Head Games (novel)

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Head Games

Author	Steve Lyons
Cover artist	Bill Donohoe
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures
Release number	43
Subject	Featuring: Seventh Doctor Bernice, Chris, Roz, Mel, Ace
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	October 1995
ISBN	0-426-20454-9
Preceded by	Toy Soldiers
Followed by	The Also People

Head Games is an original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.^[1] It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris, Roz, Mel and Ace.

Head Games is a sequel to Lyons' earlier New Adventure Conundrum, and again features the Land of Fiction first seen the 1968 serial The Mind Robber.

Head Games continues a theme running through the New Adventures starting from Timewyrm: Revelation in which the Doctor becomes Time's Champion, and that previous incarnations still in some sense exist within his mind. This novel suggests that the Seventh Doctor was somehow able to terminate the life of his previous incarnation on Lakertya (in the story Time and the Rani) in order to become Time's Champion. This in turn caused the Sixth Doctor to eventually turn into the Valeyard — the evil version of the Doctor seen in the serial The Trial of a Time Lord.