Winner Takes All (novel)

Winner Takes All

Author	Jacqueline Rayner
Series	Doctor Who book: New Series Adventures
Release number	3
Subject	Featuring: Ninth Doctor Rose, Mickey
Set in	Period between "Father's Day" and "The Empty Child"
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	19 May 2005
ISBN	0-563-48627-9
Preceded by	The Monsters Inside
Followed by	The Deviant Strain

Winner Takes All is a BBC Books original novel written by Jacqueline Rayner and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was published on 19 May 2005, alongside The Clockwise Man and The Monsters Inside. It features the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler and Mickey Smith.

Plot

On finding that her Mum has just won the lottery, Rose decides to visit Earth.

Rose and the Doctor go to visit Mickey, who tells them that everyone is playing Death to Mantodeans, the game that is complementary with the console. Interested, the Doctor starts playing it, while Rose goes out.

The Doctor and Robert are again interrupted by Quevvils calling to find out why the game isn't being played as expected. The door explodes before they are able to get the controlled Quevvil to respond, so the Doctor has to go back to pretending to play. He and Robert are taken to another room. All of the other prisoners are brought into the room as well, and the Doctor is told that one will be killed every time he deviates from the game.

Rose makes it to the center of the game, and the Quevvils get ready to teleport, but the Doctor has Mickey send a signal that disrupts it, which atomizes all the Quevvils. Rose finds that she can move and talk on her own again.

Continuity

Rose tells the Doctor 'You've reversed teleportation before,' a reference to "The End of the World".
Mention is made of Rose being gone for a year, and Mickey being a suspect in her disappearance, a reference to "Aliens of London".
The Doctor's dislike of guns in this book anticipates his comments in "The Doctor Dances" about destroying the weapons factory on Villengard.
One of Mickey's video games is called Bad Wolf.

Discontinuity

In this book, Jackie seems to be much nicer to the Doctor then she is in the usual Ninth Doctor episodes.

References to popular culture

When asked by Rose how he knew she was in trouble on her way back from the market, the Doctor replies (with a whole biscuit in his mouth) that his "fpider fenfe waf tingling", a reference to the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man and his spider-sense that helps him detect trouble.
When briefing the Doctor and Rose about the new game, Death to Mantodeans, Mickey mentions the PlayStation, the Xbox, Gran Turismo, Resident Evil, TimeSplitters 2, The Blair Witch Project, and Sonic the Hedgehog and Bad Wolf.
A reference to Harry Potter is made when a character daydreams about being a boy whose parents turned out to be great wizards and died fighting an evil sorcerer and is now sent to a special wizarding school to become the great wizard he is destined to be.
The same character makes references to Star Wars in how he daydreams meeting a character who remarks "I am your father," in a cold, deep voice and how it is his destiny to defeat his father (although he interprets it as his mother) in order for good to triumph over evil.
Several references to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are made by the Doctor and Rose when they are searching for a winning scratch card.
The Doctor jokes that Cookie Monster from Sesame Street is really an alien.
Rose mentions the Thunderbirds.
Robert mentions Bob the Builder.

External links

Winner Takes All title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Winner Takes All at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
The Cloister Library - Winner Takes All
Winner Takes All at The TARDIS Library

Reviews

Winner Takes All reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Winner Takes All reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Reviews of the first three books

Doctor Who New Series Adventures
War Doctor novels	Engines of War
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 Plague City Diamond Dogs The Shining Man
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
Choose the Future	Night of the Kraken Terror Moon
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 The Lost Angel The Lost Planet The Lost Magic The Lost Flame Death Among the Stars Rhythm of Destruction
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

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