The Highest Science (novel)

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The Highest Science, published in 1993, is the eleventh book in the Virgin New Adventures series. It was written by Gareth Roberts, and features the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield.

Publisher's summary

Sakkrat.

Many legends speak of this world, home of an ancient empire destroyed by its own greatest achievement: the Highest Science, the pinnacle of technological discovery.

When the TARDIS alerts the Doctor and Bernice to the presence of an enormous temporal fluctuation on a large, green, unremarkable planet, they are not to know of any connection with the legend.

But the connection is there, and it will lead them into conflict with the monstrous Chelonians, with their contempt for human parasites; into adventure with a group of youngsters whose musical taste has suddenly become dangerously significant; and will force them to face Sheldukher, the most wanted criminal in the galaxy.

Plot

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Characters

References

Astronomical objects

Books

Biology

  • General Fakrid is the only fertile Chelonian on the planet, but goes into a form of menstrual shock when his latest clutch of eggs dies.

The Doctor

  • The Doctor again "plays stupid" so the Chelonians won't kill him.

Foods and beverages

  • Bernice drinks Bubbleshake, an oral appetite suppressant containing Fabi weed extract. It has many side effects, one of which is brain disintegration.
  • Bernice can't find any alcohol in the TARDIS.

Individuals

  • Sheldukher is one of the most wanted men in the galaxy.

Species

  • Chelonians are large cybernetic turtles who hate humans.

Sports

Theories and concepts

Notes

  • A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 196.
  • The 2009 special Planet of the Dead features elements of this story; whereas a tube train passes through a Fortean Flicker to Sakkrat here, a red London bus passes through a wormhole onto San Helios in the 2009 story.
  • The writer of both pieces, Gareth Roberts, was to use the Chelonians in Planet of the Dead, but the heat of the Dubai desert where filming was to be was thought too severe for an actor to wear a heavy Chelonian turtle costume in.

Continuity

  • The humans and Chelonians frozen in time at the climax of this story are unfrozen in NA: Happy Endings.

Timeline

External links

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