Iceberg (novel)

Iceberg
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	none
Main enemy:	The Cybermen
Main setting:	Earth, Antarctic Circle, SS Elysium, December 22, 2006
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	David Banks
Release details
Release number:	18
Release date:	September 1993
Format:	Paperback Book, 253 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426203925

Publisher's summary

'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 civilization: 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.

Characters

• The Doctor
  • Is inspired to walk barefoot through the TARDIS to the Jade Pagoda. He ends up in snowdrifts without his shoes.
• Ruby Duvall
  • 22 year old reporter for the Sunday Seeker.
  • Misses out on a trip in the TARDIS by seconds after she went back for a camera.
• General Pamela Cutler
  • Only female General in the armed forces.
  • was the daughter of the Cutler who was encountered by the first Doctor when facing the Cybermen previously on Snowcap Base.
• Cyber-Controller
  • Is created by combining a Cyber-Coordinator with a Mondasian Cyberman.
  • Is not affected by gold.

References

• The Doctor uses the Jade Pagoda to get to Earth.

Notes

• The events of this novel runs parallel with those of NA: 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 Issue 204.

Continuity

• This novel occurs concurrent with NA: Birthright.
• Ruby Duvall reappears in NA: Happy Endings.

Timeline

• This story takes place after NA: Birthright
• This story takes place before DWM: The Last Word

External links

• Prelude to Iceberg as published in DWM #204
• Iceberg at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Iceberg at The Whoniverse