The Highest Science

The Highest Science
AuthorGareth Roberts
Cover artistPeter Elson
SeriesDoctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures
Release number
11
SubjectFeaturing:
Seventh Doctor
Bernice
PublisherVirgin Books
Publication date
February 1993
ISBN0-426-20377-1
Preceded byTransit 
Followed byThe 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.[1]

The novel was going to be adapted into the 2009 Doctor Who Easter special, making this story, like Human Nature, an early "version" of a canonical television story; the concept was continually altered, however, resulting in "Planet of the Dead". The Chelonians were mentioned onscreen in the episode "The Pandorica Opens" as one of the Doctor's enemy species who have banded together to defeat him, suggesting that the events of the novel (like those of the television-acknowledged novel The Monsters Inside) have in fact happened.

  1. ^ Doctor Who Magazine, #196, pp. 48–9