''Synthespians™'' is a

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original novel written by

Craig Hinton Craig Paul Alexander Hinton (7 May 1964 – 3 December 2006) was a British writer best known for his work on various spin-offs from the BBC Television series '' Doctor Who''. He also wrote articles for various science fiction magazines, an ...

(the author's last) and based on the long-running British

science fiction television Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary ...

series '' Doctor Who''. It features the

Sixth Doctor The Sixth Doctor is an incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC Science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Colin Baker. Although his televisual time ...

and

Peri In Persian mythology, peris (singular: peri; from fa, پَری, translit=parī, , plural , ; borrowed in European languages through ota, پَری, translit=peri) are exquisite, winged spirits renowned for their beauty. Peris were later ad ...

, as well the

Auton The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' and adversaries of the Doctor. They were originally created by scriptwriter Robert Holmes for Jon Pertwee's first serial as the Doctor, ...

Plot

The Doctor and Peri land on Reef Station One, an isolated space station that has modelled itself on 1980s popular culture and encounter Autons.

Continuity

*According to this novel, the name of the Auton home planet is Polymos, and the Doctor's people, the

Time Lord The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', of which the series' main protagonist, the Doctor, is a member. Time Lords are so named for their command ...

s, attempted to destroy it. Dialogue in the first episode of the new series, "

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", may hint at this occurrence.

Notes

*The novel's original front cover had to be changed at the last minute due to copyright issues over the image used (a doctored publicity shot from ''

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'').

References

External links

The Cloister Library - ''Synthespians™''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Synthespians 2004 British novels 2004 science fiction novels Past Doctor Adventures Sixth Doctor novels Novels by Craig Hinton BBC Books books