Then Again: The Third Milliaeon
This is approximately as far in the future as the
emergence of Homo Erectus, Homo Habilis, and Bonobos was in the past.
Doctor Who - The
Mysterious Planet Novelisation of a TV story, published 1988 Doctor:
6
featuring
the Time Lords, Peri, the Valeyard,
Glitz
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert
Holmes, edited by Eric Saward.
Takes place on space station Zenobia, but pivotally
on Ravolox; the Doctor says it is two million years after Peri’s time. Ravolox
turns out to be Earth (the TARDIS has once again landed on the site of London),
and the Time Lords have moved the Solar System two light years from where it
should be. It has been suggested that this is not very far if they wanted to
hide it. If I take your purse off the table and put it on top of your wardrobe,
however, I won’t have moved it very far but you’ll still have difficulty
finding it unless you thought that was something I might do. Anybody turning up
in an interstellar spaceship to where the Solar System should have been will
have no idea where to look for it. If they turned up again two years later,
they might notice that amongst the millions of stars visible around them there
was one that shouldn’t be there, but as they will know that there is no longer
anything there, why would they be turning up two years later anyway?
Astronomers in, say, the Alpha Centauri system would presumably be
forewarned to expect Sol to disappear
from their sky up to four years later, but it would appear in its new position
between two years after and two years before, depending on the direction
relative to Alpha Centauri in which it had been moved. There would be no reason
to link this new star to Sol unless you were expecting someone to move it
about, as it is unlikely you would.
The Mondas Touch Short story,
published 2017 Doctor:
12
Featuring the Cybermen
Written by Richard Dinnick.
Informed guess Takes place on Catrigan Nova. The Cybermen seen are similar to those in
Nightmare in Silver, so
I’m not putting them too far away in time.
The Ordeals of Demeter Comic story, published 1965 Doctor:
1
featuring
Gillian, John
Illustrated
?and written by Bill Mevin.
Informed guess Takes place on Demeter. The symbol “D” may be a
coincidence, but suggests Tellurian descent for the Demeterans.
Good Old Days Comic story, published 2009 Doctor:
10
Featuring Heather
Written by Simon Guerrier.
Arbitrary placement Takes place in an old people’s home in space.
The Destroyers Short story,
published 2004 Doctor:
4
featuring
Leela
Written by Steve Lyons.
Arbitrary placement
Takes place on an unnamed
planet, inhabited by humanoids.
Tik, Tak, Snick, Snack Short story,
published 2017 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme, with regional England
(informative mention)
Written by Jenna Burtenshaw.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on Tevan Two.
Nightmare in Silver TV story,
broadcast 2013 Doctor:
11
Featuring the Cybermen, Clara
Written by Neil Gaiman, script supervised by Steven Moffat.
Informed guess Takes place a considerable distance in the furture: Tellurian space
extends over galaxies and is subject to imperial authority, and the Cybermen
have evolved into a similarly intergalactic power, considered so dangerous that
a planetary scorched-earth policy has been adopted against them.
The Green, the Bad and the Ugly Comic story, published 2007 Doctor:
10
Featuring Martha
Written by Martin Day.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on Maught.
Doris Piserchia’s 1976 novel A Billion Days of Earth is set on the Earth, about three-quarters of the way through the third milliaeon (you can do the arithmetic yourself). Doctor Who Narrative can actually bear quite a lot of spectacular events on Earth between Doctor Who - The Mysterious Planet and The Ark.
The Sleeping Beast Illustrated short story, published 1977 Doctors:
4, 2 (glimpse)
featuring
Sarah Jane
Written by the World Distributors Annual 1978 crew.
Arbitrary placement
Takes place on an unnamed
planet.
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Proportion Written By Women 10%
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stories
War 48
stories
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stories
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Lethbridge-Stewart family 464 stories
Continental Europe 442 stories
North America 435 stories
Benny 319
stories
The Master, including Missy 294
stories
Ace 285
stories
Sarah Jane 285
stories Climber!
The K9s 266
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Amy and Rory 264
stories
Wales 261
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Peri 222
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Jamie 211
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stories
2004 157
stories
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stories
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stories
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