The Turing Test (novel)

The Turing Test
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Main setting:	Oxford, Paris and Dresden, 1945
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Paul Leonard
Release details
Release number:	39
Release date:	2 October 2000
Format:	Paperback Book; 24 Chapters, 256 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53806-6
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
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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.

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

• Eighth Doctor
• Graham Greene
• Alan Turing
• Joseph Heller
• Colonel Herbert Elgar
• Bernard
• Cray
• Daria
• Horatio Elgar
• Hugh Alexander
• White

References

• Graham was stationed at Freetown during World War II.

Notes

• This is the third story in the "Earth Arc".

Continuity

• Rachel Jensen assisted Turing with his wartime research. (PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks)

External links

• The Turing Test at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Turing Test at The Whoniverse