Then: The Second War in Heaven
Winter’s View Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Time Lords, 10,000 Dawns
Written
by Jacob Black.
Informed guess Takes
place between multiverses, plausibly soon after the outbreak of the Second War
in Heaven, when the Great Houses are looking to close down potential threats
from outside the Spiral Politic. There seems to me a pleasing possibility that
Jet and Max are Sapphire and Steel, or similar.
The Short Briefing Sergeant’s Tale
Short story, published 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Second War in Heaven
Written,
together with its prologue, by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes
place on the Homeworld, during the Fourth Wave.
The Book of the War
Narrative anthology, published 2002 Doctor: Unbound
featuring the Vampires, the Yssgaroth, Chris, Faction
Paradox, the Second War in Heaven, Compassion, with the Cybermen (glimpse)
Written by Lawrence Miles, Simon Bucher-Jones, Daniel O’Mahoney, Ian
McIntire, Mags L Halliday, Helen Fayle, Philip Purser-Hallard, Kelly Hale,
Jonathan Dennis, Mark Clapham, Lars Pearson.
Takes place all over the Spiral Politic and beyond, up to fifty years
into the War in Heaven, including in London, regional England, continental
Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. The astute reader will notice that I am
assuming, as I assume I am intended to assume, that the Great Houses are the
Time Lords, that the Mal’akh are the Vampires, and that Cousin Pinnochio and
the Order of the Iron Soul are Cybermen. I further assume that Mrs.Foyle is
Compassion, working undercover in association with the War King, that
Grandfather Halfling is the Doctor (as is the renegade subject to Praxis
visions in the Rivera Manuscript); and that House Dvora is the house in which
Romanadvoratrelundar was loomed (in Lies her House
is named Heartshaven: perhaps Dvora means Heartshaven in a Gallifreyan language).
On the other hand, I am not
assuming that the War King is the Master, as I think Lawrence Miles
half-intended, to the extent that he argued the Master and the War Chief from The War Games are the same individual. It is a typical Lawrence Miles clue hiding in
plain sight that War King is a straightforward promotion from War Chief. I
think this chronology contains enough material to establish that they are two
different individuals, and that the War Chief, generally identified as Magnus,
died definitively in Timewyrm: Exodus. The Master is in any case not on obvious choice as commander-in-chief:
apart from his compulsive untrustworthiness, his talent for survival is not
matched by a talent for bringing plans to a successful conclusion. It seems to
me that, now we know Time Lords can regenerate into either sex, a more likely
choice of renegade would be the Rani, now in a male incarnation. Her
dispassionate logicality would surely appeal to the Great Houses, and I can
even repurpose Lawrence Miles’s clue: the masculine form of Rani is Rajah,
which translates well enough as King.
The
Book is very insistent that
the Chronarchy has lasted ten million years, rather than the two million I have
argued under Lungbarrow. It is possible that the Homeworld is a retroactively engineered
version of Gallifrey, either by the Enemy in its initial attack on the
Noosphere, trying to make the Time Lords five times less flexible and more
bewildered by the outside universe, or by a powerful ally, the War King, say,
trying to make them five times more solid and more thoroughly prepared. It is
noticeable that Homeworld society is expressed entirely through the Loom-owning
Houses: there is no mention of the Chapters, which may have withered away in
the extra eight million years.
Also, we are talking about five-dimensional activity, indeed, warfare,
so the relationship between cause and effect is fluid. If the Homeworld is one
of the subsequent eight of the Nine Gallifreys, it doesn’t preclude Gallifrey
being, from the Homeworld’s point of view, one of the eight subsequent Nine
Homeworlds.
Kingsley Amis’s 1969 novel The Green Man is primarily a ghost
story, and might be thought, in Doctor Who terms, to be about N-forms. However,
the protagonist is visited by a young man who claims to be God, smelling
faintly of the Falaise Gap, where Allied bombardment spread the remains of two
trapped German armies and their horses across a considerable area of the French
countryside. The young man enlists the protagonist’s help against the malignant
shade of a seventeenth century sorcerer: the whole set-up seems to me similar to
what one might expect from the Celestis, and the protagonist might find himself
heading for an afterlife in Mictlan.
