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novel name= Cold Fusion |
|adapted into = Cold Fusion (audio story)
image= [[File:Ma-29.jpg|250px]] |
|series       = [[Virgin Missing Adventures]]
series=[[Virgin Missing Adventures]] |
|range        = Virgin Missing Adventures
number= 29 |
|number in range = 29
doctor=[[Fifth Doctor]]<br />[[Seventh Doctor]] |
|number      = 29
companions= [[Adric]]<br />[[Nyssa]]<br />[[Tegan Jovanka]]<br />[[Chris Cwej]]<br />[[Roz Forrester]]  |
|doctor       = Fifth Doctor
enemy= The [[Ferutu]] |
|companions   = [[Adric]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Nyssa]]
year= Unnamed Earth colony, c. late [[27th century]] and early [[28th century]] |
|featuring    = Seventh Doctor
writer= [[Lance Parkin]] |
|featuring2  = Chris Cwej
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
|featuring3  = Roz Forrester
release date= [[December]] [[1996]] |
|enemy       = [[Ferutu]]
format= Paperback Book, 319 Pages |
|setting      = [[Planet (Cold Fusion)|Human colony planet]], [[2592]]
isbn= ISBN 0-426-20489-1|
|writer      = Lance Parkin
previous story=[[The Plotters]]|
|cover        = [[Alister Pearson]]
next story= [[Burning Heart]] }}
|publisher   = Virgin Books
|release date = 5 December 1996
|format       = Paperback Book; 18 Chapters, 319 Pages
|isbn         = ISBN 0-426-20489-1
|prev        = The Plotters (novel)
|next        = Burning Heart (novel)
}}{{prose stub}}
{{dab page|Cold fusion (disambiguation)}}
'''''Cold Fusion''''' was the twenty-ninth novel in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Lance Parkin]]. It was the only multi-Doctor story involving televised Doctors ever told by [[Virgin Books]]. It involved the unusual pairing of the [[Season 19 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 19]] [[Fifth Doctor]] with the [[Seventh Doctor]] near the end of the [[Virgin New Adventures]] line.
 
Originally intended to be published alongside the novel ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'' to emotionally leverage [[Roz Forrester]]'s death in that book, delays on ''Sin'' meant that people who read the book on publication didn't see this intended aspect of the book.
 
As a multi-Doctor story, its perspective was unusual. The Seventh Doctor was portrayed as largely disdainful of his earlier self's presence because of the dangers it presented. Though temporal paradoxes and other consequences of two Doctors meeting were touched upon in televised multi-Doctor stories, here they were more central. Moreover, the structure broke with the format of televised multi-Doctor stories, which held that the latest incarnation was the "current" Doctor and therefore the effective headlining "star" of the show. On balance, ''Fusion'' was a Fifth Doctor novel that happened to feature the Seventh, rather than a Seventh Doctor novel that used the Fifth.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''''The entire universe is at stake and I'm locked in here with another incarnation of myself, and not even one of the good ones!''''
:"The entire [[universe]] is at stake and [[Seventh Doctor|I'm]] locked in here with [[Fifth Doctor|another incarnation of myself]], and not even one of the good ones!"


More than one [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] lands on a barren ice world. The [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] find a once ordered society on the verge of collapse, as rebels wage a dirty war with [[Scientifica]], the ruling elite. All that stands between order and anarchy is the massed presence of an [[Adjudicator]] peacekeeping force.
More than one [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] lands on a barren ice world. The Fifth Doctor, [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] find a once ordered society on the verge of collapse, as rebels wage a dirty [[war]] with [[Scientifica]], the ruling [[elite]]. All that stands between order and [[anarchy]] is the massed presence of an [[Adjudicator]] peacekeeping force.


But is peace the only reason for the Adjudicator garrison? What exactly has been discovered deep below the planet's surface? Who are the mysterious [[Ferutu]]? And why is telling a ghost story a criminal offence?
But is [[peace]] the only reason for the Adjudicator garrison? What exactly has been discovered deep below the planet's surface? Who are the mysterious [[Ferutu]]? And why is telling a [[ghost]] story a criminal offence?


