Then Again: The Seventh Myriad

  

This is approximately as far in the future as the settlement of Australia by Homo Sapiens was in the past.

 

Prime Winner   Audio short story, released 2016                                     Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Written by Nigel Fairs.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space.


The Gingerbread Trap   Illustrated short story, published 2015             Doctor: 0

Featuring the Krillitane

Written by Justin Richards.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unnamed, forested environment.


Jungle Adventure   Comic story, published 1967                                      Doctor: 2

featuring the Daleks, Gillian, John

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet. I assume that these are time-travelling Daleks and that the date is unconnected with their position in Dalek history.


Pride of the Lampian   Audio drama, released 2019            Doctor: Unbound

Featuring Benny

Written by Alyson Leeds.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in the Unbound Universe, after The Angel of History.


Nova   Comic story, published 2013                                                              Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by Rik Hoskin.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unnamed stellar system.


The Sonomancer   Audio drama, released 2016                                 Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, River Song, Liv, the Eleven, Helen

Written by Matt Fitton.

Ig Takes place on Syra, on “the other side of the galaxy” from Earth. The TARDIS is tracking the effects of the Gift, from Earth in 1906 CE; assuming these travel at the speed of light, I think this is a reasonable place to put this.

 

This is about as far in the future as Homo Sapiens crossing Bab-el-Mandeb strait out of Africa was in the past. The genetic record suggests that the total number of Homo Sapiens at this time was between two and five thousand, and between a hundred and fifty and a thousand migrated to the Arabian peninsula. Over the next few millennia, they colonized along the south coast of Asia in the direction of Indonesia and Australia.

 

A Delicate Operation   Comic story, published 2006                              Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Si Spencer.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a planet or other environment inhabited by the Svelnans, who are such enormous humanoids that it must be pretty near zero g.

 

Earthchild, published in 1977, is one of Doris Piserchia’s splendidly weird novels of Earth’s far future. Earth is again abandoned – there are some Tellurians on Mars – and is now occupied by odd extraterrestrial lifeforms.

 

The Labyrinth   Comic story, published 1973                                            Doctor: 3

featuring the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Dick O’Neill.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a planet of a star about to go nova, inhabited by humanoids.


Whale Tale   Comic story, published 2013                                                  Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by Glenn Dakin.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the oceans of Azarius.


Zaltys   Audio drama, released 2017                    Doctor: 5, with 3 (informative mention)

Featuring Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, with Jo (informative mention)

Written by Mathew Elliott.

Arbitrary placement Taks place on Zaltys.


The Light Catcher   Comic story, published 2012                                     Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in and near the Onyx Nebula.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5976

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 513 stories                   

7                 497 stories 

10               423 stories 

11               421 stories 

8                 404 stories 

3                 378 stories

6                 376 stories 

5                 364 stories         

1                 338 stories 

2                 323 stories         

12               178 stories

Unbound  129 stories

9                 90 stories  

13               83 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1170 stories                

Regional England                                            829 stories

The Time Lords                                               539 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  495 stories 

UNIT                                                                  468 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                         463 stories  

Continental Europe                                         441 stories 

North America                                                 434 stories  

Benny                                                                 313 stories

The Master, including Missy                         292 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        279 stories

Ace                                                                      278 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

The K9s                                                              261 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  255 stories  Climber! 

Torchwood                                                        254 stories  

At Sea                                                                 232 stories

Peri                                                                     216 stories 

Christmas                                                          209 stories 

Captain Jack                                                    206 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2401 stories

The Noughties                                                  1613 stories       

The Nineties                                                      623 stories  

The Twenties                                                     488 stories   

The Eighties                                                      315 stories   

The Seventies                                                    277 stories         

The Sixties                                                         189 stories

(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and William Hope Hodgson)                                                                                      70  stories 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          305 stories 

2016                                                          301 stories

2020                                                          283 stories  

2015                                                          265 stories 

2008                                                          261 stories  

2017                                                           243 stories       

2011                                                          236 stories 

2013                                                          234 stories 

2010                                                          230 stories 

2009                                                          227 stories 

2019                                                          224 stories 

2007                                                          215 stories 

2021                                                          207 stories 

2014                                                          194 stories 

2001                                                          183 stories  

2012                                                          174 stories  

2006                                                          162 stories

2004                                                          156 stories

2005                                                          140 stories

2003                                                          122 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1154

Proportion of Female Writers               17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       158 stories

James Goss                                              149 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       146 stories

Russell T Davies                                     123 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    113 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         102 stories

Eddie Robson                                          98 stories           

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              87 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       85 stories 

John Dorney                                            83 stories 

David Whitaker                                      82 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       80 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             71 stories 

Gareth Roberts                                       68 stories  

Trevor Baxendale                                  67 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             64 stories  

Eric Saward                                            64 stories  

Guy Adams                                              63 stories=

Robert Holmes                                        63 stories= 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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