History 101

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Author(s):

Mags L Halliday

First Pub:

2002

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2002

Times Read:

1 time

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Internal ID:

371

Series:

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Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

#58 of 73

Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.

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1) The Eight Doctors
2) Vampire Science
3) The Bodysnatchers
4) Genocide
5) War of the Daleks
6) Alien Bodies
7) Kursaal
8) Option Lock
9) Longest Day
10) Legacy of the Daleks
11) Dreamstone Moon
12) Seeing I
13) Placebo Effect
14) Vanderdeken's Children
15) The Scarlet Empress
16) The Janus Conjunction
17) Beltempest
18) The Face-Eater
19) The Taint
20) Demontage
21) Revolution Man
22) Dominion
23) Unnatural History
24) Autumn Mist
25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) The Blue Angel
28) Taking of Planet 5
29) Frontier Worlds
30) Parallel 59
31) Shadows of Avalon
32) The Fall of Yquatine
33) Coldheart
34) The Space Age
35) The Banquo Legacy
36) The Ancestor Cell
37) The Burning
38) Casualties of War
39) The Turing Test
40) Endgame
41) Father Time
42) Escape Velocity
43) Earthworld
44) Vanishing Point
45) Eater of Wasps
46) The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) The Slow Empire
48) Dark Progeny
49) City of the Dead
50) Grimm Reality
51) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Hope
54) Anachrophobia
55) Trading Futures
56) The Book of the Still
57) The Crooked World
58) History 101
59) Camera Obscura
60) Time Zero
61) The Infinity Race
62) The Domino Effect
63) Reckless Engineering
64) The Last Resort
65) Timeless
66) Emotional Chemistry
67) Sometime Never...
68) Halflife
69) The Tomorrow Windows
70) The Sleep of Reason
71) The Deadstone Memorial
72) To the Slaughter
73) The Gallifrey Chronicles

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Synopsis (may contain spoilers)

This is the 58th novel published by the BBC to feature the 8th Doctor. His companions are Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

They find themselves in 1930's Spain where someone has been tampering with time. Well, not time exactly but how events have been perceived, making things appear differently to those who witnessed them. This causes almost as much damage as if time were changed. The Doctor takes Fitz to observe Guernica, the focal point of the happenings, while he and Anji document the war to find out anything useful. Fitz witnesses several account of the razing of Guernica and reports all these to the Doctor.

They eventually discover that the problems are caused by the monster created by a being that has been cut off from his "system." The being is causing true observations by people that before had seen things colored through their own emotions and belief systems. The Doctor rights the wrongs and gets on his merry way. Before all end happily though, he meets up with Sabbath (from The Adventuress of Henrietta Street).

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Dramatis Personae

Character

Affiliation

Doctor 8

Doctor

Fitz Kreiner

Companion

Anji Kapoor

Companion

Sabbath

Unaffiliated

Added: 10-Jan-2003

Last Updated: 07-Apr-2020

Publications

01-Jul-2002

BBC Books

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jul-2002

Pages*:

271

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

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Internal ID:

225

Publisher:

BBC Books

ISBN:

0-563-53854-6

ISBN-13:

978-0-563-53854-7

Printing:

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Black Sheep - Cover Artist

Remarkable. I'm surprised at how much has been uncovered.'
- Anji Kapoor

Spain, 1937. In April, the small town of Guernica was razed to the ground in a firestorm that claimed a thousand or more lives. In May, Barcelona exploded into fierce fighting as different political factions fought for control of the city.

Both events have been the subject of fierce propogandist claims by all sides, but this book examines new evidence to suggest that the two events are more closely linked than previously thought.

Who were the shadowy figures working behind the scenes? Who were 'the Doctor', 'Anji' and 'Fitz' and what were their objectives? And were there really monsters roaming the streets?

Presented in the form of a novel, History 101 tries to discover if absolute truth can ever be revealed. It should be read as part of the ongoing 'Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor' history course.

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