Playing With Toys Short
story, published 2000 Doctor: Unbound
4
featuring Unbound
Romana
Written by David Agnew.
Taking place aboard the TARDIS, featuring an Unbound version of Four.
The Scream of the Shalka
Novelisation of Webcast, published 2004 Doctor: Unbound
9
featuring Unbound Master
Adapted from his own script by Paul Cornell.
Taking place in regional England and, briefly, in New Zealand.
Seconds Self-published short story, published no later than
2013
Doctor:
Unbound (informed mention)
Featuring ? Unbound Romana, Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written
by James Hornby.
Takes place in a café in Leeds, during the Second War in Heaven. It is not impossible, I think, that the Time Lord/Homeworlder Revon, who claims to have been mentored by the Doctor, is Romana regenerated into a male body.
Aspects of Evil: Part One
Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: Unbound 13
featuring Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Daleks, Unbound
Grace technology, Unbound Valeyard
Written by Craig Hinton.
Taking place in the Doctor’s Rose Garden.
An Inconsequential Death
Charity short story, published 2001
Doctor: Unbound
Written by Dave
Stone.
Taking place aboard the TARDIS, featuring an Unbound Doctor.
Return of the Cybermen Audio dramatization, released 2021
Doctor: Unbound
4
Featuring Unbound
Cybermen, Unbound Sarah Jane, Unbound Harry, with Unbound Time Lords
Adapted by John
Dorney from a largely unproduced script by Gerry Davis.
Takes place in a
version of the outer Solar System.
Changing Rooms (With No Doors)
Charity short story, published 2001
Doctors: Unbound
2, Unbound 6
featuring Unbound Master, Unbound Jamie, Unbound
UNIT, Unbound Peri
Written by Mark Michalowski.
Taking place in an unbound gravel pit in the UK.
A Matter of Time Online
story, published 2010 Doctors: 7,
Unbound
Featuring the Mal’akh, the
Yssgaroth, Faction Paradox, the Second
War in Heaven, with the Cybermen, the Nestene Consciousness, Africa
(informative mention)
Written
by Cousin Zagreus.
Linked
vignettes of the War in Heaven. Takes place variously, including in Cardiff and
London.
Time Will Tell Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 0
featuring Unbound Master
Written by David Burke.
Taking place aboard the Master’s TARDIS, featuring an Unbound Master.
Davros: The Early Years
Charity comic story, published 2001 Doctor: Unbound
featuring Unbound Davros, Amaryllis
Written by Rupert Booth and Barry Williams.
Taking place in a very alternative timeline indeed, featuring an
Unbound Doctor.
Loving in a Box Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: Unbound
Written by Rich
Johnston.
Featuring an Unbound TARDIS.
Oh No, Not Again Short
story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Unbound Benny
Written
by Dave Stone.
Takes
place on Sylvana and Earth, but so deeply into post-modernism that the Second
War in Heaven must absorb it by default..
Nebaioth Online synopsis, posted 2005 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the
Second War in Heaven
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place in an earlier version
of the Spiral Politic than The Breakspeare Voyage.
The Woman Who Sold the Moon
Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring Unbound Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Aaron Starum.
Takes
place on versions of the Earth and the Moon.
Dreams Per Chance Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: Unbound
featuring Unbound Valeyard
Written by Ian McIntire.
Takes place mainly in the head of an Unbound Doctor.
A Hundred Words Later
Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: Unbound
7
featuring Unbound Ace
Written by Stephen Wyatt.
Takes place indeterminately.
Protective Neotony Online short
story, posted 2006 Doctor: 0
Featuring The Second War in
Heaven
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place in the Spiral
Politic.
Balloon Debate
Short story, published 2003 Doctor: 0
featuring Unbound Sarah Jane, Unbound K9 III
Written by Simon A Forward.
Takes place on an alternative version of Earth, in my opinion.
It’s Raining Again
Charity short story, published 1999 Doctor: Unbound
5
featuring Iris
Wildthyme, Unbound Turlogh
Written by Paul Magrs and Stewart Sheargold.
Taking place indeterminately.
