Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures · #16
The Empire of Glass
'There is a old Venetian saying,' the Doctor murmured. 'The council of ten send you to the torture chamber; the council of three send you to the grave.'
A strange invitation brings the Doctor, Steven and Vicki to Venice in the year of our Lord 1609: a place of politics and poison, science and superstition, telescopes and terror. Galileo Galilei is there demonstrating his new invention to the Doge, and William Shakespeare is working as a spy for King James I. And there are other visitors too: inhuman ones that lurk in the shadows, watching - and killing.
Vicki is abducted to a flying island. Steven is accused of murder and challenged to a duel. The Doctor, meanwhile, finds himself at the centre of what looks like an attempted invasion. But who are the invaders? And why can’t they proceed without his help?
The series
The Virgin Missing Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, featuring stories set between televised episodes of the programme. The novels were published from 1994 to 1997, and featured the First through Sixth Doctors. (The Seventh Doctor also appeared in one novel).
#1 · 1994Goth Opera 
#2 · 1994Evolution 
#3 · 1994Venusian Lullaby 
#4 · 1994The Crystal Bucephalus 
#5 · 1994State of Change 
#6 · 1995The Romance of Crime 
#7 · 1995The Ghosts of N-Space 
#8 · 1995Time of Your Life 
#9 · 1995Dancing the Code 
#10 · 1995The Menagerie 
#11 · 1995System Shock 
#12 · 1995The Sorcerer's Apprentice 
#13 · 1995Invasion of the Cat-People 
#14 · 1995Managra 
#15 · 1995Millennial Rites 
#16 · 1996The Empire of Glass 
#17 · 1995Lords of the Storm 
#18 · 1996Downtime 
#19 · 1996The Man in the Velvet Mask 
#20 · 1996The English Way of Death 
#21 · 1996The Eye of the Giant 
#22 · 1996The Sands of Time 
#23 · 1996Killing Ground 
#24 · 1996The Scales of Injustice 
#25 · 1996The Shadow of Weng-Chiang 
#26 · 1996Twilight of the Gods 
#27 · 1996Speed of Flight 
#28 · 1996The Plotters 
#29 · 1996Cold Fusion 
#30 · 1997Burning Heart 
#31 · 1997A Device of Death 
#32 · 1997The Dark Path 
#33 · 1997The Well-Mannered War Be the first reviewer
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