The Novel of the Film (or just Doctor Who) is a novel written by Gary Russell. Released in 1996, it is a novelization of the "Doctor Who movie" written by Matthew Jacobs.
Characters[]
- Eighth Doctor
- Dr. Grace Holloway
- The Master
- Seventh Doctor
rest to be added
Publisher's summary[]
Late December, 1999: the brink of a new millennium. An anachronistic British Police Box materialises in San Francisco's Chinatown amid a hail of bullets which find an unintentional target — a strange man who walks out of the Police Box. Despite the best efforts of Dr Grace Holloway, the unknown traveller dies and his body vanishes. And soon another stranger appears, claiming to be the same man inside a different body; a mysterious wanderer in time and space known only as the Doctor.
But the Doctor is not the only time-traveller in San Francisco. His oldest adversary, the Master, is there as well, desperately trying to steal the Doctor's newly-regenerated body. Before long, the Doctor is faced with a choice: to save his own life, or the billions of people who have no future unless the Master is stopped. If only the Doctor could remember how...
Full summary[]
TBA
In-universe continuity[]
- Terrance Dicks' The Eight Doctors is set immediately after this story while Marc Platt's Lungbarrow ties into the opening of this story. Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum's novel Unnatural History ties up plot threads from this book and mentions the Doctor's origin.
- The Eternal Death predicted the Doctor's regeneration in this story in Kate Orman and Ben Aaronovitch's novel So Vile a Sin.
- Alternate versions of the Doctor settled down with Grace - as shown in So Vile a Sin and Scott Gray's comic So Vile a Sin.
- The Doctor visits Grace again in Scott Gray's comic The Fallen and Scott and David Tipton's comic The Body Politic. Chang Lee's son appears in Lance Parkin's short story Observer Effect.
Sources[]
- Goodreads