A Bloody (and Public) Domaine
Short story, published 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Vampires, Faction Paradox, the War in Heaven
Written
by Jayce Black, with a prologue by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place in the Shadow Spire, in an environment used by Faction Paradox for incarceration.
Instant Animals Online short
story, posted 2006 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones
Takes place in the Spiral Politic.
C#O#M#P#A#N#I#O#N#S
Charity comic story, published 2016 Doctor:
Unbound
Featuring Unbound Jo, Unbound Romana, Unbound K9 II, Unbound Adric, Unbound
Turlogh, Unbound Peri, Unbound Fitz
Written
by Simon A Forward.
Takes
place in a version of New York, NY. As with Balloon Debate, also
by Simon A Forward I note, I am putting this into the Second War in Heaven
because I refuse to contemplate its happening otherwise.
From Skaro With Love!
Charity comic story, published 2018 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Unbound Susan, Unbound Barbara, Unbound Ian
Written
by Nick Campbell.
Takes
place in a version of Italy in the first century CE.
Life-Cycle Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the War in Heaven
Written by Grant Springford, with a prologue by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place in a version of Kent ravaged by the War in Heaven.
10,000 Dawns Novel, published 2016 Doctor:
0
Featuring 10,000 Dawns
Written
by James Wylder.
Informed guess Takes
place in the 10,000 Dawns multiverse.
Green Mars Blues Short story, published 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Philip Purser-Hallard.
Takes place on a version of Mars, in an anthroposolipsistic solar system, the existence of which I ascribe to the War in Heaven.
The Book of the War seems
to borrow its concept of Violent Unknown Events from the 1980 film The Falls,
which describes the world suffering from strange events, not possible to
describe usefully. This certainly sounds like a consequence of the Second War
in Heaven, and may lead into the dead Earth seen in Orphan 55.
There are hints in the The Falls that
it is itself a sequel to The Birds (1963).
Orphan 55 TV story, broadcast 2021 Doctor:
13
Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Written
by Ed Hime, script supervised by Chris Chibnall.
Takes
place on a dying version of Earth accounted for by the Doctor in a way that is
incompatible with virtually everything else said on the subject by most of the
other stories listed in this chronology. This I ascribe to The War.
I have
already looked at alternative worlds in which the Allies lost the Second World
War around Warlords of Utopia. An
alternative Earth/alternative Mars combination is available in The Martian
Chronicles (1950), by Ray Bradbury: it actually results in a devastated
Earth that could be the one seen in Orphan 55. Keith
Roberts’s Pavane (1968) and Kingsley Amis’s The Alteration (1976)
present timelines in which the Reformation never happened. Ward Moore’s Bring
the Jubilee (1953) similarly imagines a world in which the Confederacy won
the US Civil War. An alternative timeline like The Martian
Chronicles in which technology advanced
more rapidly than our own is seen in the films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade
Runner 2049 (2017). Other novels with future Earths incompatible with
Doctor Who narrative, but having a certain sympathy with the Second War in
Heaven’s sensibility include Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon, 1930), 1984 (George Orwell, 1949) Inverted
World (Christopher Priest, 1974) and Russian Hide and Seek (Kingsley
Amis, 1980). This goes also for the film Things to Come (1936).
Liberating Earth Narrative
anthology, published 2015 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written
by Kate Orman, E H Timms, Xanna Chown, Juliet Kemp, Rachel Redhead, Q, Dorothy
Ail, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Kelly Hale
Takes
placed in a space appropriated by a Faction cousin, at one point notably in the
Great Plains of North America. This narrative may account for the retrieval of
the Earth from the fate seen in Orphan 55. It
also, I think, uniquely in this chronology, features an appearance by the
Almighty, Power to the People! notwithstanding,
moving in appropriately mysterious ways.
The Hunt: Sequel to ‘Survival’
Charity drabble, published 1993
Doctor: Unbound
7
featuring Unbound Master, Unbound Ace
Written by Brian Milligan.
Taking place variously.
The Blue Angel Novel, published 1999 Doctors:
8, Unbound 8, with Unbound 2, Unbound 3, Unbound (glimpse)
Featuring Iris Wildthyme, the remembered Fitz, Compassion, Unbound Sarah Jane, Unbound
K9 III, Unbound Fitz, Unbound Compassion, with Alpha Centaurans (glimpse) and
the Time Lords, the Daleks, UNIT (informative mention)
Written
by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad.
