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Lungbarrow. Lungbarrow is an original novel written by Marc Platt and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Published in Virgin Books ' New Adventures range, it was the last of that range to feature the Seventh Doctor. When all stories of any media under any banner are listed chronologically, this is ...
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was an original Doctor Who novel written by Marc Platt as an expanded adaptation of his unproduced television story of the same name. Published in Virgin Books' New Adventures range, it was the last of that range to feature the Seventh Doctor.
It is considered the final novel under any banner to feature the Seventh Doctor as the "current" Doctor, although McGann's Eighth Doctor had already made his televised appearance by the time the novel was published. Due to a publication delay, however, an earlier-commissioned novel, So Vile a Sin, also featuring the Seventh Doctor, was published later - although it takes place earlier than Lungbarrow in continuity. One additional Eighth Doctor novel would be published under the Virgin New Adventures banner before the series was handed over to Bernice Summerfield.
All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history.
At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the House of Lungbarrow in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.
673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last.
In this, the Seventh Doctor's final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.
His mind occupied with thoughts of his coming regeneration, the Doctor accidentally returns to Gallifrey and the House of Lungbarrow, where for over 673 years his 44 cousins have been trapped, but mysteriously only six of them are still left. Meanwhile, Chris Cwej is having strange dreams of the past, when the family cast the Doctor out. The Doctor...
Flashback / In-memory characters
•Susan (appears in flashback-like sequence) •The Other
Other Time Lords
•Theora •Redred •Jomdek •Yeux •Lenadi •Malmurea
The Doctor's cousins
•Innocet •Satthralope •Jobiska •Rynde •Arkhew •Maljamin •Farg •Celesia •Almund •DeRoosifa •Chovor •Salpash •Luton •Owis •Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathageyyilungbarrowmas (aka Quences) •Glospinninymoras (aka Glospin)
Books
•Lord Ferain kept a book called An Alternative History of Skaro: The Daleks without Davros. •The books The Triumphs of Rassilon, The Book of Rassilon and The Record of Rassilon are books that contain interpretations of Rassilon, Omega and the Other.
The Doctor
•Before leaving Gallifrey the Doctor worked in the Bureau of Possible Events as a Scrutationary Archivist. •He left his post in the Prydonian Chapterhouse's Bureau of Possibility "after disagreements about his overzealous political involvements". •The Doctor departs Gallifrey on a final mission to Skaro, as requested by Romana II. •When he was leaving Gallifrey, the Doctor nearly stole a Type 53, but dismissed this TARDIS as "new fangled" and went with his Type 40.
Gallifreyan culture
•Sepulchasm is a Time Lord game, and quite possibly a profanity. •The play Mystery of the New Time is usually conducted during Otherstide.
•Lungbarrow wrapped up the last of the continuity of the New Adventures and put the Doctor on course to gather the Bruce Master's remains from Skaro, as depicted in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. It is also one of a number of the New Adventures which is hard to obtain and is often seen on auction websites such as eBay at prices many times the original cover price.
•Before losing their license to BBC Books, it had been announced that the Seventh Doctor's adventures would have continued in periodic Missing Adventures releases, with the Eighth Doctor taking over the NA line. Ultimately, only one Eighth Doctor novel was published and the MA line came to an end before any Seventh Doctor releases could occur. Future Seventh Doctor novels would be released under the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line.
•The Seventh Doctor's last words in the Virgin New Adventures series are; "Dorothee! I just remembered. I haven't been Merlin yet!"
•The novel which followed Lungbarrow, Lance Parkin's The Dying Days, featured the Eighth Doctor. When Virgin subsequently lost their license to print original Doctor Who fiction, they chose to focus on a character from the New Adventures which the BBC did not own, former companion Bernice Summerfield. Lungbarrow serves, in concert with Dying Days, to gradually increase the standing of Summerfield's character, laying the groundwork for the later appearance of the Seventh Doctor's then-companion, Chris Cwej, in Summerfield's own novels. Additionally, as part of Virgin's Black Lace erotic novels, the novel The Stranger (written by Portia Da Costa) centred around an individual called "Paul Bowman", who, by the author's own admission, was based upon the Eighth Doctor. The events of the novel were notably later mentioned in PROSE: Father Time and The Gallifrey Chronicles, thus unofficially making The Stranger a part of the DWU, albeit with a minor dating discrepancy.
•This novel, however, was largely concerned with concluding what was known as the "Cartmel Masterplan". In the final two seasons of the original 1963-1989 run of Doctor Who, the then script editor Andrew Cartmel introduced new elements of mystery into the character of the Doctor. Suggestions of dark secrets that the Doctor might be more than just a Time Lord were inserted into scripts of stories such as Ben Aaronovitch's Remembrance of the Daleks and Kevin Clarke's Silver Nemesis. Had the series not been effectively cancelled in 1989, the following season would have made some of these revelations. Elements of Platt's planned Lungbarrow instead became part of the Season 26 serial Ghost Light.
•Along the way to this resolution, Lungbarrow ultimately reveals much new information about the Doctor's home world and race, some of which had been hinted at ever since the first New Adventures novel. Many of the New Adventures authors migrated to the BBC Books Doctor Who line and elements of this backstory also made their way into subsequent novels. However, there have also been elements in those novels that contradict it.
•The Hermit who lived on the mountain near the Doctor's home was first mentioned in TV: The Time Monster and later featured in TV: Planet of the Spiders.
•The Sisterhood of Karn first appeared in TV: The Brain of Morbius. They would later be responsible for the Eighth Doctor's regeneration. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)
•Leela met Andred in TV: The Invasion of Time.
•Romana returned from E-Space in PROSE: Blood Harvest, and became president in PROSE: Happy Endings.
•Ace is a fan of The Stone Roses. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)
•A lot of Gallifreyan history revisited in this novel first appeared in PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.
The e-book version published by the BBC on their website included a new cover and seventeen additional illustrations by Daryl Joyce, some with multiple versions. Titles of illustrations are as they were on BBC's site. Daryl Joyce remade the chapter 22 image in 2012.
Nov 3, 2024 · Lungbarrow was an original Doctor Who novel written by Marc Platt as an expanded adaptation of his unproduced television story of the same name. Published in Virgin Books ' New Adventures range, it was the last of that range to feature the Seventh Doctor. It is considered the final novel under any banner to feature the Seventh Doctor as the ...
Apr 20, 1997 · May 19, 2011. A mish-mash of gothic creepiness, Hieronymous Bosch-inspired terror, expertly handled fanwank, and authentic, emotional closure. Marc Platt's conclusion to the 7th Doctor "New Adventures" line is a wonderful odyssey that lurches between completely bats...and completely sublime. dr-who.
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