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* Has psi powers.
* Has psi powers.



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Cat’s Cradle: Warhead is the sixth novel in the series of Virgin New Adventures published in the 1990s. Written by Andrew Cartmel and set after "Survival," it features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Publisher's Summary

The place is Earth. The time is the near future - all too near.

Industrial development has accelerated out of all control, spawning dangerous new technologies and laying the planet to waste. While the inner cities collapse in guerrilla warfare, a dark age of superstition dawns.

As destruction of the environment reaches the point of no return, multinational corporations and super-rich individuals unite in a last desperate effort - not to save humankind, but to buy themselves immortality in a poisoned world.

If Earth is to survive, somebody has to stop them.

From London to New York to Turkey, Ace follows the Doctor as he prepares, finally, to strike back.

Characters

The Doctor

  • Makes a poor man's cryogenic system, with gel instead of low temperatures.

Ace

  • Knows how to use a Vickers helmet attached to a handgun.

Shreela Govindia

  • Dies of an autoimmune disease.

Vincent Wheaton

  • Has psi powers.

Justine

  • Has enough anger that can be the ammunition for Vincent's psi powers.

Bobby Prescott

References

  • The Butler Institute is investigating transfering human consciousness into computers.
  • Witchkids have in the recent past been a group of youths that petrol bomb various buildings like McDonalds.

Notes

  • This is the second novel in the Cat's Cradle Trilogy.
  • This is the first novel in the Andrew Cartmel War Trilogy, comprising: Cat's Cradle: Warhead, Warlock and Warchild.

Continuity

External Links

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