Takes
place largely in the Obverse; I seem to recall that the Obverse is connected,
in some way I can’t be bothered to try any harder to look up, with the War in
Heaven.
Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance
Parkin’s Dating
Parkin dates this as the late
fourth millennium because of the reference to the Federation and Peladon, but
the starship Nepotist is so
implausible, I think it’s in the Obverse to begin with.
Time Expired Lord Charity drabble, published 1993
Doctor: U
Written by
Robert Sloman.
Taking place in the TARDIS.
In the Mirror Charity drabble, published 1993
Doctor: 0
featuring the Daleks
Written by Nicholas Royle.
Taking place indeterminately.
Death and Doubling Cubes
Novel, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring 10,000 Dawns
Written
by James Wylder.
Informed guess Takes
place in the 10,000 Dawns multiverse, after 10,000 Dawns.
Daleks Versus the Martians
Comic story, published 1996
Doctor: Unbound
featuring the Daleks, Unbound Susan
Written by Alan Barnes.
Informed guess Takes place on a version of Mars, during the Daleks’ Second Solar
Campaign.
Of the Goodness of the Daleks Online short story, posted 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Daleks, the Second
War in Heaven
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place in the Spiral Politic.
The Daleks are referred to in the pre-empted past conditional: “Free Daleks
would have been a terrifying adversary”. The near-absence of the Daleks from
the Second War in Heaven is very noticeable, possibly a result of the Doctor
having caused them to negate their own history (Unnatural History, The Time
of the Daleks, Jubilee).
The Mothers Day Machine
Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring 10,000 Days
Written
by James Wylder.
Informed guess Takes
place in the 10,000 Dawns multiverse, after Death and
Doubling Cubes.
The Confession of Brother Signet Audio short story, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the
Second War in Heaven
Written by Michael
Gilroy-Sinclair.
Takes place in a church. It is
possible that Brother Signet is responsible for the ambiguous factuality of the
Cthulhu entities in Doctor Who narrative, as Godfather Auteur was for that of
Dracula (A Bloody (and Public) Domaine).
The Excess Son Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring 10,000 Days
Written
by James Wylder.
Informed guess Takes
place in the 10,000 Dawns multiverse, after The Mothers Day
Machine.
A Story of the Peace
Short story, published 2011 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written
by Ian Potter.
Takes
place wholly in spaces occupied by the War Time powers.
First Draft Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Second War in Heaven
Written by Nick Wallace, with a prologue by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place in a version of England radically altered by the War in
Heaven.
Eyes Short story,
published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Second War in Heaven
Written
by Christian Read, with a prologue by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes
place on the Eighth Homeworld, during the Second War in Heaven.
The Resurrection Event
Charity short story, published 20o1 Doctor:
Unbound
Written by Dave
Stone.
Taking place on an Unbound Gallifrey.
The War: Apocryphal Texts
Drabble Blog, posting discontinued 2013
Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Faction Paradox, the War in Heaven
Written
by Jake P Johnson.
Further
information on the War in Heaven, in the form of entries that might have
appeared in The Book of the War.
Poor Man’s Iliad Narrative anthology, published 2018 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring 10,000 Dawns
Written
by Trevor Allen, Eric R Asher, Simon Bucher-Jones, Kevin Burnard, Nathan P
Butler, Evan Forman, Nicholas Scott Kory, Kylie Leane, Colby McClung, (redacted),
Michael Robertson, Jo Smiley, Sarah E Southern, Jordan Stout, Tim Sutton, Elizabeth
Tock and James Wylder
Informed guess Takes
place in the 10,000 Dawns multiverse.
Notes on the Sibling Assault Online short story, posted 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place probably in the Eleven Day Empire.
Fathers, Friends and Other Objects of Hate
Charity short story, published 2001
Doctor: Unbound 1
Featuring Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Master
Written
by Ian McIntire.
Takes
place on an Unbound, I think it’s safe to say, Gallifrey.
