Beltempest is a Doctor Who novel written by Jim Mortimore. Released in 1998, it is the seventeenth novel in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and shows the Doctor saving the Bel system.
Characters[]
- Eighth Doctor
- Sam Jones
- Surgeon Major Alesis Conaway
- Eldred Saketh
- Major General Donarrold Lesbeth Smoot
- Captain Ruthelle Bellis
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Publisher's Summary[]
The people of Bellania II see their sun, Bel, shrouded in night for a month following an impossible triple eclipse. When Bel is returned to them a younger, brighter, hotter star, it is the beginning of the end for the entire solar system...
100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Bellania IV, where the population is under threat as disaster looms — immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are surging through this area of space.
While the time travellers attempt to help the survivors and ease the devastation, a religious suicide-cult leader is determined to spread a new religion through Bel's system — and his word may prove even more dangerous than the terrible forces brought into being by the catastrophic changes in the sun...
Full Summary[]
(PLACEHOLDER)
Notes[]
- According to Jim Mortimore, BBC Books cut large chunks of the novel when it was published. In 2020, he published an "Intermix" which includes many of this material and fixes structural issues within the novel.
- Sam wonders what decompression would feel like. This is at odds with Paul Leonard's Dreamstone Moon, which shows Sam experiencing decompression numerous times.
In-universe continuity[]
- The Doctor wonders if he has ever seen a weird sun before. The previous novel featured a "weird sun".
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Signifigance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasite | Jim Mortimore | 1994 | A novel featuring the Doctor discovering an apocalyptic and cosmic threat written by the same author |
| The Fall of Yquatine | Nick Walters | 2000 | A novel showing the Doctor trying to save a solar system |
| Sky Pirates! or the Eyes of the Schirron | Dave Stone | 1995 | A novel showing the Doctor attempting to save a solar system from an apocalypse |
| The Pit | Neil Penswick | 1993 | A novel showing a solar system collapsing into mass chaos |
| The Slow Empire | Dave Stone | 2001 | A novel showing the Doctor travelling throughout a solar system |
Sources[]
- Goodreads