Head Games (Doctor Who)

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Head Games
Doctor Who book

Series	Virgin New Adventures
Release number	43
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Bernice, Chris, Roz, Mel, Ace
Writer	Steve Lyons
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20454-9
Release date	October 1995
Preceded by	Toy Soldiers
Followed by	The Also People

Head Games is an original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris, Roz, Mel and Ace.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, its canonicity in relation to the television series is unclear.

Head Games is a sequel to Lyons' earlier New Adventure Conundrum, and again features the Land of Fiction first seen the 1968 serial The Mind Robber.

Head Games continues a theme running through the New Adventures starting from Timewyrm: Revelation in which the Doctor becomes Time's Champion, and that previous incarnations still in some sense exist within his mind. This novel suggests that the Seventh Doctor was somehow able to terminate the life of his previous incarnation on Lakertya (in the story Time and the Rani) in order to become Time's Champion. This in turn caused the Sixth Doctor to eventually turn into the Valeyard — the evil version of the Doctor seen in the serial The Trial of a Time Lord.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 External links
- 3.1 Reviews

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The heroic Dr. Who and his companion Jason face a rogue Time Lord and his warrior accomplice...

[edit] Trivia

The novel features the character Brigadier Winifred Bambera from the television serial Battlefield.

The idea that the Seventh Doctor sacrificed the life of the Sixth in order to bring himself into being was introduced shortly before the publication of Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell in a short story called The Ashes of Our Fathers in Cosmic Masque, the fan fiction magazine of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.