The Cruelty of Time
Charity drabble,
published 1993 Doctor: Unbound 4
featuring Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Leela, Unbound
K9 I
Written by Simon J Irving.
Taking place on an Unbound Gallifrey.
No Enemy But Depair
Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Second War in Heaven
Written,
together with its prologue, by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place so deeply in Enemy territory that I see no point in trying to locate it elsewhere in time.
The End Charity drabble, published 1993
Doctor:
Unbound
Written by Christopher Barry.
Takes
place indeterminately.
Call Me Ishmael Audio
short story, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Second War in
Heaven
Written by J T Mullholland.
Takes place on the edges of the
Spiral Politic.
Spirited to Stay Short story, published 2018 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring 10,000 Dawns
Written
by Charles Witt.
Informed guess Takes
place in a 10,000 Dawns universe, at Christmas.
Notes on Probability 4
Online short story, posted 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place probably in the Eleven
Day Empire.
No Holidays, Please
Short story, published 2018 Doctor:
Unbound
Featuring 10,000 Dawns
Written
by Rachel Johnson.
Informed guess Takes
place in a 10,000 Dawns universe at Christmas, after Spirited to Stay.
I Saw Three Ships(That Passed In The Night) Short story, published 2018 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring 10,000 Dawns
Written
by Tycho McFee Letts.
Informed guess Takes
place in the Pacific, in a 10,000 Dawns universe, at Christmas.
The Sun in the Sunken City
Short story, published 2018 Doctor:
Unbound
Featuring 10,000 Dawns
Written
by Sam Maleski.
Takes
place in the same 10,000 Dawns version of the world as I Saw Three Ships (That Pass In The Night),
later.
The Healer’s Sin
Audio short story, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Second War in
Heaven
Written by J T Mullholland.
Takes place on the edges of the
Spiral Politic, after Call Me Ishmael as released.
The Story So Far… Online
short story, released 2018 Doctor: 8
Featuring Faction Paradox, with Romana, the Master (informative mention)
Written
by Jayce Black.
Takes
place at the Shadow Spire, after the consumption of the Eleven-Day Empire, but
apparently before its redemption by Cousin Justine.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Online short story, released 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Ice Warriors, Death
Written
by Jayce Black.
Takes
place at the Shadow Spire, still apparently before the restoration of the
Eleven-Day Empire.
Fritz Leiber’s 1958 novel The Big Time concerns Tellurians – and
soldiers from other civilisations from the Solar System – fighting what they
call the Change War, a temporal War waged between the Spiders and the Snakes. The Map and the Spiders links the
concept to one of the sides in the Second War in Heaven: I think this could be
incorporated into Doctor Who narrative as a glimpse of that conflict from just
behind the front lines.
Going Once, Going Twice
Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Ice Warriors, the Osirans, the Second War in
Heaven
Written
by Jayce Black.
Takes
place deep in the War in Heaven, not long after Hark! The Herald
Angels Sing.
Me & My
Ghost Audio short story, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring ? the Rani, the Second War in Heaven
Written by Bill Baggs.
Takes place on the edges of the Spiral Politic,
after The Healer’s Sin as released. It is implied heavily that Nari is
the Rani, being pursued by the Great Houses. This leads serendipitously into my
suggestion that the War King is the Rani: they are seeking to recruit her as
the leader of the House Military, meaning that for the patient in this story,
the War is at a much earlier stage than for the therapist, which is absolutely
the sort of thing that one would expect. Possibly Dionus’s therapy is
instrumental in causing her to change her mind and volunteer for the job after regenerating.
Don’t Mention the War! Charity short story, published 2001 Doctors: Unbound 8, with Unbound 4
(glimpse)
Featuring Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Romana
Written
by John Elledge.
Takes
place on a version of Gallifrey.
Eternal Escape Audio short story, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the
Second War in Heaven
Written by James Hornby.
Takes place on Golgalith and
Gulliver’s Rest, in the Spiral Politic.
Body Politic Audio drama, released 2008 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Osirians, Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written
by Lawrence Miles.
Takes
place variously in the Spiral Politic, towards what would have been the end of
the Second War in Heaven if it had happened.
