‘If I’d wanted to spend the rest of my life hoofing it around grimy spaceships for no good reason I’d have stayed in Spacefleet.’ Ace is back And she is not in a good mood Bernice has asked the Doctor to bring the TARDIS to the planet Lucifer, site of a scientific expedition It’s history to her: the exploration of alien artefacts on Lucifer came to an abrupt halt three centuries before she was born, and she’s always wondered why Uncovering the answer involves the Doctor, Bernice and Ace in sabotage, murder, and the resurrection of eons-old alien powers Are there Angels on Lucifer? And what does it all have to with Ace? Full-length, original novels based on the longest-running science fiction television series of all time, the BBC’s Doctor Who the New Adventures take the TARDIS into previously unexplored realms of space and time Andy Lane lives in London In spite of being a physics graduate he has written articles for just about every British SF magazine, including the Doctor Who magazine Jim Mortimore lives in Bristol When he isn’t writing he’s winning awards for his computer graphics or playing keyboards for techno group SLS LUCIFER RISING Andy Lane and Jim Mortimore First published in 1993 by Doctor Who Books an imprint of Virgin Publishing Ltd 332 Ladbroke Grove London W10 5AH Copyright © Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane 1993 ‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1963, 1993 Cover illustration by Jim Mortimore Illustrated by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood Phototypeset by Intype, London Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berks ISBN 42620 338 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser To My Family and Other Animals: Jon and Alison, Andrew D, Mark, Shauni, Miles, Steve and June (encouragement, support and psychoanalysis) Martin and Tanya (ta for the tent, rave on) Dave, Rodders and the BSFR mob (insanity) Andy and Helen (niceness and free records) Andrew (solipsism and biscuits) Mum and Dad (cash when it really mattered) Kathy (vintage ’63 snuggles) Tricia (she’s mad, she’s bad, she’s on the cover – twice) and Ben JM DEDICATED TO THE DUMBLECON CREW – JUSTIN , CRAIG , ANDREW, GARY, DAVID , THE TWO PETERS , GREEN GILBERT, BILLIBUB AND WILLIE THE WINE BOX AJL Contents Prologue: Falling from Grace Part One: Astarte Chapter One 11 Chapter Two 23 Part Two: Belial 31 Chapter Three 35 Chapter Four 45 Chapter Five 59 Chapter Six 73 Part Three: Moloch 87 Chapter Seven 91 Chapter Eight 101 Chapter Nine 115 Chapter Ten 129 Chapter Eleven 143 Chapter Twelve 153 Chapter Thirteen 167 Part Four: Demogorgon 183 Chapter Fourteen 187 Chapter Fifteen 197 Chapter Sixteen 207 Chapter Seventeen 219 Part Five: Lucifer Rising 229 Chapter Eighteen 233 Chapter Nineteen 245 Chapter Twenty 253 Epilogue: On the Third Day 265 ... SLS LUCIFER RISING Andy Lane and Jim Mortimore First published in 1993 by Doctor Who Books an imprint of Virgin Publishing Ltd 332 Ladbroke Grove London W10 5AH Copyright © Jim Mortimore and Andy. .. support and psychoanalysis) Martin and Tanya (ta for the tent, rave on) Dave, Rodders and the BSFR mob (insanity) Andy and Helen (niceness and free records) Andrew (solipsism and biscuits) Mum and. .. of space and time Andy Lane lives in London In spite of being a physics graduate he has written articles for just about every British SF magazine, including the Doctor Who magazine Jim Mortimore