The Fifth Doctor sides with the cause of justice and fairness as always. But, as a threat to the universe unfolds, he finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future.
The Fifth Doctor sides with the cause of [[justice]] and fairness as always. But, as a threat to the universe unfolds, he finds himself in conflict with [[The Other|his past]]... and his future.
 
== Plot ==
''to be added''


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Fifth Doctor]]
* [[Fifth Doctor]]
** Is only just getting over his recent regeneration.
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
** His favourite biscuits are Chocolate Hob-Nobs.
* [[First Doctor]]
** Has to hide his emotions on seeing Adric again.
* [[Adric]]
* [[Adric]]
* [[Nyssa]]
* [[Nyssa]]
* [[Tegan Jovanka]]
* [[Tegan Jovanka]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
** Uses the alias Bruce Jovanka.
* [[Roz Forrester]]
* [[Roz Forrester]]
** Is beginning to feel her age.
* [[Patience]]
* [[Patience]]
** Born in the house of Blyledge on "Glorious [[Gallifrey]]".
* [[Tertullian Medford|Adjudicator Provost-General Tertullian Medford]]
** She has/had thirteen grandchildren.
** Her [[Omega|husband]] was one of the first to explore the vortex.
* [[Adjudicator]] Provost-General [[Tertullian Medford]]
** A secret member of [[Unitatus]].
* [[Ziyou Wanle]]
* [[Ziyou Wanle]]
* A [[SAM drone]], a mass-produced drone
* [[SAM drone]]
* [[Whitfield|Chief Scientist Whitfield]]
* [[Quint]]
* [[Quant]]
* [[Dareau|Adjudicator Dareau]]
* [[Adam (Cold Fusion)|Adam]]
* [[Falconstock]]
* [[Concierge (Cold Fusion)|Concierge]]
* [[Robot (Cold Fusion)|Robot]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The TARDIS has a [[lightspeed overdrive]].
=== Cultural references from the real world ===
* [[The Machine]] belongs to Patience.
* Tegan has seen ''[[Blake's 7]]'' and can cope with the idea of [[transmat]]s.
* Tegan has seen ''[[Blake's 7]]'' and can cope with the idea of [[transmat]]s.
=== Foods and beverages ===
* The [[Seventh Doctor]] orders a Dexheimer Spätlase Rädecke, a German eiswein (he normally doesn't touch synthetic [[wine]]s). His favourite [[biscuit]]s are [[chocolate]] [[HobNob]]s.
=== Individuals ===
* [[Tertullian Medford|Adjudicator Provost-General Tertullian Medford]] is a secret member of [[Unitatus]].
=== Individual Time Lords ===
* The [[Fifth Doctor]] badly remembers his life before his [[Third Doctor|second]] [[regeneration]].
* [[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]] was in the [[house of Blyledge]] on "Glorious [[Gallifrey]]". She had thirteen children.
* [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|Patience's husband]] was one of the first to explore the [[Time Vortex]].
* In her memory, Patience and her husband's [[Susan Foreman's father|firstborn]] was soon going to be a father.
* [[The Doctor]]'s children were culled, but her granddaughter, [[Susan Foreman]], was saved.
* [[The Master]] destroyed the constellation of [[Mandusus]] with a segment of the [[Key to Time]] at some point before the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s regeneration.
* It is implied that the Doctor had a different name before being the [[First Doctor]], since he doesn't recognise Patience's husband's name as his own, but of a different [[Time Lord]].
*
=== Languages ===
* The Fifth Doctor speaks a sentence in [[Gallifreyan (language)|Gallifreyan]] to Patience.
=== Organisations ===
* [[Unitatus]] is what [[UNIT]] became; they use the old UNIT logo (a grid within a circle) as their herald.
* [[Unitatus]] is what [[UNIT]] became; they use the old UNIT logo (a grid within a circle) as their herald.
=== Spacecraft ===
* The colony has a [[Skybase]] in orbit.
* The colony has a [[Skybase]] in orbit.
* [[Ferutu|The Ferutu]] are beings from an alternate universe in which Gallifrey was destroyed shortly after [[Omega]]'s experiments; they have supplanted the role of the [[Time Lord]]s, and actively engage in protecting and shaping the universe. Their "technology" (if it can be called that) is more akin to magic runes.
 
