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* [[1994]]: A gunman runs amok in [[Mexico City]].
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Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the [[Huitzilin|Blue]], a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him – but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events of [[Blood Heat]] and [[the Dimension Riders]], the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered – and a lethal force from [[South America]]’s prehistory has been released.
Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the [[Huitzilin|Blue]], a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him – but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events of [[Blood Heat]] and [[the Dimension Riders]], the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered – and a lethal force from [[South America]]'s prehistory has been released.


The Doctor, [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] travel to the [[Aztec Empire]] in [[1487]], to London in the [[1960s|Swinging Sixties]], and to the sinking of the [[Titanic]] as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults -- and survive the attacks of the living god [[Huitzilin]].
The Doctor, [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] travel to the [[Aztec Empire]] in [[1487]], to London in the [[1960s|Swinging Sixties]], and to the sinking of the [[Titanic]] as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults -- and survive the attacks of the living god [[Huitzilin]].

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The Left-Handed Hummingbird was the twenty-first novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It was written by Kate Orman and was released in 1993. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice.

Publisher's summary

He took up a firing stance, holding the thirty-eight out in front of him. "Mr Lennon?" he said.

Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the Blue, a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him – but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events of Blood Heat and the Dimension Riders, the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered – and a lethal force from South America's prehistory has been released.

The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of the Titanic as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults -- and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin.

Plot

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Characters

References

Communications technology

Cultural references from the real world

The Doctor

  • The Aztecs call the Doctor a 'Midwife' - healer, curer.
  • Upon arriving in 1968, the Doctor suggests they visit Woodstock. Two of his earlier incarnations are there.

Drugs and medicines

  • The Doctor eats psilocybe mexicana mushrooms, which enhance his telepathic abilities.
  • The Doctor has three lumps of LSD-spiked sugar in 1968.
  • Through drugs and alcohol the gods can make paths into the world: "The cactus wine, the morning glory seed, the mushrooms - they are the causeways along which Huitzilopochtli can journey into Tenochtitlan."
  • Achtli, a novice priest, dies from taking the magic mushrooms that allow some people to see the Blue.

Fashion and clothing

Foods and beverages

Individuals

  • Benny still does not trust the Doctor.
  • Cristián was known as "Cris" in 1968.
  • Professor Lawrence Fitzgerald knows the Doctor.
  • Ace rescues a slave, Iccauhtli, who was to be sacrificed. He dies after he and Ace get into a fight with some warriors. He drowns in a canal after a warrior splits his rib cage open.
  • Ce Xochitl is a judge and Iccauhtli's father.

Psychic powers

  • Ace recalls Saul and the natural way the psychic energy pooled to create him.
  • When the casing of a Dalek shatters, it sounds like chips in hot oil, according to Ace.
  • Ace gets hit by a telepathic bomb.
  • After a telepathic event attacks her, Bernice attacks someone with a frying pan.

Species

Religion

  • Achtli is a novice priest and touched by the Blue. He is also Ce Xochitl's son.

TARDIS

  • The Doctor fixes the chameleon circuit in his adopted TARDIS from the alternate universe where he died.
  • The Doctor meditates beside the pool while Ace goes swimming. The Doctor had to jettison the original pool when it began to leak into the co-ordinate circuits.

United Nations Intelligence Taskforce

Notes

  • Kate Orman was the first, and ultimately the only, woman to write an original full-length novel for either of Virgin's post-series lines; she would write or co-write several more books in the New Adventures series up to 1997.
  • Interlude 3 is written from Bernice's diary.
  • A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 207.

Continuity

External links

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