Heritage (novel)

Heritage
Author Dale Smith
Series Doctor Who book:
Past Doctor Adventures
Release number
57
Subject Featuring:
Seventh Doctor
Ace
Genre novel
Set in Period between
Prime Time and
Loving the Alien
Publisher BBC Books
Publication date
October 2002
Pages 282
ISBN 0-563-53864-3
Preceded by The Suns of Caresh
Followed by Fear of the Dark

Heritage is a BBC Books original novel written by first time novelist Dale Smith and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Plot

The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive on Heritage in the year 6048 to visit the Heyworths, who are old friends of the Doctor's. Nobody seems to want them on the planet, and certainly not poking their noses in. But they are stuck there until the next day. The Doctor doesn't want to get involved, but Ace can't help herself: by talking to Lee Marks she finds out that the Heyworths were murdered by the townsfolk, because they threatened to disrupt Professor Wakeling's experiments into cloning. Without the cloning technology, Heritage would have nothing going for it at all.

The Doctor suspects all this, and also that the Heyworth's surviving daughter Sweetness is a clone of her mother created by Professor Wakeling. What he doesn't tell Ace is that Sweetness's mother is actually his old companion Melanie Bush.

The Doctor confronts Wakeling and ruins his chances of announcing his discoveries to the universe. As Wakeling tries to take revenge on the Doctor, he is caught in a landslide and probably killed.

Continuity

Outside References

References

  1. "Re: Sabbaths Allies: Original Plot". Outpost Gallifrey (registration required). 2005-10-25. Retrieved 2006-12-15.
  2. "Toby Hadoke's website". Toby Hadoke. Retrieved 2007-09-10.

External links

Reviews

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, February 23, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.