The Turing Test
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| The Turing Test | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures |
| Release Number: | 39 |
| Doctor: | Eighth Doctor |
| Companions: | |
| Enemy: | -- |
| Setting: | England, Oxford, 1945 France, Paris, 1945 Germany, Dresden, 1945 |
| Author: | Paul Leonard |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Publication: | October, 2000 |
| Format: | Paperback Book, --- Pages |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0-563-53806-6 |
| Previous Story: | Casualties of War |
| Following Story: | Endgame |
Contents |
[edit] Publisher’s Summary
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Alan Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort, is called in to break a mysterious new cypher. It’s coming from Germany, and everyone assumes it is German -- everyone except Turing's new friend, the Doctor, indeed it seems the Doctor knows too much about the code and the code-makers -- and when people start to die, even Turing wonders it the Doctor is the one to blame.
Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor, and thinks he’s a rum enough chap, but in a remote African village he has encountered something far stranger.
To find out the truth, they must all cross the front line and travel through occupied Germany -- right into the firing line of the bloodiest war in history. What they find there has no human explanation -- and only the Doctor has the answers. Or maybe, they’re just more questions...
[edit] Characters
[edit] References
- The Eighth Doctor is ambidextrous, like his previous incarnation.
[edit] Notes
- This is the third story in the ‘Earth Arc’
[edit] Continuity
- According to the Remembrance of the Daleks novelisation Rachel Jensen helped Alan Turing with his wartime research.
[edit] External Links
- Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: The Turing Test
- Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for The Turing Test
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