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Byzantium!

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2001
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A series of novels by BBC Worldwide featuring stories of the past Doctors for the television show Doctor Who.

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20) Deep Blue
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40) Rags
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42) Asylum
43) Superior Beings
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46) Psi-ence Fiction
47) Dying in the Sun
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49) Relative Dementias
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Byzantium!
is dedicated to Shaun Lyon,
because I said I would

and

to Jon Miller and Jim Swallow,
for their valuable advice and friendship.
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Added: 01-Jan-2001
Last Updated: 27-Apr-2020

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 02-Jul-2001
BBC Books
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Date Issued:
02-Jul-2001
Pages*:
280
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Internal ID:
767
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ISBN:
0-563-53836-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-563-53836-3
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
'Life is cheap in Byzantium. 
Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are.'


Byzantium.  The imperial city - rising dramatically, as if by a trick of the light, from the peninsula of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea.  Its domes and towers and minarets overlook a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder.

Romans, Greeks, Zealots, Pharisees ... all meet in the market squares of the great city, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife.

In this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilization of the Roman empire.  But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval.  In the eye of the hurricane they must each face the possibility of being stranded, alone and far from their own times, in an alien culture bunker.
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Keith Topping  
Birth: 26 Oct 1963 Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Notes:
From About the Author in the back of the book Ghost Ship:

Bohemian womaniser, revolutionary spirit and general all-round sleazeball, Keith Topping is a journalist and author of over twenty books including two editions of The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, numerous guides to TV series as diverse as The X-Files, Star Trek, The Avengers and Roswell for Virgin Books, four BBC Doctor Who novels (including the award-winning The Hollow Men) and the best-selling Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Inside Bartlet's White House.  He has written for many TV and genre magazines including Starburst and Shivers and is a former Contributing Editor of Dream Watch, specialising in coverage of US series such as Buffy, Angel, Stargate SG-1 and The West Wing.

Keith was born on sunny Tyneside on the same day in 1963 that his beloved Newcastle United lost 3-2 at home to Northampton Town.  Things have improved a bit since then.  He began his journalistic career whilst he was still working for the civil service (he has since escaped), writing for music, TV and football fanzines.  He regularly appears on local radio and also contributed to the BBC television series I Love the 70s.  He is currently co-scripting, with Martin Day, a proposed TV series for an independent production company.  His hobbies include socialising with friends, foreign travel, very loud pop music, trashy British horror movies, current affairs and military history.  His autobiography, I've Had Her, will be published posthumously.

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