Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} by Doctor Who: Loving the Alien by Mike Tucker. Loving the Alien by Mike Tucker & . BASIC PLOT is dead. Or at least she will be - soon. In a secret room deep inside the TARDIS the Doctor has been examining the body of Ace's future self. He now knows how she was killed, where she was killed and when she was killed. What he doesn't know is why. MATERIALISATION CIRCUIT Pg 29 Inside a boiler room, in a hospital across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament, London, November 1959. Pg 227 The TARDIS travels to Kennington (offscreen) and then returns to the boiler room on automatic relay. PREPARATORY READING This is a direct sequel to Illegal Alien, but and are also required reading. and aren't essential, but it's probably best to read the full Tucker/Perry story arc this book concludes. CONTINUITY REFERENCES Note: I haven't listed every mention of Cybermen or their technology, only those that are direct continuity references. Front cover: The image of Ace's body is actually from the BBV video More Than a Messiah (but see Continuity Cock-ups). Pg 6" The experimental Waverider, the plane that the British Rocket Group hope will put a man into orbit " Rachel Jensen was a member of the British Rocket Group in Remembrance of the and we also see them in The Devil Goblins from Neptune. Pg 20 "Ace floated in the warm waters of the TARDIS swimming pool, or the bathroom as the Doctor insisted on calling it." Seen in Invasion of Time. It had been jettisoned in Paradise Towers, but appears in various New Adventures, so the Doctor clearly designed a new one. Pg 21 "After Blini-Gaar, after everything they had been through with Vogul Lukos and Channel 400" Prime Time. "And then they had landed at Heritage." Heritage. Pgs 21-22 "Poor trusting Mel. A do-gooder always seeing the best in people. So trusting that she had left the Doctor and headed out into the void with Sabalom Glitz without a moment's hesitation." Dragonfire. Pg 22 "All except a battered menu from the Shangri La Holiday Camp that Ace kept pinned to her noticeboard as a reminder. A reminder that she was not the first." Delta and the Bannermen. "After Heritage the Doctor had been lower than Ace had ever known him." Heritage. "The Doctor keeping her in stitches as he whistled like a Clanger." Seen in The Sea Devils. Pg 23 "She had looked her killer in the eye as he had ended her life." Paraphrase of the Doctor's quote from The Happiness Patrol. Pg 24 "He had nearly given it all up after that. Nearly taken her back to Iceworld" Dragonfire. "Mel dead. And Ace was next. " Heritage, Prime Time. Pg 33 "Come along, Miss Gale." Ace's surname has been Gale in Illegal Alien, Matrix and Prime Time. It was McShane in the New Adventures, but this discrepancy is solved in this book (page 267). Pg 39 "I thought you had a morbid fear of bus station" Ghost Light. "The last time she had been in Central London was during the Blitz." Illegal Alien. Pg 43 "She smiled as she unclipped the red star. The badge that Sorin had given her." The Curse of Fenric. Pg 50 "The Doctor was shaking his hand vigorously, looking no different from when McBride had met him, nineteen years ago." Illegal Alien. Pg 57 "Yeah, well that business with the Cybermen kinda took its toll, on both of us, and. " Illegal Alien. Pg 63 "'I don't give a damn about any giant ant,' said Mullen slowly, his anger rising, 'any more than I give a damn about Cybermen down the sewers or reds under the bloody bed!'" Illegal Alien. Pg 64 "When your obsession with the damned Cybermen started." Illegal Alien. Pg 68 "Remember what he was up against before - Lazonby, the nut from British intelligence. that sneaky old creep George limb, not to mention our big silver buddies. And the Nazis - you remember the news from Jersey. The Doc sorted all that out." Illegal Alien. Pg 71 "He shuddered at the memory of the last time he'd walked down Whitechapel Road. The year had been 1888, and the Doctor anything but himself - he'd even tried to kill Ace." Matrix. Pg 75 Reference to Lethbridge-Stewart. Pg 76 "And then an odd sort of seal." Possibly the Seal of Rassilon, but more likely the 's seal, as seen in Remembrance of the Daleks. Pg 95 "Something came out of the tunnels. Giant men in silver armour - hideously strong." Illegal