The Aztecs is a novella written by John Lucarotti. Released in 1984, it is a novelization of Lucarotti's Doctor Who serial of the same name.
Characters[]
- The First Doctor
- Barbara Wright
- Susan Foreman
- Ian Chesterton
- Tlotoxl - an extremely bloodthirsty and vengeful High Priest of Sacrifice
- Autloc - an extremely trusting High Priest of Knowledge
- Cameca - an Aztec woman who the Doctor accidentally marries
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Publisher's summary[]
The TARDIS materialises in Mexico during the Aztec civilisation. The Doctor and his companions step outside to discover they are inside a tomb - the tomb, it turns out, of Yetaxa, once High Priest of the Aztecs.
Barbara is hailed as Yetaxa's reincarnation by Autloc, High Priest of Knowledge, and Tlotoxl, High Priest of Sacrifice, when they find her in the precincts of the tomb wearing the bracelet of the deceased Priest, now revered as a god.
And she takes advantage of her position of unaccustomed power to try and dissuade the Aztecs from practising human sacrifice...
In-universe continuity[]
- Jim Mortimore's short story Nothing at the End of the Lane mentions that Barbara wrote her disseration on the Aztecs. David Bishop's novel Who Killed Kennedy says that Barbara taught about the Aztecs after returning home.
- The Doctor sold his Aztec bracelet in Jacqueline Rayner's audio play The Suffering but somehow got it back and gifted it to Susan in Marc Platt's audio play Relative Dimenions.
- In Marc Platt's Unbound audio drama A Storm of Angels, the Doctor averts the destruction of the Aztec society.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against Nature | Lawrence Burton | 2013 | A Faction Paradox novel which features some characters from The Aztecs |
| The Left-Handed Hummingbird | Kate Orman | 1993 | A Doctor Who novel which shows the Doctor returning to the land of the Aztecs |
| Smoking Mirror | Lawrence Burton | 2010 | A Doctor Who novel which shows the Doctor returning to the land of the Aztecs |
| Nobody's Gift | Kate Orman | 2005 | A Doctor Who short story which shows the Doctor returning to the land of the Aztecs |
Sources[]
- Goodreads