Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors [Import] [Hardcover]

Brian Hayles (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: W.H. Allen / Virgin Books; New Ed edition (January 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0491021747
• ISBN-13: 978-0491021746
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, October 24, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors (Doctor Who Library) (Paperback)

Very cold with alien monsters and no way out.


That old plot if you like, without being as cool as Who Goes There? for example.

However, an entertaining enough tale of an experimental base, very bad weather, and waking up something that does not want to be nice to you.

Another decent Doctor Who book involving the Second Doctor.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent adaptation of a Doctor Who classic, October 20, 2000

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"grrreg" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors (Doctor Who Library) (Paperback)

This is Brian Hayles' adaptation of his own script. Released fairly early on in the range of Target novelisations, it remains one of the freshest.

The TARDIS materialises in England during a future Ice Age. Humanity is fighting to prevent its own glacial destruction by the use of the Ioniser, a number of which are positioned strategically around the world. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive in the middle of a crisis, and the Doctor is able to provide advice which brings the Ioniser back from the brink of disaster, and is pressed into service to replace the base's missing chief scientist, Penley.

Meanwhile, one of the base scientists finds a warrior frozen in the ice, but close to the surface due to the operation of the Ioniser. He brings it back to the base as an archaeological find, and sets about melting the ice coating. But little are the inhabitants aware that this warrior is from Mars, and not dead but simply in suspended animation...

The story is full of strong images, with scenes set within base, the Martian spaceship and the glacier itself. The characters have strong motivations, and many have far too much pride to allow any compromises to be reached. Mr.. Hayles' descriptions evoke memories of the series from when I first saw it as a child.

This story is also available on an incomplete video release from BBC (with the two missing episodes partially reconstructed by use of some of their soundtracks and stills in an interesting format).