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|image          = Doctor-Who-A-Handful-of-Stardust.jpg
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|image2        = A Handful of Stardust (short story).jpg
|series        = ''[[Time Trips]]''
|series        = ''[[Time Trips]]''
|number        = 5
|number        = 5
|doctor        = Sixth Doctor
|doctor        = Sixth Doctor
|companions    = [[Peri Brown|Peri]]
|companions    = [[Peri Brown|Peri]]
|enemy          = [[The Master]]
|featuring      = [[John Dee]]
|enemy          = [[Tremas Master]]
|setting        = [[England]], [[1572]]
|setting        = [[England]], [[1572]]
|writer        = [[Jake Arnott]]
|writer        = Jake Arnott
|publisher      = BBC Digital
|publisher      = BBC Digital
|release date  = [[3 April (releases)|3 April]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]]
|release date  = 3 April 2014
|cover          =  
|cover          =  
|format        = E-book
|format        = E-book
|isbn          =  
|isbn          =  
|prev          = Salt of the Earth (short story)
|prev          = Salt of the Earth (short story)
|next          = TBA
|next          = The Bog Warrior (short story)
 
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fifth short story in the ''[[Time Trips]]'' series of e-books.
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fifth short story in the ''[[Time Trips]]'' series of e-books.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
The [[TARDIS]] is diverted to England in 1572, and the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] meet [[John Dee]] - 'mathematician, astrologer, alchemist, magician, and the greatest mind of our time'. ('Only of ''your'' time?', the Doctor asks, unimpressed.) But what brought them here? When the Doctor discovers that Dee and his assistant have come across a 'great disturbance in the cosmos, in the constellation of Cassiopeia,' he realizes that they are all in terrible danger.
[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] is diverted to England in [[1572]], and the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] meet [[John Dee]] — "[[mathematician]], [[astrologer]], [[alchemist]], [[magician]], and the greatest mind of our time". ("Only of ''your'' time?", the Doctor asks, unimpressed.) But what brought them here? When the Doctor discovers that Dee and his assistant have come across a "great disturbance in the cosmos, in the [[constellation]] of [[Cassiopeia]]", he realises that they are all in terrible danger.


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Sixth Doctor]]
* [[Sixth Doctor]]
* [[Peri Brown]]
* [[Peri Brown]]
* [[The Master]]
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* [[John Dee]]
* [[John Dee]]


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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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* The Master boasts that he has stared into the [[Untempered Schism]], and the Doctor remarks that it drove him mad. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
* Peri compares their situation to what brought the TARDIS off course when she first met him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
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{{NSA anthologies}}
{{Tremas Master stories}}
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[[Category:2014 short stories]]
[[Category:2014 short stories]]
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[[Category:Stories set in 1572]]
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[[Category:Tremas Master short stories]]

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A Handful of Stardust was the fifth short story in the Time Trips series of e-books.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The TARDIS is diverted to England in 1572, and the Sixth Doctor and Peri meet John Dee — "mathematician, astrologer, alchemist, magician, and the greatest mind of our time". ("Only of your time?", the Doctor asks, unimpressed.) But what brought them here? When the Doctor discovers that Dee and his assistant have come across a "great disturbance in the cosmos, in the constellation of Cassiopeia", he realises that they are all in terrible danger.

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