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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the thirtieth [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]]. This novel also featured the first in-novel regeneration of a character from the [[List of Doctor Who television stories|TV series]]: [[the Master]]. It is one of three novels written by [[David A. McIntee]] that feature the Master, with [[Virgin Missing Adventures]]' ''[[The Dark Path]]'' following in 1997 and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]]' ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'' being published in 1998.
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the thirtieth [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]]. This novel also featured the first in-novel [[regeneration]] of a character from the [[List of Doctor Who television stories|TV series]]: [[the Master]]. It was one of three novels written by [[David A. McIntee]] that feature the Master, with [[Virgin Missing Adventures]]' ''[[The Dark Path]]'' following in 1997 and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]]' ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'' being published in 1998.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
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But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist [[Russia]]. The militaristic [[Tzun Confederacy]] have made [[Earth]] their next target for conquest — and the aliens are already among us.
But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist [[Russia]]. The militaristic [[Tzun Confederacy]] have made [[Earth]] their next target for conquest — and the aliens are already among us.


Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know what’s going on: the army’s mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major {{Frontier|n=Kreer}}.
Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know what’s going on: the army's mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major {{Frontier|n=Kreer}}.


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
On [[May Day]], [[1957]], the [[Soviet]]s launch [[Sputnik]] I. After it begins it's orbit, the signal begins to fade and the [[satellite]] is lost. The mission will be erased from history, and when Sputnik II is launched, it will be renamed "Sputnik I."
On [[May Day]], [[1957]], the [[Soviet]]s launch [[Sputnik]] I. After it begins its orbit, the signal begins to fade and the [[satellite]] is lost. The mission will be erased from history, and when Sputnik II is launched, it will be renamed "Sputnik I."


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=== Cultural references from the real world ===
=== Cultural references from the real world ===
* The Doctor makes a sly reference to [[Santa Mira]], thus making the film, {{wi|Invasion of the Body Snatchers}}, something that actually happened in the [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]].
* The Doctor makes a sly reference to [[Santa Mira]].


=== Documents ===
=== Documents ===
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=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* Shadow is the name of a [[Kitling]] named by the Master. It took him from the Cheetah World to [[1950s]] [[America]].
* Shadow is the name of a [[Kitling]] named by the Master. It took him from the Cheetah World to [[1950s]] [[America]].
=== The Master ===
* The Master [[Regeneration|regenerates]] after Ace shoots him in the back.


=== Planets ===
=== Planets ===
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=== Vehicles ===
=== Vehicles ===
* Ace can fly a [[Hercules military plane]], thanks to what the Doctor refers to as the "narrow minded military": keeping things similar in all airborne craft.
* Ace can fly a [[Hercules military plane]].
* Ace also used to fly a [[spacehopper]] in the [[Spacefleet]].
* Ace also used to fly a [[spacehopper]] in the [[Spacefleet]].


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First Frontier was the thirtieth New Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield. This novel also featured the first in-novel regeneration of a character from the TV series: the Master. It was one of three novels written by David A. McIntee that feature the Master, with Virgin Missing Adventures' The Dark Path following in 1997 and BBC Past Doctor Adventures' The Face of the Enemy being published in 1998.

Publisher's summary

Ace raised her blaster. "You've already killed me once, girl," Template:Frontier said. "Didn't you learn anything from that?"

When Bernice asks to see the dawn of the space age, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the United States of America in 1957 — and into the midst of distrust and paranoia. The Cold War is raging, bringing the world to the brink of atomic destruction.

But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist Russia. The militaristic Tzun Confederacy have made Earth their next target for conquest — and the aliens are already among us.

Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know what’s going on: the army's mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major Template:Frontier.

Plot

On May Day, 1957, the Soviets launch Sputnik I. After it begins its orbit, the signal begins to fade and the satellite is lost. The mission will be erased from history, and when Sputnik II is launched, it will be renamed "Sputnik I."

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Characters

References

Biology

Cultural references from the real world

Documents

Individuals

  • Shadow is the name of a Kitling named by the Master. It took him from the Cheetah World to 1950s America.

Planets

Psychology

Species

Sports

  • It is best (supposedly) to have five arms and five legs when using Venusian aikido.

TARDIS

Theories and concepts

Time Lords

  • The Master claims to be a Time Lord of the First Rank.

Vehicles

Weapons

Notes

  • Sophie Aldred later posed for photographs wearing an outfit based upon the one worn by Ace on the cover of this novel, for her memoir, Ace! The Inside Story of the End of an Era.
  • A prelude was published for this novel in DWM 216.
  • This is the first published work to feature the Master post-Survival. Later stories would contradict First Frontier, which follows on directly from Survival. The Master is still infected by the Cheetah virus in Housewarming and Prime Time, and is returned to his last crispy incarnation (before Tremas) in Dust Breeding.
  • The regenerated Master's appearence is based on Basil Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood, according to McIntee, First Frontier's author (DWM 222).

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According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.

Divided Loyalties, A Brief History of Time Lords and The Legions of Death feature, or otherwise acknowledge, the War Chief, but in the process contradicted the notion put forward by other stories that he was an incarnation of the Master.

One account suggests that the incarnation portrayed by Roger Delgado may be the same as the one portrayed by Peter Pratt while some others distinguish them.

According to one account, the incarnation portrayed by Gordon Tipple is the one portrayed by Anthony Ainley, while some others state that the Ainley one was already lost by then.

While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological
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For the purposes of this list, a "regeneration story" is one in which a regeneration is actually and initially depicted. For this reason The War Games is not included below, even though it is commonly thought of as a "regeneration story". It doesn't actually include a clear scene of regeneration, and the preponderance of stories in other media confirms that the Second Doctor did not regenerate at the end of it.
Additionally, immediate post-regeneration stories, like the 2005 Children in Need Special Born Again — and ones like Castrovalva, where the regeneration sequence was replayed — are not included.
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