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|image=Grip of Ice.jpg | |image = Grip of Ice.jpg | ||
|series=[[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]] | |series = [[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]] | ||
|doctor=Second Doctor | |doctor = Second Doctor | ||
|companions=[[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] | |companions = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] | ||
|setting=[[Planet (Grip of Ice)|Unnamed planet]] | |enemy = [[Cosmos (Grip of Ice)|Cosmos]] | ||
|writer= | |setting = An [[Planet (Grip of Ice)|Unnamed planet]] | ||
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|prev=The | |anthology = The Dr Who Annual 1970 | ||
|next=Man Friday (short story) | |release date = September 1969 | ||
|prev = The Vampire Plants (comic story) | |||
'''''Grip of Ice''''' was a short story published in ''[[ | |next = Man Friday (short story) | ||
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'''''Grip of Ice''''' was a short story published in ''[[The Dr Who Annual 1970]]''. It featured the [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Zoe Heriot]]. | |||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
''to be | After discovering damage to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s [[space-time locator]], [[Second Doctor|Dr. Who]] lands on an icy planet to make repairs. [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] leave to explore. While investigating a crevasse at the edge of a [[glacier]], they get caught in a [[snow]]storm and are blown into the crevasse. | ||
Dr. Who completes his repairs and leaves the TARDIS to look for his companions. Upon noticing a lack of [[footprint]]s in the snow, he deduces there must have been a snowstorm. He finds one of Zoe's buttons from her uniform near the crevasse and sees another on the other side. Following along the edge of the crevasse, he finds a bridge of snow spanning the gap. Although it collapses under him, he manages to get to the other side, from where he can see an abandoned city. | |||
He goes down to investigate and discovers a storehouse full of cubes that pulse with light. The cubes make [[Telepathy|telepathic]] contact with him, revealing that they are [[thought-cube]]s and are all that remain of the [[Morrain]]s, the original inhabitants of the planet. The cubes explain that after the planet's sun exploded, the planet was engulfed in an [[Ice Age]]. A Morrainic scientist named [[Cosmos (Grip of Ice)|Cosmos]] offered a plan: their race would be transformed into thought-cubes and stored until the ice receded, with Cosmos guarding the cubes. | |||
However, Cosmos secretly planned to build a [[spacecraft]] in which to escape the planet, using the concentrated energy from the cubes to power his ship. The Morrains resisted by minimizing their thought energy, and Cosmos did not have enough power to drive the ship, until now. He has just captured two more intelligent beings with his snowstorm machine and intends to convert them into thought-cubes. | |||
Realising they must mean Jamie and Zoe, Dr. Who takes one of the Morrainic scout cars to the centre of the city. In his approach to the central tower, he sets off the alarm system and fights off several robot guards using the scout car's armaments. He enters Cosmos's laboratory and finds Jamie and Zoe, under some kind of [[hypnosis]]. In order to set them free, Dr. Who offers to take their place, promising Cosmos that his brain will yield more thought-power. | |||
Cosmos accepts his offer and begins the process of converting Dr. Who into a thought-cube. During the process, Dr. Who reverses his thought-power, which overloads the machine and destroys Cosmos. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[Cosmos (Grip of Ice)|Cosmos]] | * [[Cosmos (Grip of Ice)|Cosmos]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Jamie, Zoe, and Dr. Who wear [[atmospheric density jacket]]s. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * The Doctor's [[space-time locator]] was damaged while escaping the robots on the planet [[Mechanistria|Korad]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peril in Mechanistria (short story)|Peril in Mechanistria]]'') | ||
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[[Category:DWAN 1970 short stories]] | |||
[[Category:DWAN short stories]] | |||