The Many Hands
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| The Many Hands | |
| Series | New Series Adventures |
| Release number | 24 |
| Featuring | Tenth Doctor Martha Jones |
| Writer | Dale Smith |
| Publisher | BBC Books |
| ISBN | ISBN 1846074223 |
| Release date | 10 April 2008 |
| Preceded by | Snowglobe 7 |
| Followed by | Ghosts of India |
The Many Hands is a BBC Books original novel written by Dale Smith and based on the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. It will be published on the 1st May 2008, alongside Martha in the Mirror and Snowglobe 7.
Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity See New Series Adventures Canonicity for more details.
[edit] Synopsis
Edinburgh, 1759.
The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard.
That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died
It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro.
[edit] Continuity
- The Doctor mentions he knows "a man who fought at Culloden." He is referring to Jamie, companion to the Second Doctor.
- When he sees the walking dead he initially speculates they might be possessed by the Gelth (from "The Unquiet Dead").
- The Doctor also compares a (presumably overweight) nobleman to a disguised Slitheen.
[edit] Outside references
- The book includes a brief appearance by Benjamin Franklin, with the Doctor referencing his experiments with electricity.
- The Alexander Monro featured in the book is Alexander Monro primus. The clone Alexander is based upon his son, Alexander Monro secundus, and the implication at the end of another Alexander clone is a reference to Alexander Monro tertius, the original's grandson. As stated in the book, all three were anatomists at the University of Edinburgh.
