Trading Futures
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| Trading Futures | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures |
| Release Number: | 55 |
| Doctor: | Eighth Doctor |
| Companions: | Fitz Kreiner, Anji Kapoor |
| Enemy: | Baskerville, Jonah Cosgrove |
| Setting: | Earth circa 2010 (or thereabouts) *Mediteranian, Athens *USA, California, Neverland *London, Heathrow *Istanbul, The Green Hotel *Russia, The Stepps, Baskerville's RealWar Factory |
| Author: | Lance Parkin |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Publication: | April, 2002 |
| Format: | Paperback Book, ?? Pages |
| ISBN: | 0-563-53848-1 |
| Previous Story: | Anachrophobia |
| Following Story: | The Book of the Still |
Contents |
[edit] Publisher's Summary
‘Welcome to the future.’
The early decades of the twenty-first century. All the wars have been won. There are no rogue states. The secret services of the world keep the planet electronically monitored, safe from all threat. There is no one left for the United States and the Eurozone to fight. Except each other.
A mysterious time traveler offers a better future -- he has a time machine, and with it, humanity could reach the next stage of evolution, they could share its secrets and become the new Lords of Time...
...either that, or someone could keep the technology for themselves, and use it to fight the ultimate war.
[edit] Characters
- The Doctor
- The Doctor can use a gun to to deflect bullets mid air by shooting them.
- Fitz Kreiner
- Fitz can still speak Chinese.
- Anji Kapoor
- Anji tries to use Baskerville's time machine (which isn't) to contact Dave.
- Jonah Cosgrove
- Deputy Head of Eurozone Secret Service.
- Malady Chang
- Baskerville
- Is the richest man in the world.
- Is not a time traveller.
- Jaxa
- Sabbath's time agent
- She's a historian.
- Roja
- Sabbath's cabin boy
- Sabbath's time agent
[edit] References
- The Doctor uses the Bocca Scale to measure time disturbances.
- The Eurozone is one of the larger superpowers in the 'near future' which also includes Britain as part of the Eurozone or EZ.
- Fitz uses a RealWar robot in what he thinks is an arcade game, later Anji meets Baskerville, the owner of RealWar.
- Anji thinks about 'current' technology in relation to Hitchemus's.
- This marks another appearance of humans with access to time travel, technology, highlighting the destruction of the Time Lords.
[edit] Notes
- Baskerville's time machine (which several parties in Trading Futures try to get throughout the novel) isn't. It's a coffee machine...more or less.
- Stylistically (right down to the cover), Trading futures is a little bit like a 'James Bond' movie. With the Doctor blowing up spy boats, car chases and international travel, bombs in interesting places...plus some genuine (non-coffee machine) time travel (and space alien rhinos).
[edit] Continuity
- Fitz learnt to speak Chinese during his time brainwashed for Communist China (Revolution Man).
- Fitz wanders the TARDIS corridors and hears something scratching behind the walls. The source of the noise is revealed in The Gallifrey Chronicles.
- While hijacking the Atlantis space shuttle during the final chapters of Father Time, the Doctor first met Felix Mather.
- BFA: The Time of the Daleks features Mariah Learman (mentioned in this novel) and the Eurozone.
[edit] External Links
Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: Trading Futures
Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Trading Futures
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