Vampire Science (novel)

Publisher's Summary
In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco Some want to coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment to find a new source of blood. But some would rather go out in a blaze of glory - and UNIT's attempts to contain them could provoke another devastating war.

The Doctor strikes a dangerous bargain, but even he might not be able to keep the city from getting caught in the crossfire. While he finds himself caught in a web of old feuds and high-tech schemes, his new companion Sam finds just how deadly travelling with the Doctor can be.

Characters
The Doctor
 * Says that he's 1,012 years old, but prefers to count from when he last regenerated; Three.
 * The Doctor left Sam for a year and went and had adventures while Sam was at a rally.

Sam Jones
 * Has very short blond hair and looks a bit butch.
 * Her parents were children of the 1960s...and in her opinion her only methods of acting out could have been; become a major drug addict or join the Conservative Party.
 * The former, rather than the latter is explored later in Unnatural History.

Carolyn McConnel
 * Meets the Doctor and Sam in 1976 and then again in 1997 when she send him a hypercube.

Joanna Harris
 * Was born in Canterbury the day William the Conqueror died.
 * Vampire.

Brigadier-General Adrienne Kramer
 * A black woman in her 50s.
 * Met the Seventh Doctor in Washington was about to disappear up a time rift.
 * Is of the opinion that "chicks dig the time machine" thing.

Continuity

 * State of Decay first debuted the Vampires, Blood Harvest and Goth Opera explain how Vampires got to Earth.


 * The Doctor and Sam first met in The Eight Doctors.