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|doctor=Seventh Doctor
  
|doctor=Seventh Doctor
 
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
  
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
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|featuring= Liz Shaw (Silurian Earth)
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|featuring2= Jo Grant (Silurian Earth)
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|featuring3= Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Silurian Earth){{!}}the Brigadier
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|featuring4= John Benton (Silurian Earth){{!}}Benton
 
|enemy= [[Silurian]]s, [[Sea Devil]]s
  
|enemy= [[Silurian]]s, [[Sea Devil]]s
 
|setting= [[Silurian Earth]], [[1993]]
  
|setting= [[Silurian Earth]], [[1993]]
 
|writer= [[Jim Mortimore]]
  
|writer= [[Jim Mortimore]]
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|cover= [[Jeff Cummins]]
 
|publisher= Virgin Books
  
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|release date= [[21 October (releases)|21 October]] [[1993 (releases)|1993]]
  
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'''''Blood Heat''''' was 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 Summerfield|Bernice]]. This is the first New Adventure novel to delve into an [[alternate universe]], spawned from alternate events of ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''.
  
'''''Blood Heat''''' was 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 Summerfield|Bernice]]. This is the first New Adventure novel to delve into an [[alternate universe]], spawned from alternate events of ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''.
   
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== Plot ==
  
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== Characters ==
  
== Characters ==
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* [[Jo Grant (Silurian Earth)|Jo Grant]]
  
* [[Jo Grant (Silurian Earth)|Jo Grant]]
 
* [[John Benton (Silurian Earth)|John Benton]]
  
* [[John Benton (Silurian Earth)|John Benton]]
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* [[Manisha Purkayastha (Silurian Earth)|Manisha]]
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* [[Manisha Purkayastha (Silurian Earth)|Manisha Purkayastha]]
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* [[Alan (Blood Heat)|Alan]]
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* [[Alan Tomson|Alan]]
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* [[Julia (Blood Heat)|Julia]]
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* [[Julia Adams|Julia]]
 
* [[Jan Martin|Jan]]
  
* [[Jan Martin|Jan]]
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* [[Frank Hobson]]
 
* [[Morka (Silurian Earth)|Morka]]
  
* [[Morka (Silurian Earth)|Morka]]
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* [[Imorkal]]
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* [[Chtaachtl]]
 
* [[Chtorba]]
  
* [[Chtorba]]
   
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=== The Doctor's items ===
  
=== The Doctor's items ===
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* Ace finds a [[sonic screwdriver]] in the (dead) Third Doctor's pockets.
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* Ace finds a [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] in the (dead) Third Doctor's pockets.
   
 
=== Individuals ===
  
=== Individuals ===
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* [[Manisha Purkayastha (Silurian Earth)|Manisha]] saw her version of Ace die, an inversion of events in the primary universe, where Ace saw Manisha die when her flat was firebombed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'')
  
* [[Manisha Purkayastha (Silurian Earth)|Manisha]] saw her version of Ace die, an inversion of events in the primary universe, where Ace saw Manisha die when her flat was firebombed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'')
 
* [[Rod (Silurian Earth)|Rod]] was part of the group getting supplies.
  
* [[Rod (Silurian Earth)|Rod]] was part of the group getting supplies.
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* [[Harry Sullivan]] serves as the HMS Revenge's surgeon.
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=== Locations ===
  
=== Locations ===
 
* [[Ophidian]] is a [[Silurian]] city on Earth.
  
* [[Ophidian]] is a [[Silurian]] city on Earth.
 
* [[Sam Meredith]] works with UNIT.
  
* [[Sam Meredith]] works with UNIT.
 
* The Doctor notices that [[Zanzibar]] is almost totally submerged.
  
* The Doctor notices that [[Zanzibar]] is almost totally submerged.
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=== Military ===
  
=== Military ===
 
* Ace has been out of the [[Spacefleet]] for a few months, though she still wears the uniform/body armour.
  
* Ace has been out of the [[Spacefleet]] for a few months, though she still wears the uniform/body armour.
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* The Doctor, Ace and Jo ride [[ornithomimus]]es into a herd of [[seismosaurus]]es.
  
* The Doctor, Ace and Jo ride [[ornithomimus]]es into a herd of [[seismosaurus]]es.
 
* The large theropod dinosaur [[baryonyx]] is shown to hunt the human survivors horses.
  
* The large theropod dinosaur [[baryonyx]] is shown to hunt the human survivors horses.
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* A pack of [[Raptor|raptors]] attack Mamisha's house.
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* A pack of [[raptor]]s attack Mamisha's house.
 
* A large species of [[pterodactyl]] are used by the Silurians as mounts.
  
* A large species of [[pterodactyl]] are used by the Silurians as mounts.
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* Sea Devils use [[Kronosaur|kronosaurus]] to attack the submarine, The Revenge.
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* [[Sea Devil]]s use [[kronosaur]]uses and [[plesiosaurus]]es to attack the submarine, The HMS Revenger.
 
