Wooden Heart (Doctor Who)

Doctorwhobook
title=Wooden Heart
series=New Series Adventures
number=15


featuring=Tenth Doctor Martha Jones
writer=Martin Day
publisher=BBC Books
isbn=ISBN 1-84607-226-3
date=April 2007
preceding=The Last Dodo
following=Forever Autumn|

"Wooden Heart" is a BBC Books original novel written by Martin Day and based on the long running science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. It was published on 19 April 2007, after the television debut of companion Martha Jones, alongside "Sting of the Zygons" and "The Last Dodo".

DWspinoff See New Series Adventures Canonicity for more details.

ynopsis

Martha and the Doctor discover an apparently deserted starship, and soon, a village appears in the middle of the craft. As they try to work out the mystery of the village, and its connection to the ship, they find out that the village has other problems - fog and monsters surround them at every turn, and their children have been going missing.

Plot

The Doctor and Martha arrive on the "Castor", an abandoned prison ship floating in space. Whilst exploring they find a fully populated village and forest, whose inhabitants appear to be unaware of the spaceship outside, and whose children are mysteriously disappearing. Later, The Doctor and Martha find a creature from another dimension, who, because of its telepathic powers, was used to remove the evil from prisoners in the "Castor". To keep itself sane, it expelled the evil, creating a separate being which killed the crew. The telepathic creature then created the forest and village in an attempt to balance itself with goodness, but, due to low power supplies, it is having to remove small parts of the 'program', such as children, to conserve power. The Doctor offers to pilot the ship closer to a sun to give the creature more power to run the program, and a woman from the village absorbs the evil into her body, before exiling herself, so she can learn to control it. The Doctor and Martha then leave the creature to maintain the forest world.

Continuity

*The Doctor mentions a craft with a link back to a person from Earth's history, a reference to "The Girl in the Fireplace".
*When they open the first door on the ship, Martha reminds herself to be prepared for anything, mentioning rhino-headed storm troopers and witches on broomsticks.
*When Martha comments on how the forest world could be compacted onto the ship like the console room is compacted in the TARDIS, the doctor points out that every time you open the TARDIS doors the console room is there, "Well nine times out of ten." This is in reference to events in the 2005 episode 'Father's Day'.

Production

*According to an interview in Doctor Who Magazine, the working title was "Children of the Fog".

Audiobook

An abridged audiobook was released in July 2007. It is read by Adjoa Andoh, who plays Francine Jones in the TV series.

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