The Sword of Forever

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Doctor Who book

The Sword of Forever
Series	Virgin New Adventures
Release number	14
Featuring	Bernice Summerfield
Writer	Jim Mortimore
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20526-X
Release date	June 1998
Preceded by	Dry Pilgrimage
Followed by	Another Girl, Another Planet

The Sword of Forever is an original novel by Jim Mortimore featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

The story draws on conspiracy theories around the Knights Templar, the Ark of the Covenant and so forth. It also draws on earlier New Adventures' depictions of a future Earth.