Doctor Who Logo 'The Ancestor Cell'
by Peter Anghelides
and Steve Cole
Jacket Illustration

The Doctor's not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy - Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists - is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too...

A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies over Gallifrey. Its origin and purpose are unknown, but its powers threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only the Doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe and nothing sacred.

Shot by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions. With options finally running out, he must face his most crushing defeat or take one last, desperate chance for salvation...


Publication Date:
July 2000

Notes:
*Featuring the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Compassion and the Third Romana, and introducing the 're-imagined' version of Fitz

*A BBC Books 'Eighth Doctor Adventures' novel

*We learn Fit's full name: Fitzgerald, after the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald

*Grandfather Paradox is revealed to be a version of the Eighth Doctor from an alternate future, corrupted by Faction Paradox's biodata virus

*This is the first time Gallifrey is destroyed (after being reduced from nine versions to just one); the second 'destruction' ends the Time War, as detailed in the 'New' television series - see 'The Day of the Doctor'