''The Left-Handed Hummingbird'' is an original novel written by

Kate Orman Kate Orman (born 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian author, best known for her books connected to the British science-fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. Biography Orman was born in Sydney, but grew up in Can ...

and based on the long-running British

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series '' Doctor Who''. It features the

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and Bernice. A prelude to the novel, also written by Orman, appeared in ''

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'' #207. This novel is the third novel in the " Alternate Universe cycle" which continues until '' No Future''. This book was Kate Orman's first sale. It was also the first New Adventure written by a woman, and the first written by an Antipodean.

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He took up a firing stance, holding the thirty-eight out in front of him. 'Mr Lennon?' he said. 1968: Cristian Alvarez meets the Doctor in London. 1978: The great temple of the Aztecs is discovered in Mexico. 1980:

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is murdered in New York. 1994: A gunman runs amok in Mexico City. Each time, Christian is there. Each time, he experiences the Blue, a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him - but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events of Blood Heat and The Dimension Riders, the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered - and a lethal force from South America's prehistory has been released. The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of the

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as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults - and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin.

Background

The Left Handed Hummingbird was Kate Orman's first published novel.

Continuity

There are several references to the serial '' The Aztecs''.

Reference List

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''The Left-Handed Hummingbird'' Prelude
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