Then Again: The Second Dekaeon

 

Outstanding Balance   Short story, published 2008                               Doctor: 2

Featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by Tim Lambert.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Ovoids.


Reluctant Warriors   Illustrated short story, published 1979                  Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1980 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Banto.


Danger Flight   Comic story, published 2011                                              Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Kandalath.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the creation of the universe, was, in the past. This is the last note of this sort that I shall be making.

                                                          

Breakdown   Illustrated short story, published 1980                                 Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Sharon

Written by Jenny O’Connor.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unidentified environment.


Nettles   Short story, published 2008                                                         Doctor: 8

Written by Kelly Hale.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Valdamar IV.


Mistaken Identity   Comic story, published 2010                                     Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Cavan Scott.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.


The Last Soldier   Comic story, published 2007                                        Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Martin Day.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet with a partly bipedal intelligent species.

 

Philip Jose Farmer’s 1979 novel Dark Is The Sun is set in 1.5 x 1010 CE, on a planet its inhabitants believe to be Earth. Its sun has gone, its moon has been ignited as an orbiting sun, and also died, and the planet moved to another stellar system. Solid material might have been formed into position to form a new planet in a comparable orbit around Sol, I suppose. Perhaps it is the New Earth seen in New Earth, which by this time could have been a home to Tellurians for at least twice as long as the original was.

 

How the Mighty,,,   Charity short story, published 2001                          Doctor: 7

Written by Shaun Lyon.

Informed guess Takes place at the Tollbooth, sometime after the later section of Delta and the Bannermen, which Parkin dates as the far future but before the Vulgar End of Time in Ahistory.

 

Darrell Schweitzer’s 1983 novel The Shattered Goddess is set not only a long way into the future but is equipped with a long past, provided with a succession of ages shaped by unique presiding deities. I speculate that it may be the “Earth” of Dark is the Sun, some considerable time later

 

The Melting Pot   Audio drama, released 2021                            Doctor: 11

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Piir.


The Painting   Charity short story, published 2001                                   Doctor: 4

Written by Stacey Smith?.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an art gallery.

 

Matthew Hughes’s 2001 novel Gullible’s Travels  and its sequels were written partly as a tribute to Jack Vance’s Dying Earth stories, and are set on the same “Earth” in the “age” before.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6458

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 578 stories                   

7                 541 stories 

10               489 stories 

11               481 stories 

8                 440 stories 

6                 404 stories

3                 392 stories 

5                 388 stories         

1                 384 stories 

2                 352 stories         

12               202 stories

Unbound  141 stories

9                 97 stories  

13               90 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1174 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               558 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  505 stories 

UNIT                                                                 472 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                           468 stories  

Continental Europe                                         443 stories 

North America                                                 436 stories  

Benny                                                               322 stories

The Master, including Missy                         310 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        298 stories 

Ace                                                                      294 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  289 stories 

The K9s                                                              285 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     231 stories 

Jamie                                                                  224 stories 

Romana                                                             223 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2599 stories

The Noughties                                                  1731 stories       

The Nineties                                                      653 stories  

The Twenties                                                     528 stories   

The Eighties                                                      349 stories   

The Seventies                                                    309 stories         

The Sixties                                                         229 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          329 stories

2016                                                          322 stories 

2020                                                          310 stories  

2008                                                          288 stories 

2015                                                          286 stories 

2017                                                           266 stories       

2011                                                          256 stories  

2009                                                          250 stories

2010                                                          248 stories  Climber!  

2013                                                          248 stories 

2019                                                          243 stories 

2007                                                          232 stories 

2021                                                          220 stories 

2014                                                          212 stories 

2002                                                          190 stories  Climber!  

2012                                                          192 stories  

2006                                                          179 stories

2004                                                          160 stories

2005                                                          147 stories

1993                                                          126 stories=

2003                                                          126 stories=  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1201

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       168 stories

James Goss                                              156 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       148 stories

Russell T Davies                                     130 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    123 stories 

Eddie Robson                                          110 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         107 stories

Paul Magrs                                              98 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              92 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       90 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            87 stories 

David Whitaker                                      85 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             82 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  78 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       71 stories

Guy Adams                                              70 stories           

Alan Barnes                                             70 stories  

Eric Saward                                            67 stories

 

 

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