Reckless Engineering

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Doctor Who book

Reckless Engineering
Series	Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	63
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Fitz, Anji, Trix
Writer	Nick Walters
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-48603-1
Number of pages	288
Release date	April 2003
Preceded by	The Domino Effect
Followed by	The Last Resort

Reckless Engineering is a BBC Books original novel written by Nick Walters and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Anji and Trix.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

[edit] Plot

The story is set in an alternate universe and features Isambard Kingdom Brunel; the cover is based on a famous photo of Brunel aboard the SS Great Britain.

Set during the 1840's, the Doctor and his companions arrive during the Industrial Revolution in England, and learn that an inventor has been ordered by an alien force to construct a machine known as the Utopia Engine, a machine that will cause the entire planet to rapidly age. Anybody below the age of puberty will survive, but those above it will age to death.

Brunel, who has unknowingly been supplying parts for this engine, unites with the Doctor to destroy the engine after learning of the post-apocalyptic future the Doctor has foreseen.