Then Again: Towards the Gnab Gib

 

 

Twice Upon a Time   TV story, broadcast 2017                                  Doctors: 1, 12

Featuring the Daleks, Nardole, Bill, with Polly, Ben, Clara (glimpse)

Written by Steven Moffat, with additional material by Kit Pedler, Gerry Davies and Chris Chibnall.

Informed guess Takes place partly on Villengard, at the centre of the universe. I am again taking the word ‘centre’ four-dimensionally, an assuming there is room at the centre of the universe for both Villengard and the Great Abyss of Perpetual Nothing.


The Midnight Empire   Short story, published 2015                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Julian Angel Ortiz.

Informed guess Takes place mostly on an unnamed planet, plausibly in the extreme future.


The Eternal Battle   Audio drama, released 2017                               Doctor: 4

Featuring the Sontarans, K9 II, Romana

Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

Ig Takes place in a Sycon pocket continuum, self-dated the universe’s “twilight years”.

 

The protagonist of Christine Brooke-Rose’s experimental 1966 novel Such is generally interpreted as an astrophysicist having a mental health episode in which he thinks he is a cosmic event. This far in the future, in the universe’s second half, I think it not impossible that he is a cosmic event hallucinating that he is an ancient Tellurian astrophysicist.

 

The V Cwejes   Short story, published 2020                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring the Time Lords, Chris

Written by Tyche McPhee Letts.

Informed guess Takes place partly on Orniticon, self-dated “near” the end of the universe.


Library Pictures   Short story, published 2011                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Faction Paradox

Written by Stuart Douglas.

Informed guess Takes place in the Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities, at “the end of the universe.”


Timewyrm: Apocalypse   Novel, published 1991         Doctors: 7, and 2 (glimpse)

featuring Ace, the Timewyrm, and Polly, Ben (glimpse)

Written by Nigel Robinson.

Takes place on Kirith; self-dated a dekaeon before the Gnab Gib.


Do You Love Anyone Enough?   Short story, published 2000               Doctor: 4

featuring Romana

Written by Norman Ashby.

Takes place in Mutter’s Spiral, at its destruction.


Hope   Novel, published 2002                                                                  Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji

Written by Mark Clapham.

Informed guess Takes place on the oceanic world of Endpoint, near the end of the universe.


The Cannibalists   Audio drama, released 2009                                Doctor: 8

Featuring Lucie

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in Haven Station One. There has been no contact with organic life for four millennia.


A Farewell to R.M.S,   Online short story, posted 2019                            Doctor: 0

Featuring the Second War in Heaven, Unbound K9 I

Written by Nate Bumber.

Takes place on Roger’s Magic Sphere, some time before the main action of A Farewell to Arms.


A Prelude to a Prelude   Online short story, posted 2019                       Doctor: 0

Featuring the Second War in Heaven (informative glimpse)

Written by Nate Bumber.

Takes place in the Final Empire, during the reign of the Elemental Emperor.


A Shift in Focus   Online short story, posted 2019                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring the Second War in Heaven

Written by Nate Bumber.

Takes place on Drornid, shortly before the main action of A Farewell to Arms.


A Prelude to Arms   Online short story, posted 2019                               Doctor: Unbound

Featuring the Time Lords, the Second War in Heaven (informative glimpse)

Written by Nate Bumber.

Takes place in the Final Empire, between A Prelude to a Prelude and A Farewell to Arms.


A Farewell to Arms   Short story, published 2019                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven, ?Amy

Written by Nate Bumber.

The framing story takes place shortly after A Prelude to a Prelude. Wade is implied to be the version of Amy abandoned in The Girl Who Waited. It may be that the implied release of the memorvore into the Empire is a cause of the Elemental Emperor being overthrown, as relayed in Father Time.


Miranda   Comic story, published 2003                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Miranda, ? the Daleks (glimpse)

Written by Lance Parkin.

Takes place in Imperial space, a few hundred million years before The Infinity Doctors. Following Father Time, there are further suggestions that Faction Klade are a far future form of the Daleks.