Alien. Pg 111 "I used to have something similar" The sonic screwdriver. Presumably the version the Doctor had in The Nightmare Fair was lost or destroyed. He gets one again by The Pit. Pg 114 "They'd turned up in his office one day during the Blitz, claiming aliens had landed." Illegal Alien. Pg 133 "Single-handedly he had deceived the Doctor, British Intelligence - even the Third Reich." Illegal Alien. Pg 136 "Of all the people she'd met on her travels with the Doctor, all the enemies they'd fought, she hated George Limb more than any of them." Illegal Alien. Pg 164 "I've destroyed planets" Remembrance of the Daleks. Pg 188 "Well, I must admit I thought I was going to die the first time, when I made my escape from Jersey." Illegal Alien. Pg 194 "He was recalling their first meeting with George Limb, at his house in Belsize park, back in '41." Illegal Alien. Pg 216 "He remembered standing on a world burnt up by nuclear holocaust, the forests petrified, the soil turned to ash, the people mutated." The Daleks. Pg 229 "He had been helpless to save the people of Mondas. " Spare Parts. Pgs 245-246 "An advance unit by the Thames has had to ward off an attack by lizard people emerging from an energy tear near Battersea." Alternate universe Silurians, presumably. Pg 252 "Lieberman is a genius. A European Jew. Perhaps in your world he never made it through the war. Perhaps he merely wandered a different path. " Lieberman, the wandering Jew, appeared in Matrix. Pg 256/257 "YOU BELONG TO US> [. ] YOU WILL BE LIKE US>" Tomb of the Cybermen. Pg 267 "To all intents and purposes she is the same Ace she was before, barring one or two small details. She doesn't have a tattoo saying "Ace and Jimmy" on her back, she doesn't like peas and she has trouble remembering what her correct surname is. " This resolves the Gale/McShane discrepancy from the BBC Books and the New Adventures. Pg 268 "There are realities out there where the skies are water, the trees are made of air and the people speak in rhyme, realities where. " Paraphrase of the Doctor's speech at the end of Survival. OLD FRIENDS AND OLD ENEMIES George Limb, Cody McBride, Inspector Mullen all return from Illegal Alien. Pg 209 A parallel universe version of Private Evans (The Web of Fear). NEW FRIENDS AND NEW ENEMIES Rita Hawks, Davey O'Brien, Sarah Eyles, General Crawhammer, Bill Collins. Captain Frank Williams, although he's from a parallel universe. Front cover: The giant ants that are attacking St Paul's Cathedral aren't that giant, only a foot long (page 28). Also, Ace's body was clearly said to be unidentifiable, because the bullet destroyed her face, whereas the image shown on the newspaper is quite identifiable. Pg 48 Drakefell is on the news, but page 35 reveals that the rocket launch took place three weeks earlier. Pg 255 "With a whir of servos, the old man's head, which sat atop the mechanical monstrosity, smiled, reached into the mechanics and flicked a switch in his abdomen." He's not called George Limb for nothing. The London Inquisitor, like many newspapers, is far more concerned with a good image than accuracy. The disaster is still hot news and the station is replaying old footage. The cybernetic augmentation was really advanced. FEATURED ALIEN RACES Pg 28 Giant ants, a foot long. Not technically alien, as they're just regular ants from a parallel universe where size is different. Pg 127 Apes, augmented by rudimentary cybernisation. Pg 255 Most of the alternate universe citizens are cybernetically augmented. The alternate Limb is the most extreme example, being almost entirely cybernetic. FEATURED LOCATIONS London, November 1959 (pg 81). Pg 35 The British Rocket Group launch took place three weeks before the main action. London 1959 (parallel universe). Pg 206 In a helicopter above London. Pgs 228-229 The Doctor is transported to a number of locations, including a cottage in the snow, an underground bunker and a conference room. Presumably these are all different parallel universes. IN SUMMARY - Robert Smith? It flies by pretty nicely, with the weight of the story arc it's built on giving it more depth than it would otherwise have. Unfortunately, that also hampers it, because Illegal Alien is a very poor choice of book to build a sequel on and Loving the Alien has to work hard to remind us of events so dull we've