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| The Burning | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures |
| Release Number: | 37 |
| Doctor: | Eighth Doctor |
| Companions: | |
| Enemy: | The Fire Elemental |
| Setting: | Earth, England Middletown, 1890 |
| Author: | Justin Richards |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Publication: | August, 2000 |
| Format: | Paperback Book, --- Pages |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0-563-53812-0 |
| Previous Story: | The Ancestor Cell |
| Following Story: | Casualties of War |
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The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the centre of the Empire.
Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.
But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the Society for Psychical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artefacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: a man with no name, no history.
Only one man can unravel the mysteries; only one man can begin to understand the forces that are gathering; only one man can hope to fight against them. And only one man knows that this is just the beginning of the end of the world.
Only one man can stop The Burning.
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Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: The Burning
Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for The Burning
| BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures | |
| Previous Release: The Ancestor Cell |
Next Release: Casualties of War |
The Burning was the name given to a form of torture that consisted of the repeated use of a blaster, set at a low power level, to slowly sear the flesh of an individual's body down to the bone. It was common practice for an interrogator using this method to begin with one of the victim's legs so as to immobilize him or her. The interrogator would repeat the process with other parts of the victim's body until the victim gave the interrogator the answers he or she wanted or until the victim perished.
In cases in which a victim possessed knowledge that an interrogator desired The Burning was an extremely effective means of obtaining information. Forcing an individual to watch as another was subjected to this particularly brutal torture method also proved to be effective. However, when a victim did not have information that an interrogator wanted, the interrogator ran the risk of eventually killing the victim.
The bounty hunter Feskitt Bobb, one among sundry ruthless individuals, employed The Burning during the course of his hunts. The Corporate Sector Authority's Security Police employed the technique using E-11 blaster rifles in a hunt for the leaders of an uprising against the Authority during its annexation of the Trianii colony of Fibuli. During the Galactic Empire's campaign against the Virgillian Free Alignment, stormtroopers stationed aboard the Victory-class Star Destroyer Stormwind used The Burning while questioning refugees. However, they ended up killing many refugees while gaining no useful information.
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The Burning was first described in the pages of Han Solo at Stars' End, by author Brian Daley. When he was asked in an interview whether he believed that Owen and Beru Lars were victims of The Burning, Daley said that the scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, where Luke Skywalker sees the burning homestead and their charred corpses "was exactly what I had in mind when I wrote those lines."[1]
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