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Tickles memories of the Faction Paradox Doctor Who.
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Found in my travels through time & space today: The Ancestor Cell, The Scarlett Empress, Unnatural History and The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
All 8th Doctor novels that have been on my "to get" list for ages! All part of the Faction Paradox storylines which I feel have been the most interesting & exciting aspects of DW since the first cancellation. Read Paul Magrs' Scarlett Empress after it came out in 1999 or 2000 but not the others.
Had a dream last night about a The Book Of The War entry about Donkey Kong's involvement in the Time War.
That story felt very Faction-Paradox-coded, which considering it involves Poppy from Space Babies - a story which name drops a Faction Paradox character and alludes to looms - might not be an accident. All the bone structure and the giant clock of the Rani's base is very Faction-Core (to coin a new term). The stuff about Conrad's 'perception bias' (besides the obvious social commentary) reminds me of the Time Lords and the Web of Time being their version of history. It's like Conrad and the Rani have done their own (smaller scale(?)) 'Anchoring of the Thread'.
The 'God of Wishes' is probably the creepiest god we've seen so far or will see. It was nice to see Rogue again, I thought we'd forgotten about him.
I'm worried about the final given how last series' went. I hope Omega doesn't get done dirty the way Sutekh did.
@Rubos8 Con esa descripción, en concreto la mención a Doctor Who, lo primero que me viene a la cabeza es Faction Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faction_Paradox
Currently in the middle of reading the first Interference book and I can't believe no-one's done any analogue horror stuff with The Remote (that I know of).
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Realised another strange connection to expanded media in Series 14 this morning:
The parallels between the Doctor and Ruby are made pretty explicit in The Church on Ruby Road, both are foundlings, similar imagery with the Church and the Gateway the 'Timeless Child' was found under ect, ect. But here's one related to expanded media: Ruby was born at Christmas/Yuletide, the Doctor was born(/loomed?) (according to the audio version of Cold Fusion) on 'Otherstide' which is quite possibly the Gallifreyan equivilent.
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Expanded media references in Series 14 (so far):
Space Babies:
* Baby farms and what the Doctor says about them strongly resembles lore behind Gallifrey and 'Looms'
* 'The Conquistador': a Faction Paradox character from 'The Book of the Enemy'
The Devil's Cord:
* Nothing specifically as far as I'm aware. Though it should be noted that the fourth-wall breaking throughout that episode does follow on from lesser-known/ignored instances of such things in Doctor Who.
* 'The Music of the Spheres" is a reference to Doctor Who at the Proms if that counts?
Boom:
* "I am a complex space-time event"
73 yards:
* Llanfer Ceiriog
Dot and Bubble:
* Parallels between Finetime and Gallifrey, "The Homeworld"
* The Remote?
Rogue:
* Shalka Doctor
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If you're one of these Doctor Who fans who are obsessive about continuity and need everything to fit neatly together (first of all, even if you only stick to the TV show and nothing else, you're fighting a losing battle): If you only ever read one Doctor Who novel I strongly suggest 'Unnatural History', the plot literally makes fun of this.
It changed the way I look at Doctor Who and fiction in general to be honest.
Don't be Griffin.
The novels, audios and other expanded media are just as valid a part of Doctor Who as the TV show.
Every Doctor Who story 'happened'.
The Doctor is 'The Other', 'The Timeless Child', Loomed, Half-human, a human from the 49th century and any number of other possibilities.
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