Autumn Mist
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Sam, Fitz
Main enemy:	The Beast (The Taint)
Main setting:	The Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 15 December, 1944 The Sidhe Rift 15 December 1944
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	David A. McIntee
Cover by:	Black Sheep
Release details
Release number:	24
Release date:	July 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN 0-563-55583-1
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Autumn Mist was the twenty-fourth BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel. It was written by David A. McIntee. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Samantha Jones and Fitz Kreiner.

Publisher’s Summary Edit

The Ardennes, December 1944: the Nazi forces are making their last offensive in Europe -- a campaign which will come to be called the Battle of the Bulge. But there is a third side to this battle: an unknown and ancient force which seems to pay little heed to the laws of nature.

Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to? What is the true nature of the military experiments conducted by both sides?

The Doctor, Sam and Fitz must seek out the truth in a battlefield where no one and nothing is quite what it seems...

Plot Edit

to be added

Characters Edit

• The Doctor
• Sam Jones
• Fitz Kreiner
• Jeff Kovacs
• Wiesniewski
• Dr Ray Garcia
• Dan Bearclaw
• Galastel
• Leitz
• Lewis
• Oberon
• Titania

References Edit

Culture Edit

• Sam wears a Pinky and the Brain t-shirt.
• Sam never watched much Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as her dad was always watching the news.
• Sam mentions Tony Robinson and Time Team.

Individuals Edit

• Sam gets shot through the heart, but the Sidhe heal her.
• Leitz is from Bremen.
• The Doctor is one thousand and eighteen years old.
• The Doctor calls his half human lineage "debatable".

Locations Edit

• The Doctor hides the ship from the Philadelphia Experiment underneath the Schnee Eifel.

Species Edit

• The Celestis take those on the brink of death to Mictlan.

TARDIS Edit

• The Doctor can gain access to the white console room by walking out the doors, locking them and then unlocking them in a particular way; otherwise he would need to go through three miles of corridors to get to the white console room.
• Everytime the Doctor tries to leave Earth, the TARDIS is put into a temporal orbit.

Notes Edit

• At the end of this novel Sam asks the Doctor to drop her somewhere near 1997, deciding she has gone through more changes than anyone should.

Continuity Edit

• PROSE: The Taint and Autumn Mist are linked by several themes.
• The Sidhe were first mentioned in PROSE: First Frontier and again in PROSE: Unnatural History.
• The Doctor doesn’t have a shadow, which is explained in PROSE: Interference - Book Two.
• Sam mentions that the last time the TARDIS was left to float in space, they were hauled off to Skaro. (PROSE: War of the Daleks)

External links Edit

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