Perfect Timing
Publisher's summary
For 35 years the Doctor's adventures have been showcased on television, in comics, novels, videos, cereal packets and more recently on the internet.
This project, timed to be released to celebrate this anniversary, has brought together some of the very best "Who" writers. Some names may already be familiar to you, some should hopefully become so in the near future!
For this collection, they have all kindly donated original stories, poems and drabbles featuring the Doctor, his companions, and his world, from all eras of the show, and from the books - stories from the Doctor's past, present (and future!)
35 pieces to celebrates 35 years of time travel -- including:
A brief encounter for the First Doctor and Susan - but what about those they leave behind?
The Second Doctor pays a return visit to Venus for some Martial Arts instruction.
Iris Wildthyme: The U.N.I.T. years...
H. P. Lovecraft finds out that life can be stranger than fiction...
Europa, the 32nd century. Miles Dahwood is having a spot of bother with his fiancée and Count Dracula...
The Fourth Doctor and Romana II find that fiction can be stranger than reality... and the truth behind those missing Professor X episodes is finally revealed...!
What is that has been hiding in the TARDIS -- and from the minds of the Fifth Doctor and his companions?
The Sixth Doctor and Grant find themselves dealing with one of the deadliest menaces to Earth -- a psychotic, theme park Santa Claus!
The Seventh Doctor and Chris find something nasty lurking in the semingly peaceful, cloistered heart of In'sav'aar...
The Eighth Doctor visits some old friends, and pays a return visit to Tombstone, Arizona...
A Future Doctor faces an old enemy -- and a personal pain...
Individual Stories
| Title | Writer | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Colin Baker | |
| The Use of the Myth | Paul Cornell | |
| Bear Paw Adventures | David J. Howe | |
| Always Let the Conscious Be Your Guide | Mark Clapham and Jim Smith | |
| Birth Pains | Damon Cavalchini | |
| Venusian Sunset | Paul Leonard | A tie-in to his novel Venusian Lullaby. |
| From the Cutting Room Floor | David A. McIntee | Deleted scenes from his novel The Dark Path. |
| Thicket of Thieves | Kathryn Sullivan | |
| The UNIT Things | Peter Anghelides | |
| Entertaining Mr. O | Paul Magrs | Featured licensed use of Iris Wildthyme and introduces her companion Tom. Reprinted in Bafflement and Devotion. Received a partial continuation in Talented Witches. |
| Masters of Terror | James Ambuehi and Laurence J. Cornford | |
| Baron (Count) Dracula and Count (Baron) Frankenstein | Stephen Marley | |
| The Aurelius Gambit | Helen Fayle | |
| Not Necessarily in That Order... | Paul Ebbs | |
| Child of Darkness | Daniel Blythe | |
| The Zargathon Menace | Jonathan Morris | Introduces the Zargathons, a member of this species would later appear in Death to the Doctor!. |
| One Perfect Twilight | Craig Hinton | |
| Ghost in the Machine | Trina L. Short | |
| The 6th Doctor Sends A Letter | Charles Daniels | |
| The Great Journey of Life Ends Here | Gary Russell | |
| Wish Upon a Star Beast | Steve Lyons | Features licensed use of Grant Markham. Lyons later used the Sixth Doctor and the Meeps again in The Ratings War. |
| Schrödinger's Botanist | Ian McIntire | Introduces Carmen Yeh, who would later appear in The Book of the War. |
| Second Hand | Rob Stradling | |
| Doing It Right | Alan Taylor | |
| Cheeky Things | Erin Tumilty | |
| Chain Male | Keith Topping | Introduces Johnny Chess as an ex-husband of Tegan Jovanka, before his first appearance in Topping's novel Byzantium!. |
| Ascension | Stephen Graves | |
| Caveat Emptor | Susannah Tiller | |
| Doctor Patient Relationship | Kate Orman and Jon Blum | The original first chapter of Vampire Science, which featured Grace rather than Carolyn McConnell. |
| Worm | Lance Parkin | A sequel to Parkin's novel The Dying Days. |
| The Ravages of Time | Mags L. Halliday | |
| Emerald Green | Mark Phippen | |
| Sad Professor | Nick Walters | |
| Transitions | Daniel Ben-Zvi | |
| Nightmare | Nathan Skreslet | |
| Dark Paragon | Jon Andersen | |
| Time Ruins | Sarah Hadley | |
| What If We Went to Italy | Tom Beck |
Notes
- This was an unofficial collection, privately printed and distributed by the editors in return for donations to the Foundation for the Study of Infant Death.
- Introduction by Colin Baker.
- Released in November 1998, subsequently reprinted in 1999 with two additional stories, Time Ruins and What if We Went to Italy.
