Salvation (novel)

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Salvation
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Author Steve Lyons
Series Doctor Who book:
Past Doctor Adventures
Release number
18
SubjectFeaturing:
First Doctor
Dodo, Steven
Set inPeriod between
The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve and The Ark [1] [2]
Publisher BBC Books
Publication date
4 January 1999
Pages274
ISBN 0-563-55566-1
Preceded by The Infinity Doctors  
Followed by The Wages of Sin  

Salvation is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . [3] It features the First Doctor, Dodo, and Steven.

Contents

Key points

The novel expands and elaborates on the circumstances under which Dodo first begins to travel with the Doctor. The "gods" of this story are created in the same way as the inhabitants of The Crooked World , another Doctor Who novel by Steve Lyons. Reference is made to a film called Pray for a Miracle filmed a couple of years after the events in the novel based on the campaign to defeat the Gods, with the role of the Doctor being played by Peter Cushing.

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References

  1. The Doctor's Timeline at The Whoniverse
  2. Direct placement confirmed by cover blurb.
  3. Wolverson, E.G. "Salvation". Doctor Who Reviews. Retrieved 17 November 2014.