Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible, 1992, Marc Platt
Cat’s Cradle: Warhead, 1992, Andrew Cartmel
Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark, 1992, Andrew Hunt
The immediate follow-up to the Timewyrm storyline was this series of loosely connected books about something going wrong with the TARDIS, and the TARDIS expressing distress by creating a silver cat to warn the Doctor and Ace. Time’s Crucible is notable for delving into highly fan-fiction based territory (yes, even for the New Adventures era) by giving us an origin for the Sisterhood of Karn. It also is the primary source for the “no children on Gallifrey” nonsense that serves little purpose other than to reassure Who-fans made uncomfortable by the thought that the Doctor might have once had carnal relations with a lady. I seem to think that it’s also the origin of the notion that a TARDIS is meant to have six pilots, so there’s your New-Who connection. Warhead is notable chiefly for providing the template for the “War____” books that Cartmel would write throughout the New Adventures period.
Witch Mark takes place in Wales.
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Time’s Crucible was my first New Adventure, and I have many of the novels from then on (but not the first few). I liked it as a kind of Grant Morrison-y head trip, though the writing was a bit dry.
Yes, the 6-pilots notion was first explored here, though someone could independently come to that conclusion from the shape of the console.
Huh. Not often you see Penile dentata on a sci-fi book cover.
Having only read 1 and a half of the New Adventures, I have only the most basic knowledge of plotlines and characters. Does the silver TARDIS cat end up being the cat the Doctor keeps throughout the series (Wollsley, IIRC)?
Nope, Wolsey showed up in the novel of Human Nature. Joan gives him to the Doctor.
That’s actually penile dentata COMBINED with anal dentata. That’s… impressive, I guess…