Blood Harvest (Doctor Who novel)

Blood Harvest

Author	Terrance Dicks
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures
Release number	28
Subject	Featuring: Seventh Doctor Ace, Benny
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	July 1994
ISBN	0-426-20417-4
Preceded by	All-Consuming Fire
Followed by	Strange England

Blood Harvest is an original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features vampires in common with Dicks' 1980 television serial State of Decay and makes reference to that story's events as well as to those of The Five Doctors. The events of this story are concluded in the first of the Virgin Missing Adventures — Goth Opera by Paul Cornell. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Dicks, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #214.

Plot

While the Seventh Doctor and Ace team up with a hard bitten PI in 1929 Chicago, Bernice is stranded on a vampire-infested world with the Doctor's former companion Romana II.

The chief monster is a supernaturally powerful creature called Agonal, an elemental who feeds on agony and death and so seeks as much of such as he can. Rassilon traps Agonal in his tomb, just as he trapped Borusa in the television story, "The Five Doctors."

Continuity

The novel features Borusa who at the end of The Five Doctors was trapped in the tomb of Rassilon. There is an apparent contradiction between this story and Dicks' later novel The Eight Doctors, wherein Borusa again escapes the tomb: however, The Eight Doctors does not explicitly reveal Borusa's subsequent fate, and there is reason to suppose that he was re-interred, finally released forever in Blood Harvest.
The private detective Dekker reappears in Dicks's later BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel Players.
Romana first escapes E-space in this novel. ^[1]
The Fifth Doctor novel, Goth Opera, is written as a sequel to this novel. ^[2]

External links

Reviews

Blood Harvest reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Blood Harvest reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

References

↑ Frankham-Allen, Andy (2013): Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants. Cardiff: Candy Jar books. P. 89
↑ Sandifer, Philip (2012): TARDIS Eruditorum: An Unauthorized Critical History of Doctor Who Volume 2: Patrick Troughton. Smashwords Edition. P. 100

Virgin New Adventures

Ace	Timewyrm: Genesys Timewyrm: Exodus Timewyrm: Apocalypse Timewyrm: Revelation Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible Cat's Cradle: Warhead Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark Nightshade

Ace and Bernice	Love and War Deceit Lucifer Rising White Darkness Shadowmind Birthright Blood Heat The Dimension Riders The Left-Handed Hummingbird Conundrum No Future Tragedy Day Legacy Theatre of War All-Consuming Fire Blood Harvest Strange England First Frontier St Anthony's Fire Falls the Shadow Parasite Warlock Set Piece

Bernice	Transit The Highest Science The Pit Infinite Requiem Sanctuary Human Nature

Bernice, Chris, Roz	Original Sin Sky Pirates! Zamper Toy Soldiers Headgames The Also People Shakedown Just War Warchild Sleepy Death and Diplomacy Happy Endings Return of the Living Dad

Chris and Roz	GodEngine Christmas on a Rational Planet The Death of Art Damaged Goods So Vile a Sin

Chris	Bad Therapy Eternity Weeps The Room with No Doors Lungbarrow

Other	Iceberg The Dying Days

Only Bernice	Oh No It Isn't! Dragon's Wrath Beyond the Sun Ship of Fools Down Deadfall Ghost Devices Mean Streets Tempest Walking to Babylon Oblivion The Medusa Effect Dry Pilgrimage The Sword of Forever Another Girl, Another Planet Beige Planet Mars Where Angels Fear The Mary-Sue Extrusion Dead Romance Tears of the Oracle Return to the Fractured Planet The Joy Device Twilight of the Gods

Gallifrey stories

Television stories	The War Games The Three Doctors The Deadly Assassin The Invasion of Time Arc of Infinity The Five Doctors The End of Time "The Day of the Doctor" "Listen" "Heaven Sent" "Hell Bent"

Minor appearances	Colony in Space "The Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords" "The Name of the Doctor"

Doctor Who audio dramas	The Sirens of Time The Apocalypse Element Death Comes to Time Shada Neverland Omega Zagreus Unregenerate! Urban Myths Human Resources "Sisters of the Flame" / "Vengeance of Morbius" Dark Eyes

Gallifrey audio series	Weapon of Choice Square One The Inquiry A Blind Eye Lies Pandora Insurgency Imperiatrix Fractures Warfare Appropriation Mindbomb Panacea Reborn Disassembled Annihilation Forever

Unbound audio plays	Auld Mortality He Jests at Scars...

Novels	Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible Nightshade Blood Harvest Goth Opera A Device of Death Lungbarrow The Eight Doctors Legacy of the Daleks The Infinity Doctors Dead Romance The Shadows of Avalon The Ancestor Cell Warmonger World Game

See also	Time Lords Eye of Harmony Regeneration Time War Shada "The Last Day"

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