She reminds me a lot of Ace in several good ways and acts as a good balance to this version of The Doctor. In a way this story is almost more hers than it is the Doctor’s. Can he bring himself to take another companion given the events of the war? And just how has it changed him? And that’s not even counting the companion for the story. He doesn’t feel worthy of his previous ideals. The War Doctor is expertly written as the war veteran who just wants the fight to be over. This story is a personal favourite of mine.

What are they planning? And what will be the consequences of informing the Time Lords when the plan will be revealed? But what’s happening on this world? Why would the Daleks round up the humans on this world rather than exterminate them all? They aren’t following any of their usual strategies. The Doctor – leading a flotilla of Battle TARDISes against one of many Dalek strongholds – is attacked and sent crashing to a planet down below.

The Time Lord High Council refer to their having a weapon called 'The Moment', which appeared in the television episode ' The Day of the Doctor' (2013).But it is time to discuss the plot of Engines Of War.

The Daleks refer to the Doctor as 'the Predator', first heard in ' Asylum of the Daleks' (2012).The Skaro Degradations, referred to by the Tenth Doctor in ' The End of Time' (2009/2010), feature in the story.The Doctor recalls that he had the chance to prevent the creation of the Daleks, referencing the television serial Genesis of the Daleks (1975).Vowing to stop both the Time Lords and the Daleks, the Doctor must avoid being killed by a Time Lord assassin and confront the Eternity Circle as he seeks to bring the war to an end and prevent his people from becoming as evil as the Daleks themselves. Travelling to Gallifrey to warn the Time Lords, he finds them preparing to counter-attack using a weapon that will cause the death of billions, Dalek and non-Dalek alike.

The Doctor learns that the Eternity Circle, a group of Daleks created by the Dalek Emperor, have produced temporal weapons which they plan to use against the Time Lords, removing them from History. The fleet is destroyed and the TARDIS crashes to the planet below, where the Doctor meets human resistance fighter Cinder, a young woman whose family were killed by the Daleks when she was a child. Synopsis ĭuring the Great Time War, the War Doctor and a Time Lord battle fleet attack Dalek Saucers above the planet Moldox. Engines of War is a BBC Books original novel written by George Mann and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Doctor Who by George Mann