Atom Bomb Blues (novel)

Atom Bomb Blues
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	Lady Silk Imperial Lee
Main setting:	Los Alamos, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California, USA, 1945
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Andrew Cartmel
Release details
Release number:	76
Release date:	December 2005
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-48635-X
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Published in December 2005, Atom Bomb Blues was the final novel in the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures range, after which the imprint began to focus exclusively on publishing books featuring the then-current TV incarnation of the Doctor. It is the last full-length Doctor Who novel to date to be published in the traditional mass market paperback format (a number of shorter novellas have been published in trade paperback editions, however).

Publisher's summary

Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1945. The Second World War is coming to its bloody conclusion, and in the American desert the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake in more ways than one.

Someone, or something, is trying to alter the course of history at this most delicate point. And destroy the human race. Posing as a nuclear scientist with Ace as his research assistant, the Doctor plays detective among the Manhattan Project scientists, while desperately trying to avoid falling under suspicion himself.

As the minutes tick away to the world's first atom bomb blast, the Doctor and Ace find themselves up to their necks in spies, aliens of the flying saucer variety, and some very nasty saboteurs from another dimension.

Plot

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Characters

• The Doctor
• Ace

References

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Notes

• This was the final novel to be published under the BBC's Past Doctor range. All consequent novels featured the current Doctor appearing on television; Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith. However in July 2011 the BBC announced that they would be publishing a novelisation of the unfinished television story Shada in 2012, followed by a Third Doctor novel titled Harvest of Time.

Continuity

• Ace remembers meeting Courtney Pine and getting his autograph. (DW: Silver Nemesis)

(Ace seems to remembers getting her CD autographed, but it was actually an audiocassette.)

Timeline

• Atom Bomb Blues occurs after: PDA: The Algebra of Ice
• Atom Bomb Blues occurs before: BFA: Dust Breeding

External links

• Atom Bomb Blues at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Atom Bomb Blues at The Whoniverse