Matrix (Perry and Tucker novel)
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| Author | Mike Tucker and Robert Perry |
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| Series | Doctor Who book: Past Doctor Adventures |
Release number | 16 |
| Subject | Featuring: Seventh Doctor Ace |
| Set in | Period between Illegal Alien and Storm Harvest |
| Publisher | BBC Books |
Publication date | 5 October 1998 |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 0-563-40596-1 |
| Preceded by | Last Man Running |
| Followed by | The Infinity Doctors |
Matrix is a BBC Books original novel written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Summary
[edit]It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. It also includes appearances by the Wandering Jew and Jack the Ripper.[1] Part of it is set in an alternate timeline, featuring parallel universe versions of Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. The villain is the Valeyard.
Inspiration
[edit]Perry and Tucker originally pitched Matrix as a Virgin New Adventure, but were advised by range editor Rebecca Levene that the idea was unworkable.
References
[edit]As well as the obvious references to Trial of a Time Lord and the First Doctor's era, the Valeyard's schemes bring the Doctor face-to-face with dark alternate versions of his other selves who have been corrupted by the Valeyard; these include a First Doctor who murdered other Time Lords to depart Gallifrey in the first place, a Fourth Doctor who destroyed the Daleks at their beginning (Genesis of the Daleks) and a Fifth Doctor who allowed Peri to die while taking the antitoxin for himself (The Caves of Androzani).
Notes
[edit]External links
[edit]- Matrix title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
