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|image= NA019 bloodheat.jpg | |image = NA019 bloodheat.jpg | ||
|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]] | |series = [[Virgin New Adventures]] | ||
|number= 19 | |range = Virgin New Adventures | ||
|doctor=Seventh Doctor | |number in range = 19 | ||
|number = 19 | |||
|doctor = Seventh Doctor | |||
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring= | |featuring = Liz Shaw (Silurian Earth) | ||
|enemy= [[Silurian]]s, [[Sea Devil]]s | |featuring2 = Jo Grant (Silurian Earth) | ||
|setting= [[Silurian Earth]], [[1993]] | |featuring3 = Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Silurian Earth){{!}}the Brigadier | ||
|writer= [[ | |featuring4 = John Benton (Silurian Earth){{!}}Benton | ||
|publisher= Virgin Books | |enemy = [[Silurian]]s, [[Sea Devil]]s | ||
|release date= | |setting = [[Silurian Earth]], [[1993]] | ||
|format= Paperback Book; 6 Chapters, 309 Pages | |writer = Jim Mortimore | ||
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20399-2 | |cover = [[Jeff Cummins]] | ||
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|next= The Dimension Riders (novel) | |release date= 21 October 1993 | ||
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'''''Blood Heat''''' was the nineteenth novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series of novels. It was written by [[Jim Mortimore]] and features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]]. This is the first New Adventure novel to delve into an [[alternate universe]], spawned from alternate events of ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. | '''''Blood Heat''''' was the nineteenth novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series of novels. It was written by [[Jim Mortimore]] and features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]]. This is the first New Adventure novel to delve into an [[alternate universe]], spawned from alternate events of ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. | ||
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* [[Jo Grant (Silurian Earth)|Jo Grant]] | * [[Jo Grant (Silurian Earth)|Jo Grant]] | ||
* [[John Benton (Silurian Earth)|John Benton]] | * [[John Benton (Silurian Earth)|John Benton]] | ||
* [[Manisha Purkayastha (Silurian Earth)|Manisha]] | * [[Manisha Purkayastha (Silurian Earth)|Manisha Purkayastha]] | ||
* [[Alan | * [[Alan Tomson|Alan]] | ||
* [[Julia | * [[Julia Adams|Julia]] | ||
* [[Jan Martin|Jan]] | * [[Jan Martin|Jan]] | ||
* [[Frank Hobson]] | * [[Frank Hobson]] | ||
* [[Rod (Silurian Earth)|Rod]] | |||
* [[Sam Meredith]] | |||
* [[Harry Sullivan (Silurian Earth)|Harry Sullivan]] | |||
* [[Billy Wilson]] | |||
* [[Gill Lewis]] | |||
* [[Kevin Barker]] | |||
* [[Lee Wood]] | |||
* [[Prescott (Silurian Earth)|Prescott]] | |||
* [[Robin Ridgway]] | |||
* [[Tony Mitchell (Silurian Earth)|Tony Mitchell]] | |||
* [[Hobson (Silurian Earth)|Hobson]] | |||
* [[Tomo]] | |||
* [[Morka (Silurian Earth)|Morka]] | * [[Morka (Silurian Earth)|Morka]] | ||
* [[Imorkal]] | |||
* [[Chtaachtl]] | * [[Chtaachtl]] | ||
* [[Chtorba]] | * [[Chtorba]] | ||
* [[Ophidian]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
=== Aquatic vessels === | === Aquatic vessels === | ||
* The ''[[HMS Revenge]]'' carries [[nuclear missile]]s. | * The ''[[HMS Revenge]]'' carries [[nuclear missile]]s. | ||
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* Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Silurian Earth)|Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her. It kills her. | * Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Silurian Earth)|Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her. It kills her. | ||
* [[Liz Shaw (Silurian Earth)|Liz Shaw]] married a man named [[James Lester]]. He hit his head looking for food and died. | * [[Liz Shaw (Silurian Earth)|Liz Shaw]] married a man named [[James Lester]]. He hit his head looking for food and died. | ||
* [[Manisha Purkayastha (Silurian Earth)|Manisha]] saw her version of Ace die, an inversion of events in the primary universe, where Ace saw Manisha die when her flat was firebombed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'') | * [[Manisha Purkayastha (Silurian Earth)|Manisha]] saw her version of Ace die, an inversion of events in the primary universe, where Ace saw Manisha die when her flat was firebombed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'') | ||
