Timewyrm: Genesys
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	The Timewyrm
Main setting:	Earth, Mesopotamia, 2700 BC
Key crew
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Writer:	John Peel
Release details
Release number:	1
Release date:	June 1991
Format:	Paperback Book, 230 pages
ISBN 0-426-20355-0
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Timewyrm: Genesys is the first novel in the New Adventures series, and was written by John Peel. It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Publisher's summary Edit

Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilisation. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.

Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind's long progress to the stars.

And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctor’s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm.

Plot Edit

Preface Edit

A spacecraft, holding the mysterious Timewyrm, drifts into Mutter's Spiral. The Timewyrm is possessing the crew, but kills them all when they frustrate her. She plans to set up a slave world on Earth, but soon realises the ship is falling apart. As she meets her apparent death, she can only see the irony in this.

Characters Edit

• The Seventh Doctor
• Ace
• Ishtar (aka Qataka)
• Gilgamesh
• Ninani
• Utnapishtim
• Agga
• Avram
• Belkeli
• Dumuzi
• En-Gula
• Enkidu
• Ennatum
• Gudea
• Lagash
• Puabi
• Ta-Nin
• Urshanabi

References Edit

The Doctor Edit

• The Doctor has enhanced night vision.

Foods and beverages Edit

• Ace drinks beer that tastes not quite unlike pig vomit.

Galaxies Edit

• The Timewyrm refers to the galaxy containing Earth as Mutter's Spiral.

Individuals Edit

• Gilgamesh has wandering hands; Ace consequently wears layers to protect herself.
• Ninani is the daughter of King Agga.

Species Edit

• The Chronovores name the reborn Ishtar the Timewyrm.
• Enkidu is a Neanderthal.

Religion Edit

• Belkeli is the priestess of Ishtar.
• Dumuzi is the high priest of Ishtar.

Songs Edit

• Ace sings Irish folk songs.

TARDIS Edit

• The Doctor uses the his TARDIS's telepathic circuits to delete some superfluous memories, accidentally deleting Ace's; he gives them back but accidentally gives her some of Melanie Bush's also, allowing her to remember when Mel went to Paradise Towers.

Notes Edit

• This is the first novel in the Timewyrm four-novel series.
• Although there had been several original novels and novellas published based upon the Whoniverse but not featuring the Doctor, and also several novelisations of unproduced Doctor Who stories, this was the first long-form original publication to feature the Doctor himself since the publication of the novella Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space in 1966.
• This is also the first officially licensed novel featuring the Doctor to ever exceed 200 pages in length. The only official Doctor Who-related novel to exceed this milestone before this point was Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma, in which the Doctor did not appear.
• The book's adult content in terms of language and sexuality was initially controversial with fans.
• Cover art by Andrew Skilleter.

Continuity Edit

• The Fourth Doctor gained knowledge of the Timewyrm when he was in the Matrix in TV: The Invasion of Time; he left a time-delayed message in the TARDIS for himself.
• Ace still feels some of the after effects of the Cheetah Virus she became infected with in TV: Survival.
• The Doctor consoles Enkidu (who believes he is the last of his kind) by telling him that another Neanderthal survives to the 19th century. (TV: Ghost Light)

External links Edit

• Timewyrm: Genesys at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Timewyrm: Genesys at The Whoniverse
• Bewildering References Guide to Timewyrm: Genesys