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Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- Narrator
- David Troughton
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 3 August 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
David Troughton reads this gripping adventure by award-winning author Stephen Baxter, featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.
The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth.
It's a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just gremlins, just bad luck. But the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing, and there have been stories among the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Many of the younger workers refuse to go down the warren-like mines anymore.
And then sixteen-year-old Phee Laws, surfing Saturn's rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. Aboard the Wheel, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find a critical situation - and they are suspected by some as the source of the sabotage. They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes right back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery that could kill them all.
? 2012, 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2012, 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Text © Stephen Baxter 2012
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Details
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- Narrator
- David Troughton
- Duration
- 9 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529927429
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Science fiction: time travel, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Film, television, radio genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Synopsis
David Troughton reads this gripping adventure by award-winning author Stephen Baxter, featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth.It's a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just gremlins, just bad luck. But the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing, and there have been stories among the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Many of the younger workers refuse to go down the warren-like mines anymore.And then sixteen-year-old Phee Laws, surfing Saturn's rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. Aboard the Wheel, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find a critical situation - and they are suspected by some as the source of the sabotage. They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes right back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery that could kill them all.? 2012, 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2012, 2023 BBC Studios Distribution LtdText © Stephen Baxter 2012
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