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|series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|''Short Trips'' short stories]]
name=Echo|
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series=[[Short Trips (series)#In print|ST short stories]]|
|companions = [[Ace]]
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|setting=[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]]
companions=[[Ace]]|
|writer =Lance Parkin
year=[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]]|
|publisher = Big Finish Productions
writer=[[Lance Parkin]]|
|anthology = Short Trips: Life Science
publication=[[Short Trips: Life Science]]|
|prev = The Age of Ambition (short story)
prev=The Age of Ambition (short story)|
|next = A Rose by Any Other Name (short story)
next=A Rose by Any Other Name (short story)|
|release date=26 June 2004
|}}
}}
'''''Echo''''' was the fifteenth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Life Science]]''. It was written by [[Lance Parkin]]. It featured [[Ace]].


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
''to be added''
[[Ace]], bored, wanders [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. After finding a [[TARDIS laboratory|laboratory]] and a room full of [[jigsaw puzzle]]s, she finds a [[TARDIS zoo|zoo]]. She notices one of the animals is a [[dodo]], which are extinct in her time. She sets it free, but it bites her and runs away.
 
Ace gives chase. The dodo goes through a hole in the floor, and Ace follows. She ends up in a large room full of clothes. She notices a large mirror. She sees a brown robe on the floor and tries it on, looking at herself in the mirror. Suddenly there is someone in the mirror. He reaches out his hand, and it comes out of the mirror. He asks Ace questions about the Doctor.
 
He starts to explain that sound and images coalesce into echoes, but before he can explain further who he is, the dodo appears and charges straight at Ace. She wraps it up in her jacket, but when she turns back to the mirror, the image is gone.
 
Ace later ponders whether the figure in the mirror is the echo, or is something else the echo?


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Ace]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Marnal|Man in the mirror]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
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* Ace finds the [[TARDIS laboratory]] and the [[TARDIS zoo]]. She once found a painting of [[Vincent van Gogh]] with a bandage on the other ear to the version she'd seen in books.
* She compares the TARDIS laboratory to [[Frankenstein]]'s lab, "but with better lights".
* There is a "[[food machine|food dispenser thing]]" near Ace's room on the TARDIS.
* Ace could never operate the [[shower]]s aboard the TARDIS, so she cleans herself in the [[sink]] and uses lots of [[deodorant]].
* Stored in the multiple storage rooms on the TARDIS are the arms from the [[Venus de Milo]], and bits of ''[[Apollo 11]]''{{'}}s [[The Moon|moon]] landers.
* [[Dodo]]s come from [[Mauritius]], in [[Africa]], but are extinct in Ace's time.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* This story is narrated by Ace.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* The strange [[mirror]] with the same mysterious reflection was previously discovered by [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]. Ace tries on the robes that were discarded by Susan. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Exiles (short story)|The Exiles]]'')


== Timeline ==
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* ''Echo'' occurs after [[DW]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''
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* ''Echo'' occurs before [[ST]]: ''[[A Yuletide Tail]]''


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Latest revision as of 21:32, 27 November 2023

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Echo was the fifteenth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Life Science. It was written by Lance Parkin. It featured Ace.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ace, bored, wanders the TARDIS. After finding a laboratory and a room full of jigsaw puzzles, she finds a zoo. She notices one of the animals is a dodo, which are extinct in her time. She sets it free, but it bites her and runs away.

Ace gives chase. The dodo goes through a hole in the floor, and Ace follows. She ends up in a large room full of clothes. She notices a large mirror. She sees a brown robe on the floor and tries it on, looking at herself in the mirror. Suddenly there is someone in the mirror. He reaches out his hand, and it comes out of the mirror. He asks Ace questions about the Doctor.

He starts to explain that sound and images coalesce into echoes, but before he can explain further who he is, the dodo appears and charges straight at Ace. She wraps it up in her jacket, but when she turns back to the mirror, the image is gone.

Ace later ponders whether the figure in the mirror is the echo, or is something else the echo?

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This story is narrated by Ace.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The strange mirror with the same mysterious reflection was previously discovered by Susan. Ace tries on the robes that were discarded by Susan. (PROSE: The Exiles)