Iceberg (novel)

Iceberg
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Main enemy:	Mondasian Cybermen
Main setting:	SS Elysium and Snowcap Base Antarctic Circle, Earth, 22 December 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 0-426-20392-5

You may be looking for the natural feature of the same name.

Iceberg is the eighteenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series, and was published in 1993. It was written by David Banks, and features the Seventh Doctor. This novel occurs concurrently with Birthright, with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the main characters of the Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield.

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 civilisation: 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.

Plot

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Characters

• The Seventh Doctor
• Ruby Duvall
• General Pamela Cutler
• Cyber-Controller

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor is inspired to walk barefoot through the TARDIS to the Jade Pagoda. He ends up in snowdrifts without his shoes.

Cybermen

• Cyber-Controller is created by combining a Cyber-Coordinator with a Mondasian Cyberman, it is not affected by gold.

Military

• General Pamela Cutler is the only female General in the armed forces.
• Pamela is the daughter of the Cutler who was encountered by the First Doctor when facing the Cybermen previously on Snowcap Base.

Music

• SlapRap is a style of music.

TARDISes

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

Technology

• There are transistor radios made by International Electromatics.

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 204.
• Like Transit this novel also includes somewhat profane language than had previously not appeared in Doctor Who television stories; "Fuck you, mate! Just fuck you, you fucking wanker!".

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