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.
 * 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.

Timeline

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