033 - Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors

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The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and

faces total destruction from the rapidly advancing

glaciers.

DOCTOR WHO, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top

scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed

an ancient ICE WARRIOR. Aliens from Mars, preserved in

the ice for centuries and now revitalised, the Ice Warriors

feel ready to take over...

Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt

the relentless approach of the ice glaciers...?

ISBN 0 426 10866 3

DOCTOR WHO

AND THE

ICE WARRIORS

Based on the BBC television serial by Brian Hayles by

arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation

BRIAN HAYLES

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Target Book

Published in 1976

by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd.

A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB

Corporation 1976

Printed in Great Britain by

Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex

ISBN 0 426 10866 3

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by

way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or

otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in

any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is

published and without a similar condition including this

condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

CONTENTS

1 Battle Against the Glaciers

2 Two Minutes to Doomsday

3 Creature from the Red Planet

4 Back from the Dead

5 The Omega Factor

6 Under the Moving Mountain

7 Diplomat in Danger

8 The Martian Ultimatum

9 Counter-Attack

10 On the Brink of Destruction!

Battle Against the Glaciers

‘Stand by all personnel! Base evacuation procedure, phase one.

Section leaders report immediately!’

The urgent, metallic voice of the computer cut across

the quiet bustle of the Brittanicus Base Ioniser Operations

Unit. Although the monitoring technicians continued to work

at their places on the central control desk, the stand-by crews

moved briskly to their assembly stations, ready for routine

evacuation drill.

‘Base evacuation procedure, phase one, general alert.’ Senior

Control Technician Jan Garrett hurried to the sleek control

deck of ECCO, the computer’s communications unit, and

stabbed the ‘personal response’ button. The streamlined,

artificial head containing ECCO’s video-eye swung into line

with Jan’s tense face.

‘Reference stand-by alert,’ she said tersely, cold grey

eyes frowning behind her prim spectacles. ‘Explain.’

‘Threat of possible Ioniser breakdown.’ It replied crisply,

without a trace of emotion. ‘Relay checks report malfunction build-

up. Full data not yet available. All untracked Ioniser faults require

evacuation stand-by...’ it continued.

As the voice clattered on, Jan Garrett hurried in the

direction of the Ioniser Control room. She didn’t need a

lecture from ECCO—she was all too well aware of the

dangers. If the Ioniser ever got completely out of control, it

would mean total disaster. Not only would the entire unit be

wiped out, but this area of southern Brittanicus would be

plunged into a state of radiation half-life for the next five

hundred years. And without the defensive barrier of the

Ioniser’s heat shield, the whole island would eventually

become uninhabitable, locked in the grip of a new Ice Age.

But the computer, as ever, had given timely warning of

trouble ahead. With ECCO to guide them, they could not fail

to hold their own.

The flat voice suddenly changed in tone, rising a pitch

to a higher degree of quiet alarm. ‘Phase Two, amber alert.

Phase Two, amber alert. All unauthorised personnel to be located and

documented for departure.’

Jan fought her way through the orderly turmoil of the

Grand Hall, and entered what had once been the library of

the Georgian mansion that now housed the Brittanicus Base

Unit. It was in this elegant room, its paintings and its leather-

bound books still preserved in their original twentieth-century

state, that the compact but delicate Ioniser was housed in

regal isolation, its power lines linked to the small but

immensely powerful reactor unit contained in the cellar

below. One glance at the machine was enough: all the tell-tale

needles were sinking rapidly through amber into the red

danger zones. Jan’s hands began to operate the relevant

controls, damping, adjusting, increasing; desperately trying to

achieve stability.

Suddenly, the tension that gripped her was sharply

increased by the sound of a man’s voice at her shoulder. She

turned. Leader Clent’s face was dark with anger.

‘Why has this been allowed to happen?’ he snapped.

‘The whole power series is barely above danger level!’

As if in response to his angry words, the needles

flickered upward and held, trembling on the verge of

breaking out of the amber zone. But Jan knew that the

improvement could only be temporary. The flaw was basic

and, as yet, its cause unknown.

‘Hold on Amber Two,’ rang out the distant warning

system. ‘Prepare to return to Phase One stand-by.’

‘That’s better, Miss Garrett.’ Clent’s anger was now in

check, and his eyes, although stern, held and calmed her. It

was his strength of personality that gave backbone to this unit,

many of whom had despaired of the success of a mission that

had seemed doomed from the start. She was young,

intelligent, well-trained; with Clent to guide her, she would

eventually come to terms with the promotion he had forced

upon her when the treacherous Penley...

‘There was a pulse stoppage,’ she blurted out, breaking

his train of thoughts.

The nearly inaudible tone of the Ioniser was beginning

to falter—as though the machine was sick. Clent looked grim.

A pulse stoppage meant there was a danger of feed-back to

the reactor: the resulting explosion would wipe the Unit from

the face of the Earth. But what could be causing it?

Jan’s face tightened. She was close to panic.

‘I’m doing all I can to boost the power impulse—’

‘It can’t be allowed to fall any lower!’ grated Clent,

studying the oscillator dials fiercely.

‘We still have time to evacuate,’ she muttered

desperately.

‘We will not evacuate!’ he insisted. ‘We’ve beaten its

ridiculous tantrums before.’

As they watched, the needles began to sag ominously

close to the red sector again. Miss Garrett’s face grew pale

with alarm. ‘It’s falling back again!’

‘Hold it steady!’ ordered Clent. ‘You must!’

‘I can’t! It won’t respond!’

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TheworldisheldinthegripofasecondIceAge,andfacestotaldestructionfromtherapidlyadvancingglaciers.DOCTORWHO,withVictoriaandJamie,landsatatopscientificbaseinEngland,wheretheyhavejustunearthedanancientICEWARRIOR.AliensfromMars,preservedintheiceforcenturiesandnowrevitalised,theIceWarriorsfeelreadytotakeov...

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