White Canvas   Novella, published 2018                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven, Astrolabus/The Auteur, 10,000 Dawns, Miranda

Written by James Wylder.

Takes place partly on the Needle, after the accession of Miranda.


God Engine Rhapsody   Short story, published 2013                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Julio Angel Ortiz.

Takes place in the last amusement park in the universe.

 

The claustrophobic, haunted banality of Brian Aldiss’s 1968 novel Report on Probability A suggests an informational universe grinding to a halt.

 

Apocalypse Angel   Charity short story, published 1999              Doctor: 0

featuring the Master, Romana, and the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Finn Clark.

Takes place on Space Station Zenobia, after the extinction of most stars.


No Regrets   Charity short story, published 2001                           Doctor: Unbound

featuring Unbound Jo

Written by Phil Hall.

Takes place on an unnamed planet, the day before its extinction in the Gnab Gib.


The Infinity Doctors   Novel, published 1998                Doctor: Unbound

featuring Unbound Time Lords, Omega, Unbound Sontarans, Unbound Rutan, and the I (informative mention)

Written by Lance Parkin.

Takes place partly on the Needle, very near the Gnab Gib; self-dated 1033 CE.


Little Rose Riding Hood   Illustrated short story, published 2015      Doctor: Unbound 9

Featuring Unbound Zygons, Unbound Rose

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess This Time Lord fairy story seems to have arisen out of the Doctor’s relationship with Rose, which means it must have developed in the second restoration of the Time Lords.

Heaven Sent and Hell Bent   TV story, broadcast 2015        Doctor: 12

Featuring the Time Lords, Clara, Ashildr

Written by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place largely on a restored Gallifrey, not far from the end of the universe.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The Eighth Doctor

                                          Comic story, published 2016                        Doctor: Unbound 8

Featuring the Unbound Cybermen, Unbound Josie

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The Fourth Doctor 

                                          Comic story, published 2016                        Doctor: Unbound 4

Featuring the Unbound Cybermen, Unbound K9 II

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The First Doctor 

                                                       Comic story, published 2016            Doctor: Unbound 1

Featuring Unbound Susan, Unbound Barbara, Unbound Ian, the Unbound Cybermen

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place in Shoreditch, in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The Sixth Doctor  

                                                      Comic story, published 2016             Doctor: Unbound 6

Featuring the Unbound Time Lords, the Unbound Cybermen, the Unbound Valyard, Unbound Mel

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The Second Doctor 

                                           Comic story, published 2016                       Doctor: Unbound 2

Featuring the Unbound Cybermen, Unbound Polly

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place on the Moon, in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The Third Doctor  

                                                       Comic story, published 2016            Doctor: Unbound 3

Featuring the Unbound Cybermen, the Unbound Master

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The War Doctor  

                                           Comic story, published 2016                       Doctor: Unbound War

Featuring the Unbound Cybermen

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The Fifth Doctor  

                                          Comic story, published 2016                        Doctor: Unbound 5

Featuring the Unbound Cybermen, Unbound Peri, with the Daleks (informative mention)

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The Seventh Doctor  

                                                        Comic story, published 2016            Doctor: Unbound 7

featuring the Unbound Cybermen, Unbound Ace

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place in a reality created in Supremacy of the Cybermen.


Supremacy of the Cybermen    

Comic story, published 2016  Doctors: Unbound 2, Unbound 4, Unbound 5, Unbound 6, Unbound 7, Unbound War, Unbound 9, Unbound 10, Unbound 11, 12

Featuring The Unbound Time Lords, the Unbound Cybermen, the Unbound Earth Reptiles, the Unbound Sontarans, Unbound Peri, Unbound Mel, Unbound Ace, Unbound Rose, Unbound Captain Jack, Unbound Gabby, Unbound Cindy, Unbound Alice, with the Unbound Daleks, the Unbound Rutan (informative mention)

Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.

Takes place pivotally on the restored Gallifrey at the end of the universe.