Words From Nine
Divinities Audio drama, released 2008 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Osirians, Faction Paradox, the War in Heaven
Written
by Lawrence Miles.
Takes
place variously in the Spiral Politic, after Body Politic.
Overture to Sabbath and the King Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring The War in Heaven
Written by Aristide Twain.
Takes place inside Lolita, soon
after Words From Nine Divinities.
Sabbath and the King
Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Mal’akh, the Second War in Heaven,
Sabbath
Written by Aristide Twain.
Takes place in London and inside Lolita.
Aspects of Evil: Part Two
Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor:
Unbound
Featuring Unbound Grace technology
Written
by Craig Hinton.
Takes
place indeterminately.
Pure Light Online short
story, published 2019 Doctor:
0
Featuring Faction Paradox
Written
by Philip Marsh.
Takes
place in the Spiral Politic, possibly on Dust, at the beginning of the
Faction’s Dust strategy.
Inside the Looking Glass
Online short story, published 2019 Doctor:
0
Featuring Faction Paradox
Written by Greg Maughan.
Takes
place in the Spiral Politic. Despite the discrepancy in gendered pronouns, I
think it not impossible that this represents Mother Hangaku recruiting Z’akbo
for the Dust strategy.
A Scene Online
short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Sycorax
Written
by Niki Haringsma.
Takes
place during What Keeps Their Lines Alive. I am
assuming that Axastyakis is originally of the Sycorax.
What Keeps Their Lines Alive
Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven, the Sycorax
Written
by Niki Haringsma.
Takes
place in some aspect of the War in Heaven, possibly towards its end, certainly
after the consumption of the Eleven-Day Empire and its regurgitation in The Judgement of Sutekh.
And to Dust We Shall Return
Short story, published 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written
by Alexandra Marchon.
Takes
place on Dust, in a Wartime dependent timeline.
War During Peacetime
Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written
by Greg Maughan.
Takes
place on Dust, in a Wartime dependent timeline, after And To Dust We Shall Return in
the course of the Faction’s Dust Strategy.
The End of the Beginning
Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written
by George Mann and Philip Marsh.
Takes
place on Dust, in a Wartime dependent timeline, at the conclusion of the
Faction’s Dust Strategy.
The Skull and the Soldier
Online short story, posted no later than 2013 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Daleks, the Time Lords, Unbound Leela, Unbound Romana, Chris,
Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven, the Anomaly Investigation Team, with
Compassion (informative mention)
Written
by Louise Sellers.
Takes
place towards the “end” – an “end”? - of the Second War in Heaven, I think: the
War King succeeds Romana as Lord President, suggesting that it takes place
after the death of Lolita in The Judgement of Sutekh. The
implication is that the Great Houses turn the War in Heaven into the Last Great
Time War, so the events of The Ancestor Cell might
be a direct result of their decisions. As delightfully written as this story
is, I can’t go with its suggestion that Leela’s son Johnsmith is the Other, and
therefore the Doctor. This doesn’t account for the scenes of the Doctor’s
childhood seen in Listen, the
Doctor’s eight previous incarnations seen in The Brain of
Morbius, or the fairly unambiguous
status of Braxiatel as the Doctor’s brother, unless somebody made Leela
pregnant and Braxiatel was born some two million years before his career, which
I think falls on the wrong side of Occam’s razor. My suggestion is that the
Other researched Johnsmith’s career, then broke the Protocols of Linearity and
went back to replace him. Leela will have educated her son in the Doctor’s
ethos, so I don’t think he would simply sacrifice his mother and stepfather to
fulfil a time loop, and would suggest that he took the Other’s arrival as an
opportunity to arrange his and his mother’s escape from Ancient Gallifrey.
Incidentally, Leela announces her pregnancy in Lungbarrow; but
it had previously been announced in Scorpio: Jealous, Possessive,
which, contemporaneous with the Doctor’s fourth regeneration, is well over two
centuries before that. There might have been two or more unmentioned
miscarriages, but I prefer to believe that the Time Lord technology responsible
for keeping Leela alive and fighting fit for almost four and a half centuries
has also kept her healthily pregnant for most of that period.
