Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors

By Brian Hayles

Book Overview

The world is in the grip of a second Ice Age. Despite a coordinated global effort the glaciers still advance. But they are not the only threat to the planet.

Buried deep in the ice scientists at Britannicus Base have discovered an ancient warrior. But this is no simple archaeological find. What they have found is the commander of a spaceship that crashed into the glacier thousands of years ago. Thawed from the ice and knowing their home planet Mars is now a dead world the Ice Warriors decide to make Earth their own...

Can the Doctor and his friends overcome the warlike Martians and halt the advance of the glaciers?

This novel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originally broadcast from 11 November to 16 December 1967. This was the first Doctor Who story to feature the Ice Warriors.

Featuring the Second Doctor as played by Patrick Troughton and his companions Jamie and Victoria

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849904774
• ISBN13: 9781849904773
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.5" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Magnificent adaptation of a Doctor Who classic

This is Brian Hayles' adaptation of his own script. Released fairly early on in the range of Target novelisations, it remains one of the freshest.The TARDIS materialises in England during a future Ice Age. Humanity is fighting to prevent its own glacial destruction by the use of the Ioniser, a number of which are positioned strategically around the world. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive in the middle of a crisis, and the Doctor is able to provide advice which brings the Ioniser back from the brink of disaster, and is pressed into service to replace the base's missing chief scientist, Penley.Meanwhile, one of the base scientists finds a warrior frozen in the ice, but close to the surface due to the operation of the Ioniser. He brings it back to the base as an archaeological find, and sets about melting the ice coating. But little are the inhabitants aware that this warrior is from Mars, and not dead but simply in suspended animation...The story is full of strong images, with scenes set within base, the Martian spaceship and the glacier itself. The characters have strong motivations, and many have far too much pride to allow any compromises to be reached. Mr.. Hayles' descriptions evoke memories of the series from when I first saw it as a child.This story is also available on an incomplete video release from BBC (with the two missing episodes partially reconstructed by use of some of their soundtracks and stills in an interesting format).