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Author | Steve Lyons |
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Cover artist | Bill Donohoe |
Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures |
Release number | 43 |
Subject | Featuring: Seventh Doctor Bernice, Chris, Roz, Mel, Ace |
Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | October 1995 |
ISBN | 0-426-20454-9 |
Preceded by | Toy Soldiers |
Followed by | The Also People |
Head Games is an original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.[1] It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris, Roz, Mel and Ace.
Head Games is a sequel to Lyons' earlier New Adventure Conundrum, and again features the Land of Fiction first seen the 1968 serial The Mind Robber.
Head Games continues a theme running through the New Adventures starting from Timewyrm: Revelation in which the Doctor becomes Time's Champion, and that previous incarnations still in some sense exist within his mind. This novel suggests that the Seventh Doctor was somehow able to terminate the life of his previous incarnation on Lakertya (in the story Time and the Rani) in order to become Time's Champion. This in turn caused the Sixth Doctor to eventually turn into the Valeyard — the evil version of the Doctor seen in the serial The Trial of a Time Lord.