* Silurains are revealed to use [[mammoth]]s for food and presumably milk and wool.
  
* Silurains are revealed to use [[mammoth]]s for food and presumably milk and wool.
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* Silurians use [[herrerasaurus]]es as hunting beasts.
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* Other dinosaurs are featured including [[tyrannosaurus rex]], [[triceratops]], [[apatosaurus]], hadrosaurus, [[stegosaurus]], camarasaurus and archaeopteryx.
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* Other dinosaurs are featured including [[tyrannosaurus rex]], [[triceratops]], [[brontosaurus]], hadrosaurus, [[stegosaurus]], camarasaurus, [[deinonychus]], [[diplodocus]], and archaeopteryx.
   
 
=== TARDIS ===
  
=== TARDIS ===
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* Ace's new variant of [[Nitro-9]], Nitro-9 smart bombs, can fly and accept verbal commands.
  
* Ace's new variant of [[Nitro-9]], Nitro-9 smart bombs, can fly and accept verbal commands.
 
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Silurian Earth)|Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] launches a [[Nuclear missile|nuclear warhead]] at the Silurian capital city in [[Africa]].
  
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Silurian Earth)|Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] launches a [[Nuclear missile|nuclear warhead]] at the Silurian capital city in [[Africa]].
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* Ace has an oval scar on her stomach cause by a [[Special Weapons Dalek]].
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* Ace has an oval scar on her stomach caused by a [[Special Weapons Dalek]].
   
 
== Notes ==
  
== Notes ==
 
* A [[Prelude Blood Heat (short story)|prelude]] to this novel was published in [[DWM 205]].
  
* A [[Prelude Blood Heat (short story)|prelude]] to this novel was published in [[DWM 205]].
 
* ''Blood Heat'' marks the beginning of the pentalogy of New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc. This is comprised of this novel, ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'', ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'', ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'', and ''[[No Future]]''.
  
* ''Blood Heat'' marks the beginning of the pentalogy of New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc. This is comprised of this novel, ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'', ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'', ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'', and ''[[No Future]]''.
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* In 2015, Jim Mortimore self-published a reworked 'director's cut' of the novel, reworking some character names and sans the ''Doctor Who ''series title.
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* In 2015, Jim Mortimore self-published a "Director's Cut" version of the novel with several significant changes from and expansions of the original:
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** All of the non-original characters were renamed to avoid copyright violation; their backstories were also altered to connect to the book's themes.
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** Nearly every scene was expanded, including new added action sequences.
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** The novel was given a more in-media-res start by moving the original book's beginning to near the end.
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** Minor original characters from the original novel were given fuller characterisations.
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** The roles of "Berenice" and "Joanne" were significantly expanded, with the former joining a "Siluria'an" Caravan and raising [[Imorkal]], and the latter featuring in multiple flashback scenes.
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** Mortimore created a new mythology for the Silurians, including an explanation of the [[Ice Warrior]]s and [[Draconian]]s as descendants of Silurian space-farers.
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** The Doctor and his TARDIS were replaced by "Dr. Jon St.Myth" and his "Trisected Abutment Reality Disconnect", and the alternate universe arc was replaced by a plotline about the universe undergoing a quantum collapse.
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** The book had a different ending, a cliffhanger to be continued in Mortimore's further "Director's Cut" novels.
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* Following his "Director's Cut" of ''Blood Heat'', Jim Mortimore collaborated with [[Niki Haringsma]] to make the comic ''To Be Born'', which presented an alternative take on a scene from the Director's Cut and was published in the 2019 [[Charity publication|charity anthology]] ''Unbound: Adventures in Time and Space''.<ref>[https://nikiharingsma.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/to-be-born-an-adventure-in-sequential-mindfuckery/ To Be Born: An Adventure in Sequential Mindfuckery]</ref>
   
 
== Continuity ==
  
== Continuity ==
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* A similar journey by the Doctor, Ace and Benny into an alternate universe featuring the Silurians and an alternate version of UNIT occurred in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Final Genesis (comic story)|Final Genesis]]'', both of which the Doctor describes as having the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'' as their starting points.
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* The Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Benny also encountered Silurians and UNIT in an alternate universe in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Final Genesis (comic story)|Final Genesis]]''. Both adventures were described by the Doctor as having the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'' as their starting points.
 
* The Doctor's original TARDIS is lost in a tar pit. It will be returned to him in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''.
  
* The Doctor's original TARDIS is lost in a tar pit. It will be returned to him in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''.
 
* [[Manisha]] was first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]''.
  
* [[Manisha]] was first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]''.
 
* The TARDIS similarly falls through a puncture in the time vortex into an alternate universe in [[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]''.
  
