The Colony of Lies

2003 novel by Colin Brake

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The Colony of Lies

Author| Colin Brake
Series| Doctor Who book:
Past Doctor Adventures

Release number

| 61
Subject| Featuring:
Second Doctor
Zoe and Jamie
Publisher| BBC Books

Publication date

| 7 July 2003
Pages| 275
ISBN| 0-563-48606-6
Preceded by| Loving the Alien
Followed by| Wolfsbane

The Colony of Lies is a BBC Books original novel written by Colin Brake and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.[1] It features the Second Doctor, Zoe and Jamie. It also features appearances by the Seventh Doctor and Ace, with the Seventh Doctor meeting the Second in a virtual interface to pass on a vital message that will allow him to resolve the current crisis.

## Plot

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The independent Earth Colony Axista Four was supposedly founded in the 2439 by Stewart Ransom, a noted humanitarian. Arriving on the colony one hundred years later, the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find a near-civil war.

'Realists' have abandoned Ransome's 'back to basics' ideals and are raiding the remains of the colony ship to further their technological advancements. The 'Loyalists' are in danger of extinction. In a little-known underground bunker, aliens who claim to be the planet's first colonists are stirring.

Hopeful colonists hope Random's daughter, Kirann, can be revived from cryogenic suspension and reunited the colony. This does not work out as expected.

## References

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1. ^ "BBC - Cult - Doctor Who - Books - Colony of Lies". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 31 March 2025.

## External links

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* The Cloister Library - The Colony of Lies

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* Timewyrm: Genesys
* Timewyrm: Exodus
* Timewyrm: Apocalypse
* Timewyrm: Revelation
* Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
* Cat's Cradle: Warhead
* Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
* Nightshade
* The Highest Science
* The Pit
* Lucifer Rising
* White Darkness
* Shadowmind
* Iceberg
* Blood Heat
* The Dimension Riders
* The Left-Handed Hummingbird
* Conundrum
* No Future
* Tragedy Day
* Legacy
* Blood Harvest
* Strange England
* St Anthony's Fire
* Falls the Shadow
* Warlock
* Infinite Requiem
* Sanctuary
* Human Nature
* Original Sin
* Zamper
* Toy Soldiers
* Head Games
* The Also People
* Just War
* Sleepy
* Christmas on a Rational Planet
* Return of the Living Dad
* The Death of Art
* Damaged Goods
* So Vile a Sin
* Bad Therapy
* Eternity Weeps
* The Room with No Doors
* Lungbarrow
* The Dying Days

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* The Sword of Forever
* Beige Planet Mars
* Where Angels Fear
* The Joy Device
* Twilight of the Gods

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* Goth Opera
* Venusian Lullaby
* The Crystal Bucephalus
* State of Change
* The Romance of Crime
* Time of Your Life
* Dancing the Code
* The Menagerie
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* Millennial Rites
* The Empire of Glass
* The Man in the Velvet Mask
* The English Way of Death
* The Eye of the Giant
* The Sands of Time
* Killing Ground
* The Scales of Injustice
* The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
* Twilight of the Gods
* The Plotters
* Cold Fusion
* The Dark Path
* The Well-Mannered War

Eighth Doctor Adventures

* The Eight Doctors
* Vampire Science
* The Bodysnatchers
* Genocide
* War of the Daleks
* Kursaal
* Option Lock
* Longest Day
* Legacy of the Daleks
* Dreamstone Moon
* Seeing I
* Vanderdeken's Children
* The Scarlet Empress
* The Face-Eater
* The Taint
* Demontage
* Revolution Man
* Dominion
* Unnatural History
* Autumn Mist
* Coldheart
* The Space Age
* The Banquo Legacy
* The Ancestor Cell
* The Burning
* The Turing Test
* Endgame
* The Year of Intelligent Tigers
* The Slow Empire
* The City of the Dead
* Grimm Reality
* The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
* Hope
* Anachrophobia
* Trading Futures
* The Book of the Still
* The Crooked World
* History 101
* Camera Obscura
* Time Zero
* The Infinity Race
* The Domino Effect
* Reckless Engineering
* The Last Resort
* Timeless
* Emotional Chemistry
* Sometime Never...
* The Tomorrow Windows
* The Sleep of Reason
* To the Slaughter
* The Gallifrey Chronicles