A Brief History of Time Lords   Novel, published 2017

                                Doctors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, War, 9, 10, 11, 12 (informative mention)

Featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, Susan, the Vampires, the Master, the Sontarans, the Rutan, the Quarks, the Ice Warriors, the Wargamers, the Nestene Consciouness, the Earth Reptiles, Axos, the Daemons, the Tereleptils, Omega, Davros, the Vogans, Karn, the Vardans, Romana, the Racnoss, the Valyard, the Judoon, the Raxacorricofallapatorians (informative mention)

Written by Steve Tribe.

This is a narrative written by the little Gallifreyan boy the Doctor meets in Hell Bent, in adult life. Discrepancies between this account of the Time Lords and the one I have traced in this chronology can be ascribed to the fact that its author is a historian, however diligent, writing from what is as far as we know near the end of the Chronarchy’s two million year history from the sources available to him, which do not include sources available to me.


The Timeless Children   TV story, broadcast 2020             Doctors: 13, Unbound

Featuring the Time Lords, the Cybermen, the Master, Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Chris Chibnall.

Takes place largely on the restored Gallifrey, after the writing of A Brief History of Time Lords.


Future Legend   Short story, published 2009                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Stuart Douglas.

Takes place partly on the last viable planet of the Universe.


The Dance   Audio drama, released 2017                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Grace technology

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Takes place “at the end of time”.


The Watcher   Charity short story, published 2018                     Doctor: 6

Written by Nick Wallace.

Takes place in the Watcher’s observatory. The Doctor estimates that there is a century or less to the end of the universe.


The End   Short story, published 2004                                           Doctors: 1, 8

Written by Alexander Leithes.

Takes place at the Institute of Time, finishing shortly before the end of the Universe.


Sometime Never…   Novel, published 2004                     Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Miranda, Sabbath, Trix, with the Daleks, the Master, Jo, the Plantagenet dynasty (glimpse) and Sarah Jane, Harry, Mel, Ace, Sam (informative mention)

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place variously, including in London, France, Italy, Africa and New York NY; but encompassing the end of the universe.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6591

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 602 stories                   

7                 548 stories 

10               500 stories 

11               492 stories 

8                 447 stories 

6                 417 stories

5                 396 stories         

3                 395 stories 

1                 393 stories 

2                 362 stories         

12               209 stories

Unbound  146 stories

9                 101 stories

13               91 stories           

War           51 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1177 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               572 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  510 stories 

UNIT                                                                  472 stories  

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

Continental Europe                                         445 stories 

North America                                                 437 stories  

Benny                                                                 323 stories

The Master, including Missy                         318 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        304 stories 

Ace                                                                      298 stories   Climber! 

The K9s                                                              297 stories  

Amy and Rory                                                  294 stories 

Wales                                                                  262 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

Peri                                                                     238 stories  

At Sea                                                                 235 stories

Romana                                                             232 stories  

Jamie                                                                  227 stories  

 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2655 stories

The Noughties                                                  1754 stories       

The Nineties                                                      660 stories  

The Twenties                                                     539 stories   

The Eighties                                                      356 stories   

The Seventies                                                    319 stories         

The Sixties                                                         238 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          337 stories

2016                                                          333 stories 

2020                                                          319 stories  

2008                                                          291 stories 

2015                                                          290 stories 

2017                                                           275 stories       

2011                                                          259 stories  

2009                                                          255 stories

2013                                                          253 stories 

2010                                                          251 stories 

2019                                                          250 stories 

2007                                                          235 stories 

2021                                                          222 stories 

2014                                                          220 stories 

2001                                                          195 stories 

2012                                                          193 stories  

2006                                                          181 stories

2004                                                          162 stories

2005                                                          148 stories

2003                                                          128 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1209

Proportion of Female Writers               17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       170 stories

James Goss                                              156 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       148 stories

Russell T Davies                                     131 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    126 stories 

Eddie Robson                                          113 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         109 stories

Paul Magrs                                              98 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              92 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       92 stories   Climber!   

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            88 stories 

David Whitaker                                      85 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             82 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  79 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       73 stories  

Guy Adams                                              71 stories           

Alan Barnes                                             71 stories

Eric Saward                                            67 stories

 

 

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