Anachrophobia
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor
Main enemy:	Clock People
Main setting:	A colony world, part of the Plutocratic Empire
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Release details
Release number:	54
Release date:	March, 2002
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN 0-563-53847-3
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Anachrophobia was the fifty-fourth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Jonathan Morris. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher’s Summary Edit

Imagine a war. A war that has lasted centuries, a war which has transformed an entire planet into a desolate No Man’s Land. A war where time itself is being used as a weapon.

You can create zones of decelerated time and bring the enemy troops to a standstill. You can create storms of accelerated time and reduce the opposition to dust in a matter of seconds.

But now the war has reached a stalemate. Neither the Plutocrats nor the Defaulters have made any gains for over a hundred years.

The Doctor, Fitz and Anji arrive at Isolation Station Forty, a military research establishment on the verge of a breakthrough. A breakthrough which will change the entire course of the war.

They have found a way to send soldiers back in time. But time travel is a primitive, unpredictable and dangerous business. And not without its own sinister side effects...

Characters Edit

• The Doctor
• Fitz Kreiner
• Anji Kapoor
• Dr. Patterson
• Lane
• Ash
• Norton
• Mr Mistletoe (alias of Sabbath)
• Bishop
• Bragg
• Charlotte
• Georgina
• Hammond
• Shaw

References Edit

• Chronomium
• Time travel
• The Doctor carries a silver-backed mirror in his jacket pocket.
• The Doctor has copies of songs by the Beatles, Mozart, Erasure, and Rogers and Hammerstein.

Notes Edit

• Going backwards in time is ‘uphill’, thus it’s harder to travel back in time than forwards.
• The cover is similar to a sketch of Romana II seen in TV: City of Death.
• According to fellow series author Jonathan Blum, Morris has said that the clock-faced men in the story are meant to be Faction Paradox, although this is not made explicit in the text.

Continuity Edit

• The TARDIS crew use a crank handle when the TARDIS loses power. (TV: Death to the Daleks)
• The Vortex Wraiths were evacuating the time vortex in order to escape the Council of Eight. (PROSE: The Slow Empire)
• The Doctor and his companions left Endpoint two days before this story. (PROSE: Hope)
• Sabbath removed the Doctor's heart in PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
• Anji says that nothing could be weirder than the planet of Poodles. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)

External links Edit

• Detailed synopsis of Anachrophobia at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Anachrophobia at The Whoniverse