Made of Steel (Doctor Who)
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| Made of Steel | |
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| Series | New Series Adventures |
| Featuring | Tenth Doctor Martha |
| Writer | Terrance Dicks |
| Publisher | BBC Books |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-846-07204-2 |
| No. of pages | 112 |
| Release date | March 1, 2007 |
| Preceded by | The Price of Paradise |
| Followed by | Sting of the Zygons |
Made of Steel is a BBC Books original novella written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha. This paperback is part of the Quick Reads Initiative sponsored by the UK government, to encourage literacy. It has a similar look to BBC Books' other new series adventures, except for its much shorter word count, being a paperback and not being numbered as part of the same series. To date it is the one of only two novels based upon the revived series that have not been published in hardcover; the first, I am a Dalek, was published in May 2006 and is also part of the Quick Reads Initiative.
[edit] Plot
Returning from the Cretaceous period, The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones journey to the present day, where Cybermen have been teleporting into labs and stealing technology. Helping the Army, the Doctor realises that the Cybermen who were made on earth, not the parallel universe (and where therefore not sucked into the void) having been using teleportion devices stolen from the Torchwood buliding, to help them gather enough technology to create a portal capable of reopening The Void and release the Cybermen trapped inside. Tracking them to the Millennium Dome, The Doctor opens their portal to the prehistoric earth, causing a Tyrannosaurus rex to appear and kill the Cybermen. The Doctor and Martha then leave.
[edit] Trivia
- This book was published before Martha Jones' television debut (March 31, 2007 in Smith and Jones), making Made of Steel the character's first appearance in officially licensed material.
- This book reveals that Adeola, a character played by Freema Agyeman in the episode Army of Ghosts before she was cast as Martha, is Martha's cousin.
- This is the first New Series Adventure to be written by Dicks, who has written books for all previous lines of Doctor Who fiction with the exception of the Telos Doctor Who novellas. Dicks served as script editor for the original Doctor Who series in the early 1970s and contributed many teleplays, and was prolific in novelizing serials for Target Books, serving also as editor for the line. Dicks' involvement in Made of Steel marks the first time that a writer connected with the original 1963-89 series has been directly involved in a story related to the 2005-present series. The page count of Made of Steel — 112 pages — is actually greater than that of some of Dicks' Target novelizations.
- This book must place after The Lazarus Experiment as Martha Jones says something about facing mad scientists again.
- The Torchwood episode Cyberwoman also features a Cyberman who survived the events of Doomsday
