Beautiful Chaos was the twenty-third Tenth Doctor novel to be released. It was the last to feature Donna Noble.

Contents 1 Publisher's summary 2 Characters 3 References 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 Timeline 7 Audio release 8 External links

Publisher's summary Edit

Donna Noble is back home in London, catching up with her family and generally giving them all the gossip about her journeys. Her grandfather is especially overjoyed — he's discovered a new star and had it named after him. He takes the Tenth Doctor, as his special guest, to the naming ceremony.

But the Doctor is suspicious about some of the other changes he can see in Earth's heavens. Particularly that bright star, right there. No, not that one, that one, there, on the left...

The world's population is slowly being converted to a new path, a new way of thinking. Something is coming to Earth, an ancient force from the Dark Times. Something powerful, angry, and all-consuming...

Characters Edit

• The Tenth Doctor
• Donna Noble
• Wilfred Mott
• Sylvia Noble
• Henrietta "Netty" Goodheart
• Mandragora Helix
• Dara Morgan
• Terry Lockworth
• John Bates
• Caitlin
• Lukas Samuel Carnes
• Joe Carnes
• Professor Rossi
• Sean
• Ben
• Jayne
• Delphi

References Edit

• Geoff Noble, Martha Jones and UNIT are mentioned.
• Lukas Samuel Carnes goes to Park Vale Comprehensive School, the same school as Luke Smith and his friends do.
• The late wife of Wilf and mother of Sylvia was named Eileen.
• The Doctor mentions that he hates bow ties. The Eleventh Doctor would later often express his fondness of them.
• The Doctor says that Aubrey Fairchild "clearly makes no impression on history".

Notes Edit

• This is the last novel to feature Donna Noble.
  • Indeed, the preface and epilogue are set post-Journey's End, suggesting a "goodbye" to Donna.
• Discounting the special case of the multi-authored NSA: The Story of Martha, this was the last announced Tenth Doctor Adventures release to feature the Doctor with a regular companion. All novel releases for 2009 featured the Tenth Doctor travelling alone.
• Page 231 refers to Wilf's astrology books. Surely these should be astronomy books?
• This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity Edit

• The Tycho satellite from SJA: The Last Sontaran is referred to.
• The Prime Minister is called Aubrey Fairchild. This is also the name of the deceased reverend in DW: The Next Doctor. This is most likely because an early draft of DW: The Stolen Earth included a Prime Minister of the same name before his scenes were removed.
• This story is a sequel to the Fourth Doctor story DW: The Masque of Mandragora.
• There is a reference to a splinter of the Mandragora Helix being involved with the white and the crimson. This harks back to Sarah Jane Smith's encounters in the Big Finish Sarah Jane CDs.
• Netty is referenced in DW: The End of Time as a part of the Silver Cloak.

Timeline Edit

• Beautiful Chaos occurs after: DWS: The Immortal Emperor
• Beautiful Chaos occurs before: DW: Midnight
• The preface and epilogue occur after DW: Journey's End

Audio release Edit

• The story was released as an audiobook on 2x CD read by Bernard Cribbins.
• The audiobook is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.

External links Edit

• Detailed synopsis of Beautiful Chaos at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

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