The Doctor and his traveling companions, Jamie and Zoe, find themselves landing on The Wheel, a ring of ice and metal that circles one of Saturn's moons. It's home to a mining colony that supplies Earth. Besieged by problems, and inhabited with strange creatures that the children fear, The Wheel wants someone to blame and who else but the visiting Doctor. Soon it is revealed that there is an ancient mystery at hand that can destroy The Wheel and potentially kill them all. It's up to the Doctor to save them all.

Award winning author Stephen Baxter has given us a fresh look at doctor number two from the original Doctor Who television series. Considering there's not much literature made from this particular doctor, this book is fun and fascinating from this viewpoint alone. Let me jump in here and say that I recommend going on YouTube and watching a few minutes of actor Patrick Troughton who plays the second doctor, and it will be easier to picture the character, and also to watch mannerisms, hear accents, etc. His traveling companions, Jamie and Zoe, are also on board in this tale, complete with Jamie's Scottish accent. If you're a new fan to the Doctor Who series, or you've been a fan for many years, you will be entertained with this tale of a mining colony on the rings of Saturn, government bureaucracy, and an evil industrial plot. Of course there are little blue men and an ancient evil. One of my favorite aspects of this novel was the amazing care Baxter took to research the subject and translate the setting brilliantly onto page. The pictures I formed from his descriptions alone made me yearn to visit the distant planet to see these things for myself.

Pick up DOCTOR WHO: THE WHEEL OF ICE to compliment your Doctor Who collection, tickle your sci-fi lovin' funny bone, or start a new obsession today.