** As the [[Seventh Doctor]] is able to keep them at bay with a chalk circle, they may be from the same universe as [[Morgaine]] and the others seen in [[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]''.
=== Species ===
* The [[Ferutu]] are beings from an alternate universe.
* The [[Embodiment of Gris]] is mentioned by the Fifth Doctor.
* The [[Embodiment of Gris]] is mentioned by the Fifth Doctor.
* The Fifth Doctor never uses expletives.
 
* The Doctor disarms several fusion bombs by using his [[Sonic screwdriver]] to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, an act he states is beyond the capabilities of the [[Humanian Era]].
=== TARDIS ===
* The reasons that the Doctor seems to not remember meeting his past self in other multi-Doctor stories is discussed. In most of the televised adventures, it is credited to the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]].
* The TARDIS has a [[lightspeed overdrive]].
* This story explains what happened to the Doctor's children. They were culled but [[Susan Campbell|Susan Foreman]] was saved. This may explain the existence of [[John and Gillian]].
* [[The Machine]] belongs to [[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]].
* The Train Computer's statement "The lever you have pulled – “Brakes” – is not in service. Please make a note of it." is a reference to an episode of [[The Simpsons]] called "Marge Vs. The Monorail", where Homer's attempts to brake an out-of-control monorail are met with the same response.
 