long forgotten them (there are multiple footnotes in the text explaining various references) and it's impossible to believe that George Limb is the most hated villain Ace has ever encountered. In a larger sense, having a parallel universe story in the PDAs when the EDAs were right in the middle of their own poorly-drawn parallel universe story, was a big editorial mistake. All that said, there's a lot to enjoy otherwise and this proves a satisfactory conclusion to the sometimes wobbly Tucker/Perry arc. Doctor Who: Loving the Alien by Mike Tucker. THIS STORY TAKES. PLACE BETWEEN THE. NOVELS "HERITAGE" AND. MIKE TUCKER & ROBERT PERRY. RECOMMENDED. OFFICIAL BBC 'PAST. DOCTOR' PAPERBACK. (ISBN 0-563-48604-X) RELEASED IN MAY 2003. Ace is dead. Or at. least she will be - soon. In a secret. room deep inside the. TARDIS the Doctor. has been examining. the body of Ace's. future self. He now. knows how she was. killed, where she was. killed and when she. was killed. What he. doesn't know is why. To find the truth. the Doctor makes a. and takes Ace to. the very time and. place of her death, hoping to cheat Time. and find her killer. before he can strike - but Time has other. With Ace missing and. the clock ticking the. Doctor turns to old. friends for help and. finds THAT there is. for him to deal with. Loving the Alien. If you�ve followed the adventures of the seventh Doctor and Ace through all. of Mike Tucker and Robert Perry�s post- Survival novels, then Loving the Alien is going to come as a real treat for you, just as it did for me. Conversely though, if you aren�t familiar. with at least Illegal Alien and, I suppose, bits of Prime Time , then this one is not going to make any sense whatsoever! That said, even those who will scratch their heads over most of this one will still really be. able to soak in the ambience � Loving the Alien is a 1950s B-movie through and through, right down to the giant ants; the space race; the cold war; and even a certain murderous young actor by the name of Jimmy Dean. �Across the other side of the room the body lay under a dark green surgical sheet. Ace�s body. Not the body of an old woman, not a shrivelled corpse, but young, as she was now, and if he [the Doctor] had any thoughts that she had. died of natural causes, the bullet hole in her forehead had put paid to them.� And, steeped as it is in the series� mythology, Loving the Alien has a real series finale feel about it. The subject matter is momentous, the story�s main hook having cumulated over several novels now, including one not written by Tucker and Perry, and several characters also return from previous Tucker / Perry stories. First and foremost, we have ageing American detective Cody McBride (from Illegal Alien ) who, despite toying with clich� throughout (in a very similar manner to another American detective friend of the seventh Doctor�s), carries large chunks of the narrative. McBride manages to add a much-needed dose of comic relief to the proceedings, whilst still somehow having the key events of the novel pivot on his actions or words. Brilliant stuff. Secondly, we have the dastardly manipulator George Limb (another returnee from Illegal Alien ). It�s Limb that�s responsible, albeit indirectly, for Ace�s death the ensuing problems with the web of time, as he used a time ship to try and alter history for his own ends. �You can try to break free from the clutches of time, but in the end there is no escape. Whatever you do, however many alternatives you create, the end will always be the same. Destiny.� As one would infer from the book�s blurb, much of Loving. the Alien dwells on the ramif- ications of foreknowledge and. on predestination, making it a. really absorbing read. Tucker. and Perry do a tremendous job of portraying the emotion behind the Doctor�s dilemma � should he try and fight the future, save Ace, and risk who knows what happening to the timeline? Or should he accept the death of yet another companion? I love how it takes the rather dense McBride to give the Doctor the answer that he has been torturing himself over for so long � �you are her friend.