- Alien Bodies
Doctorwhobook
title=Alien Bodies
series=Eighth Doctor Adventures
number= 6
featuring=Eighth Doctor Sam
writer=Lawrence Miles
publisher=BBC Books
isbn= ISBN 0-563-40577-5
pages=
date=November 1997
preceding=War of the Daleks
following=Kursaal |"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 theEighth Doctor and Sam. This story marks the first appearance ofFaction Paradox , a time travellingGallifrey anvoodoo cult. The Faction's story arc begins here, and concludes in "The Ancestor Cell ". A humanoidTARDIS 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.External links
*Doctor Who RG | id=whobbc06 | title=Alien Bodies
* [http://members.lycos.co.uk/cloisterlibrary/alie.htm The Cloister Library - "Alien Bodies"]Reviews
*OG review | id=bbc8-6 | title=Alien Bodies
*DWRG | id=alie | title=Alien Bodies
* [http://www.whoniverse.org/reviews/ED06.php The Whoniverse's review on "Alien Bodies"]
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