The Highest Science

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The Highest Science
Series	Virgin New Adventures
Release number	11
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Bernice
Writer	Gareth Roberts
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20377-1
Release date	February 1993
Preceded by	Transit
Followed by	The Pit

The Highest Science is an original novel written by Gareth Roberts and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor and Bernice and the first appearance of the recurring monsters, the Chelonians. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Roberts, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #196.

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] Chelonians

This novel sees the first appearance of the Chelonians, a race of cybernetic humanoid tortoises who appeared subsequently in other spin-off novels. The Chelonians are war-like, hermaphroditic and lay eggs. They have cybernetic enhanments that include X-ray vision and improved hearing, but this advanced state of technology often causes them to consider human-beings as a form of parasite to be removed.