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Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice

Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice

by Stephen Baxter
Hardback
Publication Date: 31/12/2012

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"From Stephen Baxter, master of science fiction and national bestselling author of "Bronze Summer," comes an all-new Doctor Who adventure "
Resilience. Remembrance. Restoration.
Whatever the cost.
Hurtling through a vortex beyond time and space is a police box that s 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 don t want to go anywhere, the TARDIS makes a decision for them. Like it or not, they re coming in for a landing, who knows where or when
The Wheel. A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. It s a bad place to live and a worse place to grow up.
The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it s 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 Saturn s 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 Wheel and kill them all..."
ISBN:
9780425261224
9780425261224
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
31-12-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ace Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
231x155x30mm
Weight:
0.5kg
Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. With Terry Pratchett he has co-authored the Long Earth novels. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.

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