7.4 /10 1 Votes
Release number 15 ISBN 0-563-40595-3 Preceded by Vanderdeken's Children | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date September 1998 Originally published September 1998 Publisher BBC Books Followed by The Janus Conjunction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series Doctor Who book:
Eighth Doctor Adventures Subject Featuring:
Eighth Doctor
Sam, Iris Wildthyme Genres Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Paul Magrs books, Doctor Who BBC 8th Doctor books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Scarlet Empress is an original novel written by Paul Magrs and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Sam and Iris Wildthyme.
Contents
Synopsis
On the ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic still exists, the Doctor reads tales from the Aja’ib, a strange book full of peculiar adventure stories, while Sam goes exploring and meets an alligator skinned man, Gila, chained up in a double-decker London bus. Using the bus to come to her rescue, the Doctor and Sam are soon caught up in a struggle for survival alongside Iris Wildthyme, a fellow time-traveller, the owner of the double decker bus, a serving Conservative MP, and - possibly - a fellow Time Lord.
Iris claims to be on a mission for the current Scarlet Empress, but the Doctor suspects she has ulterior motives. However, the planet has suffered under the rule of the Scarlet Empresses for thousands of years and so the Doctor and Sam embark on a perilous journey across Hyspero to discover the truth.
Crticical response
TV Zone called the book 'a brilliantly provocative, lyrical and mature Doctor Who novel'.