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3 unusual facts about The Ancestor Cell


The Ancestor Cell

Meanwhile, Fitz appears before a group of disenchanted, young Time Lords who are holding rituals based on the occult texts of Faction Paradox and finds himself unable to escape.

It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, Compassion and Romana III- as well as a brief appearance of the Third Doctor in a ghost-like state due to the Faction's manipulation of the Doctor's timeline-, and features the last appearance of Faction Paradox in the Eighth Doctor Adventures.

The Infinity Doctors

There are also references to the fall of Time Lord civilisation which prefigures the novel The Ancestor Cell and the Time War of the new series.


Peter Anghelides

Anghelides subsequently wrote two more novels for the range, Frontier Worlds in November 1999, which was named "Best Eighth Doctor Novel" in the annual Doctor Who Magazine poll of its readers, and the The Ancestor Cell in July 2000 (co-written with departing editor Stephen Cole).


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