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{{Infobox | |series=''[[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]'' short stories | ||
|doctor = Fourth Doctor | |||
series=[[ | |companions=[[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah]], [[Harry Sullivan|Harry]] | ||
doctor= | |setting= [[Dead Sea]], [[Israel]], Stone Age | ||
companions=[[ | |writer = Andrew Lowes | ||
|publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 117|117]] | |||
writer=Andrew Lowes| | |cover date= October 1986 | ||
publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 117|117]]| | |prev = Power to the People (short story) | ||
|next=Hall of Mirrors (short story) | |||
next story | }} | ||
'''''The Heat-Seekers''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' short story published in the [[DWM 117|117th issue]] of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. It featured the [[Fourth Doctor]] and his companions [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Harry Sullivan]]. | |||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
[[Olag]] was one of the lucky few to be allowed to hunt while his tribe were held as slaves by the "melters-of-rock" | [[Olag]] was one of the lucky few to be allowed to hunt while his tribe were held as slaves by the "melters-of-rock". They had arrived in their metal ships and were now drilling down through the rock, ever forward towards the centre of the [[Earth]]. They forced his people to work the mines by their new masters. They were ape-like creatures who carried "thundersticks" that sent bolts of light capable of melting rock. | ||
== | Olag steals a "thunderstick" from one of the creatures. He runs into the tunnels and encounters three more strangers (the [[Fourth Doctor]], and his travelling companions [[Harry Sullivan]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]). There is a huge energy pattern on the scale of [[Hiroshima]] in [[1945]], so the Doctor has arrived to investigate. He greet Olag and hides from the invaders. The Doctor recognises them as [[Ronan (species)|Ronans]] from the [[planet]] [[Ronos]]. The planet was believed destroyed when the Ronans drilled into their own planet. It was moving away from its sun and became colder. | ||
* [[Doctor]] | |||
This small band of survivors sought to do the same to the Earth and chose the [[Dead Sea]] as one of the thinnest parts of the Earth's crust. However, Ronos was a dry world and the Ronans were allergic to [[salt water]]. | |||
Olag uses the stolen "thunderstick", a laser weapon, to weaken the tunnels. The Dead Sea floods the tunnels. The Ronans are driven through the flooding caves which were then flooded as the Sea drained. | |||
The Doctor, having parted the waters, recalls the first time this was done, in the [[Red Sea]] by [[Moses]] ... | |||
== Characters == | |||
* [[Fourth Doctor]] | |||
* [[Harry Sullivan]] | * [[Harry Sullivan]] | ||
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]] | * [[Sarah Jane Smith]] | ||
* [[Olag]] | * [[Olag]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* On a previous visit (a bit later), to the Dead Sea, the Doctor had helped develop a permanent ink for writing the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]. | |||
* On a previous visit (a bit later), to the Dead Sea, the Doctor had helped develop a | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This short story was the runner-up in the Under 15 Category in a competition run by ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' in | * This short story was the runner-up in the Under 15 Category in a competition run by ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' in 1986 and printed in [[DWM 117]]. | ||
* Written by reader | * Written by reader Andrew Lowes, aged 10, the story ran to nearly three pages and was illustrated by regular magazine artist [[John Ridgway]], who donated the artwork as part of the prize that included a [[Sevans|Sevans Dalek kit]]. | ||
* This was the first piece of original DWU fiction to feature a non-current Doctor, barring stories released shortly after a regeneration and [[Multi-Doctor story|multi-Doctor stories]]. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
''to be added'' | |||
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