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name= The Turing Test | | name= The Turing Test| | ||
image=The Turing Test.jpg| | image= The Turing Test.jpg| | ||
series=[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] | | series= [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]| | ||
number= 39 | | number= 39| | ||
doctor=Eighth Doctor | | doctor= Eighth Doctor| | ||
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year= [[Oxford]], [[Paris]] and [[Dresden]], [[1945]] | | year= [[Oxford]], [[Paris]] and [[Dresden]], [[1945]]| | ||
writer= [[Paul Leonard]] | | writer= [[Paul Leonard]]| | ||
publisher= [[BBC Books]] | | publisher= [[BBC Books]]| | ||
release date= [[October]] | release date= [[October]] [[2000]]| | ||
format= Paperback Book, --- Pages | | format= Paperback Book, --- Pages| | ||
isbn= ISBN 0-563-53806-6| | isbn= ISBN 0-563-53806-6| | ||
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'''''The Turing Test''''' was the thirty-ninth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Paul Leonard]]. | '''''The Turing Test''''' was the thirty-ninth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Paul Leonard]]. | ||
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The Second World War is drawing to a close. Alan Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort, is called in to break a mysterious new cypher. | The Second World War is drawing to a close. Alan Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort, is called in to break a mysterious new cypher. It's coming from Germany, and everyone assumes it is German -- everyone except Turing's new friend, the Doctor, indeed it seems the Doctor knows too much about the code and the code-makers -- and when people start to die, even Turing wonders it the Doctor is the one to blame. | ||
Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor, and thinks | Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor, and thinks he's a rum enough chap, but in a remote African village he has encountered something far stranger. | ||
To find out the truth, they must all cross the front line and travel through occupied Germany -- right into the firing line of the bloodiest war in history. What they find there has no human explanation -- and only the Doctor has the answers. Or maybe, | To find out the truth, they must all cross the front line and travel through occupied Germany -- right into the firing line of the bloodiest war in history. What they find there has no human explanation -- and only the Doctor has the answers. Or maybe, they're just more questions... | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* According to the ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' novelisation [[Rachel Jensen]] helped Alan Turing with his wartime research. | * According to the ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' novelisation, [[Rachel Jensen]] helped Alan Turing with his wartime research. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* {{dwrefguide|whobbc39.htm|The Turing Test}} | * {{dwrefguide|whobbc39.htm|The Turing Test}} | ||
Revision as of 01:46, 4 May 2013
The Turing Test was the thirty-ninth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Paul Leonard.
Publisher's Summary
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Alan Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort, is called in to break a mysterious new cypher. It's coming from Germany, and everyone assumes it is German -- everyone except Turing's new friend, the Doctor, indeed it seems the Doctor knows too much about the code and the code-makers -- and when people start to die, even Turing wonders it the Doctor is the one to blame.
Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor, and thinks he's a rum enough chap, but in a remote African village he has encountered something far stranger.
To find out the truth, they must all cross the front line and travel through occupied Germany -- right into the firing line of the bloodiest war in history. What they find there has no human explanation -- and only the Doctor has the answers. Or maybe, they're just more questions...
Characters
- The Doctor
- Graham Greene
- Alan Turing
- Joseph Heller
- Colonel Herbert Elgar
- Bernard
- Cray
- Daria
- Horatio Elgar
- Hugh Alexander
- White
References
- The Eighth Doctor is ambidextrous, like his previous incarnation.
Notes
- This is the third story in the "Earth Arc".
Continuity
- According to the Remembrance of the Daleks novelisation, Rachel Jensen helped Alan Turing with his wartime research.
External links
- The Turing Test at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Turing Test at The Whoniverse
