The Turing Test (novel)
The Turing Test was the thirty-ninth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Paul Leonard, released 2 October 2000 and featured the Eighth Doctor.
Publisher's summary
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Alan Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort, is called in to break a mysterious new cypher. It's coming from Germany, and everyone assumes it is German — everyone except Turing's new friend, the Doctor. Indeed it seems the Doctor knows too much about the code and the code-makers — and when people start to die, even Turing wonders if the Doctor is the one to blame.
Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor, and thinks he's a rum enough chap, but in a remote African village he has encountered something far stranger.
To find out the truth, they must all cross the front line and travel through occupied Germany — right into the firing line of the bloodiest war in history. What they find there has no human explanation — and only the Doctor has the answers. Or maybe, they're just more questions...
Plot
to be added
Characters
- Eighth Doctor
- Graham Greene
- Alan Turing
- Joseph Heller
- Colonel Herbert Elgar
- Bernard
- Cray
- Daria
- Hugh Alexander
- Mr Heslop
- Mrs Heslop
- Don Bayley
- Timothy
- Tiltman
References
- Graham was stationed at Freetown during World War II.
Notes
- This is the third story in the "Earth Arc".
- The glowing keyboard letters on the cover spell out "DR WHO".
- The Turning Test won Best Book in the 2004 Jade Pagoda mailing list awards.[1]
Continuity
- Rachel Jensen assisted Turing with his wartime research. (PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks)
External links
- The Turing Test at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Turing Test at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: The Turing Test
Footnotes
- ↑ Jade Pagoda awards (HTML) (2008). Archived from the original on 22 September 2008.
