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.
Resilience. Remembrance. Restoration.
Whatever the cost.
Hurtling through a vortex beyond time and space is a police
box thatβs not a police box. The TARDIS has carried the
Doctor and his companions, Jamie and Zoe, to all sorts of
places, but now, when they donβt want to go anywhere, the
TARDIS makes a decision for them. Like it or not, theyβre
coming in for a landing, who knows where or whenβ¦
The Wheel. A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of
Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry
Earth. Itβs a bad place to liveβand a worse place to grow
up.
The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe itβs only a
run of bad luck, but the equipment failures and thefts of
resources have been increasing. And there are stories among
the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the
Wheel. Some of the younger workers are even refusing to go
down into the warren-like mines any more.
And then one of them, surfing Saturnβs rings, saves an
enigmatic blue box from destruction.
Once on the Wheel, the Doctor and his companions face a
critical situation when they become suspected by some as the
source of the ongoing sabotage.
They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes all
the way back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery
that could destroy the Wheelβand kill them all...
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