Doctor Who - The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter

The Wheel of Ice is a Second Doctor story with Jamie and Zoe as companions. I was curious, then, to see what a Doctor Who story as told by Baxter would bring. So what compelled me to pick this up when I spied it in the library stacks? It has been a while since I read anything by Stephen Baxter-his hard SF novels fascinated me as an adolescent, but his flat characterization started to bore me as I grew older. Maybe I should check out the audio plays-I think I would genuinely enjoy those. Especially for something as iconic as Doctor Who, I need the actors to pull off that characterization. I am just as surprised as you are that I’m reading another Doctor Who novel! As I explained when I reviewed Engines of War, media tie-ins are not my thing. A mystery that could destroy the Wheel-and kill them all. They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes all the way back to the creation of the solar system. 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. Some of the younger workers are even refusing to go down into the warren-like mines any more.Īnd then one of them, surfing Saturn’s rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. And there are stories among the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Maybe it’s only a run of bad luck, but the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing. It’s a bad place to live-and a worse place to grow up.

A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. Like it or not, they’re coming in for a landing, who knows where or when… The TARDIS has carried the Doctor (as portrayed by Patrick Troughton) 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.

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.46 x 0.92 x 8.Hurtling through a vortex beyond time and space is a police box that’s not a police box.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace Reprint edition (May 6, 2014).

They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that reaches back to the creation of the solar system. Once on the Wheel, the Doctor and his companions, Jamie and Zoe, face a critical situation when they become suspected by some as the source of the ongoing sabotage. And some of the younger workers refuse to go down into the warren-like mines.Īnd then one of them, surfing Saturn’s rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. Children tell stories of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Equipment failures and thefts are on the rise. A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth-a colony plagued by problems.

Doctor Who - The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter