Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)
Cat’s Cradle: Warhead is the sixth novel in the series of Virgin New Adventures published in the 1990s. Written by Andrew Cartmel and set after "Survival," it features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
Publisher's summary
The place is Earth. The time is the near future - all too near.
Industrial development has accelerated out of all control, spawning dangerous new technologies and laying the planet to waste. While the inner cities collapse in guerrilla warfare, a dark age of superstition dawns.
As destruction of the environment reaches the point of no return, multinational corporations and super-rich individuals unite in a last desperate effort - not to save humankind, but to buy themselves immortality in a poisoned world.
If Earth is to survive, somebody has to stop them.
From London to New York to Turkey, Ace follows the Doctor as he prepares, finally, to strike back.
Characters
- The Seventh Doctor
- Makes a poor man's cryogenic system, with gel instead of low temperatures.
- Knows how to use a Vickers helmet attached to a handgun.
- Follows the Doctor to the Butler Institute.
- Dies of an autoimmune disease.
- Has psi powers.
- Has enough anger that can be the ammunition for Vincent's psi powers.
- Matthew O'Hara
- Stephanie
- Social Acquisition
- Lewis Christian
- Biostock Acquisition
- Mulwray
- Biostock Acquisition, then Social Acquisition
- Maria Chavez
- A cleaner
The "Site"
New York Police Department
Turkey
Vincent's Home Town
Cthulhu Cyber Club
References
- The Butler Institute is investigating transfering human consciousness into computers.
- Witchkids have in the recent past been a group of youths that petrol bomb various buildings like McDonalds.
Notes
- This is the second novel in the Cat's Cradle Trilogy.
- This is the first novel in the Andrew Cartmel War Trilogy, comprising: Cat's Cradle: Warhead, Warlock and Warchild.
Continuity
- Shreela first appeared in DW: Survival.
- The Doctor's house on Allen Road first appeared in DWM: Fellow Travellers.
Timeline
External links
- Cat's Cradle: Warhead at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Cat's Cradle: Warhead at The Whoniverse
- Bewildering Reference Guide entry for Cat's Cradle: Warhead
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