Dead Romance

Doctor Who book
Dead Romance
Series	Virgin New Adventures
Release number	19
Featuring	Chris Cwej
Writer	Lawrence Miles
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20532-4
Release date	March 1999
Preceded by	The Mary-Sue Extrusion
Followed by	Tears of the Oracle

Dead Romance is an original novel by Lawrence Miles, originally published as part of the Virgin New Adventures series. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Though part of the sequence of stories that featured the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield, this was released as something of a standalone, and she is not in it. The main character and narrator Christine Summerfield are not connected to her in any way. A former New Adventures Seventh Doctor companion, Chris Cwej, does appear. The Seventh Doctor briefly appears as "the Evil Renegade" in Chris's tampered memories.

The novel is partly an exploration of Miles's "bottle universe" concept that places Virgin Publishing's Virgin New Adventures series within a bottle universe inside the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures universe (and by extension these bottles are within a larger one containing all televised serials). This concept is most fully explored in Miles's two-book cycle Interference.

Christine Summerfield reappears as Cousin Eliza/Godmother Quelch in the Faction Paradox audio plays (also by Miles), voiced by Emma Kilbey.

A second edition of Dead Romance was published by Mad Norwegian Press in 2004. This contained some minor alterations which made the book more consistent with Miles's later Faction Paradox mythos.

As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

See also

Novels portal

• Faction Paradox

External links

• Dead Romance at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Cloister Library - Dead Romance
• Dead Romance at The TARDIS Library

Reviews

• Dead Romance reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
• Dead Romance reviews at Outpost Gallifrey