� It just sums it everything up so fiercely. However, the actual science fiction behind the Loving the Alien is solid, but very frustrating. Parallel universes are all well and good when it comes to exploring wacky possibilities, such as within the context of the Big Finish Unbound audio dramas, for example, but here I think that Tucker and Perry use the concept as something of a crutch. Fair dues, it gets them out of a tight spot with Ace and restores harmony with the chronologically- ensuing Big Finish audio dramas and Virgin New Adventures , but it really does feel like an almighty cop-out. Nevertheless, this complaint doesn�t really spoil what is an otherwise extraordinary read � just be prepared to curse at the ending! And so, on the whole, Tucker and Perry have really done themselves proud with this climax. Had the seventh Doctor and Ace continued on together on television after Survival, then this would really have been the ideal swansong for them both. I can�t think of any higher praise than that. Highly recommended. Copyright � E.G. Wolverson 2006. E.G. Wolverson has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this work. This adventure resolves the inconsistency of Ace�s death by having an almost-identical Ace from a parallel quantum reality assume �our� Ace�s place, apparently none the wiser. Unless otherwise stated, all images on this site are copyrighted to the BBC and are used solely for promotional purposes. Doctor Who: Loving the Alien by Mike Tucker. Ace is dead. Or at least she will be - soon. In a secret room deep inside the TARDIS the Doctor has been examining the body of Ace's future self. He now knows how she was killed, where she was killed and when she was killed. What he doesn't know is why. To find the truth the Doctor makes a dangerous decision and takes the unsuspecting Ace to the very time and place of her death, hoping to cheat Time and find her killer before he can strike - but Time has other ideas. With Ace missing and the clock ticking the Doctor turns to old friends for help and finds there is unfinished business for him to deal with. What is the secret experiment being conducted by the British Rocket Group? Why are there giant ants appearing in the suburbs of 1950's London? Who is the mysterious figure that is watching the Doctor's every move? As events spiral out of control the Doctor realises that someone is manipulating time with careless disregard for the consequences to Ace - or the rest of the universe. Doctor Who: Loving the Alien by Robert Perry & Mike Tucker. Author:Robert Perry & Mike Tucker [Perry, Robert & Tucker, Mike] Language: eng Format: epub Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Doctor Who (Fictitious character), Science fiction; English, Comics & Graphic Novels, Juvenile Fiction ISBN: 9780563486046 Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors Published: 2003-05-04T10:00:00+00:00. â​Heâ​s off his rocker â​ but hanging around with you, Iâ​m not surprised.â​ â​I really am sorry about this, you know,â​ said Limb. The last thought to strike Ace was what McBride had said. Her lover. â​ Jimmy â​ was James Dean. Then all she was aware of was a sudden explosion of noise and pain, instantly extinguished. Less than an hour later George Limb and a sobbing Jimmy dumped Aceâ​s body, wrapped in a sack, off Blackfriars Bridge in the rain. Late the next day it was washed up at Wapping, taken to a mortuary and labelled Jane Doe. Doctor Who: Loving the Alien. A novel featuring the Seventh Doctor and his fan-favorite sidekick Ace. The Doctor knows Ace is going to die. Knows very well, because although she is sitting in the TARDIS watching the TV news, she is also beside him as a corpse. And there is something very, very strange about the autopsy results. In London, 1959, the Doctor does all he can to prevent Ace's tragic death, due to occur in a few hours. In the process, he discovers further anomalies - swarms of giant ants emerging from the ground being among the least of his worries. A disturbing fetish for Cyberisation has taken hold of Britain, and the Doctor can probably guess who's behind it! Against a background of international (and trans- dimensional) espionage, giant ants and Cyber-primates, and quite possibly the end of the world as we know it, the Doctor struggles to save his companion from a fate which she seems more and more determined to bring upon herself. Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo. Book by Mike Tucker Robert Perry. Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.