The Price of Paradise

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The Price of Paradise
Doctor Who book

Series	New Series Adventures
Release number	12
Featuring	Tenth Doctor Rose Tyler
Writer	Colin Brake
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-48652-X
No. of pages	249
Release date	September 2006
Preceded by	The Art of Destruction
Followed by	Made of Steel

The Price of Paradise is a BBC Books original novel written by Colin Brake and based on the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor and Rose.

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

1 Plot
2 Continuity
3 Audio book
4 External links
- 4.1 Reviews

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Laylora, the Paradise Planet, is a world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals supposedly live in harmony with their environment. Years ago, a human called Rez arrived on the palanet as a baby in a escape pod, and was apodpted by the native people. The Doctor and Rose arrive to answer a distress signal from a group of scientists, who were shot down by a EMP, only to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. Natural disaters are becoming more frequent, and creatures from ancient legends are appearing and attacking people. The Doctor releasies that the planet is a perfect equation, when left alone it is a paradise, but when alien objects vist the planet, the equation becomes unbalanced, and the planet causes diasters to try and repair itself. The Doctor releasies that to restore paradise, not only will the scinetits have to leave, but so will Rez, which he reluncantly does.

[edit] Continuity

When an alarm sounds in the TARDIS console room, Rose asks if it is a 'mauve alert'. This universal danger alert was mentioned in The Empty Child.
The crystal trisilicate is used as spaceship fuel in the book, and is found in abundance on Laylora. Trisilicate was first seen in The Curse of Peladon.
When Rose searches through the pockets of the Doctor's coat, she likens them to the TARDIS as they go on forever. She discovers a number of iconic items, including a banana (The Doctor Dances and The Girl in the Fireplace), a yo-yo, and the Fifth Doctor's cricket ball (most memorably seen in Four to Doomsday). The long-held fan theory that the Doctor's pockets are bigger on the inside was confirmed in The Runaway Bride.
A spaceship is reported drifting out of control 'at the edge of Draconian Space.'
The Doctor quotes Shakespeare, and later claims credit for the final edit of Hamlet, which he also claimed in City of Death.

[edit] Audio book

An abridged audio book version of The Price of Paradise narrated by Shaun Dingwall (Pete Tyler) was released in November 2006 (ISBN 1-40567-686-8) by BBC Audio.