Matrix (novel)

Matrix

Author	Mike Tucker and Robert Perry
Series	Doctor Who book: Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	16
Subject	Featuring: Seventh Doctor Ace
Set in	Period between Illegal Alien and Storm Harvest
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	5 October 1998
Pages	280
ISBN	0-563-40596-1
Preceded by	Last Man Running
Followed by	The Infinity Doctors

Matrix is a BBC Books original novel written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Summary

It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. It also includes appearances by the Wandering Jew and Jack the Ripper. Part of it is set in an alternate timeline, featuring parallel universe versions of Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. The villain is the Valeyard.

Inspiration

Perry and Tucker originally pitched Matrix as a Virgin New Adventure, but were advised by range editor Rebecca Levene that the idea was unworkable.

References

As well as the obvious references to Trial of a Time Lord and the First Doctor's era, the Valeyard's schemes bring the Doctor face-to-face with dark alternate versions of his other selves who have been corrupted by the Valeyard; these include a First Doctor who murdered other Time Lords to depart Gallifrey in the first place, a Fourth Doctor who destroyed the Daleks at their beginning (Genesis of the Daleks) and a Fifth Doctor who allowed Peri to die while taking the antitoxin for himself (The Caves of Androzani).

External links

Matrix title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Matrix at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
Matrix at The TARDIS Library

Reviews

Matrix reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Matrix reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Past Doctor Adventures

First Doctor	The Witch Hunters Salvation City at World's End Bunker Soldiers Byzantium! Ten Little Aliens The Eleventh Tiger The Time Travellers

Second Doctor	The Murder Game The Roundheads Dreams of Empire The Final Sanction Heart of TARDIS Independence Day Dying in the Sun Combat Rock The Colony of Lies The Indestructible Man World Game

Third Doctor	The Devil Goblins from Neptune The Face of the Enemy Catastrophea The Wages of Sin Last of the Gaderene Verdigris Rags Amorality Tale The Suns of Caresh Deadly Reunion Island of Death

Fourth Doctor	Eye of Heaven Last Man Running Millennium Shock Corpse Marker Tomb of Valdemar Heart of TARDIS Festival of Death Asylum Psi-ence Fiction Drift Wolfsbane Match of the Day

Fifth Doctor	The Ultimate Treasure Zeta Major Deep Blue Divided Loyalties Imperial Moon The King of Terror Superior Beings Warmonger Fear of the Dark Empire of Death

Sixth Doctor	Business Unusual Mission: Impractical Players Grave Matter The Quantum Archangel The Shadow in the Glass Instruments of Darkness Palace of the Red Sun Blue Box Synthespians™ Spiral Scratch

Seventh Doctor	Illegal Alien The Hollow Men Matrix Storm Harvest Prime Time Independence Day Bullet Time Relative Dementias Heritage Loving the Alien The Colony of Lies The Algebra of Ice Atom Bomb Blues

Eighth Doctor	Wolfsbane Fear Itself

Other	The Infinity Doctors Scream of the Shalka

Valeyard stories

Television	The Trial of a Time Lord The Mysterious Planet Mindwarp Terror of the Vervoids The Ultimate Foe

Audio	He Jests at Scars... Trial of the Valeyard The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure

Novels	Millennial Rites The Eight Doctors Mission: Impractical Matrix Time's Champion

Also see	"Amy's Choice" (The Dream Lord)

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story The Whitechapel Horrors Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography Dust and Shadow The Ripper Legacy

Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World"

Other	A Feast Unknown Anno Dracula Blood and Fog I, Ripper Matrix A Night in the Lonesome October Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed Time After Time Phantom Blood Night of the Ripper Darkside Lifeblood Lost The Witches of Chiswick Broken Dracula the Un-dead

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–2011) Whitechapel (2009–2013) Ripper Street (2012–present)

Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008)

Video games

Jack the Ripper (1987)
Ripper (1996)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
Shadow Man (1999)
MediEvil 2 (2000)
Jack the Ripper (2003)
Mystery in London: On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (2007)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
The Ripper (canceled)
Jack the Ripper (2015)

Other

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