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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor exiled himself to Torrok after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'' and was forced to leave when the [[Time Lord]]s revealed him to the Watchers in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time of Your Life]]''.
* The Doctor exiled himself to Torrok ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'') and was forced to leave when the [[Time Lord]]s revealed him to the Watchers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time of Your Life]]'')
* The Cybermen are those of the post-[[Cyber-Wars]] variant seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'' and the [[Cyberman (audio series)|''Cyberman'' audio series]].
* The Cybermen are those of the post-[[Cyber-Wars]] variant. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'', [[Cyberman (audio series)|''Cyberman'' audio series]])
* The Doctor refers to the painful beginnings of his third [[regeneration]] in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')
* The Doctor refers to the painful beginnings of his third [[regeneration]] in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')
* When discussing the subjects of government cover-ups with Grant, the Doctor mentions the [[Great Intelligence]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]''), the [[Auton]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''), the [[Axos|Axons]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') and the [[Zygon]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'').
* When discussing the subjects of government cover-ups with Grant, the Doctor mentions the [[Great Intelligence]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') the [[Auton]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') the [[Axos|Axons]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') and the [[Zygon]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'')
* Earth is still rebuilding after the [[22nd century Dalek invasion|decade long Dalek occupation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
* Earth is still rebuilding after the [[22nd century Dalek invasion|decade long Dalek occupation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
*Grant had a recurring nightmare about being hunted by robots which was cured in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time of Your Life]]''.
* Grant had a recurring nightmare about being hunted by robots which was cured. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time of Your Life]]'')
*The Cybermen in this novel periodically journey to the colony in a spacecraft similar to that seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]''.
* The [[Bronze Knight]]s' brutal crushing of Maddox's hands is an infamous reprise of Lytton's punishment in [[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''.
* Grant comes face-to-face with his father in mid-conversion, a scene that brings to mind Natasha meeting her father as a glass [[Dalek]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'' and [[Lytton]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''.
* The events of various Cybermen stories are mentioned: [[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]''.
* Reference is made to [[the Valeyard]] seen in [[TV]]: ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]''.
* The TARDIS has an emergency exit. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'')
* The TARDIS has an emergency exit. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'')
* The Doctor recalls his visit to [[Thoros-Beta]] in [[2379]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'')
* The Doctor recalls his visit to [[Thoros-Beta]] in [[2379]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'')

Revision as of 19:52, 7 July 2014

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Killing Ground was the twenty-third novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by Steve Lyons. It featured the Sixth Doctor, and it featured Grant Markham in his second and final appearance in a novel. This is the only Missing Adventures novel to feature the Cybermen, and it is only one of two novels published under Virgin Publishing's control of the Doctor Who licence.

Publisher's summary

"Imagine that you can live forever and life is totally free from pain. You can see all things with clarity, unblinkered by irrelevant details. You will never fear, never sicken, never lose control. That is what the Cybermen are offering."

The Doctor takes his new companion, Grant, back home to Agora — only to find a world in the thrall of some of his oldest and deadliest foes.

The Cybermen have taken control and set up a breeding colony to propagate their own race. While the Doctor languishes in a cell at the mercy of the sadistic Overseers, Grant joins up with a group of rebels and works on a desperate rescue bid.

With time running out, the rebels move into action. But will their solution prove more deadly than the problem itself?

Plot

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Characters

References

Biologically modified species

Cybermen

  • Hegelia is an expert on Cyberhistory. She is one of the most respected ArcHivists from the ArcHive.
  • ArcHivist Hegelia undergoes the Cyber-conversion process to satisfy her curiosity about what the process feels like.
  • Cybermen are CyberNomads who were affected by the war with Voga and consequently have more organic components than any other model since the CyberMondasians.

The Doctor

  • The Doctor contemplates suicide.
  • The Doctor spends weeks in the TARDIS recovering from radiation poisoning sustained on board the Selacian warcraft.

Individuals

Notes

Continuity

External links

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Susan, Ian, Barbara
Ian, Barbara
Ian, Barbara, Vicki
Vicki, Steven
Dodo
Second Doctor
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Third Doctor
Liz, UNIT
Jo, UNIT
Jo, Yates
Sarah, Jeremy,
The Brig
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Sarah
Romana I, K9
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Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion
Turlough
Sixth Doctor
Peri
Grant
Mel
Seventh Doctor
Chris, Roz
Other
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Second, Third, Seventh Doctors
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