Then Again: The Late Twenty-Second Century
The eponymous spaceship in Dark Star (1974) is paving the way for
Tellurian colonisation by disintegrating ‘unstable’ planets, I don’t actually
see why, but anyway, it is twenty years into its mission and is approaching the
Veil Nebula, 2400 light years from the Solar System. The film is set in 2150,
meaning it was launched in 2130 with the ability to travel at approximately two
hundred times the speed of light, which would be an interesting snippet of
information to incorporate into Doctor Who narrative.
Dust Short story, published 2003 Doctor: 2
Written by Paul Leonard.
Informed guess Takes place on Mars, after it has been terraformed.
Der Grosse Verhau (1971), generally translated as
The Big Mess, is a film set in a commercial Earth-based interstellar society.
It is set, with more overoptimism, in 2034, so I again propose incorporating it
into Doctor Who narrative by taking this as a Galactic Standard date and
placing it in 2154 CE.
Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme? Audio drama, released 2013 Doctor:
0
Featuring Iris
Wildthyme
Written by Cavan Scott and
Mark Wright.
Takes place in London and
Rome; the latest events self-dated 2156 CE.
Lucifer Rising Novel, published 1993 Doctor:
7
featuring Ace, Benny, with the Daleks (informative mention),
and the Time Lords, the Master (glimpse)
Written by Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane.
Takes place in the Lucifer System; dated 2157 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.
Plight of the Monkrah Short story,
published 2007 Doctor:
4
featuring Oliver Day
Written by John Davies.
Informed guess Takes place on an unnamed planet; there is a
Tellurian presence in interstellar space, but Tellurians are still using Lynx
aftershave, so early on.
GodEngine Novel,
published 1996
Doctor:
7
featuring the Ice Warriors, Roz, Chris, with the
Daleks (glimpse), and the Osirians, the Tereleptils (informative mention)
Written by Craig Hinton.
Takes place on Mars and Charon; self-dated May 2157 CE. A billion
Tellurian settlers are exterminated by the Daleks on the colony world of
Sifranos...but the earliest colonies were only founded thirty years previously.
A population of a billion in so short a space of time implies a dedicated
nursery-world, producing a maximum number of children, not necessarily by
heterosexual reproduction, to provide plentiful labour for the exploitation of
interstellar resources. As a long-term resource of the burgeoning Tellurian
empire, such a world would be a tempting strategic target for the Daleks.
The Diamonds of Sartor,
Quarsian Mission and Android of Death
Comic story, published 2008 Doctor: 10
Written by Jason Loborik.
Informed guess Takes place on Sartor, at an apparently early stage of Tellurian interstellar
colonisation.
The Mutant Phase Audio drama, released 2000 Doctor:
5
featuring the Daleks, Nyssa
Written by Nicholas Briggs.
Takes place in Kansas, a landlocked constituent state of the USA, west
of Missouri, north of Oklahoma and east of Colorado; self-dated 2158 CE.
Renaissance of the Daleks Audio drama, released 2007 Doctor: 5
featuring the Daleks, Nyssa
Adapted by Alan Barnes from a story by Christopher H Bidmead.
Takes place in a version of London, Rhodes (an island of the Aegean
Sea, south of Anatolia), Viginia and Vietnam; pivotally self-dated 2158 CE.
Technical Hitch Comic story, published 1989 Doctor:
7
Written by Dan Abnett.
Informed guess Takes place on the spaceship
Da Gama, at a time when Tellurians
are exploring deep space.
Trouble on the Orion
Express Comic story, published 2012 Doctor:
11
Featuring Amy
or an Amy ganger, Rory
Written by Luke Paton.
Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian Space, and not too far from Sol, as the
constellation of Orion looks much the same as it does from Earth.
The Fag Hag From Hell Short story,
published 2009 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris
Wildthyme
Written by Dale Smith.
Informed guess Concludes in a deserted, post-apocalyptic Manchester that is
nonetheless recognisable to a visitor from the late 20th century CE.
