Blood Harvest

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Blood Harvest
Doctor Who book

Series	Virgin New Adventures
Release number	28
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Ace, Benny
Writer	Terrance Dicks
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0426204174
Release date	July 1994
Preceded by	All-Consuming Fire
Followed by	Strange England

Blood Harvest is an original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features vampires in common with Dicks' 1980 television serial State of Decay and makes reference to that stories' events as well as to those of The Five Doctors. The events of this story are concluded in the first of the Virgin Missing Adventures — Goth Opera by Paul Cornell. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Dicks, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #214.

As with all non-televised media, it is of unclear canonicity with respect to the television series.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 External links
- 3.1 Reviews

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

While the Seventh Doctor and Ace team up with a hard bitten PI in 1929 Chicago, Bernice is stranded on a vampire-infested world with the Doctor's former companion Romana.

[edit] Trivia

The novel features Borusa who at the end of The Five Doctors was trapped in the tomb of Rassilon. There is an apparent contradiction between this story and Dicks' later novel The Eight Doctors, wherein Borusa again escapes the tomb.
The private detective Dekker reappears in Dicks's later BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel Players.