=== Weapons ===
* The Fifth and Seventh Doctors both use a technique which they describe as being "beyond the science of the [[Humanian Era]]", namely reversing the polarity of the neutron flow to disarm several [[fusion bomb]]s.
* A [[SAM drone]] is a mass-produced drone.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is the only multi-Doctor story of either the [[Virgin New Adventures]] or the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]].
* In ''[[AHistory]]'', the author [[Lance Parkin]] confirms that the [[Patience's husband|husband]] of [[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]], in her memory seen by the Fifth Doctor's [[telepathic contact]] with her, is the [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|character]] portrayed by [[Douglas Camfield]] during the mindbending sequence of [[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''.
* The Seventh Doctor comments about perspectives, and how "from a certain point of view, we're already dead. You. Me. Adric. Roz". When the book was written, the [[Eighth Doctor]] had begun his travels and [[NA]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'', showing Roz's death, was expected to have reached print before ''Cold Fusion''.
* In ''Time, Unincorporated: Volume One'', it is revealed that the original version of [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'' would have confirmed that Patience's husband is ''also'' the character played by [[Robert Banks Stewart]] during the mindbending sequence of [[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''.
* This is one of the few attempts to explore the idea of multi-Doctor stories from the perspective of the future Doctor. The Seventh Doctor does attempt to get the Fifth Doctor out of the way and back to trying to get Tegan home, but he avoids answering the question about how much he remembers.
* This is the only instalment of the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] in which the [[Seventh Doctor]] appears.
* The reasons that the Doctor seems to not remember meeting his future selves in other multi-Doctor stories are discussed. In most of the televised adventures, it is credited to the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]].
* The Seventh Doctor remembers the events of the novel from the perspective of the Fifth Doctor and uses this knowledge against his younger self. This also occurs in the audio stories ''[[Peri and the Piscon Paradox (audio story)|Peri and the Piscon Paradox]]'' and ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'' and the television story ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'' in which the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]], [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] and [[Tenth Doctor]]s respectively likewise remember the events portrayed from the point of view of their fifth incarnation.
* The Seventh Doctor describes his fifth incarnation as being "bland" and "not even one of the good ones." This reflects the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s low opinion of his immediate predecessor immediately after his [[regeneration]] as he told his companion [[Peri Brown]] that "he had a sort of feckless charm that simply wasn't [him]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] was more fond of his fifth incarnation than his two immediate predecessors. He once described him as "terribly polite." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'') By the time of his tenth incarnation, the Doctor expressed a fondness for his time as the Fifth Doctor. He looked upon his fifth incarnation as a turning point in his life. According to the Tenth Doctor, it was during his fifth incarnation that he truly began to enjoy himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'')
* The [[Gallifreyan (language)|Gallifreyan]] sentence recited by the Doctor on page 124 is represented in the text by Greek letters: "Ανδ Ι τυρνεδ αρουνδ ανδ τηεψ ωερε αλλ ωεαρινγ εψεπατχηεσ." The passage doesn't actually mean anything in Greek, but if the symbols are transliterated letter-by-letter using a standard English keyboard layout the passage becomes "And I turned around and they were all wearing eyepatches," a reference to the infamous [[Inferno (TV story)#Story notes|Eyepatch Story]] which [[Nicholas Courtney]] often told at conventions of cast antics during the filming of ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]].''
* [[Lance Parkin]]'s charity story ''Executive Action'' (published in ''Walking in Eternity'') provides further details for the riots seen in Patience's memories. [[The Watch]] were rounding up all Womb-born, the Loom-born determined to become Gallifrey's dominant faction. According to [[Rema-Du]], loomed Gallifreyans were "pale imitations" compared to the naturally born. This is the same story that states [[Wardog]] and the others of the [[Special Executive]] were prototypes of [[Rassilon]]'s loom.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* "Lightspeed overdrive" is first mentioned in [[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''.
* "Lightspeed overdrive" is first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''.
* [[PDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'' reveals who Patience is.
* The Doctor badly remembers the events of his first two incarnations. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'')
* [[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'' and [[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'' both gave some idea of the time from which Patience is from.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'' reveals who Patience is in [[The Infinity Doctors universe|one universe]].
* This story begins a series of story arcs known as the "Psi Powers" arc for the Seventh Doctor continuing in [[NA]]: ''[[The Death of Art]]'' and ending in [[NA]]: ''[[Sleepy]]''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'' both gave some idea of the time from which Patience is from.
* The Fifth Doctor is still recovering from the effects of his recent [[regeneration]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
* The Fifth Doctor is still recovering from the effects of his [[regeneration]] three days earlier. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
* Both the Fifth and Seventh Doctors use a technique which they describe as being "beyond the science of the [[Humanian Era]]", namely reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'')
* Nyssa refers to her father [[Tremas]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'')
* The Seventh Doctor remembers the events of the novel from the perspective of the Fifth Doctor and uses this knowledge against his younger self. This is similar to [[CC]]: ''[[Peri and the Piscon Paradox]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[The Four Doctors]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'' in which the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]], [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] and [[Tenth Doctor]]s respectively likewise remember the events portrayed from the point of view of their fifth incarnation.
* The Fifth Doctor tells Nyssa that nothing important was lost when they forced to jettison a quarter of the TARDIS during [[Event One]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
* The Seventh Doctor describes his fifth incarnation as being "bland" and "not even one of the good ones." This reflects the Sixth Doctor's low opinion of his immediate predecessor immediately after his [[regeneration]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'') Conversely, by the time of his tenth incarnation, the Doctor expressed a fond enjoyment of his time as the Fifth Doctor. He looked upon his fifth incarnation as a turning point in his life. According to the Tenth Doctor, it was during his fifth incarnation where he truly began to enjoy himself. ([[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'')
* Tegan reminds the Fifth Doctor that she never got the chance to be an air hostess. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
* The Fifth and Seventh Doctors would later meet each other again in [[BFA]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time]]'' and prior to the events of [[BFA]]: ''[[The Veiled Leopard]]''. The latter encounter is not actually depicted but is witnessed by the former's companions [[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]]. Peri describes the Seventh Doctor as being "a kooky little guy in a weird pullover." She would later meet him more formally in [[NA]]: ''[[Bad Therapy]]''.
* Adric mentions that the [[Keeper of Traken]] was able to divert the TARDIS' course. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'')
* The Doctor reminds Adric that the Master supposedly died on [[Castrovalva]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
* The Fifth Doctor remembers the mindbending battle with Morbius. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'')
* Adric has only known the Doctor for several weeks. They first met on Adric's homeworld [[Alzarius]] during the [[32nd century]] towards the end of the Doctor's [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]'')
* Chris refers to [[Serenity (Cold Fusion)|Serenity]], the last surviving planet of the [[Traken Union]]. The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] visited it on one occasion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Guardians of Prophecy (audio story)|The Guardians of Prophecy]]'')
* The Seventh Doctor refers to his fifth incarnation's numerous failed attempts to return Tegan to [[Heathrow Airport]] in [[1981]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'')
* [[Whitfield]] refers to the [[Ice Warrior]] invasion of [[Earth]] in [[May]] [[1997]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'')
* The Fifth Doctor mentions that he was once a [[scientific advisor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', et. al)
* The Fifth Doctor refers to his encounter with [[Omega]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'')
* [[Kalkrav]]ian [[nun]]s are present at the [[transmat]] station, and Medford was involved in the [[Kalkravian Revolution]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Big Hunt (novel)|The Big Hunt]]'', ''[[Paydirt (short story)|Paydirt]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Miranda (comic story)|Miranda]]'', et al.)
* The Fifth and Seventh Doctors would later meet each other again in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]'', prior to the events of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Veiled Leopard (audio story)|The Veiled Leopard]]'' and briefly in their eighth incarnation's TARDIS in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'', though neither retained any memory of that experience.
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] would later encounter the Ferutu on [[Dellah]] in [[2596]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)|Twilight of the Gods]]'')
* [[The Machine]] has [[TARDIS control room (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|the same control room as Dr. Who's TARDIS]], complete with the rocking chair, seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)}}.
* When explained [[dimensional immanence]], Patience quotes the principle of [[electrokinetic theory]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)}}.


