Dr who BBC eighth doctor 23 unnatural history jonathan blum and kate orman

‘They called it the Millennium Effect,’ said the Doctor ‘But the millennium was only beginning.’ San Francisco has changed since the start of 2000 The laws of physics keep having acid flashbacks There are sightings of creatures from outside our dimensions, stranded aliens and surrealist street performers The city has become a mecca for those who revel in impossible creatures – and those who want to see them pinned down and put away Sam’s past is catching up with her – a past she didn’t know she had The Doctor is in danger of becoming the pi`ece de r´esistance in a twisted collection of creatures And beneath the waters of the Bay, something huge is waiting With time running out, the Doctor must choose which to sacrifice – a city of wonders, or the life of an old and dear friend This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor UNNATURAL HISTORY JONATHAN BLUM AND KATE ORMAN Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd, Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane London W12 0TT First published 1999 Copyright c Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman 1999 The moral right of the authors has been asserted Original series broadcast on the BBC Format c BBC 1963 Doctor Who and TARDIS are trademarks of the BBC ISBN 563 55576 Imaging by Black Sheep, copyright c BBC 1999 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham Cover printed by Belmont Press Ltd, Northampton Dedicated to Jon’s grandmother, Evelyn Kaitz, for putting up with watching all those Doctor Who episodes with him years ago Who knew? Contents Day Zero Minus Three Chapter One I Was a Teenage Paradox Chapter Two If You Can Remember the Future, You Weren’t Really There 21 Day Zero Minus Two 29 Chapter Three Second String 30 Chapter Four Bird of Paradox 43 Chapter Five Licentious Moments 51 Day Zero Minus One 67 Chapter Six The Unnaturalist 68 Chapter Seven Kraken Up 83 Chapter Eight The Memory Cheating Ain’t What it Used to Be 92 Chapter Nine Abducted by Aliens 99 Chapter Ten Somewhere, Just Out of Sight, the Unicorns Are Being Gathered 106 Chapter Eleven Kyra 116 Day Zero 128 Chapter Twelve Stuffed and Mounted 129 Chapter Thirteen The Book of Lies 142 Chapter Fourteen Hero in Use 155 Night Zero 164 Chapter Fifteen Anything Not Nailed Down is Mine 165 Chapter Sixteen Anything I Can Pry Loose is Not Nailed Down 171 Chapter Seventeen What Lies, Behind Us 182 Chapter Eighteen Coming Unstrung 198 Freeze-Frame 212 Chapter Nineteen Buying Time 216 Chapter Twenty The City Killer 220 The i Doctors 223 Unnatural History Chapter Twenty-One Impossible Creatures 225 Day Zero Plus Seven 231 Epilogue: The Other Woman 232 Acknowledgements 245 Day Zero Minus Three Look at that! San Francisco when it was still inhabited! Amazing The Doctor (conversations that never happened) ... an old and dear friend This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor UNNATURAL HISTORY JONATHAN BLUM AND KATE ORMAN Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd, Woodlands, 80... Copyright c Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman 1999 The moral right of the authors has been asserted Original series broadcast on the BBC Format c BBC 1963 Doctor Who and TARDIS are trademarks of the BBC ISBN... through thick infestations of fliers and posters in bookshops and second-hand-record shops, and filled half of his little black notebook with names and places and numbers In the end, the list had