Cold Fusion (Doctor Who)

Doctor Who book
Cold Fusion
Series	Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	29
Featuring	Fifth Doctor; Seventh Doctor Adric, Nyssa, Tegan; Chris, Roz
Writer	Lance Parkin
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20489-1
Set between	Castrovalva and Four to Doomsday
Release date	December 1996
Preceded by	The Plotters
Followed by	Burning Heart

Cold Fusion is an original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fifth Doctor, with Adric, Nyssa, and Tegan, immediately after Castrovalva. Also appearing is the Seventh Doctor, with Chris and Roz, from between the Virgin New Adventures novels Return of the Living Dad and The Death of Art. It was the only one of the Virgin Doctor Who novels to feature more than one Doctor.

As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

Continuity

• The Ferutu would appear again in the final Virgin New Adventures novel Twilight of the Gods. Their appearance resembles the Time Lord who appears at the beginning of the serial Genesis of the Daleks.
• Cold Fusion includes many references to the Cartmel Masterplan which would be more fully explored in Lungbarrow.
• More is learned about the character of Patience in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel The Infinity Doctors, also by Lance Parkin. It is suggested that she is the Doctor's (or possibly The Other's) wife, but how she fits into normal continuity is deliberately not revealed.

External links

• Cold Fusion at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Cloister Library - Cold Fusion
• Cold Fusion at The TARDIS Library

Reviews

• Cold Fusion reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• Cold Fusion reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide