Cold Fusion (novel)

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Publisher's Summary

'The entire universe is at stake and I'm locked in here with another incarnation of myself, and not even one of the good ones!'

More than one TARDIS lands on a barren ice world. The fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan find a once ordered society on the verge of collapse, as rebels wage a dirty war with Scientifica, the ruling elite. All that stands between order and anarchy is the massed presence of an Adjudicator peacekeeping force.

But is peace the only reason for the Adjudicator garrison? What exactly has been discovered deep below the planet's surface? Who are the mysterious Ferutu? And why is telling a ghost story a criminal offence?

The fifth Doctor sides with the cause of justice and fairness as always. But, as a threat to the universe unfolds, he finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future.

Characters

References

  • The TARDIS has a lightspeed overdrive.
  • The Machine belongs to Patience.
  • Tegan has seen Blake's 7 and can cope with the idea of transmats.
  • Unitatus is what UNIT became; they use the old UNIT logo (a grid within a circle) as their herald.
  • The colony has a Skybase in orbit.
  • The Ferutu are beings from an alternate universe in which Gallifrey was destroyed shortly after Omega's experiments; they have supplanted the role of the Time Lords, and actively engage in protecting and shaping the universe. Their "technology" (if it can be called that) is more akin to magic runes.
  • The Embodiment of Gris is mentioned by the Fifth Doctor.
  • The Fifth Doctor never uses expletives.
  • The Doctor disarms several fusion bombs by using his Sonic screwdriver to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, an act he states is beyond the capabilities of the Humanian Era.
  • The reasons that the Doctor seems to not remember meeting his past self in other multi-Doctor stories is discussed; in most of the televised adventures, it is credited to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect.
  • This story explains what happened to the Doctor's children. They were culled, but Susan was saved, this may explain the existence of John and Gillian

Notes

  • This is the only multi-Doctor story of either the Virgin New Adventures or the Virgin Missing Adventures.
  • The seventh Doctor comments about perspectives, and how "from a certain point of view, we're already dead. You. Me. Adric. Roz". When the book was published, the eighth Doctor had begun his travels and So Vile a Sin been "sort of" published showing Roz's death.
  • Does the (seventh) Doctor remember events from his younger (fifth) self? Well Roz does hit him harder then he'd planned... this is one of the few attempts to explore the idea of multi-Doctor stories from the point-of-view of the future Doctor. He does attempt to get the fifth Doctor out of the way and back to trying to get Tegan home, but he avoids answering the question about how much he remembers.

Continuity

Timeline

For the Fifth Doctor

For the Seventh Doctor

External Links

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