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The Crooked World

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The Crooked World is a novel written by Steve Lyons. Released in 2002, it is the fifty-seventh novel in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and tells of the Doctor visiting a world based on cartoons.

Characters[]

  • The Eighth Doctor
  • Fitz Kreiner
  • Anji Kapoor
  • Streaky Bacon - a cartoon pig farmer and a parody of Elmer Fudd
  • Jasper - a parody of Tom the Cat
  • Angel Falls - a parody of Penelope Pitstop

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Publisher's summary[]

The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence.

Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there's Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that's just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen — so long as that darn mouse doesn't jam his tail into the plug socket again.

But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything — and it's possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again.

The Doctor's TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That's all folks!

In-universe continuity[]

  • Fitz uses the alias "Fitz Fortune".
  • The morphic planet of Albert from Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale's novel Grimm Reality is mentioned.
  • Anji mentions EarthWorld, the titular planet of Jacqueline Rayner's first Doctor Who novel.
  • It is possible that the titular world is the homeworld of the Latter-Day Pantheon from Lyons' Salvation.

Sources[]

  • Goodreads
           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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