Blood Heat was 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. This is the first New Adventure novel to delve into an alternate universe, spawned from alternate events of Doctor Who and the Silurians.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
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...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- Bernice Summerfield
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Liz Shaw
- Jo Grant
- John Benton
- Manisha Purkayastha
- Alan
- Julia
- Jan
- Frank Hobson
- Rod
- Sam Meredith
- Harry Sullivan
- Billy Wilson
- Gill Lewis
- Kevin Barker
- Lee Wood
- Prescott
- Robin Ridgway
- Tony Mitchell
- Hobson
- Tomo
- Morka
- Imorkal
- Chtaachtl
- Chtorba
- Ophidian
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
Aquatic vessels[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The HMS Revenge carries nuclear missiles.
Biology[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Morka injects Bernice Summerfield with a virus which cures the race memory malaise.
- The Silurian virus is known as "the Nightmare".
The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor has two more ribs than a human.
- Morka killed the alternative Third Doctor.
- The Doctor performs a time ram to destroy this universe to save his own.
The Doctor's items[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace finds a sonic screwdriver in the (dead) Third Doctor's pockets.
Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Jo Grant was sent to retrieve the launch codes the Brigadier planned to use. She goes insane from radiation exposure and race memory malaise.
- Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her. It kills her.
- Liz Shaw married a man named James Lester. He hit his head looking for food and died.
- Manisha saw her version of Ace die, an inversion of events in the primary universe, where Ace saw Manisha die when her flat was firebombed. (TV: Ghost Light)
- Rod was part of the group getting supplies.
- Harry Sullivan serves as the HMS Revenge's surgeon.
Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ophidian is a Silurian city on Earth.
- Sam Meredith works with UNIT.
- The Doctor notices that Zanzibar is almost totally submerged.
Military[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace has been out of the Spacefleet for a few months, though she still wears the uniform/body armour.
Species[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The dilophosaurus is a type of theropod dinosaur.
- The Doctor refers to Silurians as psionosauropodomorpha.
- Ace adopts a compsognathus as a mascot.
- An edmontonia knocks the TARDIS into a tar pit.
- The Doctor, Ace and Jo ride ornithomimuses into a herd of seismosauruses.
- The large theropod dinosaur baryonyx is shown to hunt the human survivors horses.
- A pack of raptors attack Mamisha's house.
- A large species of pterodactyl are used by the Silurians as mounts.
- Sea Devils use kronosauruses and plesiosauruses to attack the submarine, The HMS Revenger.
- Silurains are revealed to use mammoths for food and presumably milk and wool.
- Silurians use herrerasauruses as hunting beasts.
- Other dinosaurs are featured including tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops, brontosaurus, hadrosaurus, stegosaurus, camarasaurus, deinonychus, diplodocus, and archaeopteryx.
TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex.
- Ace lifts the TARDIS belonging to the alternate Doctor (which had fallen on its doors) single-handedly and with a broken arm.
- Ace makes the (alternate universe) TARDIS materialise around the entire planet Earth, placing everything in a state of temporal grace.
- The Doctor uses the secondary console room.
- 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.
Weapons[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace's new variant of Nitro-9, Nitro-9 smart bombs, can fly and accept verbal commands.
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart launches a nuclear warhead at the Silurian capital city in Africa.
- Ace has an oval scar on her stomach caused by a Special Weapons Dalek.
Food and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor produces from his pockets two rounds of hot bacon sandwiches, a Mars bar, and a litre carton of fresh chilled orange juice.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 205.
- Blood Heat marked the beginning of a pentalogy of linked New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc: Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum, and No Future.
- Jim Mortimore's 2015 novel Blood Heat Second Iteration is a "Director's Cut" version of Blood Heat with several significant changes from and expansions of the original.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Benny also encountered Silurians and UNIT in an alternate universe in COMIC: Final Genesis. Both adventures were described by the Doctor as having the events of TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians as their starting points.
- The Doctor's original TARDIS is lost in a tar pit. It will be returned to him in PROSE: Happy Endings.
- Manisha was first mentioned in TV: Ghost Light.
- The TARDIS similarly falls through a puncture in the time vortex into an alternate universe in TV: Rise of the Cybermen.
Illustrations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Includes five illustrations by Tim Keable. The uncropped illustrations and three unused colour illustrations were posted by Jim Mortimore on this DeviantArt.[1]
Part One: Future Past
Part Two: World of No Tomorrows
Part Three: Call To Colours
Part Four: Isomorphic
Part Five: Ground Zero
Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]
Original cover
Sketch cover
Director's Cut cover
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Prelude to Blood Heat as published in DWM #205
- Blood Heat at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Blood Heat at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: Blood Heat
- Beyond the Book: Blood Heat by Paul Scoones (Article) - TSV 37
- Neil Is the Best Dalek: The Virgin Novels #20 – Blood Heat: Director's Cut by Jim Mortimore