The Empire of Glass

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Author	Andy Lane
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	16
Subject	Featuring: First Doctor Steven Taylor, Vicki and Irving Braxiatel
Set in	Period between The Three Doctors (in the First Doctor's timeline) and Galaxy 4[1][2]
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	November 1995
Pages	257
ISBN	0-426-20457-3
Preceded by	Millennial Rites
Followed by	Lords of the Storm

The Empire of Glass is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Andy Lane based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the First Doctor, Steven Taylor, Vicki and Irving Braxiatel.

Plot

The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki land in what seems to be Venice in 1609, where they meet a host of major historical figures including Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare. However, with the arrival of old acquaintance Irving Braxiatel, Vicki's abduction and the framing of Steven for murder, the Doctor soon finds himself embroiled in the sinister machinations of an alien invasion.

Source materials

In the acknowledgements, Lane notes that this was his own version of Tim Powers' The Stress of Her Regard.