The Turing Test (novel)
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| The Turing Test | ||
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| Doctor: | Eighth Doctor | |
| Main setting: | Oxford, Paris and Dresden, 1945 | |
| Key crew | ||
| Publisher: | BBC Books | |
| Writer: | Paul Leonard | |
| Release details | ||
| Release number: | 39 | |
| Release date: | October 2000 | |
| Format: | Paperback Book, --- Pages | |
| ISBN 0-563-53806-6 | ||
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The Turing Test was the thirty-ninth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Paul Leonard.
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Publisher's Summary 
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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...
Characters Edit
- The Doctor
- Graham Greene
- Alan Turing
- Joseph Heller
- Colonel Herbert Elgar
- Bernard
- Cray
- Daria
- Horatio Elgar
- Hugh Alexander
- White
References Edit
- The Eighth Doctor is ambidextrous, like his previous incarnation.
Notes Edit
- This is the third story in the "Earth Arc".
Continuity Edit
- According to the Remembrance of the Daleks novelisation, Rachel Jensen helped Alan Turing with his wartime research.
External links Edit
- Detailed synopsis of The Turing Test at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Turing Test at The Whoniverse
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