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Happy Endings is an original novel written by Paul Cornell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the fiftieth book in the Virgin New Adventures series.
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- Publisher's summary
- Characters
- Worldbuilding
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- Continuity
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is the fiftieth Virgin New Adventures novel. It is a celebration of many of the elements of the series and features the return of many original New Adventures characters. It therefore has a certain commonality with The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, televised episodes that include significant characters from an entire era of Doctor Who, and The Flood, a comic story which ties a narrative bow around the Eighth Doctor's run in Doctor Who Magazine.
It centres around the wedding of Jason Kane and Bernice Summerfield. Much of the humour of the novel derives from the reactions of her wedding party — which includes Pakhars, Silurians, Ice Warriors and several other species — to ordinary life in an English village. Amongst the set pieces of the novel are two quintessentially British competitions — the pub quiz and cricket. Both get long, multi-chapter attention. Indeed, despite the fact that it is a Seventh Doctor story, its depiction of the friendly between the local villagers and Benny's mostly non-human wedding party is the longest and most detailed depiction of cricket in all Doctor Who fiction.
"Doctor, this is my fiancé. Please don't kill him."
You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.
If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all. Especially if there really is someone who wants to prevent it happening.
Everybody's coming: from Ice Warriors to UNIT veterans, a flirtatious Ace to a suspicious Hamlet Macbeth -- and a very confused trio of Isley Brothers. The Doctor has to organise a buffet, Roz has a mystery to solve, and Chris has a girlfriend who used to be the Timewyrm.
Wedding Participants
•Sherlock Holmes •John Watson •Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart •Doris Lethbridge-Stewart •Mike Yates •John Benton •Peter Hutchings •Emily Hutchings •Ishtar Hutchings •Reverend Annie Trelaw •Mikhail Vladamir Popov •Ruby Duvall •Hamlet Macbeth •Cristian Alvarez •Benjamin Alvarez •Savaar •Rhukk •Provost-Major Beltempest •Doc Dantalion •Alexander Shuttleworth •Muldwych •Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart •SaRa!qava •aM!xitsa •Kitai •Keri •Damakort •Nathan li Shao •Sgloomi Po •Leetha •Lisa Deranne •Irving Braxiatel •Alpha Centauri •Bernice Doras •Jason •Kim Talevera •Gilgamesh •Leonardo da Vinci •Creed McIlveen •Tom Dekker •Professor James Rafferty •Robin Yeadon •Forgwyn •William Blake •Liso •Máire Mab Finn •Saul •Grey Man •Elaine Delahaye •Francis •Manda Sutton •Herne •Old Davy •Eugene Petion •Richard Aickland •Charlotte Aickland •Isley Brothers •Danny Pain •Jacquilian & Sanki
Others
•Romana II •Spandrell •Flavia •Jinkwa
Anatomy and physiology
•Ace lost her virginity to Sabalom Glitz. Ace's second lover was Jan. •When Bernice and the Seventh Doctor arrive to pick up Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Benny jokes that they'd been shagging.
Artefacts of Rassilon
•The Old Master stole the Loom of Rassilon's Mouse.
Books
•Keri tries to read Teach Yourself Cricket to prepare for the friendly.
•When the novel was first published, you could send away to Virgin and get a poster of the front cover.
•The introduction is a poem written by Vanessa Bishop, while the end of the novel has words and sheet music entitled Opposites Attract.
•The inside back cover features a larger version of the front cover "wedding photo" illustration and a character key.
•Marked as the fiftieth release of the New Adventures line, this book introduced a new cover design. Among the changes, the Doctor Who logo on the spine, originally rendered as it appeared during the opening credits of the TV series, was replaced by an outline drawing of the logo.
•A Goth girl briefly meets Benny and is said to have met her twice before; this is a reference to Neil Gaiman's character Death of the Endless and Benny's own brushes with Death.
•The Seventh Doctor makes his final appearance on the cover of a New Adventures novel until the publication of PROSE: Lungbarrow, in 1997.
references more or less every New Adventure featuring Bernice Summerfield (and some more besides) to date and beyond.
•PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead and Warlock established a polluted Earth, which due to the 'Restoration' is becoming clean once more.
•Benny first met the Doctor in PROSE: Love and War. This is also the novel the Travellers debuted in.
•Kadiatu first appeared in PROSE: Transit.
•First Pilot Jinkwa, who got stuck in temporal suspension in PROSE: The Highest Science, gets released and dies.
•Benny met William Blake in PROSE: The Pit.
In 1996, Happy Endings was released by Virgin Books. 'Doctor, this is my fiance. Please don't kill him.' You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010. If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all ...
Doctor Who: Happy Endings. Paul Cornell, Vanessa Bishop (Contributor), John Peel (Contributor) ...more. 3.76. 168 ratings13 reviews. "Doctor, this is my fiancé. Please don't kill him." You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.
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For one thing, Happy Endings isn’t overly action-packed. There’s a small threat posed to the proceedings by Rassilon’s mouse’s loom, the Master, and a lorryload of illegal ‘Bloom’, but the real threat. to the wedding comes from – surprise, surprise – the bride and groom themselves, and an old man-eating travelling companion of ...
16 giu 1996 · Kindle. Audible. Amazon CA. Amazon UK. Amazon Europe. Rate this book. ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆. Choose a shelf for this book. Join Happy Endings Related Discussion. Start a New Discussion (Visitors Welcome) Updated May 3, 2013. Category: Science Fiction, Doctor Who. Release date: June 16, 1996.
Home » Discontinuity Guide. Happy Endings. Author: Paul Cornell. Editor: Rebecca Levine. Published: May 1996. Doctor: Seventh Doctor. Companion (s): Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sergeant Benton, Mike Yates, Romana II, Ace, Bernice Summerfield, Chris Cwej, Roz Forrester. Cancel rating. Give Happy Endings 1/5. Give Happy Endings 2/5.
