Blood Heat (novel)
Blood Heat is the nineteenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series of novels. It was written by Jim Mortimore, and features the Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Bernice.
Publisher's summary
‘Not men, Ace. Silurians. The original rulers of the Earth.’
The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth.
An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.
Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...
Characters
- Has two more ribs than a human.
- Is shocked that Morka killed the alternative third Doctor.
- Finds the Brigadier's actions terrible however....
- Performs a Time Ram to destroy this universe in order to save his own universe after lying to Ace and Benny about ensuring the Alternative Universe has a semi-natural lifespan.
- Morka injects Benny with a virus which cures the Race Memory fear.
- Gets shot while trying to stop the nuclear missiles.
- Injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her, it kills her.
- Launches a nuclear warhead at the Silurian Capital City in Africa.
- Bursts into tears over all the death he caused (including the shattered eggs of the Silurians).
- Married a man named James Lester, he hit his head looking for food and died.
- Is killed by the alternate Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. (see above)
- Goes insane from a combination of radiation and Race Memory fear.
- Was sent to retrieve the launch codes the Brigadier planned to use.
- Benton (alternate version)
- Manisha (alternate version)
- Saw her version of Ace die (an inversion of the Ace who travels with the Doctor who saw Manisha die).
- Alan
References
- The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex.
- The Doctor uses the secondary console room.
- Ace's new variant of Nitro-9 - Nitro-9 smart bombs can fly and take verbal commands.
- All part of / located in the alternate world: Silurians, Cyclotron, Parallel Universe(s), Jo Grant, Nuclear missiles, Sonic Screwdriver, Manisha, Third Doctor, Silurian virus
- The Doctor takes his third self's TARDIS from the alternate universe as his is lost in a tar pit, this TARDIS has a working Chameleon Circuit.
- The Dilophosaurus is a type of theropod Dinosaur.
Notes
- A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 205.
Continuity
- Blood Heat marks the beginning of the pentalogy of New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc. This comprises this novel, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
- A similar journey into an alternate universe (which has an alternate version of UNIT and Silurians) occured in DWM: Final Genesis.
- Blood Heat references DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians as its starting point for the divergent timeline. Deadly Genesis also branches off from the events seen in that story.
- The Doctor's original TARDIS (here lost in a tar pit) is returned to him in NA: Happy Endings.
- Manisha was mentioned in DW: Ghost Light.
- The TARDIS also (similarly) falls through a puncture in the time vortex in DW: The Age of Steel.
Timeline
- This story takes place after DWM: The Last Word
- This story takes place before DWM: Final Genesis
