The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|image= NA021 lefthandedhummingbird.jpg

|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]

|number= 21

|doctor=Seventh Doctor

|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]

|enemy= [[Huitzilin]]

|setting= {{il|[[Tenochtitlan]], [[1487]]|[[Atlantic Ocean]], [[1912]]|[[London]], [[1968]] to [[1969]]|[[Mexico City]], [[1994]]}}

|writer= [[Kate Orman]]

|publisher= Virgin Books

|release date= [[2 December (releases)|2 December]] [[1993 (releases)|1993]]

|format= Paperback Book; 20 Chapters, 264 Pages

|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20404-2

|prev= The Dimension Riders (novel)

|next= Conundrum (novel)

|series2= [[Interweaving with the New Adventures|''DWM'''s "New Adventures order"]]

|prev2 = The Dimension Riders (novel)

|next2= Conundrum (novel)

}}{{prose stub}}

Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the [[Huitzilin|Blue]], a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him – but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events of [[Blood Heat]] and [[the Dimension Riders]], the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered – and a lethal force from [[South America]]'s prehistory has been released.

== References ==

* The Doctor has three lumps of LSD-spiked sugar in [[1968]].

* Ace recalls [[Saul]] and the natural way the [[psychic]] energy pooled to create him.

* When the casing of a Dalek shatters, it sounds like chips in hot oil, according to Ace.

* The Doctor fixes the [[chameleon circuit]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|his adopted TARDIS]] from the alternate universe where he died.

* The Doctor meditates beside the pool while Ace goes swimming. The Doctor had to jettison the original pool when it began to leak into the co-ordinate circuits.

* Lt. [[Hamlet Macbeth]] was part of [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]. He created the [[Paranormal Division]].

* Bernice calls in Hamlet Macbeth, who brings UNIT when the Doctor becomes infested by Huitzilin.

* [[Barbara Wright]]'s attempt to change history whilst visiting the [[Aztec]] period with the [[First Doctor]] is mentioned several times. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs]]'')

* Ace contacts Air Commodore [[Ian Gilmore]] in an attempt to get clearance to get the Doctor out of the UNIT facility. Gilmore first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.

* Herbert Clegg died in [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]''.

* The Doctor refers to the trio's recent encounters with the [[Garvond]] and [[Silurian]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'' and ''[[Blood Heat]]'' respectively)

* Exxilons previously appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]''.

* Corporal Bell also appears in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''.

* The [[BBC (real world)|BBC]] [[science fiction]] series ''[[Nightshade (series)|Nightshade]]'' is being repeated on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] in [[December]] [[1968]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'')

* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whona21p.htm Prelude to '''The Left-Handed Hummingbird''' as published in DWM #207]

[[Category:Bernice Summerfield stories]]