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Sky Pirates!
Series:	Doctor Who - Virgin New Adventures
Release Number:	40
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companions:	Benny, Roz, Chris
Enemy:	Charon
Setting:	Sloathe Pocket Universe
Author:	Dave Stone
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	July, 1995
Format:	Paperback Book, 337 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426204468
Previous Story:	Original Sin
Following Story:	Zamper

Publisher's Summary

Avast, ye scurvies!

Hoist the mainbrace, splice the anchor and join the Doctor and Benny for the maiden voyage of the good ship Schirron Dream, as it ventures into the fungral dark of air spaces occupied by the Sloathes - those villainous slimy evil shapeshifting monsters of utter and unmitigated evil that have placed a system under siege!

Watch Roslyn Forrester and Chris Cwej have a rough old time of it in durance vile! Meet the intrepid Captain Li Shao, and the beautiful if somewhat single-minded Sun Samurai Leetha t'Zhan! Roast on the dunes of Prometheus, swelter in the fetid jungles of Anea, swim with the Obi-Amphibians of Elysium and freeze off inconvenient items of anatomy on the ice wastes of Reklon in an apparently doomed search for the Eyes of the Schirron, the magickal jewels that will either save the system or destroy it utterly!

Who will live? Who will die? Will the Doctor ever play the harmonium again? All these questions and many more will be answered within the coruscating, fibrillating pages of ... Sky Pirates!

Characters

• The Doctor

• Bernice Summerfield
  • Works as a strip club waitress for some of this novel.

• Roz Forrester
  • Smokes Cuban cigars.

• Chris Cwej
  • The Doctor turns Chris into a lizard in the early scenes of the novel.
  • Is around 20 years old.
  • Is well endowed.

References

• Sloathes are hermaphrodites, vulnerable to radiation.

• Snatas feed on fear and terror.

• Following (one of the) Time Wars the Time Lords pattern encoded their unborn with a multi-dimensional response to kill their ancient enemies.

• The Time Wars mentioned in this novel relate to when the Time Lords first achieved time travel, these wars were to eliminate potential threats.

• Head Invaders: Asinine Quasi-Pyschological Old Toot of Your Times is published in 1997 and features contributions from Bernice Summerfield.

Continuity

• It is implied that the Time Lords wiped out a race that could achieve a similar master of space and time; a similar idea is brought forth in BFA: Zagreus.
• According to author Dave Stone, this is the first part in a trilogy consisting of: Sky Pirates!, Death and Diplomacy and BNA: Oblivion
• The crew of the Schirron Dream reappear in BNA: Oblivion.

External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Sky Pirates!
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Sky Pirates