== Timeline ==
== External links ==
=== For the Fifth Doctor ===
{{dwrefguide|who_ma29.htm|Cold Fusion}}
* ''Cold Fusion'' takes place after [[ST]]: ''[[Resonance]]''
* {{whoniverse|ma29|Cold Fusion}}
* ''Cold Fusion'' takes place before [[ST]]: ''[[The Immortals]]''
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/coldf.htm The Cloister Library: '''Cold Fusion''']


=== For the Seventh Doctor ===
* [http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv48/lanceparkin.html Lance Parkin by Paul Scoones (Interview) - TSV 48]
* ''Cold Fusion'' takes place after [[NA]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad]]''
* ''Cold Fusion'' takes place before [[ST]]: ''[[The Nuclear Option]]''
 
== See also ==
* [[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]''
* [[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]''
* [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]''
* [[DW]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]''
* [[VG]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]''
* [[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]''
* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time]]''
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''
* [[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]]''
* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Four Doctors]]''
 
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* {{whoniverse|MA29.php|Cold Fusion}}
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Cold Fusion was the twenty-ninth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by Lance Parkin. It was the only multi-Doctor story involving televised Doctors ever told by Virgin Books. It involved the unusual pairing of the season 19 Fifth Doctor with the Seventh Doctor near the end of the Virgin New Adventures line.

Originally intended to be published alongside the novel So Vile a Sin to emotionally leverage Roz Forrester's death in that book, delays on Sin meant that people who read the book on publication didn't see this intended aspect of the book.

As a multi-Doctor story, its perspective was unusual. The Seventh Doctor was portrayed as largely disdainful of his earlier self's presence because of the dangers it presented. Though temporal paradoxes and other consequences of two Doctors meeting were touched upon in televised multi-Doctor stories, here they were more central. Moreover, the structure broke with the format of televised multi-Doctor stories, which held that the latest incarnation was the "current" Doctor and therefore the effective headlining "star" of the show. On balance, Fusion was a Fifth Doctor novel that happened to feature the Seventh, rather than a Seventh Doctor novel that used the Fifth.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

"The entire universe is at stake and I'm locked in here with another incarnation of myself, and not even one of the good ones!"

More than one TARDIS lands on a barren ice world. The Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan find a once ordered society on the verge of collapse, as rebels wage a dirty war with Scientifica, the ruling elite. All that stands between order and anarchy is the massed presence of an Adjudicator peacekeeping force.

But is peace the only reason for the Adjudicator garrison? What exactly has been discovered deep below the planet's surface? Who are the mysterious Ferutu? And why is telling a ghost story a criminal offence?