Past Doctor Adventures

* The Devil Goblins from Neptune
* The Roundheads
* The Infinity Doctors
* Salvation
* The Wages of Sin
* Players
* The Final Sanction
* Corpse Marker
* Last of the Gaderene
* Verdigris
* Grave Matter
* Festival of Death
* The King of Terror
* The Quantum Archangel
* Bunker Soldiers
* The Shadow in the Glass
* Superior Beings
* Instruments of Darkness
* Warmonger
* Ten Little Aliens
* Combat Rock
* The Suns of Caresh
* Fear of the Dark
* Blue Box
* The Colony of Lies
* Wolfsbane
* The Eleventh Tiger
* Synthespians™
* The Algebra of Ice
* The Indestructible Man
* Spiral Scratch
* World Game
* The Time Travellers

Novellas

* Time and Relative
* Foreign Devils
* Wonderland
* Shell Shock
* The Cabinet of Light
* Blood and Hope
* The Dalek Factor

New Series Adventures

| Novels|

* The Feast of the Drowned
* The Resurrection Casket
* The Art of Destruction
* Sting of the Zygons
* The Last Dodo
* Wooden Heart
* Sick Building
* Wetworld
* The Pirate Loop
* Snowglobe 7
* The Many Hands
* The Doctor Trap
* Shining Darkness
* The Story of Martha
* Beautiful Chaos
* The Eyeless
* Prisoner of the Daleks
* The Krillitane Storm
* Night of the Humans
* The Glamour Chase
* The Coming of the Terraphiles
* The Way Through The Woods
* Hunter's Moon
* The Silent Stars Go By
* Engines of War
* The Blood Cell

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Novellas|

* I am a Dalek
* Made of Steel
* The Sontaran Games
* Code of the Krillitanes

Audiobooks|

* Pest Control
* The Forever Trap
* The Nemonite Invasion
* The Rising Night
* The Day of the Troll
* The Last Voyage
* Dead Air

Other

| Related|

* Virgin Decalog
* Faction Paradox
* Doctor Who Files
* The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery
* The Essential Book of K9

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See also|

* Novelisations
* Audiobooks
* BBC Short Trips
* Big Finish Short Trips
* Torchwood
* The Sarah Jane Adventures Collection

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Doctor Who: Second Doctor stories

Television

| Season 4|

* The Power of the Daleks
* The Highlanders
* The Underwater Menace
* The Moonbase
* The Macra Terror
* The Faceless Ones
* The Evil of the Daleks

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Season 5|

* The Tomb of the Cybermen
* The Abominable Snowmen
* The Ice Warriors
* The Enemy of the World
* The Web of Fear
* Fury from the Deep
* The Wheel in Space

Season 6|

* The Dominators
* The Mind Robber
* The Invasion
* The Krotons
* The Seeds of Death
* The Space Pirates
* The War Games

Other appearances|

| Major|

* The Three Doctors
* "The Five Doctors"
* The Two Doctors

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Minor|

* The Tenth Planet
* "The Name of the Doctor"
* "The Day of the Doctor"

See also|

* Dimensions in Time
* "Twice Upon a Time"

Audio

* The Companion Chronicles
* The Lost Stories
* Shadow of Death
* The Second Doctor Adventures

Books

| Missing Adventures|

* The Menagerie
* Invasion of the Cat-People
* Twilight of the Gods
* The Dark Path

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Past Doctor Adventures|

* The Murder Game
* The Roundheads
* The Infinity Doctors
* Players
* The Final Sanction
* Independence Day
* Dying in the Sun
* Combat Rock
* The Colony of Lies
* The Indestructible Man
* World Game

Novellas|

* Foreign Devils
* Wonderland

Video games

* Dalek Attack
* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

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Doctor Who: Seventh Doctor stories

Television

| Season 24|

* Time and the Rani
* Paradise Towers
* Delta and the Bannermen
* Dragonfire

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Season 25|

* Remembrance of the Daleks
* The Happiness Patrol
* Silver Nemesis
* The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Season 26|

