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{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~download Anachrophobia by Jonathan Morris Doctor Who: Anachrophobia by Jonathan Morris. PLACE BETWEEN THE. JONATHAN MORRIS. RECOMMENDED. OFFICIAL BBC 'EIGHTH. DOCTOR' PAPERBACK. (ISBN 0-563-53847-3) RELEASED IN MARCH. Imagine a war that. has lasted centuries, a war WHICH has transformed an. entire planet into a. desolate No Man's. Land. A war where. time itself is being. used as a weapon. You can create zones. of decelerated time. and bring the enemy. to a standstill. You. can create storms of. accelerated time and. reduce the opposition. to dust in a matter of. But now the war has. reached a stalemate. Neither SIDE HAS made. any gains for over a. hundred years. and HIS. COMPANIONS arrive. at Isolation Station. Forty, a MILITARY. research STATION. on the verge of a. breakthrough which. COULD change the. course of the war. They have found a. way to send soldiers. back in time. But time. travel is a primitive, unpredictable and. dangerous business. And not without its. own sinister side. effects. Jonathan Morris is one of my preferred Doctor Who writers. His many scripts for have each been with laden with wit and worry in equal measure, and his earlier novel, Festival of Death , is generally regarded as being one of BBC Books� finest offerings. Anachrophobia , however, is something of an oddity. A cursory glance of its Ren � Magritte -inspired cover is all that�s needed to get a feel for its surrealist tone, but pencils and diagrams are needed to fully get one�s head around the workings of the plot. Whether that�s a blight or a boon is very much in the eye of the beholder. In a nutshell, Anachrophobia is about a conflict where the weapons being used are temporal in nature. Ever since The End of the World , the phrase �Time War� has conjured up images of Bow Ships and Saucers; of Cruciforms and Nightmare Childs. The television series has, probably rather wisely, chosen not to expound upon the mechanics of such a war, keeping. its references as vague and as lyrical as possible. Back in 2002, however, Morris showed no such fear, revelling in the horrors borne of directed temporal weapons. Anachrophobia �s prosperous prose describes soldiers with ancient, withered limbs hanging from otherwise youthful bodies; combatants whose faces have been replaced by clocks, as an insubstantial force enslaves them to its will; and, most chillingly of all, fear of these things running rampant. Indeed, this book�s compound title is an apt one as, within the confines of Isolation Station Forty, Morris� takes the fears of his protagonists and milks them for all they � re worth. The author�s handling of the three regular characters is sublime here, particularly the Doctor, whose newfound frailty is finally given the attention that it has warranted since the removal. of his second heart. What I find so forceful about Morris� rendering of the Doctor is that he. is clearly trying to be his old self � all that curiosity and zeal is as patent as ever it was - but he�s hampered by the almost human limitations that come with having just one heart. All he wants to do is throw himself headlong into the adventure, but he can�t be who he once was - he has to sleep at night, for heaven�s sake. It�s actually quite painful to read. However, the Doctor�s. weakness allows Morris. to showcase the strength. of his companions. Fitz. is dashed heroic here, taking on the mantle of. not only the Doctor�s physical protector, but. his mental guardian too. He tends to his friend�s. needs, but plays those. needs down in front of. him. Anji, for her part, does much the same, showing her true colours after the perfidy of Hope . Sadly (and quite ironically, really) the novel�s supporting characters are a faceless bunch, with the sole exception of Mr Mistletoe, who can�t really claim to be a new character. Furthermore, as I�ve already intimated, the narrative is quite tortuous, rivalling the complexity of Festival of Death but not sharing any of its grace. Matters do not become clear until right at the death, when Sabbath appears to explain to the Doctor � and thus the reader � exactly what has been going on and why. But even despite its gaucherie, Anachrophobia �s coda is tremendously exciting, building upon the momentum that�s been snowballing since The Slow Empire whilst at the same time demonstrating the lengths � and indeed the depths � that the Doctor�s new archenemy will go to in order to achieve his goals, the morality of which is very much open to debate. At least for now� Overall then, Anachrophobia is hard work, but worth it. Deft characterisation and harrowing prose are fused with wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey shenanigans that Steven