Blood Heat (novel)

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
The Doctor
 * Has two more ribs than a human.

Bernice Summerfield
 * Morka injects Benny with a virus which cures the Race Memory fear.
 * Gets shot while trying to stop the nuclear missiles.

Ace

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (alternate version)
 * Injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her, it kills her.

Liz Shaw (alternate version)
 * Married a man named James Lester, he hit his head looking for food and died.

Benton (alternate version)

Manisha (alternate version)

Alan

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 and the Doctor Who Magazine comic Deadly Genesis.


 * Blood Heat references 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 Happy Endings.


 * Manisha was mentioned in Ghost Light.