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|series = ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' | |series = ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' | ||
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|featuring = [[Magnus Greel]] | |featuring = [[Magnus Greel]] | ||
|setting = [[Reykjavik]], [[51st century]] | |setting = [[Reykjavik]], [[51st century]] | ||
|writer = [[Warren Ellis]] with thanks to [[Matt Ginn]] | |writer = Warren Ellis | ||
|contributors = [[Warren Ellis]] with thanks to [[Matt Ginn]] | |||
|illustrator = [[Paul Vyse]] | |illustrator = [[Paul Vyse]] | ||
|publication = [[DWM 174]] | |publication = [[DWM 174]] | ||
|release date = | |release date = 16 May 1991 | ||
|cover date = | |cover date = 12 June 1991 | ||
|prev = A Victorian Interlude (short story) | |prev = A Victorian Interlude (short story) | ||
|next = Mistaken Identity (short story) | |next = Mistaken Identity (short story) | ||
Latest revision as of 21:18, 29 February 2024
Under Reykjavik was a Brief Encounter short story published in Doctor Who Magazine 174. It acts as a prequel to The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
While the Fourth Doctor is asleep, Romana II busies herself updating some of the TARDIS's burnt-out units by jacking in a G129AT ordnance unit. Unfortunately, the TARDIS lands in the bunker of Magnus Greel beneath the Supreme Alliance fortress in Iceland and the doors won't close. Romana apologises for the interruption and the sound of the TARDIS's cloister bells ringing out — the TARDIS believing it is under attack by the Pus Creatures of Rakos — and casually chats away to Greel. She mentions time travel and debunks Dr Findecker's work on "double nexus particles", starting Greel thinking about the real possibility of time travel. This is further fed when Romana, having fixed the TARDIS with one of the Doctor's old tie-pins, leaves him with a business card for an excellent plastic surgeon in 1998. As soon as she has left, Greel is on the videophone to Findecker... the 1890s sound interesting!
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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Greel worries that the Filipino rebels might penetrate the bunker.
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to be added
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Explains how Magnus Greel ended up in the 19th Century, setting up the events of The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
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