Moffat would be proud of, leaving the reader with a series of nightmarish images and cruel concepts to haunt their dreams for a long time thereafter. Copyright � E.G. Wolverson 20 10. E.G. Wolverson has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this work. Unless otherwise stated, all images on this site are copyrighted to the BBC and are used solely for promotional purposes. Writers similar to or like Jonathan Morris (author) Writer best known for his work on various Doctor Who spin-offs. One of the most prolific authors to write for the various ranges of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who, with twelve novels to his name, and between 1993 and 2000 he had at least one Doctor Who novel published every year. Wikipedia. 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You can create storms of accelerated time and reduce the opposition to dust in a matter of seconds. But now the war has reached a stalemate. Neither the Plutocrats nor the Defaulters have made any gains for over a hundred years. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji arrive at Isolation Station Forty, a military research establishment on the verge of a breakthrough. A breakthrough which will change the entire course of the war. They have found a way to send soldiers back in time. But time travel is a primitive, unpredictable and dangerous business. And not without its own sinister side effects.

ⓘ Anachrophobia is a BBC Books original novel written by Jonathan Morris and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It fe .. Anachrophobia is a BBC Books original novel written by Jonathan Morris and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji. 1. Plot. Whilst travelling in time, the TARDIS suddenly shakes violently. The Eighth Doctor shuts it down, concluding that it is tearing itself apart attempting to escape a force that is forcing it to land. As the Doctor, Anji and Fitz emerge onto a wasteland, they are captured by soldiers. They learn that they have landed on a planet that is host to a war between two factions of humans: the Plutocratic empire and rebels known as Defaulters. Both sides have weapons that can slow the flow of time, or speed it up in small areas, but because of this, both sides have reached a stalemate. The soldiers take the Doctor to an officer called Lane. She assumes that the Doctor is the time expert the Plutocrats were sending, and the Doctor decides to agree. Lane takes them to a military outpost called Station 40. When they arrive, one of the soldiers, a man called Bishop, who had his arm aged by a time storm, is placed in a decelerated time capsule until his fate is decided. The commander of the base, Commander Bragg, reveals that one of his scientists, Dr Patterson, has developed a time capsule, which they plan to use to stop the war from ever happening. Two men, Ash and Norton, get inside the machine and go back in time, but the machine spins out of control. The Doctor brings the machine back to the present, and Ash and Norton are placed in quarantine and develop disorientation, anachrophobia, memory loss and physical trauma. The Doctor finds a breach in the machines walls, meaning that the machines interior was exposed to the time vortex. Meanwhile, Nortons condition is getting worse: time is moving more slowly around him and he cannot recognise his own face as his past is slowly being erased. The Doctor decides to travel in the time capsule and Fitz demands to go with him, but Bragg learns that the Doctor is not the time expert and stops Anji from carrying on with controlling the capsule. Meanwhile, inside the capsule, time slows down and something begins banging on the door. Lane goes to check Ash and Norton, but they attack her and in her rush to leave she tears her time proof suit. Time then jumps back one minute, and lane contacts Bragg, giving Anji the chance to overpower him and return The Doctor and Fitz to the present. However another staff member, Shaw, overpowers Anji and locks the Doctor and his companions away. Time begins to flow more slowly over Lane and time jumps back a minute, confirming that Ash and Norton infected lane, who has now infected Bragg. A man called Mistletoe arrives at the station, claiming to be an auditor sent to review the experiments. Shaw releases the Doctor, Fitz and Anji and brings them to the lab as Mistletoe moves Bishop to the quarantine ward. Bishop becomes infected and Ash, Norton and Bishop faces all turn into clock faces. The Doctor uses gas to knock out the infected and after examining them, reveals that they are turning into clocks. Elsewhere, Patterson sees Braggs face turn into a clock, but when he reaches the Doctor to warn him, his face turns into a clock, and he finds that he can travel throughout his own