Bullet Time (Doctor Who)

Doctor Who book

Bullet Time
Series	Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	45
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Sarah Jane Smith
Writer	David A. McIntee
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-53834-1
Set between	The Room With No Doors and Doctor Who (1996)
Number of pages	256
Release date	August 2001
Preceded by	'Byzantium!'
Followed by	'Psi-ence Fiction'

Bullet Time is a BBC Books original novel written by David A. McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

Plot

Sarah Jane Smith encounters the Seventh Doctor in Hong Kong.

A line removed from the final novel would have explained that the Tzun cloned the Master during McIntee's's novel First Frontier, explaining the contradictory stories featuring the Master set after Survival.^[1]

Sarah's meeting with the Seventh Doctor seems to contradict the 2006 series episode "School Reunion", written some years later, where she claimed she had not seen the Doctor for decades. However, the ending of this novel also implies that Sarah was killed in 1997. This was part of a larger story arc involving a group known as the Council of Eight who were attempting to eliminate the Doctor and his companions from the timeline. When the Council were defeated in Sometime Never..., some of their actions were reversed, so to what extent the events of this novel were left intact within the continuity of the Eighth Doctor Adventures is unclear.