Birthright (Doctor Who)
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| Author | Nigel Robinson |
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| Series |
Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures |
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Release number
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17 |
| Subject | Featuring: Bernice Summerfield and Ace |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
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Publication date
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August 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Shadowmind |
| Followed by | Iceberg |
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | 'Bernice Summerfield' |
| Release no. | 4 |
| Featuring | Bernice Summerfield |
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Nigel Robinson adapted by Jac Rayner |
| Directed by | Nicholas Briggs |
| Produced by | Gary Russell |
| Executive producer(s) | Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Length | 1 hr 50 mins |
| Release date | February 1999 |
Birthright is a novel by Nigel Robinson from the Virgin New Adventures. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Although part of the main run of New Adventures featuring the Seventh Doctor, the Doctor only appears in the beginning and end of the novel; most of the story involves his companions Bernice Summerfield and Ace. The events in this book occur simultaneously (from the point of view of the characters) to those in the New Adventure Iceberg, which was written by former Doctor Who actor David Banks. A prelude to this novel was published in Doctor Who Magazine #203, penned by the author.
After the TARDIS malfunctions and then explodes, the Doctor's companions find themselves in two different time zones. Bernice is stranded in the East End of London of 1909, where a series of grisly murders is occurring blamed on Spring Heeled Jack, while Ace is trapped on the planet Ant'ykhon fighting alongside guerrilla fighters against alien oppressors.
Ace discovers that Ant'ykhon is actually the planet Earth, 22,000 years in the future and devastated by rising temperatures. The Charrl, an insect-like race, now inhabit Earth. They have been using an unstable trans-dimensional link called the "Great Divide" to travel to Earth's past in order to escape from the dying planet. Once there they implant humans with their eggs, but inadvertently kill them, causing the murders blamed on Spring-Heeled Jack. Since the Great Divide is unstable, any Charrl that travels to the past eventually crumbles into dust.
Back in 1909, Benny is scratched by one of the time-travelling Charrls and is implanted with an egg. This has the effect of placing her under the control of the Charrl, causing her to replace the missing Time Vector Generator in the TARDIS and reunite it with its other half in the future. This also stabilizes the Great Divide and allows Jared Khan, a Charrel agent, to attempt to use the Great Divide to give him immortality. The TARDIS time rams its other half and sends it and Khan back to Siberia 1908, where it explodes, causing the Tunguska event.
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