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The Scarlet Empress

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The Scarlet Empress is a novel written by Paul Magrs. Released in 1998, it is the fifteenth novel in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and tells of the Doctor travelling to the mystical world of Hyspero.

Characters[]

  • The Eighth Doctor
  • Sam Jones
  • Iris Wildthyme - a temporal adventurer who is essentially a Bizarro Doctor. She appears in Magrs' other Eighth Doctor novels and gets her own spinoff series.
  • Gila - a member of the Four and a humanoid alligator
  • The Cyborg Duchess and the spider - two members of the Four who merge into a singular lifeform
  • The Spider Duchess - the result of the afformentioned merger
  • Major Angela (or the Bearded Lady) - a member of the Four
  • The Mock Turtle - a psychic member of the Four
  • Cassandra - the first Scarlet Empress
  • The Scarlet Empress
  • Captain Julia - the Scarlet Empress' daughter and the captain of the Kristeva
  • The Executioner
  • Our Lady of the Flowers
  • Giselle - the leader of a group of hairless bears
  • Brewis - a possible alien
  • The Vizier

Publisher's summary[]

Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.

Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers — powers that a member of the Doctor's own race is keen to possess herself: the eccentric time traveller and philanderer known only as Iris Wildthyme.

As the real reasons for Iris's obsession become clear, the Doctor and Sam must embark on a perilous journey across deserts, mountains, forests and oceans. Both friends and foes are found among spirits, djinns, alligator men and golden bears — but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?

In-universe continuity[]

  • Iris first appeared in Magrs' short story Old Flames. The Doctor previously encountered (in terms of continuity) Iris Wildthyme in Magrs' novel Verdigris. She also appears in Magrs' and Jeremy Hoad's novel The Blue Angel, Magrs' novel Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and Magrs' short story Femme Fatale.
  • The planet Hyspero reappears in Magrs' novels Enter Wildthyme, Wildthyme Beyond! (which serve as a duology), and Fellowship of Ink. It also appears in Stuart Douglas' Iris Wildthyme short story First Meetings.

Sources[]

  • Goodreads
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