Prelude The Left-Handed Hummingbird (short story)
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Prelude The Left-Handed Hummingbird was, as the name suggested, a prelude to The Left-Handed Hummingbird by Kate Orman. It did not appear in the published novel.
Summary
Jacqui is a young pregnant woman whose baby is psychic. She is an inmate of a UNIT safe house.
On Christmas Eve she enters the Doctor's room because of her baby's dreams. She tries talking to the Doctor, but he is handcuffed to the bed. As the baby in her womb screams at her to get out, and soldiers rush into the room, in her head she sees the Blue.
Characters
Worldbuilding
- The Doctor is hooked up to an EEG machine.
Notes
- The first draft of the prelude was more ambiguous as to whether the Doctor deliberately killed Jacqui's baby, and at the behest of Gary Russell, at the time editor of Doctor Who Magazine, it was edited to clarify that this was not the case. In the course of the editing, the last paragraph in which it is clarified that the baby is dead, was "accidentally" left out. This first draft was published in fanzines Broadsword and Sonic Screwdriver.[1]
Continuity
to be added
Illustrations
The image which accompanied the printing of the first draft in fanzine Broadsword.
External links
- The entire text of the piece at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- ↑ David Robinson (September 1995). Broadsword issue 5 (English) pp. 6. Broadsword. Archived from the original on March 5 2024. Retrieved on 17 June 2024.
