Burning Heart is a novel written by Dave Stone. Released in 1997, it is the thirtieth novel in Virgin's Doctor Who Missing Adventures series and tells of the Doctor visiting a degenerating colony of the Earth Empire. It was originally meant to be a crossover with Judge Dredd but had to be radically altered due to copyright issues that stemmed from the Judge Dredd movie.
Characters[]
- The Sixth Doctor
- Peri Brown
- Avron Jelks - the leader of Human First
- Kane - a covert ops Adjudicator
- Draker - a member of White Fire
- Garon - a High Churchman
- Joseph Craator - an Adjudicator
- Nadia Chong - Kane's lover
- Queegvogel Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Seven
- Xxigzzh
Publisher's summary[]
- There's a god in the machine — and the god is insane.
In the self-contained Habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. Twenty million humans and aliens are at each other's throats, the lid barely held on by the Church of Adjudication, who through their OBERON systems wield absolute power. And we all know what absolute power does.
Other things have been corrupted too. People, human and alien alike, are changing - mutating into something that, if left unchecked, could consume their entire enclosed world.
Arriving in this disintegrating cosmopolitan society, Peri falls in with the charismatic leader of Human First, a movement dedicated to bringing order out of chaos. Meanwhile, the Sixth Doctor is powerless, imprisoned and put to the Inquisition by a church that really thinks its God is coming back.
If somebody doesn't do something, and do it soon, nobody's getting out alive.
Continuity[]
Author's[]
- Queegvogeel (or at least, being with that name) also appears in Stone's short stories Past Time Catching and Little Killers.
- Mimsey first appeared in Stone's Judge Dredd novel Wetworks and later appears in his Dark Future novel Golgotha Run.
- Shok-TAK reappears throughout Stone's Judge Dredd and Armitage stories.
In-universe[]
- The events of this story take place between Vengeance on Varos and The Mark of the Rani.
- Xxigzzh is a Medusoid - a species first mentioned in Frontier in Space.
Sources[]
- Goodreads
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