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Psi-ence Fiction
Series:	Doctor Who - BBC Past Doctor Adventures
Release Number:	46
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companions:	Leela
Enemy:	John Finer Josh Randall
Setting:	Southern England, Earth Early Autumn Late 20th or early 21st century,
Author:	Chris Boucher
Publisher:	BBC Books
Publication:	September 2001
Format:	Paperback Book, 288 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53814-7
Previous Story:	Bullet Time
Following Story:	Dying in the Sun

Publisher's Summary

It's Reading Week at the University of East Wessex, but not everything comes to a stop.

The wood is still haunted. Experiments in telepathy, remote viewing, precognition and other paranormal phenomena continue in the Parapsychology Department. The department heads still think the Kellerfield Research Fellow is out for publicity rather than psychic results. A grisly murder remains unsolved by local police. The students are still holding seances in the graveyard.

When the TARDIS arrives in Norswood, the Doctor and Leela are caught up in events that are spiralling out of control. Leela is chased by a phantom, and the Doctor takes the waters. But soon it isn't just the Parapsychology Department's funding that's in question -- it's the whole of existence.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Leela
• Chloe Pennick
• Tommy Carmodie
• Meg Lansing
• Joan Cox
• Ralph Naylor
• Josh Randall
• Dr. Barry Hitchins
• Prof. John Finer
• Prof. Bill Parnaby
• DC Martin Bartok
• DS Bob Simpson
• Fred
• Len Spart

References

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Notes

• Pop-culture references place these events no earlier than 1999 and indicate the story is most likely contemporaneous with its publication date.
• Despite the publisher's summary, the fictional University of East Wessex doesn't give Hitchins his own Department, much less full professorship. Its his Fellowship that supports him.

Continuity

• The events of the story are undone by the creation of a new timeline. The Doctor and Leela will forget what happened the next time they leave the TARDIS.
• The Doctor tells Leela for the first time that the Tesh and the Sevateem are probably descended from the people of Earth

Timeline

• Psi-ence Fiction occurs after PDA: Corpse Marker
• Psi-ence Fiction occurs before PDA: Match of the Day

External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Psi-ence Fiction
• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Psi-ence Fiction