Big Bang Generation
“I’m an archaeologist, but probably not the one you were expecting.”
Christmas 2015, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Imagine everyone’s surprise when a time portal opens up in Sydney Cove. Imagine their shock as a massive pyramid now sits beside the Harbour Bridge, inconveniently blocking Port Jackson and glowing with energy.
Imagine their fear as Cyrrus “the mobster” Globb, Professor Horace Jaanson and an alien assassin called Kik arrive to claim the glowing pyramid. Finally imagine everyone’s dismay when they are followed by a bunch of con artists out to spring their greatest grift yet.
This gang consists of Legs (the sexy comedian), Dog Boy (providing protection and firepower), Shortie (handling logistics), Da Trowel (in charge of evacuation and history) and their leader, Doc (busy making sure the universe isn’t destroyed in an explosion that makes the Big Bang look like a damp squib).
And when someone accidentally reawakens The Ancients of Time – which, Doc reckons, wasn’t the wisest or best-judged of actions – things get a whole lot more complicated…
coming soon
- Also on CD
- Big Bang Generation is the second series of BBC Books with the Twelfth Doctor
The Doctor reunites with Bernice Summerfield
- Bernice refers to the Laws of Time.
- Bernice thinks the Twelfth Doctor has more of a Glaswegian accent, but thinks the Seventh Doctor has more of a Highlands accent.
- Bernice remembers digging up a “rock thingy” on Legion. (Legion)
- The Doctor has encountered Keri in a previous regeneration, and says she has met Bernice a couple of times before. (Legacy)
- Aztec Moon has previously investigated by a variety of parties including the Brotherhood of Magicians (Nothing up My Sleeve) and Melville Trout (Bad Habits)
- A group of scholars try to get information about the Glamour from the Panopticon archives in the Obverse. (The Blue Angel)
- River Song is imprisoned in Stormcage Containment Facility. (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, A Good Man Goes to War, First Night, The Eternity Clock) She is the archaeologist that the Papal Mainframe expected to arrive, rather than Bernice.
- Keri has had an adventure with The Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith and K9 Mark IV. The Doctor has met Luke before on a number of occasions. (The Stolen Earth, The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, The End of Time, Death of the Doctor)
- Bernice crosses her handwriting. (Human Nature)
- The Doctor visited the White Rabbit. (Everybody Loves Irving) He muses on the fact there is also a White Rabbit that is a pub on the Thames Embankment in London (The Harvest etc.) and a baron Bedrock 12.
- Bernice says that, as an archaeologist, she is “probably not the one you were expecting”. (The Night of the Doctor, The Defectors)
- Ruth’s mind was wiped when she attempted to flee from an uprising and has no memory of her life before meeting Bernice. (The Temple of Questions)
- Jack met Bernice on a future Earth that looked like Victorian London, where he was nicknamed Spring-heeled Jack. (Judgement Day)
- Benny thinks back to when she first met the Seventh Doctoron Heaven, where they encountered the Hoothi. She was significantly younger then. (Love and War) She also thinks of how she has met more than one incarnation of the Doctor. (The Dying Days, Benny’s Story)
- Bernice attributes her youthful looks to using time rings. The Doctor gave Bernice and Jason Kane time rings for their wedding. (Happy Endings, Walking to Babylon, Birthright, Just War, Making Myths, Closure)
- Bernice reflects on how she would never have met Jason, Adrian, Guy, Bev, Irving Braxiatel or Wolsey and would have not have brought Peter, Joseph, the Collection, Legion into being without The Doctor. (Death and Diplomacy, The Squire’s Crystal, A Question of Identity, Theatre of War, Prelude Human Nature, Oh No It Isn’t!, Theatre of War, The Genocide Machine)
- When two versions of the same person occupy the same space at the same time, given the Blinovitch Limitation Effect it usually results in a big bang. (Mawdryn Undead)
- Bernice recalls when her body was controlled by someone else. (The Squire’s Crystal, The Curse of Fenman)
- A woman thinks The Doctor has a Welsh accent, but he says that he is Scottish. (Deep Breath) He is unsure why he regards himself as Scottish when he is not human, but wonders if he will have an Australian accent in a future incarnation.
- The Doctor is unsure whether Bernice is a real professor. (Blood Harvest)
- The Doctor says the last time people repeated his words, things didn’t go so well for him. (Midnight)
- The Doctor remarks on how much older Peter looks than the last time he saw him. (…Be Forgot)
- Benny’s last encounter with The Doctor was on Skaro with the Seventh Doctor after Ace stole an Omega device. (The Lights of Skaro) She would later meet him in his seventh incarnation again. (The Pyramid of Sutekh)
- One of the Papal Mainframe soldiers mentions Colonel Octavian. (The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone)
- The Doctor tells Bernice that Gallifrey is missing. (The Day of the Doctor) He says he is unable to find his family.
- Bernice says that she will never forget how The Doctor was there for her after Guy de Carnac died. The Doctor says that every time he visits France he thinks of him. (Sanctuary, The Scapegoat, The Monster of Montmartre, The Girl in the Fireplace)
- Stacy Townsend and Ssard are briefly seen celebrating their eighteenth wedding anniversary. (Placebo Effect)
- Peter uses a Deindum maser. (Escaping the Future)
- Bernice is frustrated that The Doctor has given other companions phones with universal roaming, but did not give herone. (The End of the World etc.)
- The Doctor says that his sonic screwdriver gets stolen and broken more times than one would expect, and that he has duplicates. (The Visitation, The Magician’s Apprentice)
- The Doctor is fond of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (Terror of the Sontarans)
- Peter identifies as gay and is single. He remembers having a romance with a slave named Antonio Tulloch on Bastion who died, and feels a lot of grief because of this. (The Curse of Fenman)
- There are clones of Professor Candy. (Continuity Errors, Let’s Kill Hitler)
- The shop and the group uses a Shimmer to disguise themselves in Sydney in 2015. (The End of Time)
- Kik wears a pairof sunglasses The Doctor once owned in a previous incarnation. (The Magician’s Apprentice)
- Bernice and Keri talk about the Planet of the Hats. (Partners in Crime)
- Bernice refers to the Laws of Time.