lifetime. The Doctor warns him not to, as he fears that the infected are offered the chance to change their personal timelines, but if they do, they have their history erased and become empty vessels for the clock creatures to take over. After hearing this, Patterson commits suicide. Fitz and Shaw go looking for the others, but as they do, a Defaulter bombing causes safety doors to lower. Shaw takes Fitz down to the lower levels, leaving The Doctor and Anji trapped with Bragg. The Doctor opens the door and seals it again, but Bragg rewinds time to get through. The Doctor and Anji seal themselves in the control room with Mistletoe, but it is too late for the clock creatures to rewind time. Fitz and Shaw are attacked by Lane, but due to her time reversal abilities, he cannot shoot her. Lane releases Ash, Bishop and Norton from the quarantine ward as Doctor, Anji and Mistletoe flee to the medical bay. the Doctor exams battle reports and finds them full of strange tactics. Mistletoe then admits that the war is being prolonged to increase profit for the empire. The Doctor then decides to use mustard gas on the creatures as it takes an hour to take effect and the clocks will not be able to rewind time far enough to save themselves. Fitz and Shaw retrieve Mustard gas from the stores and release it. Anji cannot find the Doctor, until Fitz brings him back into the medical bay, having found him outside with no gas mask on. The infected people slowly die, but Mistletoe remembers that Bishop was taken to Station One, the main headquarters of the Plutocrats, to study his infection. The station has a population of 60.000, all of whom will be infected. The survivors sent out in a van in pursuit of Dr. Hammond, only to find his van ambushed by Defaulters, but the whole area has been frozen in time due to Bishops capsule being smashed. Dr. Hammond reveals himself to be a robot while Shaw reveals that he is a Defaulter agent. As Shaw prepares to shoot everyone, an accelerated time bomb brings time back to normal, and a Defaulter soldier shoots Shaw and injures Bishop. Hammonds power supply explodes, which kills the Defaulter. Bishop uses his powers to rewind time, kill the defaulter and flee from Hammond. however, his face turns into a clock. Plutocratic soldiers mistakenly rescue Bishop, but as the Doctor pursues them, they go through a small patch of decelerated time with broken shielding and arrive at station One months later. They find that all of station One has been converted, but they are allowed to pass through unharmed. At the central audit bureau, they meet the Actuaries, robot accountants who have been running both sides of the war for profit. However, they cannot remember why they are making money or who for, as they have not received any contact from the Empire for one hundred years. They funded the time travel experiments to try to find their purpose. However Bishop enters and infects the Doctor. As the clocks try to tempt him, he remembers that as the clocks exist outside of normal time, they depend on the hole in time that the capsule tore. The Doctor travels along his own timeline to the point where he sealed the airlock before the mustard gas was released. He runs to the lab and fills the time capsule with chrononium, the material used to make the time weapons, then he sets up a clockwork timer. After exposing himself to the gas, he returns to the present, without having changed history. The capsule then launches, sealing the hole. the clocks are killed, and the Doctor passes out. Mistletoe reveals himself as Sabbath he is not named in the text, but it is clearly him from the description to Fitz and Anji. Sabbath explains that the clocks were not invading the universe but fleeing Sabbaths allies in the time vortex, and that both the clocks and the Doctor were manipulated into coming here, in the hope that the Doctor would destroy them. Sabbath then leaves, and Fitz and Anji carry the Doctor to the TARDIS. The Eighth Doctor Adventures – Complete. So the end has come and I can do a full ranking of the book series. Let us begin. Before that, you can check my previous incomplete ranking here. Otherwise you can just skip to the ranking itself since before that I am going to make a top 3 or top 5 of pretty much every possible thing I can think of. If you find it tedious, skip bellow. Eight Shines The Most : 1. “Anachrophobia”; 2. “Camera Obscura”; 3. “Vampire Science”; 4. “The Ancestor Cell”; 5. “The Year of Intelligent Tigers” Sam Shines The Most : 1. “”; 2. “The Janus Conjunction”; 3. “Unnatural History” Fitz Shines The Most : 1. “Unnatural History”; 2. “Anachrophobia”; 3. “The Ancestor Cell”; 4. “”; 5. “The Taking of Planet 5” Compassion Shines The Most : 1. “Coldheart”; 2. “Frontier Worlds”; 3. “The Ancestor Cell” Anji Shines The