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|[[Switzerland]], [[Earth]], [[2030]]|[[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]], [[Earth]], [[1994]]|[[Aztec]] capital [[Tenochtitlan]], [[Earth]], [[1487]]|[[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Earth]], [[20 December]] [[1968]] to [[30 January]] [[1969]]|[[New York City]], [[United States of America|USA]], [[Earth]], [[8 December|8]] and [[15 December]] [[1980]]|''[[RMS Titanic]]'', [[Atlantic Ocean]], [[Earth]], [[14 April]] [[1912]]}}

|writer= [[Kate Orman]]  

|publisher= [[Virgin Books]]

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

|format= Paperback Book, 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)

'''''The Left-Handed Hummingbird''''' was the twenty-first novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Kate Orman]] and was released in [[1993]]. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]].

* [[1980]]: [[John Lennon]] is murdered in [[New York City|New York]].

Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the [[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.

* Professor [[Lawrence Fitzgerald]]

* [[Huitzilin]]

== References ==

<!--* There are some blocks of dialogue referring to their previous adventures;

<blockquote>Benny watched him. "Do you think it's got anything to do with what happened in Oxford?"<br />"Maybe. Too early to tell. It's certainly not the [[Garvond]]."<br />"You know I didn't mean that."<br />"Yes, I do. You mean whatever caused our brush with our skull-faced friend, and the jaunt with the [[Silurian]]s too."</blockquote>-->

* The Aztecs call the Doctor a 'Midwife' - healer, curer.

* The Doctor (when they arrive in [[1968]]) suggests they visit [[Woodstock]]. Two of his earlier incarnations are there.

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

* Ace rescues a slave, [[Iccauhtli]], who was to be sacrificed. He dies after Ace and he get into a fight with some warriors. He drowns in a canal after a warrior splits his rib cage open.

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

* [[Achtli]] is a novice [[priest]] and touched by the [[Blue]]. He is also Ce Xochitl's son.

* 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]].

* Ace contacts Air Commodore [[Ian Gilmore]] to try to get clearance to get the Doctor out of the UNIT facility.

* Corporal [[Bell]] was promoted to Captain, but was brain damaged in a car accident.

* Kate Orman is the first — and, ultimately, the only — woman to write an original full-length novel for either of Virgin's post-series lines; she would write or co-write several more books in the New Adventures series up to 1997.

* The [[First Doctor]] visited the [[Aztec]] period in [[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs]]''. [[Barbara Wright|Barbara's]] attempt to change history is mentioned several times in this novel.

* Corporal Bell appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'' and ''[[The Claws of Axos]]''.

* Hamlet Macbeth reappears in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]''.

* Gilmore first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.

* The Doctor gets put on a gurney and wheeled into a morgue with "John Doe" on his toe tag, exactly what happens later in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''.

* The Doctor mentions visiting Woodstock and that at least two of him are there already. One is the [[Second Doctor]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wonderland]]''.

* Hubert Clegg died in part one of [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]''.

* The Garvond and Silurians that the Doctor mentions appeared in [[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]]''.

* This story takes place before [[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]''.

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

* {{dwrefguide|who_na21.htm|The Left-Handed Hummingbird}}

* {{whoniverse|NA21.php|The Left-Handed Hummingbird}}

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