The Shadows of Avalon

The Shadows of Avalon

Author	Paul Cornell
Series	Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	31
Subject	Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz, Compassion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Romana III
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	February 2000
Pages	274
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-55588-2
Preceded by	Parallel 59
Followed by	The Fall of Yquatine

The Shadows of Avalon is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Cornell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Compassion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and Romana III.

Continuity

Fitz's question to the Doctor at the end of the novel, and his answer about being on the run from the Time Lords in a stolen and unreliable TARDIS, is reminiscent of the last lines of The Five Doctors.

The novel is a partial sequel to the Virgin New Adventures novel Happy Endings.

Eighth Doctor Adventures

Faction Paradox

Doctor Who novels	Alien Bodies (1997) Dead Romance (1999) Unnatural History (1999) Interference – Book One (1999) Interference – Book Two (1999) The Taking of Planet 5 (1999) The Shadows of Avalon (2000) The Ancestor Cell (2000) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (2001) The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005)

Spin-off novels	The Book of the War (2002) This Town Will Never Let Us Go (2003) Of the City of the Saved... (2004) Warlords of Utopia (2004) Warring States (2005) Erasing Sherlock (2006) Newtons Sleep (2008)

Characters	Chris Cwej Compassion The City of the Saved Grandfather Paradox Sabbath

Gallifrey stories

Television stories	The War Games The Deadly Assassin The Invasion of Time Arc of Infinity The Five Doctors The End of Time "The Day of the Doctor" "Listen"

Minor appearances	Colony in Space The Three Doctors "The Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords" "The Name of the Doctor"

Doctor Who audio dramas	The Sirens of Time The Apocalypse Element Death Comes to Time Shada Neverland Omega Zagreus Unregenerate! Urban Myths Human Resources "Sisters of the Flame" / "Vengeance of Morbius" Dark Eyes

Gallifrey audio series	Weapon of Choice Square One The Inquiry A Blind Eye Lies Spirit Pandora Insurgency Imperiatrix Fractures Warfare Appropriation Mindbomb Panacea Reborn Disassembled Annihilation Forever Extermination Renaissance Ascension

Unbound audio plays	Auld Mortality He Jests at Scars...

Novels	Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible Nightshade Blood Harvest Goth Opera A Device of Death Lungbarrow The Eight Doctors Legacy of the Daleks The Infinity Doctors Dead Romance The Shadows of Avalon The Ancestor Cell Warmonger World Game

See also	Time Lords Eye of Harmony Regeneration Time War Shada "The Last Day"