This Is How You Lose the Time War, the 2019 epistolary novella by
Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, features two agents on opposite sides of a
temporal war. The Second War in Heaven is sometimes apocalyptic, and the Last
Great Time War is sometimes weird, but generally the apocalypse and the
weirdness run in the opposite direction, so as this is weird, I’d incorporate
it into Doctor Who narrative here rather than later.
The Library in
the Body
Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Unbound
Master, Benny
Written by James Goss.
Benny is taken by an
unbound Doctor into another universe, dying of exhaustion after a catastrophic
Time War…but could this universe be a version of our own in which the Second
War in Heaven burnt itself out, its original combatants forgotten and possibly
reduced to a state of never having existed? I’m suggesting yes, not least
because it gives me somewhere to put all these Benny in the Unbound Universe
stories.
Planet X Audio
drama, released 2016 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Benny
Written by Guy Adams.
Takes place in the
Unbound Universe, shortly after The Library in the Body.
The Very Dark
Thing
Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Benny
Written by Una McCormack.
Takes place in the
Unbound Universe, shortly after Planet X.
The Emporium at
the End
Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Unbound Master, Benny
Written by Emma Reeves.
Takes place in the
Unbound Universe, shortly after The Very Dark Thing.
Hue and Cry Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring Benny
Written
by Kate Orman and Q.
Takes
place in the Unbound Universe, after The Emporium at the End but
probably before The City and the Clock.
Never the Way Short story, published 2017 Doctor: 0
Featuring Benny
Written
by Jonathan Blum and Rupert Booth.
Takes
place in the Unbound Universe, after Hue and Cry as published.
Fast Contact Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring Benny
Written
by Matthew Griffiths.
Takes
place in the Unbound Universe, after Never the Way as
published.
Futureproof Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring Benny
Written
by Victoria Simpson.
Takes
place in the Unbound Universe, after Fast Contact as
published.
Stockholm From Home
Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring Benny
Written
by Tim Gambrell.
Takes
place in the Unbound Universe, after Futureproof as
published.
Bliss Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring Benny
Written
by Xanna Eve Chown.
Takes
place in the Unbound Universe, after Stockholm From Home as
published.
Transcript of Court Session: Bliss City Council Records B16/22/Trial
Short story, published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring Benny
Presumably
written by Xanna Eve Chown.
Takes
place in the Unbound Universe, framing the previous six stories.
The Death of Hope Short story, published 2018 Doctor:
Unbound (glimpse)
Featuring Benny, with Braxiatel (informative mention)
Written
by James Goss.
Takes
place in the Unbound Universe, after The Emporium at the End but
probably before The City and the Clock.
Wise Women Audio
short story, released 2020 Doctor:
0
Featuring Benny
Written
by Q.
Informed guess Takes
place on Qiyos in the Unbound Universe, some months after Hue and Cry.
The City and the
Clock
Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Benny
Written
by Guy Adams.
Takes place in the
Unbound universe, after The Emporium at the End.
Asking For a
Friend
Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Benny
Written
by James Goss.
Takes place in the
Unbound universe, after The City and the Clock.
Truant Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Benny
Written
by Guy Adams.
Takes place in the
Unbound universe, after Asking For a Friend.
The True Saviour
of the Universe Audio drama, released 2017
Doctor: Unbound
Featuring Unbound Master, Benny
Written
by James Goss.
Takes place in the
Unbound universe, after Truant.
The Accretion of Legendary, in a War Context Online short story, posted 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Second War in
Heaven
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes place in the Spiral Politic.
Doctor Who and the Time War
Online short story, released 2020
Doctors: Unbound 8, Unbound 9
Featuring Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Daleks
Written
by Russell T Davies.
Takes
place at the end of a version of the Last Great Time War, not the version that
eventually happened. I suggest that such an end might prompt the Time
Lords/Great Houses to try yet a further revision, leading into the events of Cobweb and Ivory and The Ancestor Cell.
The Courage of My Convictions (A)
Charity short story, published 2001 Probably
8
Featuring the Time Lords, probably the Master
Written
by James Potter.
Informed guess Takes
place on Merema. The Time Lords are losing a Time War, and the TARDIS seems to
be their last TT capsule. The Doctor is preparing for a last desparate mission.
