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Millennial Rites

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Author	Craig Hinton
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	15
Subject	Featuring: Sixth Doctor Mel
Set in	Period between The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	October 1995
ISBN	0-426-20455-7
Preceded by	Managra
Followed by	The Empire of Glass

Millennial Rites is an original novel written by Craig Hinton and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Mel.

The Doctor and Mel land in London, 1999, to celebrate the New Year. But other forces are making deadlier preparations to ring in the new millennium: a software firm is about to run a program that will change the very fabric of reality, while an ancient entity from the universe's origins is due for resurrection. When Anne Travers' fear of the Great Intelligence, and millionaire Ashley Chapel's research combine, London is set to be transformed into a terrifying place inhabited by unimaginable dangers.

The first half of the novel was based on Craig's time working at IBM's Warwick Software Development Lab.^{[citation needed]}

A blast of psychic energy released in the novel is felt all across the globe by those attuned to such things. These include "a thoughtful man levitating in a voluminous blue cloak" in New York and "a blond-haired man in a dirty beige trenchcoat" drinking Guinness in a Dublin pub.^[1] The book makes reference to The Library of St. John the Beheaded created by Andy Lane, who had attended the same university as Craig Hinton.