Doctor Who: The Collapse Dividend (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798295582912)

The universe is no longer conquered.

It is liquidated.

An entity known only as BOSS has discovered the ultimate power source: collapse itself. Every fallen civilization generates a psychic "dividend"-an energy surge born from despair, fear, and loss. As worlds fail, BOSS grows richer, stronger, and closer to absolute dominion over the timestream.

When entire galaxies begin vanishing in calculated waves of ruin, the Doctor uncovers a terrifying truth: suffering has become a business model. Daleks file loss ratios. Cybermen balance conversion spreadsheets. Alien bankers cheer as stock charts spike with every extinction. Even the Doctor's victories feed the system.

As BOSS prepares the Final Shareholder Meeting-a mandatory summit where enslaved species must report their obedience-the Doctor realizes resistance itself has been monetized. To stop an empire built on despair, he must confront a horrifying possibility: the only way to break the market may be to play it from the inside.

Dark, psychological, and disturbingly prophetic, Doctor Who: The Collapse Dividend reimagines the Whoniverse as a nightmare of profit-driven apocalypse-where hope is dangerous, heroism has a cost, and even the Doctor may be complicit in the universe's destruction.