Wooden Heart (novel)

Wooden Heart

Author	Martin Day
Series	Doctor Who book: New Series Adventures
Release number	15
Subject	Featuring: Tenth Doctor Martha Jones
Set in	Period between "Evolution of the Daleks" and "Utopia"
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	April 19, 2007
ISBN	1-84607-226-3
Preceded by	The Last Dodo
Followed by	Forever Autumn

Wooden Heart is a BBC Books original novel written by Martin Day and based on the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.^[1] It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones.

Synopsis

Martha and the Doctor discover an apparently deserted starship, and soon, a village appears in the middle of the craft. As they try to work out the mystery of the village, and its connection to the ship, they find out that the village has other problems - fog and monsters surround them at every turn, and their children have been going missing.

Plot

The Doctor and Martha arrive on the Castor, an abandoned prison ship floating in space. Whilst exploring they find a fully populated village and forest, whose inhabitants appear to be unaware of the spaceship outside, and whose children are mysteriously disappearing. Later, The Doctor and Martha find a creature from another dimension, who, because of its telepathic powers, was used to remove the evil from prisoners in the Castor. To keep itself sane, it expelled the evil, creating a separate being which killed the crew. The telepathic creature then created the forest and village in an attempt to balance itself with goodness, but, due to low power supplies, it is having to remove small parts of the 'program', such as children, to conserve power. The Doctor offers to pilot the ship closer to a sun to give the creature more power to run the program, and a woman from the village absorbs the evil into her body, before exiling herself, so she can learn to control it. The Doctor and Martha then leave the creature to maintain the forest world.

Production

According to an interview in Doctor Who Magazine, the working title was Children of the Fog.

Audiobook

An abridged audiobook was released in July 2007 by BBC Audiobooks and was read by Adjoa Andoh, who plays Francine Jones in the TV series.

References

↑ Wolverson, E.G. (April 2007). "Wooden Heart". Doctor Who Reviews. Retrieved 22 July 2014.

External links

Wooden Heart title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Wooden Heart at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
Wooden Heart at The TARDIS Library
The Cloister Library - Wooden Heart

Reviews

Wooden Heart reviews at Outpost Gallifrey

Doctor Who New Series Adventures

Ninth Doctor novels	The Clockwise Man The Monsters Inside Winner Takes All The Deviant Strain Only Human The Stealers of Dreams

Tenth Doctor novels	The Stone Rose The Feast of the Drowned The Resurrection Casket The Nightmare of Black Island The Art of Destruction The Price of Paradise Sting of the Zygons The Last Dodo Wooden Heart Forever Autumn Sick Building Wetworld Wishing Well The Pirate Loop Peacemaker Martha in the Mirror Snowglobe 7 The Many Hands Ghosts of India The Doctor Trap Shining Darkness The Story of Martha Beautiful Chaos The Eyeless Judgement of the Judoon The Slitheen Excursion Prisoner of the Daleks The Taking of Chelsea 426 Autonomy The Krillitane Storm The Darksmith Legacy

Eleventh Doctor novels	Apollo 23 Night of the Humans The Forgotten Army Nuclear Time The King's Dragon The Glamour Chase The Coming of the Terraphiles Dead of Winter The Way Through The Woods Hunter's Moon Touched by an Angel Paradox Lost Borrowed Time The Silent Stars Go By Dark Horizons Plague of the Cybermen The Dalek Generation Shroud of Sorrow

Twelfth Doctor novels	The Blood Cell Silhouette The Crawling Terror Royal Blood Big Bang Generation Deep Time

Novellas	I am a Dalek Made of Steel Revenge of the Judoon The Sontaran Games Code of the Krillitanes Magic of the Angels The Silurian Gift

Decide Your Destiny	The Spaceship Graveyard Alien Arena The Time Crocodile The Corinthian Project The Crystal Snare War of the Robots Dark Planet The Haunted Wagon Train Lost Luggage Second Skin The Dragon King The Horror of Howling Hill Claws of the Macra The Coldest War Judoon Monsoon Empire of the Wolf

Original audiobooks	Pest Control The Forever Trap The Nemonite Invasion The Rising Night The Day of the Troll The Last Voyage Dead Air The Ring of Steel The Runaway Train The Jade Pyramid The Gemini Contagion The Hounds of Artemis Eye of the Jungle Blackout The Art of Death Darkstar Academy Day of the Cockroach The Nu-humans The Empty House The Sleepers in the Dust Snakebite The Gods of Winter The House of Winter The Sins of Winter The Memory of Winter

Writers	Justin Richards Stephen Cole Jacqueline Rayner Gareth Roberts Steve Lyons Mike Tucker Colin Brake Martin Day Mark Morris Paul Magrs Mark Michalowski Trevor Baxendale Simon Guerrier James Swallow Dale Smith Simon Messingham Dan Abnett Gary Russell Lance Parkin David Llewellyn Daniel Blythe Christopher Cooper Una McCormack Michael Moorcock James Goss Terrance Dicks Richard Dungworth Jonathan Green Paul Finch Jonathan Morris George Mann Naomi Alderman Jenny Colgan Nicholas Briggs Tommy Donbavand Brian Minchin Oli Smith Kay Woodward Peter Anghelides David Roden Davey Moore Scott Handcock

others	Engines of War

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