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((Short description|1997 novel by Marc Platt))
((More citations needed|date=March 2022))
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|name = Lungbarrow
|image = Lungbarrow.jpg
|caption =
|cover_artist = Fred Gambino
|author = [[Marc Platt (writer)|Marc Platt]]
|series = ''[[Doctor Who]]'' book:<br />[[Virgin New Adventures]]
|release_number = 60
|subject = Featuring:<br />[[Seventh Doctor]]<br />[[Chris Cwej|Chris]], [[Romana (Doctor Who)|Romana]], [[Ace (Doctor Who)|Ace]], [[Leela (Doctor Who)|Leela]], [[K-9 (Doctor Who)|K-9]]
|set_in = Period between<br />''[[The Room with No Doors]]'' and<br>[[Doctor Who (1996)|the television movie]]
|release_date = 20 March 1997
|publisher = [[Virgin Books]]
|pages = 
| isbn =  0-426-20502-2
|preceded_by = [[The Room with No Doors]]
|followed_by = [[Doctor Who (1996 film)|Doctor Who]] (broadcast and chronological order)<br>[[The Dying Days]] (novel)
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'''''Lungbarrow''''' is an original novel written by [[Marc Platt (writer)|Marc Platt]] and based on the long-running British [[science fiction on television|science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Published in [[Virgin Books]]' ''[[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'' range, it was the last of that range to feature the [[Seventh Doctor]].

When all stories of any media under any banner are listed chronologically, this is the last which features the Seventh Doctor as the "current" Doctor, although [[Paul McGann]]'s [[Eighth Doctor]] had already made his televised appearance by the time the novel was published.

==Plot==
His mind occupied with thoughts of his coming regeneration, the Doctor accidentally returns to [[Gallifrey]] and the House of Lungbarrow, where for over 673 years his 44 cousins have been trapped, but mysteriously only six of them are still left. Meanwhile, [[Chris Cwej]] is having strange dreams of the past, when the family cast the Doctor out. The Doctor is accused of the murder of the head of the House, but he finds many allies in the form of former companions [[Ace (Doctor Who)|Ace]], [[Romana (Doctor Who)|Romana]], [[K-9 (Doctor Who)|K-9 Mark I, K-9 Mark II]] and [[Leela (Doctor Who)|Leela]], who have become embroiled in a Celestial Intervention Agency plot to overthrow Romana's presidency. The secrets of the past are catching up to the Doctor—in particular, the secret that links him to a figure from Gallifreyan history known only as the [[Other (Doctor Who)|Other]].

==Background==
''Lungbarrow'' wrapped up the last of the continuity of the New Adventures and put the Doctor on course to gather the [[Master (Doctor Who)|Master's]] remains from [[Skaro]], as depicted in the [[Doctor Who (1996)|1996 Doctor Who television movie]]. It is also one of a number of the New Adventures which is hard to obtain and is often seen on auction websites such as [[eBay]] at prices many times the original cover price.

The novel which followed ''Lungbarrow'', [[Lance Parkin]]'s ''[[The Dying Days]]'', featured the [[Eighth Doctor]].  When Virgin subsequently lost their licence to print original ''Doctor Who'' fiction, they chose to focus on a character from the New Adventures which the BBC did not own, former companion [[Bernice Summerfield]].  ''Lungbarrow'' serves, in concert with ''Dying Days'', to gradually increase the standing of Summerfield's character, laying the groundwork for the later appearance of the Seventh Doctor's then-companion, [[Chris Cwej]], in Summerfield's own novels.

Platt's novel, though, is largely concerned with concluding what was known as the "[[Cartmel Masterplan]]".  In the final two seasons of the original 1963-1989 run of ''Doctor Who'', the then [[script editor]] [[Andrew Cartmel]] introduced new elements of mystery into the character of the [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]]. Suggestions of dark secrets that the Doctor might be more than just a [[Time Lord]] were inserted into scripts of stories such as [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' and [[Kevin Clarke (writer)|Kevin Clarke]]'s ''[[Silver Nemesis]]''. Had the series not been effectively cancelled in 1989, the following series would have made some of these revelations.
''Lungbarrow'' began life as a television script, which was rejected by [[John Nathan-Turner]] on the grounds that it revealed too much about the Doctor and the Time Lords, too quickly. Elements of Platt's planned ''Lungbarrow'' instead became part of the Series 26 serial ''[[Ghost Light (Doctor Who)|Ghost Light]]'', such as the sinister house keeper, the trapped investigating policeman and finale based around the family dinner. If produced, the story would have featured [[Ace (Doctor Who)|Ace]] as the main companion and been set entirely within the House.

Along the way to this resolution, ''Lungbarrow'' ultimately reveals much new information about the Doctor's home world and race, some of which had been hinted at ever since the first New Adventures novel. Many of the New Adventures authors migrated to the BBC Books ''Doctor Who'' line and elements of this backstory also made their way into subsequent novels. However, there have also been elements in those novels that contradict it.

==Publication history==
The numbering of this book (60 of 61) refers to the publisher's ''intended'' order, not the actual order of publication.  Because of chronic delays troubling [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'' (which was eventually finished by [[Kate Orman]]), it was actually the 59th New Adventure published.

[[Lance Parkin]] on an Outpost Gallifrey forum thread<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53208&highlight=lungbarrow+print|title= Outpost Gallifrey forum thread (registration required)))</ref>  stated in 2005 that the reason the last three books in the Virgin New Adventures range, including ''Lungbarrow'', were so expensive on the [[secondary market]] was excessive demand, rather than an unusually low initial [[print run]].  However, he also noted that reprints of these books were not allowed, because Virgin's license expired before a second printing might otherwise have been made.

A new version of ''Lungbarrow'', with both additions and subtractions to the original text, author's notes and an artwork gallery, was presented as an [[e-book]] on the BBC website from 22 August 2003 to December 2010.

==Continuity==
*The Seventh Doctor is sent to collect the Master’s remains by Romana, a lead in to [[Doctor Who (1996 film)|the television movie]].

==Outside references==
The Houses that Platt gives Gallifrey are similar to the household featured in Peake's ''[[Gormenghast series|Gormenghast]]'' trilogy.  Badger, a character who makes his first appearance in ''Lungbarrow'', has much in common with a character in Peake's ''Gormenghast'' novella, ''[[Boy in Darkness]]'', which originally appeared in the collected work ''[[Sometime, Never]]'' by Golding, Wyndham and Peake.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/disccon/unbound/auld.html|title=The Disccontinuity Guide))</ref>

==See also==
((portal|Novels))
* [[Time Lord#History|Time Lord - History within the show]]
* [[Other (Doctor Who)|The Other]]
* [[Doctor (Doctor Who)#Romance|The Doctor and romance]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090311050623/http://www.whoniverse.org/discontinuity/NA60.php The Cloister Library - ''Lungbarrow'']
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