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The Wheel of Ice is a ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn; it is home to a colony mining minerals for a resourcehungry future Earth. Aboard the Wheel the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe find a critical situation—and three strangers who have just turned up out of nowhere look... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Doctor Who: Timelord, 2nd Incarnation, from the planet Gallifrey. Travels through time and space in an old fashioned police box that's 'bigger on the inside' than on the outside.
- Jamie McCrimmon: A highlander who first encounters the Doctor in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden, Jamie travels with the second Doctor as his companion.
- Zoe Heriot: The Doctor's young female companion. An Astrophysicist from the future.
- Luis Reyes: Ambassador from the PEC
- Sam Laws: Jo Law's rebellious son. 'C' class citizen.
- Phee Laws: 16 year old daughter of Jo Laws. Josephine Jnr. 'A' class citizen of the Wheel.
- Jo Laws: Mayor of the Wheel. Josephine Snr.
- Florian Hart: Representative for the Bootstrap, Inc. The consortium funding the mining of this little moon of Saturn.
- Dr Sinbad Omar: Chief medical officer on the Wheel.
- Casey Laws: 3 year old daughter of Jo Laws. The human model for the 'blue dolls'
- Marshal Sonia Paley: Security officer on the Wheel. Representative of the ISC
Setting & Locations edit
The Wheel of Ice, space station in orbit of Saturn
- Saturn
- Titan
- Mnemosyne Cincture: The official name of the Wheel of Ice
- Mnemosyne: The little ice moon being mined for its bernalium core.
First Sentence edit
In the vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
Glossary edit
- TARDIS: A spaceship that can travel through time as well. Preferred mode of travel of the Time Lords from Gallifrey. Stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space.
- bernalium: A rare mineral found in a small moon around Saturn. Is actually the casing of a damaged seed ship and archive of a long dead and forgotten planet.
- MMAC: Malenfant-IntelligeX Modular Autonomous Component
- Pedleron particles: Exist around objects that have travelled through time.
- taranium: A very rare substance, found in only a few places in the universe, one of which just happens to be Uranus. Very unstable but can store tremendous amounts of energy.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Doctor Who. (universe)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stephen Baxter (Author)
Subjects edit
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