Heart of TARDIS is a novel written by Dave Stone. Released in 2000, it is the thirty-first novel in BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures series and tells of two incarnations of the Doctor being faced with the possible end of the universe.
Characters[]
- Second Doctor
- Fourth Doctor
- Jamie McCrimmon
- Victoria Waterfield
- Romana I
- The Brigadier
- Benton
- Wblk - a member of the High Council of Gallifrey
- Clancy Tilson - the sheriff of Lychburg
- Katharine Delbane - a member of the Jarakabeth
- Crowley - a Jarakabeth impersonating Alastair Crowley
- Lieutenant Joel Haasterman
- Dr. Sohn - a member of the Golgotha Project
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Publisher's summary[]
In the American Midwestern town of Lychburg, something is afoot. Its citizens are being killed in inexpressibly horrible and brutal ways and the police don't have a clue who's responsible. The only suspects are a mysterious and sinister stranger, who calls himself the Doctor, and his young companions Jamie and Victoria.
The Fourth Doctor and Romana, meanwhile, have been summoned by the Gallifreyan High Council. A force has been unleashed into the space/time continuum... a force so unimaginably terrible that it is set to rip the universe itself apart and plunge it into primal, screaming chaos from which nothing will survive.
Of course, since something of this nature happens every other day of the week, the Doctor's really far more interested in finding out what's happened to a close personal friend, who seems to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. And quite right, too. The fate of a universe plunging into foetid and unending chaos can look out for itself for a change...
Full summary[]
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Continuity[]
Author's[]
- The name "Golgotha" was previously used by Stone in Past Time Catching and was later used by him in his Dark Future novel Golgotha Run.
- The last name Delbane was used by Stone for the main character of his unlicensed Bernice Summerfield (or Pandora Delbane) novel rereleases.
- The Collectors reappear in The Slow Empire.
In-universe[]
- For the Fourth Doctor, this takes place during the events of the Key to Time saga (with doctorwho.guide putting it between The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara). For the Second Doctor, this takes place shortly after The Tomb of the Cybermen (according to doctorwho.guide).
- The Fourth Doctor mentions witnessing some of the Time Wars along with the events of Alan Moore's Time War comics (Star Death, 4-D War, and Black Sun Rising).
- Delbane contacts the Doctor using the spacetime telegraph owned by the Brigadier.
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See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomb of Valdemar | Simon Messingham | 2000 | Another novel featuring the Fourth Doctor and Romana I being involved with a grave threat to the universe as a whole. |
| Golgotha Run | Dave Stone | 2006 | A novel by the same author with (possibly) similar plot beats. |
| The Shadow of Weng-Chiang | David A. McIntee | 1996 | Another novel featuring the Fourth Doctor and Romana I. |
Sources[]
- Goodreads