I think the Dalek occupation is a reasonable guess: there need be no Dalek
presence in an unpopulated area.
When the Wolves Came Illustrated short story, published 2014 Doctor: 12
Featuring Clara,
with the Daleks (informative mention)
Written by Moray Laing.
Informed guess Takes place in London and
Bedfordshire, during the Dalek occupation.
Masters of Earth Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 6
Featuring the
Daleks, Peri
Written by Mark Wright and
Cavan Scott.
The Grel Invasion of Earth Audio drama, released 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring Benny,
the Grel
Written by Jacqueline
Rayner.
Takes place in a version of Bournemouth, a coastal town of Dorset, and
Dunstable, a town of Bedfordshire; self-dated 2164 CE. These time-travelling
Grel seem to have substituted themselves for the Daleks in this timeline.
Every Dog Has His Day Comic story, published 1980 Doctor: 4
featuring K9 II, Romana
Written by the World Distributors Annual 1981 crew.
Informed guess Takes place on a Tellurian interstellar colony;
ties are still worn.
The Dalek Invasion of Earth TV story, broadcast 1964 Doctor: 1
featuring the Daleks, Susan, Barbara, Ian
Written by Terry Nation, script edited by David Whitaker.
Takes place in London and Bedfordshire; Parkin dates this as 2167 CE in Ahistory.
After the Daleks Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor:
0
Featuring the
Daleks, Susan
Written by
Roland Moore.
Takes place in
London; self-dated 2167 CE and after The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
Christmas Every Day Short story,
published 2008 Doctor: 4
featuring Leela, with Austria (informative mention)
Written by Jason Arnopp.
Takes place on Gloricious; self-dated Christmas 2171 CE.
Something Inside Audio drama, released 2006 Doctor:
8
featuring Charley, C’rizz
Written by Trevor Baxendale.
Informed guess Takes place, plausibly, on Earth; soon after a war
which has been won by the use of crudely engineered psychic abilities. There is
a general air of underpopulation. It is never actually made clear how the
events of The Dalek Invasion of
Earth - Bedfordshire rid of the
Daleks - lead to the Earth being rid of the Daleks, so I’m assuming that the
recent war was the one in which they were finally expelled.
Under ODIN’s Eye Audio short story, released 2019 Doctor: 6
Featuring
Peri, werewolves
Written by Alice Cavender.
Informed
guess Takes
place on Buris, a planet on which Tellurians have recently arrived.
Ghosts of Mars (2001) is self-dated 2176. Mars is at
least partly terraformed, and I think the film can broadly be incorporated into
Doctor Who narrative
A Time & a Place Illustrated short story, published 1993 Doctor: 7
Featuring Susan
(informative mention)
Written by Una
McCormack.
Informed
guess Takes place in
regional England, ten years or so after The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
Man of Smoke and Dust Charity short
story, published 2001 Doctor: Unbound
featuring the
Daleks (informative mention)
Written by Sarah Hadley and
Nick Campbell.
Takes place in Vienna;
self-dated 2178 CE.
A Date to Remember and Snow Fakes Comic story,
published 2006 Doctor: 10
Featuring Rose
Written by Davey Moore.
Informed guess Takes place in Paris, in the future. Transit establishes that Paris was
destroyed in the Thousand Day War towards the end of the 21st
century, but Sword of Forever established that it had been
rebuilt by the late 26th. As the hologramic technology on display
seems rather advanced for the 21st century, I have placed it here,
with a reconstructed Paris still recovering from the Dalek Occupation.
Wish Upon a Star Beast Charity short
story, published 1998 Doctor:
6
featuring the
Meeps, Grant
Written by Steve Lyons.
Informed guess Takes place in Norwegian Lapland; self-dated a
couple of centuries after Star Beast.
The Selachian Gambit Audio drama, released 2012 Doctor: 2
Featuring Polly, Ben, the Ockorans, Jamie
Written by Steve Lyons.
