Camera Obscura is a novel written by Lloyd Rose. Released in 2002, it is the fifty-ninth novel in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and tells of the Doctor working with Sabbath Dei.
Characters[]
- Eighth Doctor
- Anji Kapoor
- Fitz Kreiner
- Sabbath (or Mr. G.K. Thursday)
- Elizabeth Kelly (or Angel-Maker) - a time-sensitive Irish woman who serves as Sabbath's lover
- George Williamson
- Nathaniel Chiltern - the insane twin brother of Sebastian Chiltern
- The Octaves - eight fragments of a magician splintered in time
- Dr. Sebastian Chiltern - the brother of Nathaniel Chiltern
- Constance Jane - a psychic
- Micah Scale - the owner of a freak show
- Death
- "William" - an unlicensed cameo from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Spike
- Mrs. Hemming - the organizer of a seance
- George Williamson - a geologist
- Hugo Little (or Hugo the Huge) - a member of Micah Scale's freak show
- Vera - a bearded lady and member of Micah Scale's freak show
- Rudy the Dynamic Diminutive - a member of Micah Scale's freak show
- Wobry the Human Serpent - a member of Micah Scale's freak show
- O'Keagh - an orderly
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Publisher's summary[]
The Doctor sat alone and listened to the beat of his remaining heart. He had never got used to it. He never would. The single sound where a double should be. What was this new code hammering through his body? What did it mean? Mortal. No, he'd always known he could die. Not mortal. Damaged. Crippled. Through his shirt, his fingers sought the thick ridge of his scar. Human...
The Doctor's second heart was taken from his body — for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.
Full summary[]
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Notes[]
- A reference is made to the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer character "William the Bloody Awful Poet" (or Spike), played by James Marsters (who would later play Torchwood antagonist John Hart).
In-universe continuity[]
- Reference is made to Sabbath's previous escapades and Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum's EDA Unnatural History, along with the arc that began in that novel and ended in Peter Anghelides and Steve Cole's The Ancestor Cell.
- Fitz's explorations with George Williamson are shown in the next novel, Time Zero.
- The Doctor remembers his previous alliance with his archenemy (specifically with the Master in the serial Logopolis) ending poorly.
See also[]
- The Adventuress of Henrietta Street by Lawrence Miles
- The City of the Dead by Lloyd Rose
Sources[]
- TARDIS Wiki