Blood Heat
“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…
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- Blood Heat was the nineteenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series of novels. It was written by Jim Mortimore
- Jo Grant was sent to retrieve the launch codes
the Brigadier planned to use. She goes insane from radiation exposure and Race Memory fear.
- 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.
- Bernice gets shot While trying to stop the nuclear missiles.
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart bursts into tears over all the death he caused, including the shattered eggs of the Silurians.
- 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. (Ghost Light)
- 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.
- The TARDIS similarly falls through a puncture in the time vortex in Rise of the Cybermen.
- Blood Heat references The Silurians as its starting point for the divergent timeline. Deadly Genesis also branches off from the events seen in that story.
- Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart injects a stimulant into Jo Grant to get information from her. It kills her.
