Sanctuary
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| Sanctuary | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - Virgin New Adventures |
| Release Number: | 37 |
| Doctor: | Seventh Doctor |
| Companions: | Benny |
| Enemy: | ??? |
| Setting: | Earth, France, Eastern Pyrenees, 1242 |
| Author: | David A. McIntee |
| Publisher: | Virgin Books |
| Publication: | April, 1995 |
| Format: | Paperback Book, ? Pages |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0426204395 |
| Previous Story: | Infinite Requiem |
| Following Story: | Human Nature |
Contents |
[edit] Publisher's Summary
The Doctor pointed at Bernice. 'The wench’s mind is addled,' he said. 'Arrest her before she spreads her ungodly heresy.'
The TARDIS is caught in the gravitational field of a dark star. The Doctor and Bernice are forced to evacuate, and find themselves stranded in medieval France - a brutal time of crusades and wars of succession.
As the Albigensian crusade draws to its bloody conclusion, men inflict savage brutalities on each other in the name of religion. And the TARDIS crew find their lives intertwined with warring Templars, crusaders and heretics. While the Doctor begins a murder investigation in a besieged fortress, Bernice finds herself drawn to an embittered mercenary who has made the heretics' fight his own. And they both realize that to leave history unchanged they may have to sacrifice far more than their lives.
[edit] Characters
- The Doctor
- Knows how to stitch tissue.
- Bernice Summerfield
- Benny can speak ancient Tzun
- Builds a still to make alcohol.
- Falls in love with Guy de Carnac.
- Guy de Carnac
- Compares the Doctor to an owl..."He is comfortable in the darkness, as they are, and I think he is equally as adept at hunting down prey in cold blood."
[edit] References
- The Doctor and Benny use the Jade Pagoda to escape the TARDIS (as it goes through the Black Star, the Doctor specifies it to home in on a Class M (Earth-like) planet orbiting a main sequence Class G (Sol]-like) star.
- Bernice says that she spent some of her early life on "Vandor Prime" in the "Gamma Delphinius IV" system. These statements can be reconciled with Benny's other statements about her homeworld if "Vandor Prime" is the name of a settlement and "Gamma Delphinius IV" is another name for Beta Caprisis, much as "Sol III" is another name for Earth.
- Bernice knows what Necros is like.
- You can reach the outside world through any of the three console rooms.
- The TARDIS interior has: (for some parts) wood panelled corridors, a 1930s style cage lift, an arboretum, a hospital ward, a complete indoor sports centre, a tennis court, a car garage, a water purification plant, a quarantine bay, a "Wanted" poster of Doc Holliday, a Veltrochni tree sculpture, a Greek statuette of the goddess Athena, a small statue of Atlas holding the world, an Inca quipu, and the arms of the Venus de Milo.
- Black stars are stars made of quasi-baryonic dark matter.
[edit] Notes
- A prelude to this novel was published in DWM Issue 225.
[edit] Continuity
- The Jade Pagoda was last seen in Iceberg.
- Sir Giles Estram was the Master's pseudonym during the events of DW:The King's Demons. As he left behind family to mourn his disappearance, he was probably a real knight whom the Master killed and impersonated.
[edit] External Links
- The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Sanctuary
- The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Sanctuary
- Prelude to Sanctuary as published in DWM#225
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