Informed guess Takes place near Tellurian
space, sometime before The Final Sanction.
The Haldenmor Fugue Illustrated short story, published 2009 Doctor: 10
Written by James
Moran.
Takes place pivotally in a version of the east of England; self-dated
2180 CE.
Suspension and Disbelief Short
story, published 2007 Doctor:
5
Written by Mary
Robinette.
Takes place in Prague;
self-dated 2181 CE.
Venus Short
story, published 2005 Doctor:
8
featuring Charley
Written by Stuart Manning.
Informed guess Takes place near Venus, after much interplanetary
exploration by Tellurians, but well before the terraforming of Venus seen in Invasion
of the Daleks. I am supposing that Aristede was living outside
the Solar System at the time of the Dalek occupation, and that the war of ‘62
which caused the closure of his exhibition was a campaign against the Daleks.
Something Borrowed Short story,
published 2013 Doctor: 6
Featuring the Rani, Peri
Written by Richelle Mead.
Informed guess Takes place on Koturia; self-dated “about two hundred years” after
Peri’s time.
Longest Day Novel, published 1998 Doctor:
8
featuring Sam
Written by Stephen Cole (as Michael
Collier).
Takes place on and above
Hirath, some time before Legacy of the Daleks, it is
reasonable to assume. True, Dreamstone Moon is “a few
days” after for Sam, but we may assume that Hirath is some distance from
Tellurian space – Sam only having one tongue comes as a surprise to the
Thannosian humanoids - so I am assuming that Sam’s impression is the result of
relativity or something. It is possible that Hirath’s unusual temporal
properties are a side-effect of the War in Heaven.
Legacy of the Daleks Novel, published 1998 Doctor: 8
featuring the
Daleks, Susan, the Master, with the Time Lords (glimpse), and Sam (informed mention)
Written by John Peel.
Takes place in London and southern
England; self-dated thirty-two years after The Dalek Invasion
of Earth. It must clearly be well before An
Earthly Child, however, so I am assuming that “sixteen” years is
actually meant.
A Star’s View of Caroline Short
story, published 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Unbound
Susan, Unbound Barbara, Unbound Ian, with the Daleks, San Francisco, London,
Vienna, Faction Paradox (informative mention)
Written by Sarah Hadley.
Seeding Program, published as A Time to
Survive (1956) is the last novella in James Blish’s The Seedling Stars
sequence, although the first chronologically. It describes an interstellar
colonial mission committed to the pantropic engineering of human colonists to
alien environments leaving a Tellurian settlement on Ganymede, a moon of
Jupiter. I believe it fits well enough with Doctor Who narrative here.
Life From Lifelessness Short story, published 2007 Doctors: 1,
4
featuring Susan,
K9 II, Romana
Written by Keith R A
DeCandido.
Informed guess Takes place in Prague; the main action takes place “five
hundred and fifty” years after the late sixteenth century, which is
problematic, as this places the Wronsdehj occupation of central Europe
immediately before or during the Dalek occupation of Earth. My guess is that it
took place while the human race was suffering a majority die-back during the
Dalek plague, and was ended before the Daleks actually arrived. The date for
the framing action of this story, “twenty years after the occupation”, I therefore
take to mean twenty years after the Dalek occupation.
An Earthly Child Audio
drama, released 2009 Doctor: 8
Featuring Susan
Written by
Marc Platt.
Takes
place in London and Bristol; self-dated 2187 CE.
Lucie Miller and To the
Death Audio drama, released
2011 Doctor: 8
Featuring the Daleks, Susan, Mortimus, Lucie, Tamsin
Written by Nicholas Briggs.
Takes place on in Thailand, London, regional England, north America and the Atlantic, beginning some months after An Earthly Child and concluding three or four years after.
Space Invaders! Comic story, published 2015 Doctor: 12
Featuring Clara
Written by Mark Wright.
Informed guess Takes place in the Solar
System, some decades after 2122 CE.
Absolute Power Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor: 6
Featuring Constance
Written by Jamie Anderson.
