Then Again: The Ninth Milliaeon

 

Dinosaurs, a 1987 short story by Walter Jon Williams, is set in an interstellar empire eight million years in the future, populated by post-human Tellurians bioengineered to extreme specialisation, to the point that their empire is a gestalt entity of mindlessly aggressive expansionism

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the evolution of chimpanzees was in the past.

 

The Cloud Exiles   Illustrated short story, published 1966                       Doctor: 1

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1967 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet inhabited by humanoids – usually - , millions of light-years from Earth.


How to Make a Killing in Time Travel   Audio drama, released 2018      Doctor: 8

Featuring Liv, with the Eleven, Helen (informative mention)

Written by John Dorney.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the space station Scapegrace, in Tellurian space and certainly after the time of Archimedes.


Hungry Thirsty Roots   Comic story, published 2018                             Doctor: 11

Featuring Alice, the Sapling, the Silents

Written by Alex Paknadel and Rob Williams.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the Doctor’s World.


The Very Hungry Snake   Comic story, published 2015                          Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Mirmi 24.


The Sinister Sponge   Illustrated short story, published 1975                  Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1976 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Inscruta.

They Were Chancing Their Arm

...setting a story on Inscruta and expecting it to be comprehensible.

 

Crawford Killian places his 1989 novel Eyas in north America “ten million years” in the future; no doubt there’s time for it in Doctor Who narrative before The Ark.

 

24-Hour News Invasion   Comic story, published 2012                          Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Glenn Dakin.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Vorala.


The Ark   TV story, broadcast 1966                                                         Doctor: 1

featuring Steven, Dodo

Written by Paul Erickson and Lesley Scott, script edited by Gerry Davis.

Takes place en route to and on Refusis; self-dated “nearly” ten million years after Steven and Dodo’s time. The TARDIS Log date of 8,626,566 CE is broadly compatible with this.

The Fate Of The Earth

The crew of the Ark are abandoning Earth because they believe it will be destroyed by Solar Flares: but The End of the World established that at this point the planet is less than half-way through its eventful history. We may assume that the Solar Flares leave it sterile of anything more than bacterial life and eject it from the Solar System.


Tarnished Image   Short story, published 1996                                       Doctor: 1

featuring Dodo

Writen by Guy Clapperton.

Takes place on Tarron, ten centuries after the supposed destruction of Earth by Solar Flares featured in The Ark.


Deep Water   Illustrated short story, published 2007                                Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Nicholas Pegg.

Informed guess Takes place on Miletus; Earth has been a “dead planet” for “tens of thousands of years”.


War World   Comic story, published 1989                                                  Doctor: 7

Written by John Freeman.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Bellus IV.


Umwelts for Hire   Illustrated short story, published 2010                      Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Brian Aldiss.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unspecified environment in Tellurian space.

 

 

 Total Stories Considered             6198

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 535 stories                   

7                 527 stories 

10               450 stories 

11               447 stories 

8                 417 stories 

6                 387 stories

3                 386 stories 

5                 372 stories         

1                 359 stories 

2                 338 stories         

12               189 stories

Unbound  132 stories

9                 94 stories  

13               83 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1172 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               550 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  502 stories 

UNIT                                                                  469 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                            464 stories  

Continental Europe                                         442 stories 

North America                                                 435 stories  

Benny                                                                 319 stories

The Master, including Missy                         297 stories

Ace                                                                      288 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        286 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  268 stories 

The K9s                                                              266 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        256 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     222 stories 

Jamie                                                                  214 stories 

Christmas                                                          210 stories=

Romana                                                             210 stories=

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2499 stories

The Noughties                                                  1662 stories       

The Nineties                                                      636 stories  

The Twenties                                                     505 stories   

The Eighties                                                      329 stories   

The Seventies                                                    290 stories         

The Sixties                                                         207 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          314 stories 

2018                                                          314 stories    New joint number1!   

2020                                                          295 stories  

2015                                                          276 stories 

2008                                                          274 stories  

2017                                                           253 stories       

2011                                                          243 stories 

2009                                                          240 stories 

2010                                                          240 stories  Climber! 

2013                                                          239 stories 

2019                                                          231 stories 

2007                                                          222 stories 

2021                                                          212 stories 

2014                                                          210 stories 

2001                                                          184 stories  

2012                                                          184 stories  Climber!

2006                                                          167 stories

2004                                                          157 stories

2005                                                          143 stories

2003                                                          124 stories  

                            

         

 Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1171

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       161 stories

James Goss                                              155 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       148 stories

Russell T Davies                                     125 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    119 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         105 stories

Eddie Robson                                          104 stories                   

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              89 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            86 stories 

Simon Guerrier                                       86 stories  

David Whitaker                                      84 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             74 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  73 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             69 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       69 stories  

Guy Adams                                              68 stories  

Eric Saward                                            66 stories  

 

 

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