Most : 1. “Anachrophobia”; 2. “Hope”; 3. “History 101” Trix Shines The Most : 1. “To the Slaughter”; 2. “The Tomorrow Windows”; 3. “The Deadstone Memorial” + Sabbath Shines The Most : 1. “Camera Obscura”; 2. “Sometime Never…”; 3. “The Adventuress of Henrietta Street” Eight Has It Worst : 1. “Seeing I”; 2. “The Ancestor Cell”; 3. “The Adventuress of Henrietta Street”; 4. “Camera Obscura”; 5. “The Turing Test” Sam Has It Worst : 1. “Beltempest”; 2. “The Janus Conjunction”; 3. “Longest Day” Fitz Has It Worst : 1. “The Ancestor Cell”; 2. “Interference – Book Two (Hour of the Geek)”; 3. “Parallel 59”; 4. “Earthworld”; 5. “The Taint” Compassion Has It Worst : 1. “The Shadows of Avalon”; 2. “The Fall of Yquantine”; 3. “The Ancestor Cell” Anji Has It Worst : 1. “Hope”; 2. “Escape Velocity”; 3. “Eater of Wasps” Trix Has It Worst : 1. “The Tomorrow Windows”; 2. “Halflife”; 3. “To the Slaughter” + Sabbath Has It Worst : 1. “Sometime Never…”; 2. “Camera Obscura”; 3. “Time Zero” Top TARDIS Team : Eight, Fitz & Anji. Top 3 Companions : 1. Fitz Kreiner; 2. Anji Kapoor; 3. Sam Jones. Top 3 Supporting Characters : 1. I.M. Foreman (“Interference” Book One & Two); 2. Aloisse (“Dreamstone Moon”); 3. Alan Turing (“The Turing Test”) Top 3 Guest Companions : 1. Sarah-Jane Smith (“Interference” Book One & Two); 2. The Brigadier (“The Shadows of Avalon”); 3. (“”) Top 3 Recurring Characters : 1. Sabbath (various books); 2. Iris Wildthyme (various books); 3. Faction Paradox members (various books) Top 3 Villains : 1. Sabbath (various books); 2. Griffin (“Unnatural History”); 3. Faction Paradox members (various books) Top 3 Enemies-Allies : 1. Sabbath (various books); 2. Joanna Harris (“Vampire Science”) ; 3. Silver (“Hope”) Top 3 Malicious Entities : 1. Clock People (“Anachrophobia”); 2. Vampires (“Vampire Science”); 3. Lovecraftian Eldritch Abominations (“The Taking of Planet 5”) Top 3 Alien Species : 1. Hitchemus Tigers (“The Year of Intelligent Tigers”); 2. Dominion inhabitants (“Dominion); 3. Tractites (“Genocide”) Top 3 Most Eerie Books : 1. “Anachrophobia”; 2. “Vanderdeken’s Children”; 3. “The Deadstone Memorial” Top 3 Most Fun Books : 1. “Grimm Reality”; 2. “The Tomorrow Windows”; 3. “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” Top 5 Locations : 1. Messy San Francisco (“Unnatural History”); 2. The Plutocratic Empire’s battlefield planet (“Anachrophobia”); 3. The Dominion (“Dominion”); 4. Albert (“Grimm Reality”); 5. Tractite Earth (“Genocide”) Top 5 Twists : 1. Fitz’s fate (“Interference – Book Two (Hour of the Geek)”); 2. I.M. Foreman’s regenerations (“Interference – Book Two (Hour of the Geek)”); 3. Sam’s fate (“Unnatural History”); 4. The Doctor’s plans at Isolation Station Forty (“Anachrophobia”); 5. The twist with the bone and pretty much everything else (“The City of the Dead”) Best Authors : 1. Jonathan Morris; 2. Lloyd Rose; 3. Jonathan Blum & . Worst Authors : 1. Dave Stone; 2. ; 3. David A. McIntee. Books With The Coolest Names : 1. “Anachrophobia”; 2. “Beltempest”; 3. “The Shadows of Avalon” Books With The Lamest Names : 1. “War/Legacy of the Daleks”; 2. “The Slow Empire”; 3. “” Books With The Coolest Covers : 1. “Vanderdeken’s Children”; 2. “The City of the Dead”; 3. “Anachrophobia” Books With The Lamest Covers : 1. “War/Legacy of the Daleks”; 2. “The Burning”; 3. “Trading Futures” Beware spoilers here.. Seriously, spoilers: My Own Personal Top 10 Tearful Moments : 1. Fitz meeting Father Kreiner (“The Ancestor Cell”) 2. The reveal that Fitz didn’t jump (“Interference – Book Two (Hour of the Geek)”) 3. The Doctor realizing that he can’t escape from his prison on Ha’olam (“Seeing I”) 4. The Doctor’s reaction to being left on Earth (“The Turing Test”) 5. The Brigadier wanting to commit suicide (“The Shadows of Avalon”) 6. Miranda and Sabbath sacrificing themselves (“Sometime Never…”) 7. Sam’s death from radiation (“The Janus Conjunction”) 8. Anji’s reaction to Fitz’s presumed death (“Time Zero”) 9. Fitz’s meltdown after Mechta (“Parallel 59”) 10. Fitz’s meltdown in EarthWorld (“EarthWorld”) My Own Personal Top 10 Moments Overall : 1. Sam giving the Doctor a back-massage (“Unnatural History”) 2. The Doctor and Sam reuniting in the Butterfly Room after three years (“Seeing I”) 3. Sabbath letting go of the Doctor’s heart with hurt and disgust (“Camera Obscura”) 4. The Doctor outplaying the Clock People (“Anachrophobia”) 5. The Doctor playing with model trains (“Endgame”) 6. The Doctor messing with Sabbath via a nightmare (“Camera Obscura”) 7. The Doctor and Fitz talking about Earth (“The Deadstone Memorial”) 8. Fitz refusing to leave the Doctor after the Doctor threatens him (“Camera Obscura”) 9. Fitz saving the Doctor in space (“The Taking of Planet 5”) 10. Fitz giving socks to the Doctor (“The Year of Intelligent Tigers”)