The Book of the Still

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Author(s):

Paul Ebbs

First Pub:

2002

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2002

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Internal ID:

374

Series:

<- Trading Futures - The Crooked World ->

Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*

#56 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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Another paradox story. Getting old, if you've read enough of the Doctor Who series of novels. If I wasn't trying to read them all, I'd pass on this one.

I read this in January of 2003 on my lunch breaks at work.

Synopsis (may contain spoilers)

This is the 56th novel published by the BBC to feature the 8th Doctor. His companions are Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

The Book of the Still is a book in which time-travellers can write their name and location in and they will be rescued. When the location of the Unnoticed is written in it, they are out to destroy the book, and anything that stands in their way.

Fitz, after going to a place that gives him altered memories, steals the book for his "girlfriend" Carmodi. They leave the planet of Lebenswelt. The Doctor and Anji are stuck with the Unnoticed trying to destroy Leneswelt. The Doctor manages to save the planet but they must also follow the Unnoticed so that they can get to the book, and Fitz.

It is later found that the Unnoticed are a race of being created by a paradox and that is why they want to remain unnoticed. The Unnoticed are created and destroyed and that is the end of the book.

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Dramatis Personae

Character

Affiliation

Doctor 8

Doctor

Fitz Kreiner

Companion

Anji Kapoor

Companion

Added: 11-Jan-2003

Last Updated: 27-Apr-2020

Publications

06-May-2002

BBC Books

Date Issued:

06-May-2002

Pages*:

273

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

228

Publisher:

BBC Books

ISBN:

0-563-53851-1

ISBN-13:

978-0-563-53851-6

Printing:

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Black Sheep - Cover Artist

The Unnoticed are bound to keep themselves isolated from all history, or face a complete collapse from existence.

The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers - write your location, sign your name and be instantly rescued. When the Unnoticed learn that within the book someone has revealed both their existence and whereabouts they are forced into murderous intercession to find it.

Fitz knows where it is, but then he's the one who stole it. Carmodi, addicted to the energies trapped in frequent time travellers, also knows where it is. But she's the one who's stolen Fitz. Anji, alone on a doomed planet, trying to find evidence of a race that has never had the decency to exist, doesn't know where anybody is.

Embroiled in the deadly chase, the Doctor is starting ro worry about how many people he can keep alive along the way…

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