Night of the Humans is a novel written by David Llewellyn. Released in 2010, it is the thirty-eighth book in BBC Books' New Series Adventures series and tells of the Doctor working to save the inhabitants of an asteroid made of garbage.
Characters[]
- Eleventh Doctor
- Amy Pond
- Dirk Slipstream - an interstellar criminal pretending to be a hero
- Ahmed - a member of the Sittuun expedition to the Gyre
- Charlie - a member of the Sittuun expedition to the Gyre and the son of the Captain
- Captain Jamal al-Jehedeh - the captain of the Beagle XXI - the ship used by the Sittuun expedition
- Doctor Heeva - a member of the Sittuun expedition to the Gyre
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Publisher's summary[]
"This is the Gyre – the most hostile environment in the galaxy."
250,000 years' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all – the humans.
The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the clock is already ticking. There's a comet in the sky, and it's on a collision course with the Gyre...
When the Doctor is kidnapped, it's up to Amy and "galaxy-famous swashbuckler" Dirk Slipstream to save the day.
But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?
Full summary[]
When the TARDIS is pulled off-course, the Doctor and Amy make an unexpected trip to the Gyre. It is made of junk from all time and space, even a satellite Earth sent out thousands of years ago. They encounter aliens known as the Sittuun, who kidnap them. In mid-kidnapping, the Doctor falls out of their vehicle and is kidnapped by primitive humans.
Amy explains how she and the Doctor got to the Gyre to the Sittuun, confusing them for the "locals". She learns they came to plant a bomb to destroy the Gyre before a comet strikes and endangers other worlds with its debris. Meanwhile, the Doctor is taken to the human camp. He learns they are descendants of a crashed cargo ship who believe they are on Earth. When the Doctor tries to tell them the truth, they call him a blasphemer and order him put to death.
Elsewhere, Amy has bonded with Charlie and met Dirk Slipstream, a man who has answered the distress call the Sittuun sent when they crashed. She persuades him to rescue the Doctor. However, he double-crosses them and leaves to find something the humans have in their camp. As it turns out, Slipstream is an escaped criminal who had encountered the Doctor prior when he foiled a diamond robbery. He persuades them to spare the Doctor and uses him to find the Mymon Key, an object that can harness the forces of the universe.
The comet draws closer, forcing them to flee. They attempt to use Charlie's helipod to get to the TARDIS, but, an attack from a creature called a Sollog damages an engine and causes them to crash. Dirk is knocked out and the Doctor makes sure the Key, which is pulling the comet to them, is left behind. They land the TARDIS in Dirk's ship, commandeered by the Sittuun, and take off. However, it turns out that the Key that was left behind was a fake, and the ship can't leave.
The Doctor takes the real Key back to the Gyre and throws it in a swamp. Dirk regains consciousness and takes Amy hostage before fleeing to an escape pod. He threatens Amy to make the Doctor give him the Key, but the Doctor only tells him where he threw. it. Dirk enters the swamp to search, but is eaten by the Sollogs. The Doctor and Amy return to the TARDIS and Dirk's ship, and before the comet hits, the Sittuun bomb goes off, destroying the Gyre.
Worldbuilding[]
- The Gyre is a flat planet made of garbage created by the gravitational pull of various star systems. It is home to the human descendants of a crashed ship from the Gobocorp Freight Corporation. These descendants worship the mascot of Gobocorp and the captain of the ship.
- The Sittuun are a race of grey-skinned humanoids native to the Battani-045 system.
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Sources[]
- Goodreads
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