Silver Nemesis is a novella written by Kevin Clarke. Released in 1989, it is a novelization of Clarke's Doctor Who serial of the same name.
Characters[]
- The Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- Lady Peinforte - an English noblewoman with knowledge of the Doctor
- De Flores - a Nazi in command of a group of Neo-Nazis
- Lavinia P. Hackensack - a woman from Connecticut
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Publisher's summary[]
Launched into space 350 years ago, a meteor is returning to Earth – and inside it waits Nemesis, a silver statue made of the living metal validium, the most dangerous substance in the Universe.
Evil powers await the statue's return: the neo-nazis de Flores and his stormtroopers; Lady Peinforte, who saw Nemesis exiled in 1638 and has propelled herself forward in time; and the advance party of a Cyberman invasion force.
And in the garden of a Windsor pub, the Doctor and Ace are enjoying the timeless sounds of a jazz quartet ...
This story celebrates 25 years of Doctor Who on television.
In-universe continuity[]
- Validium reappears in Daniel O'Mahony's short story The Parliament of Rats, Lawrence Miles' Interference duology, and David Wise's audio drama Forever. The Nemesis statue itself reappears in Paul Cornell's novel Human Nature.
- The events of this story are revealed to be part of Fenric's manipulations in The Curse of Fenric.
- The Cybermen in this story are trying to remake their homeworld of Mondas.
- The Cybermen are said to be CyberIsomorphs in David Banks' reference book Cybermen. They also appear in Dan Abnett's short story Heliotrope Bouquet, George Mann and Cavan Scott's comic Supremacy of the Cybermen, and Dan Starkey's audio drama Bad Day in Tinseltown. Their fleet appears in Craig Hinton's novel The Quantum Archangel.