The Algebra of Ice (novel)
The Algebra of Ice was the sixty-eighth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. This is the first Past Doctor Adventures novel to feature this line up of Doctor, companion and Lethbridge-Stewart.
Publisher's summary
A genius maths nerd, a weird webzine publisher, and the Doctor's old ally, the Brigadier, find themselves helping the Doctor and Ace solve what should be a simple puzzle: the appearance of a crop circle in the Kentish countryside.
Hardly uncommon. But there are some peculiar features. It's not a circle but a series of square-sided shapes. It's filled with ice. And it draws the Doctor and Ace into a confrontation with a reality right next to zero.
Plot
to be added
Characters
- Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Ethan Amberglass
- Adrian Molecross
- Clisby
- Patrick Unwin
- Sheridan Brett
- Ramsay
References
to be added
Notes
- This novel had an illustrated preview in Doctor Who Magazine issue 347. It was illustrated by Daryl Joyce.
Continuity
- The Doctor destroyed Skaro, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) but also mentions he hasn't destroyed his own homeworld. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell, TV: The End of Time)
- The Doctor mentions that he has just visited both his own mind and the moon. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)
- Earlier in his personal timeline, the Seventh Doctor had visited Pompeii on 23 August 79 in the company of Melanie Bush (AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan) and would later do so again in his tenth incarnation in the company of Donna Noble (TV: The Fires of Pompeii).
- The Doctor mentions the destruction of Earth in an alternative universe. (TV: Inferno)
External links
- The Algebra of Ice at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Algebra of Ice at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: The Algebra of Ice