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Grimm Reality is a novel written by Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale. Released in 2001, it is the fiftieth novel in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and tells of a world where wishes come to life.

Characters[]

  • Eighth Doctor
  • Fitz Kreiner
  • Anji Kapoor
  • Christina Morgenstern - one of the three captains of the Bonaventure
  • Belesia - a fairy and an avatar of "Albert"
  • Bricklebrit - an ogre
  • Alex Volpe - a member of the Bonaventure's crew
  • Ebonyblack - a princess
  • The Giant - an avatar of "Albert"
  • Inexplicable "Inex" Blessing Wottlewort - a gnome
  • Janet - a "seventh daughter of a seventh daughter"
  • The Tailor King - an insane king
  • Tento - a member of the Bonaventure's crew
  • The Vuim-Captain - one of the three captains of the Bonaventure
  • William Brok - a space miner whose ship crash landed on "Albert"
  • The wodewose - an avatar of "Albert"
  • Wulfstam Tintangle - one of the three captains of the Bonaventure

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Publisher's summary[]

There is a world where wishes can come true. Where any simpleton can become a king and any scullery maid might be a princess in disguise. Kindness and virtue are rewarded, and the wicked are made to dance in red-hot shoes until they die. But a witch's oven will cook both the virtuous and the wicked alike, and many a frog-prince is crushed beneath the wheels of a cart before he gets that magic kiss.

This world has its own rules and it doesn't care that a certain Doctor Know-All and his friends don't know them.

Now other outsiders have come to the world — traders from the stars seeking the treasures that fell from the rip in the sky. There are riddles to be solved, contests to win, flax to spin. The world to survive.

But the World of Wishes is itself in danger from a race of beings with only one wish. And there is a Princess asleep, and a beast awake — and Giants.

Full summary[]

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In-universe continuity[]

  • The Doctor says that he is "immortal on his father's side".
  • Anji mentions the Doctor riding a horse, which happened in Kate Orman's novel The Year of Intelligent Tigers.
  • The Doctor mentions the Kulan, who appeared in Colin Brake's novel Escape Velocity.

See also[]

Title Author Release date Significance
The Crooked World Steve Lyons 2002 A Doctor Who novel with similar themes
The Price of Paradise Colin Brake 2006 A Doctor Who novel with another vaguely sentient planet
Dark Progeny Steve Emmerson 2001 A Doctor Who novel with another vaguely sentient planet
Conundrum Steve Lyons 1994 A Doctor Who novel with similar themes
The Doctor Trap Simon Messingham 2008 A Doctor Who novel with another vaguely sentient planet

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

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