Millennial Rites

Millennial Rites
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Author	Craig Hinton
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	15
Subject	Featuring: Sixth Doctor Mel
Set in	Period between The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	October 1995
ISBN	0-426-20455-7
Preceded by	Managra
Followed by	The Empire of Glass

Millennial Rites is an original novel written by Craig Hinton and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Mel.

Plot

The Doctor and Mel land in London, 1999, to celebrate the New Year. But other forces are making deadlier preparations to ring in the new millennium: a software firm is about to run a program that will change the very fabric of reality, while an ancient entity from the universe's origins is due for resurrection. When Anne Travers' fear of the Great Intelligence, and millionaire Ashley Chapel's research combine, London is set to be transformed into a terrifying place inhabited by unimaginable dangers.

Nods & References

The first half of the novel was based on Craig's time working at IBM's Warwick Software Development Lab.

A blast of psychic energy released in the novel is felt all across the globe by those atuned to such things. These include "a thoughtful man levitating in a voluminous blue cloak" in New York and "a blond-haired man in a dirty beige trenchcoat" drinking Guinness in a Dublin pub.^[1] The book makes reference to The Library of St. John the Beheaded created by Andy Lane, who had attended the same university as Craig Hinton.

References

↑ Hinton, Craig (1995), Doctor Who Missing Adventures: Millennial Rites, Virgin Books, p. 165, ISBN 0-426-20455-7, retrieved 17 December 2008

External links

Reviews

Millennial Rites reviews at Outpost Gallifrey (Archived)
Millennial Rites reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Virgin Missing Adventures

First Doctor	Venusian Lullaby The Sorcerer's Apprentice The Empire of Glass The Man in the Velvet Mask The Plotters

Second Doctor	The Menagerie Invasion of the Cat-People Twilight of the Gods The Dark Path

Third Doctor	The Ghosts of N-Space Dancing the Code The Eye of the Giant The Scales of Injustice Speed of Flight

Fourth Doctor	Evolution The Romance of Crime System Shock Managra The English Way of Death The Shadow of Weng-Chiang A Device of Death The Well-Mannered War

Fifth Doctor	Goth Opera The Crystal Bucephalus Lords of the Storm The Sands of Time Cold Fusion

Sixth Doctor	State of Change Time of Your Life Millennial Rites Killing Ground Burning Heart

Seventh Doctor	Cold Fusion

None	Downtime

Doctor Who: Great Intelligence stories

Television episodes	The Abominable Snowmen The Web of Fear "The Snowmen" "The Name of the Doctor"

Novels	Downtime Millennial Rites All-Consuming Fire

Minor appearances	The War Games "The Bells of Saint John"

Spin-off	Downtime

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors

Valeyard stories

Television	The Trial of a Time Lord The Mysterious Planet Mindwarp Terror of the Vervoids The Ultimate Foe

Audio	He Jests at Scars... Trial of the Valeyard The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure

Novels	Millennial Rites The Eight Doctors Mission: Impractical Matrix Time's Champion

Also see	"Amy's Choice" (The Dream Lord)

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