* [[Rod (Silurian Earth)|Rod]] was part of the group getting supplies. | * [[Rod (Silurian Earth)|Rod]] was part of the group getting supplies. | ||
* [[Harry Sullivan]] serves as the HMS Revenge's surgeon. | |||
=== Locations === | === Locations === | ||
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* The Doctor, Ace and Jo ride [[ornithomimus]]es into a herd of [[seismosaurus]]es. | * The Doctor, Ace and Jo ride [[ornithomimus]]es into a herd of [[seismosaurus]]es. | ||
* The large theropod dinosaur [[baryonyx]] is shown to hunt the human survivors horses. | * The large theropod dinosaur [[baryonyx]] is shown to hunt the human survivors horses. | ||
* A pack of [[ | * A pack of [[raptor]]s attack Mamisha's house. | ||
* A large species of [[pterodactyl]] are used by the Silurians as mounts. | * A large species of [[pterodactyl]] are used by the Silurians as mounts. | ||
* Sea | * [[Sea Devil]]s use [[kronosaur]]uses and [[plesiosaurus]]es to attack the submarine, The HMS Revenger. | ||
* Silurains are revealed to use [[mammoth]]s for food and presumably milk and wool. | * Silurains are revealed to use [[mammoth]]s for food and presumably milk and wool. | ||
* Other dinosaurs are featured including [[tyrannosaurus rex]], [[triceratops]], brontosaurus, hadrosaurus, [[stegosaurus]], camarasaurus, | * Silurians use [[herrerasaurus]]es as hunting beasts. | ||
* Other dinosaurs are featured including [[tyrannosaurus rex]], [[triceratops]], [[brontosaurus]], [[hadrosaurus]], [[stegosaurus]], [[camarasaurus]], [[deinonychus]], [[diplodocus]], and [[archaeopteryx]]. | |||
=== TARDIS === | === TARDIS === | ||
* The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the [[Time Vortex]]. | * The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the [[Time Vortex]]. | ||
* Ace lifts [[The Doctor's TARDIS ( | * Ace lifts [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Silurian Earth)|the TARDIS belonging to the alternate Doctor]] (which had fallen on its doors) single-handedly ''and'' with a broken arm. | ||
* Ace makes the (alternate universe) TARDIS materialise around the entire planet Earth, placing everything in a state of [[temporal grace]]. | * Ace makes the (alternate universe) TARDIS materialise around the entire planet Earth, placing everything in a state of [[temporal grace]]. | ||
* The Doctor uses the secondary [[console room]]. | * The Doctor uses the secondary [[console room]]. | ||
* The Doctor takes his third self's [[The Doctor's TARDIS ( | * The Doctor takes his third self's [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Silurian Earth)|TARDIS]] from the alternate universe as his is lost in a [[tar pit]]. This TARDIS has a working Chameleon Circuit. | ||
=== Weapons === | === Weapons === | ||
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* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Silurian Earth)|Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] launches a [[Nuclear missile|nuclear warhead]] at the Silurian capital city in [[Africa]]. | * [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Silurian Earth)|Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] launches a [[Nuclear missile|nuclear warhead]] at the Silurian capital city in [[Africa]]. | ||
* Ace has an oval scar on her stomach caused by a [[Special Weapons Dalek]]. | * Ace has an oval scar on her stomach caused by a [[Special Weapons Dalek]]. | ||
=== Food and beverages === | |||
* The Doctor produces from his pockets two rounds of hot [[bacon sandwich]]es, a [[Mars Bar|Mars bar]], and a litre carton of fresh chilled [[orange juice]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* A [[Prelude Blood Heat (short story)|prelude]] to this novel was published in [[DWM 205]]. | * A [[Prelude Blood Heat (short story)|prelude]] to this novel was published in [[DWM 205]]. | ||
* ''Blood Heat'' | * ''Blood Heat'' marked the beginning of a pentalogy of linked New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc: ''Blood Heat'', ''[[The Dimension Riders (novel)|The Dimension Riders]]'', ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)|The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'', ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'', and ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]''. | ||
