Time Lapse (short story)

	Thirteenth Doctor
	Graham, Yaz, Ryan
	Richard Somerset
	British Museum, 28 April 2019 National Air and Space Museum, 2004
	Puffin Books
	Naomi Alderman
	Sophie Aldred
	Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories
	7 March 2019
	E-book
Puffin eshort
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Time Lapse was the thirteenth Puffin eshort released. Like Lights Out before it, it was released long after the original 2013 run, introducing a new Doctor. Time Lapse features the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions Ryan, Yaz and Graham.

Publisher's summary

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Plot

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Characters

• Thirteenth Doctor
• Graham O'Brien
• Ryan Sinclair
• Yasmin Khan
• Mallika Montgomery
• Ian Glendennis
• Maria Hackett
• Richard Somerset

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor tries to teach Graham to solve Janganarthi visual riddles.
• Graham likes to solve crosswords.
• Graham asks the Doctor if the Janganarthi riddle is supposed to be like Catchphrase.
• The TARDIS has a serial number.
• Graham has a record player.
• There are several species of moth on Exabin Seven.
• Ryan has a friend named Hussain, who once dared him to smell his dog's breath.
• Corpse Gipes resemble a vulture with three heads.
• Richard is a Time Agent and uses a Time Adjuster.
• A Zazool's "music" is a kind of digestive gas.
• The Doctor tells Ryan about the Hexbane Treaties, the Intergalactic Councils and the Treaty of the Nine Suns.
• The Hopthens, the Grey Sizers and the 3toil Collectives are species attracted to conflict.
• The Time Agents call people who are rooted in one time period a "stump".
• Richard's "battery pack" is filled with Namarkians.
• When Richard's temporal radar showed a time vehicle was on the way, he thought it was High Command coming to arrest him.
• There is a rescue centre for Namarkians in Dwolo Beta.

History

• The year 2004 disappears from Earth history.
• The Transit of Venus happened during 2004.
• Ray Charles died at some point in 2004, while the US dealt with the aftermath of the Iraq War.
• Ian Glendennis was a BBC commentator for the 2004 Olympics.
• Ian has a son who was born in 2004.
• Graham remembers Arsenal winning the Premier League and floods in Boscastle during 2004.
• The North American blizzard, the United Kingdom trigger of the Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty of the European Union and SpaceX conducting reflight of a orbital class rocket happened in March 2017.
• The year 7818 in the Huskix Cycle corresponds to Earth's year 2004.
• The Battle of Ygnbnbby took place in the year 7818 of the Huskix Cycle.
• By 2019, Maria had been married and had a daughter.

Notes

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Continuity

• The British Museum has a new wing dedicated to the present and recent past, funded by "that hotel guy", Robertson. (TV: Arachnids in the UK)
• The Doctor put a letter alarm in the TARDIS after the Kerblam business. (TV: Kerblam!)
• Ryan and Yaz do not know what a Time Agent is. (COMIC: A New Beginning)
• The Doctor is known to have previously visited 2004 on one occasion in her first incarnation. (PROSE: Every Day)