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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 resource–hungry 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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  • 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
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

The Wheel of Ice, space station in orbit of Saturn

Organizations edit see section history

  • UNIT: United Intelligence Taskforce. Formed to deal with alien intelligences.
  • PEC: Planetary Ethics Commission. Responsible for monitoring moral behaviour on the Wheel.
  • ISC: Interplanetary Space Command - based in Geneva.

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In the vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Glossary edit see section history

  • 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 see section history

This book is in Doctor Who. (universe)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Stephen Baxter (Author)

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