* | * Jim Mortimore's 2015 novel ''[[Blood Heat Second Iteration (novel)|Blood Heat Second Iteration]]'' is a "Director's Cut" version of ''Blood Heat'' with several significant changes from and expansions of the original. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* | * The Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Benny also encountered Silurians and UNIT in an alternate universe in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Final Genesis (comic story)|Final Genesis]]''. Both adventures were described by the Doctor as having the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'' as their starting points. | ||
* The Doctor's original TARDIS is lost in a tar pit. It will be returned to him in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''. | * The Doctor's original TARDIS is lost in a tar pit. It will be returned to him in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''. | ||
* [[Manisha]] was first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]''. | * [[Manisha]] was first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]''. | ||
* The TARDIS similarly falls through a puncture in the time vortex into an alternate universe in [[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]''. | * The TARDIS similarly falls through a puncture in the time vortex into an alternate universe in [[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]''. | ||
== Illustrations == | |||
* Includes five illustrations by [[Tim Keable]]. The uncropped illustrations and three unused colour illustrations were posted by Jim Mortimore on this DeviantArt.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/jimmortimore/gallery/43251881/doctor-who-blood-heat-art DeviantArt: Jimmortimore]</ref> | |||
<gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true"> | |||
File:Part One Future Past.jpg|Part One: Future Past | |||
File:Part Two World of No Tomorrows.jpg|Part Two: World of No Tomorrows | |||
File:Part Three Call To Colours.jpg|Part Three: Call To Colours | |||
File:Part Four Isomorphic.jpg|Part Four: Isomorphic | |||
File:Part Five Ground Zero.jpg|Part Five: Ground Zero | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Cover gallery == | |||
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true"> | |||
NA019 bloodheat.jpg|Original cover | |||
NA019 bloodheat sketch cover.jpg|Sketch cover | |||
Blood Heat DC cover.jpg|''Director's Cut'' cover | |||
</gallery> | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [ | * [https://doctorwho.guide/whona19p.htm Prelude to '''Blood Heat''' as published in DWM #205] | ||
{{dwrefguide|who_na19.htm|Blood Heat}} | {{dwrefguide|who_na19.htm|Blood Heat}} | ||
* {{whoniverse|na19|Blood Heat}} | * {{whoniverse|na19|Blood Heat}} | ||
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/bloo.htm The Cloister Library: '''Blood Heat'''] | * [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/bloo.htm The Cloister Library: '''Blood Heat'''] | ||
* [http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv37/beyondthebook.html#bloodheat Beyond the Book: '''Blood Heat''' by Paul Scoones (Article) - TSV 37] | |||
* [http://neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2016/10/doctor-who-virgin-novels-20-blood-heat.html Neil Is the Best Dalek: The Virgin Novels #20 – '''Blood Heat''': Director's Cut by Jim Mortimore] | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
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[[Category:NA novels with Bernice Summerfield]] | [[Category:NA novels with Bernice Summerfield]] |
Latest revision as of 19:33, 27 June 2024
Blood Heat was the nineteenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series of novels. It was written by Jim Mortimore and features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice. This is the first New Adventure novel to delve into an alternate universe, spawned from alternate events of Doctor Who and the Silurians.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Not men, Ace. Silurians. The original rulers of the Earth.
The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth.
An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.
Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- Bernice Summerfield
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Liz Shaw
- Jo Grant
- John Benton
- Manisha Purkayastha
- Alan
- Julia
- Jan
- Frank Hobson
- Rod
- Sam Meredith
- Harry Sullivan
- Billy Wilson
- Gill Lewis
- Kevin Barker
- Lee Wood
- Prescott
- Robin Ridgway
- Tony Mitchell
- Hobson
- Tomo
- Morka
- Imorkal
- Chtaachtl
- Chtorba
- Ophidian
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
Aquatic vessels[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The HMS Revenge carries nuclear missiles.
