Dead Romance

Dead Romance

Author	Lawrence Miles
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures
Release number	19
Subject	Featuring: Chris Cwej
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	March 1999
ISBN	0-426-20532-4
Preceded by	The Mary-Sue Extrusion
Followed by	Tears of the Oracle

Dead Romance is an original novel by Lawrence Miles, originally published as part of the Virgin New Adventures series. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Though part of the sequence of stories that featured the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield, this was released as something of a standalone, and she is not in it. The main character and narrator Christine Summerfield are not connected to her in any way. A former New Adventures Seventh Doctor companion, Chris Cwej, does appear. The Seventh Doctor briefly appears as "the Evil Renegade" in Chris's tampered memories.

The novel is partly an exploration of Miles's "bottle universe" concept that places Virgin Publishing's Virgin New Adventures series within a bottle universe inside the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures universe (and by extension these bottles are within a larger one containing all televised serials). This concept is most fully explored in Miles's two-book cycle Interference.

Christine Summerfield reappears as Cousin Eliza in the Faction Paradox audio plays (also by Miles), voiced by Emma Kilbey.

A second edition of Dead Romance was published by Mad Norwegian Press in 2004. This contained some minor alterations which made the book more consistent with Miles's later Faction Paradox mythos.

The book is critically acclaimed. Doctor Who analyst Philip Sandifer called it "the best Lawrence Miles novel ever. Possibly the best Doctor Who-related novel ever."^[1]

References

↑ Sandifer, Philip (28 January 2013). "Outside the Government 8 (Dead Romance)". TARDIS Eruditorum. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

External links

Reviews

Dead Romance reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
Dead Romance reviews at Outpost Gallifrey

Virgin New Adventures

Ace	Timewyrm: Genesys Timewyrm: Exodus Timewyrm: Apocalypse Timewyrm: Revelation Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible Cat's Cradle: Warhead Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark Nightshade

Ace and Bernice	Love and War Deceit Lucifer Rising White Darkness Shadowmind Birthright Blood Heat The Dimension Riders The Left-Handed Hummingbird Conundrum No Future Tragedy Day Legacy Theatre of War All-Consuming Fire Blood Harvest Strange England First Frontier St Anthony's Fire Falls the Shadow Parasite Warlock Set Piece

Bernice	Transit The Highest Science The Pit Infinite Requiem Sanctuary Human Nature

Bernice, Chris, Roz	Original Sin Sky Pirates! Zamper Toy Soldiers Headgames The Also People Shakedown Just War Warchild Sleepy Death and Diplomacy Happy Endings Return of the Living Dad

Chris and Roz	GodEngine Christmas on a Rational Planet The Death of Art Damaged Goods So Vile a Sin

Chris	Bad Therapy Eternity Weeps The Room with No Doors Lungbarrow

Other	Iceberg The Dying Days

Only Bernice	Oh No It Isn't! Dragon's Wrath Beyond the Sun Ship of Fools Down Deadfall Ghost Devices Mean Streets Tempest Walking to Babylon Oblivion The Medusa Effect Dry Pilgrimage The Sword of Forever Another Girl, Another Planet Beige Planet Mars Where Angels Fear The Mary-Sue Extrusion Dead Romance Tears of the Oracle Return to the Fractured Planet The Joy Device Twilight of the Gods

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) Against Nature (2013) The Brakespeare Voyage (2013) Head of State (2015)

Anthologies	A Romance in Twelve Parts (2012) Burning with Optimism's Flames (2013) Liberating Earth (2015)

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

Gallifrey stories

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

Minor appearances	Colony in Space "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 Pandora Insurgency Imperiatrix Fractures Warfare Appropriation Mindbomb Panacea Reborn Disassembled Annihilation Forever

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"

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