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Byzantium!
Series:	Doctor Who - BBC Past Doctor Adventures
Release Number:	44
Doctor:	First Doctor
Companions:	Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Vicki
Enemy:
Setting:	A.D. 64
Author:	Keith Topping
Publisher:	BBC Books
Publication:	July, 2001
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53836-8
Previous Story:	Superior Beings
Following Story:	Bullet Time

Publisher's Summary

"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.

Into this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilisation 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.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Ian Chesterton
  • Is knocked unconcious.
• Barbara Wright
  • Compares Vicki to Susan Foreman.
• Vicki
  • This is the first story with Vicki as a companion.

References

• There is a flash-forward scene which reveals Ian and Barbara will have a son; John Alydon Ganatus Chesterton.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The novel reveals that Vicki's last name is Pallister; it was never mentioned in any televised episode.

Timeline

• This story takes place within the first episode of The Romans

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: Byzantium!

• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Byzantium!