Biology[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Morka injects Bernice Summerfield with a virus which cures the race memory malaise.
- The Silurian virus is known as "the Nightmare".
The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor has two more ribs than a human.
- Morka killed the alternative Third Doctor.
- The Doctor performs a time ram to destroy this universe to save his own.
The Doctor's items[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace finds a sonic screwdriver in the (dead) Third Doctor's pockets.
Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Jo Grant was sent to retrieve the launch codes the Brigadier planned to use. She goes insane from radiation exposure and race memory malaise.
- Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her. It kills her.
- Liz Shaw married a man named James Lester. He hit his head looking for food and died.
- Manisha saw her version of Ace die, an inversion of events in the primary universe, where Ace saw Manisha die when her flat was firebombed. (TV: Ghost Light)
- Rod was part of the group getting supplies.
- Harry Sullivan serves as the HMS Revenge's surgeon.
Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ophidian is a Silurian city on Earth.
- Sam Meredith works with UNIT.
- The Doctor notices that Zanzibar is almost totally submerged.
Military[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace has been out of the Spacefleet for a few months, though she still wears the uniform/body armour.
Species[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The dilophosaurus is a type of theropod dinosaur.
- The Doctor refers to Silurians as psionosauropodomorpha.
- Ace adopts a compsognathus as a mascot.
- An edmontonia knocks the TARDIS into a tar pit.
- The Doctor, Ace and Jo ride ornithomimuses into a herd of seismosauruses.
- The large theropod dinosaur baryonyx is shown to hunt the human survivors horses.
- A pack of raptors attack Mamisha's house.
- A large species of pterodactyl are used by the Silurians as mounts.
- Sea Devils use kronosauruses and plesiosauruses to attack the submarine, The HMS Revenger.
- Silurains are revealed to use mammoths for food and presumably milk and wool.
- Silurians use herrerasauruses as hunting beasts.
- Other dinosaurs are featured including tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops, brontosaurus, hadrosaurus, stegosaurus, camarasaurus, deinonychus, diplodocus, and archaeopteryx.
TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex.
- Ace lifts the TARDIS belonging to the alternate Doctor (which had fallen on its doors) single-handedly and with a broken arm.
- Ace makes the (alternate universe) TARDIS materialise around the entire planet Earth, placing everything in a state of temporal grace.
- The Doctor uses the secondary console room.
- The Doctor takes his third self's TARDIS from the alternate universe as his is lost in a tar pit. This TARDIS has a working Chameleon Circuit.
Weapons[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace's new variant of Nitro-9, Nitro-9 smart bombs, can fly and accept verbal commands.
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart launches a nuclear warhead at the Silurian capital city in Africa.
- Ace has an oval scar on her stomach caused by a Special Weapons Dalek.
Food and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor produces from his pockets two rounds of hot bacon sandwiches, a Mars bar, and a litre carton of fresh chilled orange juice.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 205.
- Blood Heat marked the beginning of a pentalogy of linked New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc: Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum, and No Future.
- Jim Mortimore's 2015 novel Blood Heat Second Iteration is a "Director's Cut" version of Blood Heat with several significant changes from and expansions of the original.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Benny also encountered Silurians and UNIT in an alternate universe in COMIC: Final Genesis. Both adventures were described by the Doctor as having the events of TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians as their starting points.
- The Doctor's original TARDIS is lost in a tar pit. It will be returned to him in PROSE: Happy Endings.
- Manisha was first mentioned in TV: Ghost Light.
- The TARDIS similarly falls through a puncture in the time vortex into an alternate universe in TV: Rise of the Cybermen.
Illustrations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Includes five illustrations by Tim Keable. The uncropped illustrations and three unused colour illustrations were posted by Jim Mortimore on this DeviantArt.[1]
Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Prelude to Blood Heat as published in DWM #205
- Blood Heat at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Blood Heat at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: Blood Heat
- Beyond the Book: Blood Heat by Paul Scoones (Article) - TSV 37
- Neil Is the Best Dalek: The Virgin Novels #20 – Blood Heat: Director's Cut by Jim Mortimore
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
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