The obvious candidate is The Last Great Time War, but when this story was
published it wasn’t part of Doctor Who narrative, and is probably meant to be
The Second War in Heaven. But of course, it could be both. The Doctor, in his
eighth incarnation, is preparing to become Grandfather Paradox to precipitate
the events of The Ancestor Cell, in
order in some way to avoid defeat in The Last Great Time War. And it seems to
have worked: in The Night of the Doctor, the
Chronarchy is under siege, but is a bit better off than down to its last TT
capsule. The Doctor realises that there might be a whole string of morally
terrible but strategically necessary decisions like the one he has just taken,
and decides to become the War Doctor. The obvious reservation I have about
placing this in The Last Great Time War is that the Master had already fled from
it and hid by the Doctor’s eighth regeneration. This may be the Master from
another timeline, or from an earlier time in his life, or even a later time of
his life, after The Last Great Time War.
Cobweb and Ivory Short
story, published 2018 Doctor:
0, or Unbound 8?
Featuring the Second War in Heaven, with the William Shakespeare thing (in the
prelude), and Faction Paradox (glimpse)
Written
by Nate Bumber, with a prelude by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Takes
place in some aspect of the War in Heaven. The name of the protagonist is Avus,
meaning ‘Grandfather’, suggesting Grandfather Paradox. Who is here sent back to
the Homeworld by the pre-Chronarchical forces Christmas On A
Rational Planet’s Carnival Queen represents.
But Avus also wields a transcendant lockpick, suggesting the Doctor. Cernunnos,
the Mammoth king of the pre-Chronarchs, says they and he have mutually inspired
each other. I suggest that this a prequel to The Ancestor Cell, in
which the Doctor has become the Grandfather.
Total
Stories Considered 2684
Proportion
Written By Women 11%
Top Docs
3 261
stories
4 249
stories
7 218
stories
10 168
stories
5 158 stories
8 155
stories Climber!
6 152 stories
2 142
stories
11 138
stories
1 126
stories
12 76
stories
Unbound 72
stories
9 35 stories
13 34 stories
War 5 stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 610 stories
Regional
England 479 stories
UNIT 387 stories
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 377 stories
The Time
Lords 267 stories
Wales 242
stories
North
America 236 stories
Torchwood 228
stories
Sarah
Jane 182
stories
Captain
Jack 179
stories
The
Master, including Missy 156 stories
The K9s 143
stories
Ace 129
stories
Christmas 127 stories Climber!
Continental
Europe 126 stories
The
Daleks and Davros 121 stories Climber!
Jo 121
stories
Romana 119
stories Climber!
Benton 114
stories
Iris
Wildthyme 107
stories
Top
Decades
The Teens 1094 stories
The
Noughties 701 stories
The
Nineties 282 stories
The
Twenties 213
stories
The
Seventies 176
stories
The
Eighties 169
stories
The
Sixties 49 stories
And Top
Twenty Years
2016 161 stories
2018 146 stories Climber!
2017 136
stories
Climber!
2008 131
stories
2020 129 stories
2015 111
stories Climber!
2019 111
stories Climber!
2011 110 stories
2009 101
stories
2013 97 stories Climber!
2010 95
stories
2001 92
stories
2021 83
stories
2007 75
stories
2006 71
stories
1993 67
stories
2012 66 stories
2004 63
stories
2005 61 stories
2014 59
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 806
Proportion
of Female Writers 16%
Top
Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 110
stories
Russell T
Davies 88
stories
James
Goss 71
stories
Paul
Magrs 64
stories
Robert
Holmes 45
stories
Justin
Richards 44 stories
Eric Saward 40 stories
Steven Moffat 38
stories
Gareth Roberts 37
stories
Eddie
Robson 36 stories
Andrew Cartmel 35
stories
Gary Russell 35
stories
? John Canning 33
stories
John
Dorney 32 stories
James Hornby 28 stories Climber!
Joseph Lidster 30
stories
Steve Lyons 30
stories
Jonathan Morris 30
stories
Guy Adams 29
stories Re-entry!
David
Whitaker 29
stories
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