Alex Kingston has written a new Doctor Who book featuring her character, River Song — and it’s very unusual because it also stars you!
Stormcage is described as an “immersive, multi-strand adventure”, which sounds similar to those beloved “Choose Your Own Adventure” books where you follow your own trail, taking instructions to turn to various pages based on the decisions you make. I did something similar (ish) in my book, 100 Objects of Doctor Who actually, and it’s both very hard to do and great fun!
Here’s the blurb for Stormcage:
Alex Kingston has always played River Song. Now, in this immersive, multi-strand adventure she invites YOU to become the beloved.
Professor River Song, imprisoned in the Stormcage Containment Facility, welcomes the excitement of aliens storming her prison. They’re here to spring a creature wanted for terrible crimes. Their assault rips through reality to create the ultimate escape route: a Fate Nexus. A gateway to multiple exit points in time, space and beyond.
In this book, YOU are River, tasked with stopping the criminals and saving reality. Only YOU can choose the path through these pages. You’ll steer River through past, present, and future on all kinds of audacious adventures. You’ll meet old enemies, familiar friends, and, of course, the Doctor. Will you hunt down a happy ending or find disaster and death? The chances are yours to take!
Alex first appeared as River, opposite David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor, in Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead, before becoming a staple of the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) era, and having a seemingly final meeting with the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) in The Husbands of River Song — that last one being the last time we saw her, not the last time she saw the Doctor…
And Stormcage, of course, is the prison she was confined in after supposedly killing the Doctor.
Yep, it’s complicated. A “Choose Your Own Adventure” style tome really fits River!
