World Game (Doctor Who)

Doctorwhobook
title=World Game
series=Past Doctor Adventures
number=74
featuring=Second Doctor the Lady Serena


writer=Terrance Dicks
publisher=BBC Books
isbn=ISBN 0-563-48636-8
set_between="The War Games" and "Spearhead from Space"
pages=288
date=October 6, 2005
preceding="Fear Itself"
following="The Time Travellers"|

"World Game" is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Second Doctor and the Lady Serena and is set during "Season 6B". It is also a partial sequel to another Dicks' Past Doctor Adventure, "Players" and documents the return of the Countess.

Plot

Under threat of execution after his conviction by the Time Lords at the end of "The War Games", the Doctor is granted a reprieve if he agrees to undertake missions for the Celestial Intervention Agency. Accompanied and supervised by the ambitious Lady Serena, their first mission is to halt attacks upon three key figures in Earth's past: Napoleon Bonaparte, The Duke of Wellington, and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand.

The Doctor re-encounters the Player known as the Countess and struggles to end her Grand Plan to allow Napoleon to win his various European campaigns. Her plan to set the City States of Europe against each other is stopped by the Doctor, despite her setting a Raston Warrior Robot and a vampire on him and Serena. In preventing the Countess's assassination scheme on Wellington, Serena is killed. The Countess has many back up plans, and at the Battle of Waterloo, her plan to prevent the Prussians coming to the English army's relief is thwarted when the Doctor imitates Napoleon himself to get through the French lines and deliver new orders to the Prussian commander.

After returning to Gallifrey and discovering a traitor in the CIA who had been using the time scoop to assist the Countess, the Doctor is sent on a mission to investigate the time travel experiments of Kartz and Reimer.

Continuity

*The events of the book lead directly into "The Two Doctors" for the Second Doctor. He is also given the Stattenheim Remote Control.
*Psychic paper, introduced by Russell T. Davies in the 2005 series of "Doctor Who", is used here by the Second Doctor and Lady Serena, as a "new CIA invention". The text implies that the card in question is the same one later used by the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, though the connection is never explicitly stated.

Notes

*Due to a printing error, the Doctor Who logo is missing from the spine of the book.

Outside references

*The novel makes reference to the events of "Sharpe's Triumph" by Bernard Cornwell.

External links

*Doctor Who RG | id=whobbk74 | title=World Game
* [http://members.lycos.co.uk/cloisterlibrary/worldgame.htm The Cloister Library - "World Game"]

Reviews

*OG review | id=bbcp-74 | title=World Game
*DWRG | id=worldgame | title=World Game