The Turing Test (novel)

The Turing Test
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Main setting:	Oxford, Paris and Dresden, 1945
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Paul Leonard
Release details
Release number:	39
Release date:	October 2000
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53806-6
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
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The Turing Test was the thirty-ninth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Paul Leonard.

Publisher's Summary

The Second World War is drawing to a close. Alan Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort, is called in to break a mysterious new cypher. It's coming from Germany, and everyone assumes it is German -- everyone except Turing's new friend, the Doctor, indeed it seems the Doctor knows too much about the code and the code-makers -- and when people start to die, even Turing wonders it the Doctor is the one to blame.

Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor, and thinks he's a rum enough chap, but in a remote African village he has encountered something far stranger.

To find out the truth, they must all cross the front line and travel through occupied Germany -- right into the firing line of the bloodiest war in history. What they find there has no human explanation -- and only the Doctor has the answers. Or maybe, they're just more questions...

Characters

• The Doctor
• Graham Greene
• Alan Turing
• Joseph Heller
• Colonel Herbert Elgar
• Bernard
• Cray
• Daria
• Horatio Elgar
• Hugh Alexander
• White

References

• The Eighth Doctor is ambidextrous, like his previous incarnation.

Notes

• This is the third story in the "Earth Arc".

Continuity

• According to the Remembrance of the Daleks novelisation, Rachel Jensen helped Alan Turing with his wartime research.

External links

• The Turing Test at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Turing Test at The Whoniverse