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|image= NA018 iceberg.jpg
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|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]
|series = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
|range = Virgin New Adventures
|range = Virgin New Adventures
|number in range = 18
|number in range = 18
|number= 18
|number= 18
|doctor=Seventh Doctor
|doctor = Seventh Doctor
|companions=
|companions=
|enemy= [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]]
|enemy= [[Cyber Co-ordinator]]
|setting= [[Antarctica]], [[2006]]
|setting= [[Antarctica]], [[2006]]
|writer= [[David Banks]]
|writer= David Banks
|cover= [[Andrew Skilleter]]
|cover= [[Andrew Skilleter]]
|read by=[[David Banks]]
|read by = [[David Banks]]
|publisher= Virgin Books
|publisher= Virgin Books
|release date=[[16 September (releases)|16 September]] [[1993 (releases)|1993]]
|release date= 16 September 1993
|format= Paperback Book; 23 Chapters, 253 Pages
|format= Paperback Book; 23 Chapters, 253 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20392-5
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20392-5
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|next2= Time & Time Again (comic story)
|next2= Time & Time Again (comic story)
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'''''Iceberg''''' is the eighteenth novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series, and was published in [[1993 (releases)|1993]]. It was written by [[David Banks]]. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]]. This novel takes place at the same time as ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'', with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the Doctor, [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]].
'''''Iceberg''''' is the eighteenth novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series, and was published in [[1993 (releases)|1993]]. It was written by [[David Banks]]. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]]. This novel takes place at the same time as ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'', with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the Doctor, [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]].


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* Captain [[Trench]]
* Captain [[Trench]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor is inspired to walk barefoot through [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to the [[Jade Pagoda]]. He ends up in [[snowdrift]]s without his [[shoe]]s.
* The Doctor is inspired to walk barefoot through [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to the [[Jade Pagoda]]. He ends up in [[snowdrift]]s without his [[shoe]]s.
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* Ruby learned of the Cybermen from [[Isobel Watkins]], whose photographs of them were subsequently derided as fakes in the official cover-up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
* Ruby learned of the Cybermen from [[Isobel Watkins]], whose photographs of them were subsequently derided as fakes in the official cover-up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
* The Doctor vaguely remembers materialising at a [[cricket]] match and associates the memory with the [[Dalek]]s but cannot remember why. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
* The Doctor vaguely remembers materialising at a [[cricket]] match and associates the memory with the [[Dalek]]s but cannot remember why. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
* In ''[[The Crash of the Elysium]]'', a story that this Wiki does not consider a valid source, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] encountered a historical vessel of the same name.
* In ''[[The Crash of the Elysium (stage play)|The Crash of the Elysium]]'' and associated tie-in stories, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] encountered another [[Elysium (The Elysium)|historical vessel of the same name]].
 


== Cover gallery ==
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* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/iceb.htm The Cloister Library: '''Iceberg''']
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/iceb.htm The Cloister Library: '''Iceberg''']
* [http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv37/beyondthebook.html#iceberg Beyond the Book: Iceberg by Paul Scoones (Article) - TSV 37]
* [http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv37/beyondthebook.html#iceberg Beyond the Book: Iceberg by Paul Scoones (Article) - TSV 37]
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Iceberg is the eighteenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series, and was published in 1993. It was written by David Banks. It features the Seventh Doctor. This novel takes place at the same time as Birthright, with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield.

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"Depends on how you define alien," the Doctor said simply. "They were human once."

In 2006 the world is about to be overwhelmed by a disaster that might destroy human civilisation: the inversion of the Earth's magnetic field. Deep in an Antarctic base, the FLIPback team is frantically devising a system to reverse the change in polarity.

Above them, the SS Elysium carries its jet-set passengers on the ultimate cruise. On board is Ruby Duvall, a journalist sent to record the FLIPback moment. Instead she finds a man called the Doctor, who is locked out of the strange green box he says is merely a part of his time machine. And she finds old enemies of the Doctor: silver giants at work beneath the ice.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cybermen[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Earth's population is approaching 8 billion.
  • "The plague" is a name for all diseases across the planet, a product of the changing environment.
  • The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in April 1986. 80,000 people died of cancer as a result of the disaster.
  • Mondas was not granted status as the tenth planet in the solar system. In 1994, the planet Cassius was discovered and earned that status.

Music[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • SlapRap is a style of music.
  • In the early 1970s, the song "Ruby Tuesday" is playing on the transistor radio.

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Pop culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The events of this novel runs parallel with those of the novel Birthright.
  • Author David Banks was an actor in the TV series, having played Cybermen on several occasions. Although not the first Doctor Who actor to write a novel (Ian Marter wrote novelisations and the original work Harry Sullivan's War previously), he was the only past Doctor Who actor to contribute a work to the New Adventures line.
  • A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 204.
  • Like Transit this novel also includes language more profane than had previously appeared in Doctor Who television stories.
  • In the preface, Banks notes the book follows the Cyberman chronology he established in his reference book Cybermen.
  • An unabridged audiobook of the story was recorded by David Banks for the RNIB in 2004. It is only available to the registered blind.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

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