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|doctor=Fifth Doctor
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|companions=[[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]]
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|read by = [[Duncan Wisbey]]
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|isbn            = ISBN 978-1-78703-713-7
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'''''Lant Land''''' was the sixth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Life Science]]''. It was written by [[Jonathan Morris]]. It featured the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]].
'''''Lant Land''''' was the sixth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Life Science]]''. It was written by [[Jonathan Morris]]. It featured the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]].


== Summary ==
== Plot ==
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough have materialised in an apartment. They find a couple, named [[Simon (Lant Land)|Simon]] and [[Joanne (Lant Land)|Joanne]], who welcome them and offer refreshment. The couple act strangely, wanting to change Tegan and Turlough's names. They tell the Doctor they don't work, they just play. He gets them to explain by pretending it's a game. They play a game called [[Lant Land]]. On a screen they watch people live their lives.
[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] lands in an [[apartment]] in a [[tower block]] but its instruments indicate that it is in the middle of nowhere. [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] are welcomed by [[Simon (Lant Land)|Simon]] and [[Joanne (Lant Land)|Joanne]], an uncannily attractive couple who were expecting visitors and who criticise Tegan and Turlough's names as unbelievable, suggesting that they change them to Yvonne and Derek.


Tegan and Turlough explore while Simon and Joanne talk with the Doctor. Simon explains that the Lants were such perfect simulations that people downloaded themselves into the Lants to play the game.
Simon and Joanne show the trio ''[[Lant Land]]'', a [[simulation]] of ordinary life which viewers eventually entered by downloaded themselves into the [[Lant]]s. As the [[television]] is without a plug and the [[book]]s are blank, Turlough deduces that they have arrived inside the simulation, but the Doctor corrects him. Some of the Lants wanted [[revenge]] for their bodies being stolen and put themselves into the real people. Everything happening in the apartment has been watched by the real people living in Lant Land, to whom the Doctor pilots the TARDIS.
 
Meanwhile, Tegan and Turlough explore, and they think they have figured it out. They think they are in the simulation. They go to tell the Doctor, but he tells them they have it backwards, that the simulants downloaded themselves into the real people, and that this is the real world but Simon and Joanne are simulants.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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* [[Claire (Lant Land)|Claire]]
* [[Claire (Lant Land)|Claire]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* Simon and Joanne offer their guests [[gin and tonic]], [[peanut]]s, [[olive]]s and [[cheesy stick]]s.
* Simon and Joanne offer their guests [[gin and tonic]], [[peanut]]s, [[olive]]s and [[cheesy stick]]s.
* Turlough notices that the [[book]]s are blank and the [[television]] has no wires or switches.
* Turlough notices that the [[book]]s are blank and the [[television]] has no wires or switches.
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* A reading of the story by [[Duncan Wisbey]] was released free to subscribers in July 2011, alongside the story [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Army of Death (audio story)|Army of Death]][[Robophobia (audio story)|<nowiki/>]]''.
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* A reading of the story by [[Duncan Wisbey]] was released free to subscribers in December 2011, alongside the story [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Army of Death (audio story)|Army of Death]]'' / ''[[Robophobia (audio story)|Robophobia]]''. The story was released standalone as part of the ''[[Short Trips Rarities]]'' series on [[28 September (releases)|28 September]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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Latest revision as of 11:13, 11 April 2024

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Lant Land was the sixth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Life Science. It was written by Jonathan Morris. It featured the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The TARDIS lands in an apartment in a tower block but its instruments indicate that it is in the middle of nowhere. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are welcomed by Simon and Joanne, an uncannily attractive couple who were expecting visitors and who criticise Tegan and Turlough's names as unbelievable, suggesting that they change them to Yvonne and Derek.

Simon and Joanne show the trio Lant Land, a simulation of ordinary life which viewers eventually entered by downloaded themselves into the Lants. As the television is without a plug and the books are blank, Turlough deduces that they have arrived inside the simulation, but the Doctor corrects him. Some of the Lants wanted revenge for their bodies being stolen and put themselves into the real people. Everything happening in the apartment has been watched by the real people living in Lant Land, to whom the Doctor pilots the TARDIS.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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