of Avalon, The Fall of Yquatine, Coldheart, The Space Age, The Banquo Legacy, The Ancestor Cell, The Burning, Casualties of War, The Turing Test, Endgame 2001 Father Time, Escape Velocity, EarthWorld, Vanishing Point, Eater of Wasps, The Year of Intelligent Tigers, The Slow Empire, Dark Progeny, The City of the Dead, Grimm Reality, The Adventuress of Henrietta Street 2002 Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Hope, Anachrophobia, Trading Futures, The Book of the Still, The Crooked World, History 101, Camera Obscura, Time Zero, The Infinity Race 2003 The Domino Effect, Reckless Engineering, The Last Resort, Timeless, Emotional Chemistry 2004 and 2005 Sometime Never..., Halflife, The Tomorrow Windows, The Sleep of Reason, The Deadstone Memorial, To the Slaughter, The Gallifrey Chronicles