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== Stories ==
== Stories ==
The anthology consists of twelve Christmas-themed short stories,<ref>{{cite web
The anthology consists of twelve Christmas-themed short stories,<ref>{{cite web
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|title=Festive tales await in 'The Wintertime Paradox'
|title = Festive tales await in 'The Wintertime Paradox'
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* With the characters of [[Same (Canaries)|Sibling Same]] and [[Different (Canaries)|Sibling Different]], ''The Wintertime Paradox'' features the first reference to [[Faction Paradox]] in BBC licensed media since ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' in [[2005 (releases)|2005]], as well as the first time a [[BBC Wales]] incarnation of the Doctor has been explicitly depicted as encountering the Faction. Editor [[Emil Fortune]] acknowledged "the Obverse [[canon]]" represented by [[Obverse Books]]' ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' series but noted that Same and Different were part of a different version of the Faction, hailing from a defunct "rewritten timeline".<ref>{{cite web
* With the characters of [[Same (Canaries)|Sibling Same]] and [[Different (Canaries)|Sibling Different]], ''The Wintertime Paradox'' features the first reference to [[Faction Paradox]] in BBC licensed media since ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' in [[2005 (releases)|2005]], as well as the first time a [[BBC Wales]] incarnation of the Doctor has been explicitly depicted as encountering the Faction. Editor [[Emil Fortune]] acknowledged "the Obverse [[canon]]" represented by [[Obverse Books]]' ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' series but noted that Same and Different were part of a different version of the Faction, hailing from a defunct "rewritten timeline".<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://twitter.com/iucounu/status/1532378091607281664
|url = https://twitter.com/iucounu/status/1532378091607281664
|title=It’s not quite the Faction of old
|title=It’s not quite the Faction of old
|author=[[Emil Fortune]]
|author = [[Emil Fortune]]
|website name=Emil Fortune on Twitter
|website name=Emil Fortune on Twitter
|date of source=2 June 2022
|date of source = 2 June 2022
|archiveurl=https://archive.ph/JX04M
|archiveurl=https://archive.ph/JX04M
|archivedate=2 June 2022
|archivedate = 2 June 2022
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
* ''[[Canaries (short story)|Canaries]]'' was not included in the physical book but published online as a tie-in to the ''[[Time Lord Victorious (series)|Time Lord Victorious]]'' series. It was subsequently included in ''The Wintertime Paradox''{{'}}s e-book and paperback editions.
* ''[[Canaries (short story)|Canaries]]'' was not included in the physical book but published online as a tie-in to the ''[[Time Lord Victorious (series)|Time Lord Victorious]]'' series. It was subsequently included in ''The Wintertime Paradox''{{'}}s e-book and paperback editions.

Revision as of 18:55, 9 March 2023

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The Wintertime Paradox was a collection of short stories released on 15 October 2020 by BBC Children's Books.

Publisher's summary

Did you know Davros and the Doctor met for three Christmases, on different planets, across time and space? Have you heard the one about the time the Plasmavores came to pay a festive visit? Or when Madame Vastra fought a cyborg?

The perfect collection for the bleakest - and sometimes brightest - time of the year, these are the tales to get you halfway out of the dark...

This thrilling anthology presents a fantastic collection of adventures through time and space, featuring the best-loved characters and places from the Doctor Who world.

Stories

The anthology consists of twelve Christmas-themed short stories,[1] and a Time Lord Victorious tie-in short story.

# Title Doctor Featuring Read by
1 He's Behind You 10th Rose, Autons Sophie Aldred
2 Father of the Daleks 11th Davros, Daleks
3 Inflicting Christmas 12th Bill
4 For the Girl Who Has Everything Osgood, Kate
5 Visiting Hours 11th Rory, River
6 We Will Feed You to the Trees 7th
7 Christmas with the Plasmavores 4th Plasmavores
8 A Girl Called Doubt 5th Cybermen
9 A Perfect Christmas Paternoster Gang
10 Missing Habitas Frond Missy
11 A Day to Yourselves 9th
12 The Paradox Moon 13th Shadow Proclamation
- Canaries 8th, 11th,
The Curator
The Faction

Notes

External links

Footnotes

  1. Festive tales await in 'The Wintertime Paradox'. DoctorWho.TV.
  2. Emil Fortune (2 June 2022). It’s not quite the Faction of old. Emil Fortune on Twitter. Archived from the original on 2 June 2022.