Blood Heat (novel)

Blood Heat is 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.

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.
 * Is shocked that Morka killed the alternative third Doctor.
 * Finds the Brigadier's actions terrible however....
 * Performs a Time Ram to destroy this universe in order to save his own universe after lying to Ace and Benny about ensuring the Alternative Universe has a semi-natural lifespan.


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


 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (alternate version)
 * Injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her, it kills her.
 * Launches a nuclear warhead at the Silurian Capital City in Africa.
 * Bursts into tears over all the death he caused (including the shattered eggs of the Silurians).


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


 * Jo Grant (alternate version)
 * Is killed by the alternate Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. (see above)
 * Goes insane from a combination of radiation and Race Memory fear.
 * Was sent to retrieve the launch codes the Brigadier planned to use.


 * Benton (alternate version)
 * Manisha (alternate version)
 * Saw her version of Ace die (an inversion of the Ace who travels with the Doctor who saw Manisha die).
 * 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.


 * A similar journey into an alternate universe (which has an alternate version of UNIT and Silurians) occured in DWM: Final Genesis.


 * Blood Heat references DW: 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 NA: Happy Endings.


 * Manisha was mentioned in DW: Ghost Light.


 * The TARDIS also (similarly) falls through a puncture in the time vortex in DW: The Age of Steel.


 * The Doctor may have been partially aware of the events of this story, including his own involvement with them, prior to his arrival in the alternative timeline as his previous incarnation once commented to his companion Evelyn Smythe that, from what he has heard, his future self is "always blowing up planets." (BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor)

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWM: The Last Word
 * This story takes place before DWM: Final Genesis