The Fifth Doctor sides with the cause of justice and fairness as always. But, as a threat to the universe unfolds, he finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cultural references from the real world[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individual Time Lords[[edit] | [edit source]]

Languages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Fifth Doctor speaks a sentence in Gallifreyan to Patience.

Organisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Unitatus is what UNIT became; they use the old UNIT logo (a grid within a circle) as their herald.

Spacecraft[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Weapons[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Fifth and Seventh Doctors both use a technique which they describe as being "beyond the science of the Humanian Era", namely reversing the polarity of the neutron flow to disarm several fusion bombs.
  • A SAM drone is a mass-produced drone.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • In AHistory, the author Lance Parkin confirms that the husband of Patience, in her memory seen by the Fifth Doctor's telepathic contact with her, is the character portrayed by Douglas Camfield during the mindbending sequence of TV: The Brain of Morbius.
  • In Time, Unincorporated: Volume One, it is revealed that the original version of PROSE: The Infinity Doctors would have confirmed that Patience's husband is also the character played by Robert Banks Stewart during the mindbending sequence of TV: The Brain of Morbius.
  • This is the only instalment of the Virgin Missing Adventures in which the Seventh Doctor appears.
  • The reasons that the Doctor seems to not remember meeting his future selves in other multi-Doctor stories are discussed. In most of the televised adventures, it is credited to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect.
  • The Seventh Doctor remembers the events of the novel from the perspective of the Fifth Doctor and uses this knowledge against his younger self. This also occurs in the audio stories Peri and the Piscon Paradox and The Four Doctors and the television story Time Crash in which the Sixth, Eighth and Tenth Doctors respectively likewise remember the events portrayed from the point of view of their fifth incarnation.
  • The Seventh Doctor describes his fifth incarnation as being "bland" and "not even one of the good ones." This reflects the Sixth Doctor's low opinion of his immediate predecessor immediately after his regeneration as he told his companion Peri Brown that "he had a sort of feckless charm that simply wasn't [him]." (TV: The Twin Dilemma) The Eighth Doctor was more fond of his fifth incarnation than his two immediate predecessors. He once described him as "terribly polite." (AUDIO: The Four Doctors) By the time of his tenth incarnation, the Doctor expressed a fondness for his time as the Fifth Doctor. He looked upon his fifth incarnation as a turning point in his life. According to the Tenth Doctor, it was during his fifth incarnation that he truly began to enjoy himself. (TV: Time Crash)
  • The Gallifreyan sentence recited by the Doctor on page 124 is represented in the text by Greek letters: "Ανδ Ι τυρνεδ αρουνδ ανδ τηεψ ωερε αλλ ωεαρινγ εψεπατχηεσ." The passage doesn't actually mean anything in Greek, but if the symbols are transliterated letter-by-letter using a standard English keyboard layout the passage becomes "And I turned around and they were all wearing eyepatches," a reference to the infamous Eyepatch Story which Nicholas Courtney often told at conventions of cast antics during the filming of Inferno.
  • Lance Parkin's charity story Executive Action (published in Walking in Eternity) provides further details for the riots seen in Patience's memories. The Watch were rounding up all Womb-born, the Loom-born determined to become Gallifrey's dominant faction. According to Rema-Du, loomed Gallifreyans were "pale imitations" compared to the naturally born. This is the same story that states Wardog and the others of the Special Executive were prototypes of Rassilon's loom.

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Virgin Missing Adventures
First Doctor
Susan, Ian, Barbara
Ian, Barbara
Ian, Barbara, Vicki
Vicki, Steven
Dodo
Second Doctor
Ben, Polly
Jamie, Victoria
Jamie, Zoe
Third Doctor
Liz, UNIT
Jo, UNIT
Jo, Yates
Sarah, Jeremy,
The Brig
Fourth Doctor
Sarah, Harry
Sarah
Romana I, K9
Romana II, K9
Fifth Doctor
Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
Nyssa, Tegan
Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion
Turlough
Sixth Doctor
Peri
Grant
Mel
Seventh Doctor
Chris, Roz
Other
Victoria, Sarah, The Brig
Second, Third, Seventh Doctors
with Dodo and UNIT
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