Informed guess Takes place on Teymah,
dated “2190-ish” by the Doctor.
Greenaway Short
story, published 2003 Doctors:
2,
5, 8, Unbound, with 1, 3 (informative mention)
featuring Steven
(informative mention)
Written by Peter Anghelides.
Informed guess Takes place on a Tellurian colony world.
Interstellar flight still commonly takes years, and involves travellers being
put in stasis.
The More Things Change Illustrated short story, published 1993 Doctor: 6
featuring Peri,
and the Daleks (informative mention)
Written by Andy Lane.
Informed guess Takes place in Virginia; finishes about thirty
years after the end of the Dalek occupation.
A Lift in Time Audio drama, released 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by David
Bryher.
Informed guess Takes place on Io, a now
colonised moon of Jupiter. A sentient muzak-playing lift has been operational
for seventy-nine years.
The Arboreals Short story,
published 2015 Doctor: 1
featuring Susan
Written by Marc Platt.
Informed guess Takes place on a planet in Tellurian space. Susan is “beginning to feel at home” in the TARDIS, so it is not long after she and the Doctor left Gallifrey, and implicitly before The Sons of the Crab ; therefore, in Mutter’s Spiral and not necessarily a long way into the future.
Murmurs of Earth Audio
short story, released 2011 Doctor: 6
Featuring Peri
Written by Michael Deacon, Jamie Middleton and Chris Wraight.
Takes place in the Oort
Cloud, the vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the solar system (some
of which fall into it to become comets); self-dated 2199 CE.
Total
Stories Considered 4652
Proportion
Written By Women 11%
Top
Docs
4 391
stories
7 367
stories
3 328
stories
8 322
stories
10 318
stories
11 310
stories
5 292 stories
1 277
stories
6 275 stories
2 250
stories
12 146
stories
Unbound 109 stories
9 81 stories
13 66 stories
War 47 stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 1125
stories
Regional
England 794 stories
UNIT 464
stories
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 451
stories
The
Time Lords 445
stories
Continental
Europe 415
stories
North
America 407
stories
The
Daleks and Davros 277 stories
Wales 261
stories
The
Master, including Missy 252
stories Climber!
Torchwood 252
stories
Sarah
Jane 242
stories
Ace 215
stories
At Sea 214
stories
The
K9s 209
stories
Captain
Jack 201
stories
Amy
and Rory 185
stories
Asia 184
stories
Christmas 176
stories
Romana 175
stories
Top
Decades
The
Teens 1991
stories
The
Noughties 1200
stories
The
Nineties 441
stories
The
Twenties 389
stories
The
Eighties 225
stories
The
Seventies 221
stories
The
Sixties 115
stories
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and
William Hope Hodgson) 70
stories
And
Top Twenty Years
2016 276
stories
2018 246
stories
2020 223
stories
2017 219
stories
2015 216
stories
2008 208
stories
2019 192
stories
2013 190
stories
2011 189
stories Climber!
2010 187
stories
2009 179
stories
2021 167
stories
2014 146
stories
2001 142
stories
2007 139
stories
2012 131
stories
2006 124
stories
2004 123
stories
2005 114
stories
1993 95
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 1063
Proportion
of Female Writers 17%
Top
Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 129
stories
James
Goss 129
stories
Justin
Richards 121 stories
Russell
T Davies 117 stories
Paul
Magrs 94 stories
Steven Moffat 83
stories
Jonathan Morris 83
stories
Matt Fitton 66
stories
John
Dorney 65
stories
Eddie
Robson 62
stories Climber!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 60 stories
Gareth Roberts 54
stories
Alan
Barnes 53
stories Climber!
Robert
Holmes 53
stories
David Whitaker 53 stories Climber!
Steve Lyons 52
stories
Eric Saward 49 stories
David Llewellyn 48 stories
Gary Russell 48
stories
Guy
Adams 47
stories=
Andrew
Cartmel 47 stories=
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