The Price of Paradise

The Price of Paradise

Author	Colin Brake
Series	Doctor Who book: New Series Adventures
Release number	12
Subject	Featuring: Tenth Doctor Rose Tyler
Genre	novel
Set in	Period between "The Age of Steel" and "Army of Ghosts"
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	September 21, 2006
Pages	249
ISBN	0-563-48652-X
Preceded by	The Art of Destruction
Followed by	Made of Steel

The Price of Paradise is a BBC Books original novel written by Colin Brake and based on the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was published on September 21, 2006, alongside The Nightmare of Black Island and The Art of Destruction. It features the Tenth Doctor and Rose.

Plot

Laylora, the Paradise Planet, is a world of breathtaking beauty, where peace-loving Aboriginals supposedly live in harmony with their environment. Years ago, a human called Rez arrived on the planet as a baby in an escape pod, and was adopted by the native people. The Doctor and Rose arrive to answer a distress signal from a group of scientists, who were shot down by an EMP, only to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. Natural disasters are becoming more frequent, and creatures from ancient legends are appearing and attacking people. The Doctor realises that the planet is a perfect equation: when left alone it is a paradise, but when alien objects visit the planet, the equation becomes unbalanced, and the planet causes disasters to try to repair itself.

Continuity

When an alarm sounds in the TARDIS console room, Rose asks if it is a 'mauve alert'. This universal danger alert was mentioned in "The Empty Child".
The crystal trisilicate is used as spaceship fuel in the book, and is found in abundance on Laylora. Trisilicate was first seen in The Curse of Peladon.
When Rose searches through the pockets of the Doctor's coat, she likens them to the TARDIS as they go on forever. She discovers a number of iconic items, including a banana ("The Doctor Dances" and "The Girl in the Fireplace"), a yo-yo, and the Fifth Doctor's cricket ball (most memorably seen in Four to Doomsday). The long-held fan theory that the Doctor's pockets are bigger on the inside was confirmed in "The Runaway Bride".
A spaceship is reported drifting out of control 'at the edge of Draconian Space.'
The Doctor quotes Shakespeare, and later claims credit for the final edit of Hamlet, which he also claimed in City of Death.
For the first time in the novels, a reference is made to one of the other novels in the New Series range. Rose mentions that she is reminded of her visit to Ancient Rome, which took place in The Stone Rose.
The Doctor mentions the Axons and the Zygons.
This story probably takes place after The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit as Rose mentions the Ood.

Audio book

An abridged audio book version of The Price of Paradise read by Shaun Dingwall (Pete Tyler) was released in November 2006 (ISBN 1-40567-686-8) by BBC Audiobooks. Also included was a "behind-the-scenes" discussion between the author and reader.

External links

The Price of Paradise title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
The Price of Paradise at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
The Price of Paradise at The TARDIS Library
The Cloister Library - The Price of Paradise

Reviews

The Price of Paradise reviews at Outpost Gallifrey

Doctor Who New Series Adventures

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

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

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

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

others	Engines of War

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