* The TARDIS similarly falls through a puncture in the time vortex into an alternate universe in [[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]''.
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== Illustrations ==
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* Includes five illustrations by [[Tim Keable]]. The uncropped illustrations and three unused colour illustrations were posted by Jim Mortimore on this DeviantArt.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/jimmortimore/gallery/43251881/doctor-who-blood-heat-art DeviantArt: Jimmortimore]</ref>
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<gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true">
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File:Part One Future Past.jpg|Part One: Future Past
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File:Part Two World of No Tomorrows.jpg|Part Two: World of No Tomorrows
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File:Part Three Call To Colours.jpg|Part Three: Call To Colours
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File:Part Four Isomorphic.jpg|Part Four: Isomorphic
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File:Part Five Ground Zero.jpg|Part Five: Ground Zero
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</gallery>
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== Cover gallery ==
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<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true">
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NA019 bloodheat.jpg|Original cover
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NA019 bloodheat sketch cover.jpg|Sketch cover
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Blood Heat DC cover.jpg|''Director's Cut'' cover
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</gallery>
   
 
== External links ==
  
== External links ==
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* {{whoniverse|na19|Blood Heat}}
  
* {{whoniverse|na19|Blood Heat}}
 
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/bloo.htm The Cloister Library: '''Blood Heat''']
  
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/bloo.htm The Cloister Library: '''Blood Heat''']
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* [http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv37/beyondthebook.html#bloodheat Beyond the Book: '''Blood Heat''' by Paul Scoones (Article) - TSV 37]
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* [http://neilisthebestdalek.blogspot.com/2016/10/doctor-who-virgin-novels-20-blood-heat.html Neil Is the Best Dalek: The Virgin Novels #20 – '''Blood Heat''': Director's Cut by Jim Mortimore]
   
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== Footnotes ==
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{{reflist}}
 
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{{Homo Reptilian stories}}
  
{{Homo Reptilian stories}}
 
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Blood Heat was 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. This is the first New Adventure novel to delve into an alternate universe, spawned from alternate events of Doctor Who and the Silurians.

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...

Plot

to be added

Characters

References

Aquatic vessels

Biology

The Doctor

  • The Doctor has two more ribs than a human.
  • Morka killed the alternative Third Doctor.
  • The Doctor performs a time ram to destroy this universe to save his own.

The Doctor's items

Individuals

  • Jo Grant was sent to retrieve the launch codes the Brigadier planned to use. She goes insane from radiation exposure and race memory malaise.
  • Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her. It kills her.
  • Liz Shaw married a man named James Lester. He hit his head looking for food and died.
  • Manisha saw her version of Ace die, an inversion of events in the primary universe, where Ace saw Manisha die when her flat was firebombed. (TV: Ghost Light)
  • Rod was part of the group getting supplies.
  • Harry Sullivan serves as the HMS Revenge's surgeon.

Locations

Military

  • Ace has been out of the Spacefleet for a few months, though she still wears the uniform/body armour.

Species

TARDIS

  • The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex.
  • Ace lifts the TARDIS belonging to the alternate Doctor (which had fallen on its doors) single-handedly and with a broken arm.
  • Ace makes the (alternate universe) TARDIS materialise around the entire planet Earth, placing everything in a state of temporal grace.
  • The Doctor uses the secondary console room.
  • The Doctor takes his third self's TARDIS from the alternate universe as his is lost in a tar pit. This TARDIS has a working Chameleon Circuit.

Weapons

Notes

  • A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 205.
  • Blood Heat marks the beginning of the pentalogy of New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc. This is comprised of this novel, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum, and No Future.
  • In 2015, Jim Mortimore self-published a "Director's Cut" version of the novel with several significant changes from and expansions of the original:
    • All of the non-original characters were renamed to avoid copyright violation; their backstories were also altered to connect to the book's themes.
    • Nearly every scene was expanded, including new added action sequences.
    • The novel was given a more in-media-res start by moving the original book's beginning to near the end.
    • Minor original characters from the original novel were given fuller characterisations.
    • The roles of "Berenice" and "Joanne" were significantly expanded, with the former joining a "Siluria'an" Caravan and raising Imorkal, and the latter featuring in multiple flashback scenes.
    • Mortimore created a new mythology for the Silurians, including an explanation of the Ice Warriors and Draconians as descendants of Silurian space-farers.
    • The Doctor and his TARDIS were replaced by "Dr. Jon St.Myth" and his "Trisected Abutment Reality Disconnect", and the alternate universe arc was replaced by a plotline about the universe undergoing a quantum collapse.
    • The book had a different ending, a cliffhanger to be continued in Mortimore's further "Director's Cut" novels.
  • Following his "Director's Cut" of Blood Heat, Jim Mortimore collaborated with Niki Haringsma to make the comic To Be Born, which presented an alternative take on a scene from the Director's Cut and was published in the 2019 charity anthology Unbound: Adventures in Time and Space.[1]

Continuity

Illustrations

  • Includes five illustrations by Tim Keable. The uncropped illustrations and three unused colour illustrations were posted by Jim Mortimore on this DeviantArt.[2]

Cover gallery

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ To Be Born: An Adventure in Sequential Mindfuckery
  2. ↑ DeviantArt: Jimmortimore
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