Killing Ground (novel)

Killing Ground
Cover Art
Author	Steve Lyons
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	23
Subject	Featuring: Sixth Doctor Grant Markham
Set in	Period between The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani and after Time of Your Life
Publisher	Virgin Publishing
Publication date	June 1996
Pages	246
ISBN	0-426-20474-3
Preceded by	The Sands of Time
Followed by	The Scales of Injustice

Killing Ground is a Virgin Publishing original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.^[1] It features the Sixth Doctor and Grant Markham, as well as popular enemies the Cybermen.

Synopsis

The Doctor returns Grant to his home planet Agora. Upon arrival they discover that Agora has been conquered by the Cybermen, who have enslaved the population and return every three years to take the five hundred fittest humans for conversion. As rebellion is plotted, there is another time traveller at work: the Cybermen obsessed Archivist Hegelia, and her novice research partner, Graduand Jolarr. Can the Doctor save the day when locked away in a cell?

Influences

The design of the Cybermen explicitly described in this story is the design used in the 1975 Doctor Who television serial "Revenge of the Cybermen" as developed by BBC costume designer Prue Handley.

Details about the Cybermen including the term "CyberNomad" and references to Cyber-history, as well as the character of Hegelia and the Arc Hive from which she operates were originally conceived by David Banks for Cybermen, a study of the Cybermen both as a concept and a factual possibility and used with Banks's permission.

References

↑ Wolverson, E.G. "Killing Ground". Doctor Who Reviews. Retrieved 17 November 2014.

External links

Reviews

Killing Ground reviews at Outpost Gallifrey (Archived)
Killing Ground reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Virgin Missing Adventures

First Doctor	Venusian Lullaby The Sorcerer's Apprentice The Empire of Glass The Man in the Velvet Mask The Plotters

Second Doctor	The Menagerie Invasion of the Cat-People Twilight of the Gods The Dark Path

Third Doctor	The Ghosts of N-Space Dancing the Code The Eye of the Giant The Scales of Injustice Speed of Flight

Fourth Doctor	Evolution The Romance of Crime System Shock Managra The English Way of Death The Shadow of Weng-Chiang A Device of Death The Well-Mannered War

Fifth Doctor	Goth Opera The Crystal Bucephalus Lords of the Storm The Sands of Time Cold Fusion

Sixth Doctor	State of Change Time of Your Life Millennial Rites Killing Ground Burning Heart

Seventh Doctor	Cold Fusion

None	Downtime

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