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}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' was, as the name suggested, a prelude to ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'' by [[Paul Cornell]].  It was a short scene which did not appear in the published novel. and featured [[Alexander Shuttleworth]] and [[Joan Redfern (novel character)|Joan Redfern]].  It was notable for introducing the character of [[Wolsey]], a [[cat]] who travelled with the [[Seventh Doctor]] in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series.   
}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was, as the name suggested, a prelude to ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'' by [[Paul Cornell]].  It was a short scene which did not appear in the published novel. and featured [[Alexander Shuttleworth]] and [[Joan Redfern (novel character)|Joan Redfern]].  It was notable for introducing the character of [[Wolsey]], a [[cat]] who travelled with the [[Seventh Doctor]] in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series.   


== Summary ==
== Summary ==

Revision as of 14:30, 22 February 2012

Prelude Human Nature was, as the name suggested, a prelude to Human Nature by Paul Cornell. It was a short scene which did not appear in the published novel. and featured Alexander Shuttleworth and Joan Redfern. It was notable for introducing the character of Wolsey, a cat who travelled with the Seventh Doctor in the Virgin New Adventures series.

Summary

Alexander Shuttleworth has come to give a lecture to Joan Redfern's WI group in Farringham on the subject of bronze age archaeology. Before he does so, however, he enjoys a bit of cake, and a bit of scrutiny, provided by the other women in the group. Meanwhile, an off-hand comment by one of the women about Joan's widowhood sends Joan into deep thought about her lost husband. This then triggers another thought — one of a dream she had about her new colleague, the mercurial Dr. John Smith.

Characters

References

to be added

Notes

  • Oddly, Cornell (as perhaps edited by DWM) spells the name of an early Celtic queen differently here than in the novel properly. Here, it's Boadicea; in the novel it's Boudicca.
  • There is no punctuation in the title as printed in DWM.

Continuity

  • Shuttleworth knows Wolsey by name, and the cat displays affection for him.
  • It's here, and not in the the main book itself, that we find out that Joan's husband died in the Boer War.
  • We directly find out here that Joan hates being a science teacher.
  • Cornell's depiction of John Smith refers to his "charmingly mobile face" — a valid way of describing an obvious trait Sylvester McCoy gave the Seventh Doctor.

Timeline

Though called a "prelude", the events actually take place during NA: Human Nature

External link

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