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{{esquivalience}} was a standalone novella by Jamie H. Cowan released by Overmorrow Publishing in 2024. It elaborated on the temporal phenomenon known as the Unravel, previously featured or mentioned in several other Doctor Who spin-offs, and also featured a licensed appearance by Xavier Llewellyn's Gevity.
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The Dead & Endangered Languages department never changes its ways — but it seems to be in need of a clean. Really in need of a clean. That's how they end up with a Caretaker. That's why things change in the department.
{{esquivalience}} is a novelette about language, coincidences, and the flow of the universe; charting the course of a mysterious young individual as they undertake a new job role — and all that comes with it.
Summary
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Plot
Prelude
On 11 May 2024, Cory Maythers and Shawn Doltmann both visit the Old Boathouse Cinema in Leith to watch the same movie. However, by a narrow coincidence, they happen not to meet — the first of several narrow misses spanning all the way to 2042. Even though they would assuredly have fallen in love with one another if they had, both live and die having never met one another, leaving behind unrelated spouses and family when both of Shawn and Cory die in 2056 and 2078 respectively. Even in "the wider scale of the Omniverse", no "recognisable versions" of them ever actually meet and live out that glorious potential love story.
The Movement
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Postlude
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Characters
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Worldbuilding
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Notes
- The book was dedicated to the memory of Matthew "Matty" Moore, and include thanks to Thomas Stewart, Chris "Topher" McCafferty, Ryan Williams, Campbell P., Ben Tedds, Tom Christison, Liam Kershaw-Calvert, Chris C., Ruaidhri Guest, Christine Lindberg and Jeffrey Princeton.
- The Aplin Cluster, mentioned here, was previously the setting of the fan fiction Time After Time, which Cowan wrote for Doctor Who: Lockdown!.
Continuity
- The word "facdocksparation" previously appeared on the cover of the audio story AUDIO: Gobbledegook [+]Loading...["Gobbledegook (audio story)"].