The Turing Test (Doctor Who)

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This article is about the Doctor Who novel. For the machine intelligence test, see Turing test.

For the opera named after the test, see under the composer, Julian Wagstaff.

Doctor Who book

The Turing Test
Series	Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	39
Featuring	Eighth Doctor
Writer	Paul Leonard
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-53806-6
Number of pages	242
Release date	October 2000
Preceded by	Casualties of War
Followed by	Endgame

The Turing Test is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Leonard and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor.

The story is in three parts, written as if by three historical figures: mathematician Alan Turing and novelists Graham Greene and Joseph Heller respectively.

The Turing Test won Best Book in the 2000 Jade Pagoda awards, voted on by members of a Doctor Who book mailing list.[1]

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