Alien Bodies
Alien Bodies is an original novel written by Lawrence Miles and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor and Sam. This story marks the first appearance of Faction Paradox, a time travelling Gallifreyan voodoo cult. The Faction's story arc begins here, and concludes in The Ancestor Cell. A humanoid TARDIS is featured, foreshadowing the character of Compassion.
Plot
The Doctor attends an auction for an Artifact, which turns out to be his own future dead body. The Doctor and Sam become entangled in a war between Faction Paradox, Time Lords from the future and a mysterious "Enemy".
Continuity
- The Thirteenth Doctor appears briefly in Trask's flashback. Although we hear him speak, no physical description of him is given.
- The Krotons, crystalline creatures from the 1969 Second Doctor story, The Krotons also appear.
- A humanoid TARDIS is featured, foreshadowing the character of Compassion.