Asylum
“My view, “ said The Doctor, “is that you can run – in fact it’s often by far the best option – but you can’t hide. I’ll see myself out.”
Nyssa felt a pang of disappointment. He had gone. She would probably never see him again.
The town of Oxford in AD 1278 seems a haven of tranquillity. Under the summer sun, merchants, students and clerics go about their daily, unhurried tasks. Alfric, the proctorof the Franciscan friary, has only two minor problems: one of the friars has gone missing, and there’s a travelling showman, calling himself The Doctor, with a pretty young noblewoman by his side, attracting crowds in the narrow streets.
When the missing friar is found dead, The Doctor is convinced he has been murdered. There is a ruthless killer at large, and Alfric reluctantly teams up with The Doctor to track him down.
Their investigation leads towards the most celebrated of the Franciscan brotherhood: Roger Bacon, famed throughout Christendom as a scholar – and, in the far future, the subject of a revolutionary thesis by technographer Nyssa of Traken.
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- Asylum was the forty-second
BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the Fourth Doctor. It also featured Nyssa after she had finished travelling with the Fifth Doctor.
- Later in The Doctor’s personal timeline, towards the end of his Fourth incarnation, he would meet
The Keeper of Traken) In Fifth Doctor on Terminus. (
- She would subsequently meet the
Fifth Doctor in her mind shortly before his regeneration into his sixth incarnation. (
- Nyssa recalls The Doctor’s regeneration into his
Fifth incarnation (Logopolis), visiting England in September 1666 ( The Visitation) and June 1925 ( Black Orchid) and killing several Cybermen in 2526 (
- Later in The Doctor’s personal timeline, towards the end of his Fourth incarnation, he would meet
