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Blood Heat
Series:	Doctor Who - Virgin New Adventures
Release Number:	19
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companions:	Ace, Benny
Enemy:	The Monk (not featured), Silurians
Setting:	alternate-Earth, England, 1993
Author:	Jim Mortimore
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	October 1993
Format:	Paperback Book, 309 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426203992
Previous Story:	Iceberg
Following Story:	The Dimension Riders

Publisher's Summary

'Not men, Ace. Silurians. The original rulers of the Earth.'

The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth.

An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.

Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...

Characters

• The Doctor

• Has two more ribs than a human.
• Is shocked that Morka killed the alternative third Doctor.
• Finds the Brigadier's actions terrible however....
• Performs a Time Ram to destroy this universe in order to save his own universe after lying to Ace and Benny about ensuring the Alternative Universe has a semi-natural lifespan.

• Bernice Summerfield

• Morka injects Benny with a virus which cures the Race Memory fear.
• Gets shot while trying to stop the nuclear missiles.

• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (alternate version)

• Injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her, it kills her.
• Launches a nuclear warhead at the Silurian Capital City in Africa.
• Bursts into tears over all the death he caused (including the shattered eggs of the Silurians).

• Liz Shaw (alternate version)

• Married a man named James Lester, he hit his head looking for food and died.

• Jo Grant (alternate version)

• Is killed by the alternate Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. (see above)
• Goes insane from a combination of radiation and Race Memory fear.
• Was sent to retrieve the launch codes the Brigadier planned to use.

• Benton (alternate version)
• Manisha (alternate version)
  • Saw her version of Ace die (an inversion of the Ace who travels with the Doctor who saw Manisha die).
• Alan

References

• The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex.
• The Doctor uses the secondary console room.
• Ace's new variant of Nitro-9 - Nitro-9 smart bombs can fly and take verbal commands.

• All part of / located in the alternate world: Silurians, Cyclotron, Parallel Universe(s), Jo Grant, Nuclear missiles, Sonic Screwdriver, Manisha, Third Doctor, Silurian virus

• The Doctor takes his third self's TARDIS from the alternate universe as his is lost in a tar pit, this TARDIS has a working Chameleon Circuit.

Notes

• A prelude to this novel was published in DWM Issue 205.

Continuity

• Blood Heat marks the beginning of the pentalogy of New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc. This comprises this novel, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.

• A similar journey into an alternate universe (which has an alternate version of UNIT and Silurians) occured in DWM: Final Genesis.

• Blood Heat references DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians as its starting point for the divergent timeline. Deadly Genesis also branches off from the events seen in that story.

• The Doctor's original TARDIS (here lost in a tar pit) is returned to him in NA: Happy Endings.

• Manisha was mentioned in DW: Ghost Light.

• The TARDIS also (similarly) falls through a puncture in the time vortex in DW: The Age of Steel.

External Links

• Prelude to Blood Heat as published in DWM #205
• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Blood Heat
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Blood Heat