Cold Fusion

By Lance Parkin

An original novel featuring the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan. 'The entire universe is at stake and I'm locked in here with another incarnation of myself, and not even one of the good ones!' More than one TARDIS lands on a barren ice world. The fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan find a once ordered society on the verge of collapse, as rebels wage a dirty war with Scientifica, the ruling elite. All that stands between order and anarchy is the massed presence of an Adjudicator peacekeeping force. But is peace the only reason for the Adjudicator garrison? What exactly has been discovered deep below the planet's surface? Who are the mysterious Feratu? And why is telling a ghost story a criminal offence? The fifth Doctor sides with the cause of justice and fairness as always. But, as a threat to the universe unfolds, he finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future. This adventure takes place between the television stories Castrovalva and Four to Doomsday and between the New Adventures Return of the Living Dad and The Death of Art. This is Lance Parkin's third Doctor Who book, and that's just this year. This latest one has more robots than his first and fewer footnotes than his second. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0426204891
• ISBN13: 9780426204893
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Virgin Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Lots of cooks in the soup

Boy, this book seems to be selling for a lot of money. What's up with that? Good thing I bought it ten years ago. Tedious economics comments out of the way, this is one of the more sought after Missing Adventures, both for what it is and what it does. Just the very concept on paper makes it rare . . . this is the only pairing of any two Doctors in the Virgin novels. Even better, it starts to delve into insights into the...

Cold fudge sundae

Here's a book with everything in it. You got your multiple doctors, check. Montage of scenes from "The Mind of Evil", "The Brain of Morbius", and "The Creature From the Pit" (!), check. Obscure continuity references, check: members of an alien race referred to in passing in "Time-Flight", and lyrics from a song once recorded by Jon Pertwee.So. What's "Cold Fusion" about?Buried deep in an interview on the BBC Doctor Who...

Five against Seven in a game of Patience

Here's a hint for Doctor Who readers: if the author is Lance Parkin, the book is one you should purchase immediately!This novel is, at the very least, ambitious. Featuring the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan as well as the Seventh Doctor, Roz and Chris, it also shines an unclear spotlight on the origins of Gallifreyan time travel, and introduces a character called 'The Patient'.What is perhaps best in this novel is the...

Excellent and moving

This is a really interesting and memorable book. It includes practically everything you could possibly find in a "Doctor Who" book, with continuity references worked in as smoothly and intricately as one would expect from the author of "A History of the Universe"; there are specific references to televition stories ranging in time from "100,000 BC" to the 1996 TV-movie. The book also gives many hints about the Docotr's distant...

The 7th Doctor meets the 5th

Although it says nowhere on the binding, this is a multiple Doctor story with both the 7th and the 5th Doctor. As such it does not shine until the very end when the 7th Doctor has the 5th knocked out right before he realizes the 7th Doctor remembers everything that had transpired. As far as an enjoyable story goes, it works fairly well. The parts with the 5th Doctor were great, some of the 7th Doctor parts were classic...