Other Appearances
Pip and Jane Baker wrote the Rani as the lead in the BBV audio drama The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind, following on from Time and the Rani, and also wrote her as the villain in a Choose Your Own Adventure-style children's game book entitled Race Against Time.
The Rani appears in the Virgin Missing Adventures spin-off novel State of Change by Christopher Bulis. Here, the Master escaped the Rani's TARDIS in The Mark of the Rani by splitting the console room from the rest of it, leaving the Rani adrift in a space-time bubble until she encountered a benign entity that created a distorted pocket reality where the Egyptians possessed 20th-century technology due to their access to the databanks of a duplicate of the Doctor's TARDIS console. The Rani tried her hand at political machinations in this reality before the intervention of the Doctor breaks her control over the entity, at which point she escaped in her repaired TARDIS.
The Rani is mentioned in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventure The Ancestor Cell, by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole. The Eighth Doctor's former companion, Fitz, now Father Kreiner of Faction Paradox, claims to have killed the Rani as well as the Master (during the "Second War in Heaven" described in Lawrence Miles' EDA: Interference: Book One), and now displays their skulls as trophies. (Although the authenticity of the latter is in doubt).
The Past Doctor Adventure Divided Loyalties, by Gary Russell, states that the Rani was one of a group of promising young Time Lords called "the Deca" which included many future renegades, including the Doctor and the Master. The novel also gives her given name (or at least its first syllables) as Ushas (a reference to the Vedic goddess of that name).
The Rani briefly appears in an artificially created parallel universe in the Past Doctor Adventures novel The Quantum Archangel. In this reality she, the Master, the Meddling Monk, and Drax are posing as a group of German scientists.
The short story "Rescue", by David Roden (who also wrote Dimensions in Time), reveals how the Rani rescued Cyrian from a Cyberman invasion of his home planet. It was published in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1995.
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