* Battlefield
* Ghost Light
* The Curse of Fenric
* Survival

Minor appearances|

* Doctor Who
* "The Name of the Doctor"
* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "The Power of the Doctor"

See also|

* Dimensions in Time

Audio

| The Monthly Adventures|

* The Sirens of Time
* The Genocide Machine
* The Rapture
* Zagreus
* Red
* Nocturne
* The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow
* The Prisoner's Dilemma
* Enemy of the Daleks
* The Angel of Scutari
* Protect and Survive
* Black and White
* The Shadow Heart
* Daleks Among Us
* Fiesta of the Damned

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Novel adaptations|

* The Highest Science
* Damaged Goods
* Cold Fusion

Other|

* Death Comes to Time
* The Seventh Doctor Adventures
* The Lost Stories
* Return of the Daleks
* Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code
* The Four Doctors
* Dominion
* Shockwave
* Classic Doctors, New Monsters

Minor appearances|

* Thicker Than Water
* The Final Amendment
* Doom Coalition

Books

| New Adventures|

* Timewyrm: Genesys
* Timewyrm: Exodus
* Timewyrm: Apocalypse
* Timewyrm: Revelation
* Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
* Cat's Cradle: Warhead
* Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
* Nightshade
* The Highest Science
* The Pit
* Lucifer Rising
* White Darkness
* Shadowmind
* Birthright
* Iceberg
* Blood Heat
* The Dimension Riders
* The Left-Handed Hummingbird
* Conundrum
* No Future
* Tragedy Day
* Legacy
* Blood Harvest
* Strange England
* St Anthony's Fire
* Falls the Shadow
* Parasite
* Warlock
* Infinite Requiem
* Sanctuary
* Human Nature
* Original Sin
* Sky Pirates!
* Zamper
* Toy Soldiers
* Head Games
* The Also People
* Shakedown
* Just War
* Warchild
* Sleepy
* Death and Diplomacy
* Happy Endings
* Christmas on a Rational Planet
* Return of the Living Dad
* The Death of Art
* Damaged Goods
* So Vile a Sin
* Bad Therapy
* Eternity Weeps
* The Room with No Doors
* Lungbarrow

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Missing Adventures|

* Cold Fusion

Past Doctor Adventures|

* Matrix
* Storm Harvest
* Prime Time
* Independence Day
* Bullet Time
* Relative Dementias
* Heritage
* Loving the Alien
* The Colony of Lies
* The Algebra of Ice
* Atom Bomb Blues

Novellas|

* Citadel of Dreams
* Companion Piece

Video games

* Dalek Attack
* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

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Doctor Who: Multi-Doctor stories

Television|

| Different incarnations|

* The Three Doctors
* "The Five Doctors"
* The Two Doctors
* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "Twice Upon a Time"
* "Fugitive of the Judoon"
* "The Power of the Doctor"
* "The Giggle"
* "The Reality War"

Minor instances|

* "The Name of the Doctor"
* "Deep Breath"
* "Listen"
* "The Witch's Familiar"
* "The Doctor Falls"
* "The Timeless Children"
* "Once, Upon Time"
* "The Story & the Engine"

Identical incarnations|

* The Chase
* "Journey's End"
* "The Rebel Flesh" / "The Almost People"
* "The Vanquishers"

Minor instances|

* Day of the Daleks
* "Father's Day"
* "The Big Bang"
* "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"
* "Joy to the World"

Audio|

* The Sirens of Time
* Zagreus
* 100
* The Four Doctors
* The Eleven
* Cold Fusion

Books|

* Timewyrm: Genesys
* Timewyrm: Revelation
* Who Killed Kennedy
* Cold Fusion
* The Eight Doctors
* Players
* Interference – Book One
* Interference – Book Two
* The Colony of Lies
* Wolfsbane

Comics|

* Emperor of the Daleks
* Assimilation2

Video games|

* Dalek Attack
* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

See also|

* Regeneration
* The Brain of Morbius
* The Trial of a Time Lord
* Dimensions in Time
* The Curse of Fatal Death
* "Time Crash"
* "Space" / "Time"
* "Last Night"

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