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| Author | Justin Richards |
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| Series | Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures |
Release number | 67 |
| Subject | Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz,Trix,Miranda |
| Publisher | BBC Books |
Publication date | January 2004 |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 0-563-48611-2 |
| Preceded by | Emotional Chemistry |
| Followed by | Halflife |
Sometime Never... is aBBC Books original novel written byJustin Richards and based on the long-running Britishscience fiction television seriesDoctor Who. It features theEighth Doctor,Fitz,Trix, andMiranda.
The Council of Eight have set plans for all of time and space. The Doctor's travels are causing difficulties for this plan, so the Council sets off to attack him, and his dear friends.
Theepilogue of the novel offers a possible explanation to the fan asked question of how the Doctor can still exist after the destruction ofGallifrey inThe Ancestor Cell. In that novel, time is reversed to stop Gallifrey or theTime Lords from ever existing, provoking confusion among fans. This novel shows the Doctor giving one of the council of Eight (Soul) some of his life energy to keep him alive. When Soul andMiranda's daughter Zezanne leave inSabbath's time ship (theJonah), Soul takes on the form of an old man who resembles theFirst Doctor. They both lose their memories, but believe they are the First Doctor andSusan. TheJonah arrives, disguised as aPolice Box in 1963, with Octan's Starkiller (replacing theHand of Omega). This potentiallyretcons the entire series, giving an alternative explanation to the Doctor's origins without the Time Lords.
This however contradicts the revelations about Gallifrey's destruction inThe Gallifrey Chronicles, where it is revealed that while Gallifrey was destroyed, the Time Lords were not erased from history. However, the cataclysm set up an event horizon in time that prevented anyone from entering Gallifrey's relative past or travelling from it to the present or future. The Time Lords also survived within the Matrix, which had been downloaded into the Eighth Doctor's mind, with the intention of restoring the Time Lords and Gallifrey.