AHistory
A speculative history of the Doctor Who Universe as shown in multiple media.
Publisher's Summary
Does the Doctor really have a granddaughter? How many times have the Daleks conquered Earth? ...and when did Bruce Springsteen become President of the USA?
The Answers are in in AHistory: a complete timeline of the Doctor Who universe, starting with its inception in Event One and ending with its final destruction many billions of years in the future. The dates cited frange from the obvious (the Kennedy assassination) to the obscure (the years dogs evolve thumbs), with extensive notes offered to explain this book's reasoning and research, plus a wealth of behind-the-scenes information.
AHistory is a fully expanded and updated version of the classic A History of the Universe, which had been out of print for ten years. All told, AHistory incorporates more than four decades of the Doctor Who TV show - including the 2005 series staring Christopher Eccleston - all original Doctor Who novels up through "The Gallifrey Chronicles", all Big Finish Doctor Who audios up through "Terror Firma", all Doctor Who novellas and much more. All told, this book incorporates nearly five hundred full-length Doctor Who stories, in a single chronology of epic proportions.
Main Focus
- A single mostly linear timeline encompassing a history of the Doctor Who Universe.
Notable Features
- As mentioned in the Publisher's Summary this includes far more information than the original Virgin published edition.
- It also offers a timeline which attempts to explain the UNIT dating.
Notes
- This first edition incorporated Doctor Who and K-9 & Company, Webcasts, novels and audio plays. It does not include comics stories or short prose fiction, including the Telos Novellas. The second editions added Torchwood (including original novels), The Sarah Jane Adventures, comics published in Doctor Who Magazine and The Dalek Chronicles but still omitted short fiction and most other comics.
- Some stories are not included in the timeline (mainly due to lack evidence of time placing).
- Lance Parkin has stated that the practical limitations of researching a third edition and putting it into one volume would make a third edition more or less impossible.
