A Handful of Stardust (short story)

A Handful of Stardust

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BBC Digital

Writer:

Jake Arnott

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Release date:

3 April 2014

Format:

E-book

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A Handful of Stardust was the fifth short story in the Time Trips series of e-books.

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The TARDIS is diverted to England in 1572, and the Sixth Doctor and Peri meet John Dee — "mathematician, astrologer, alchemist, magician, and the greatest mind of our time". ("Only of your time?", the Doctor asks, unimpressed.) But what brought them here? When the Doctor discovers that Dee and his assistant have come across a "great disturbance in the cosmos, in the constellation of Cassiopeia", he realises that they are all in terrible danger.

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The Master boasts that he has stared into the Untempered Schism, and the Doctor remarks that it drove him mad. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
Peri compares their situation to what brought the TARDIS off course when she first met him. (TV: Planet of Fire)

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BBC New Series Adventures anthologies

Tenth Doctor era (2009)

The Doctor
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The Hero Factor • Stamp of Approval • No Fun at the Fair • The Final Darkness • Taking Mickey • A Dog's Life • Mission to Galacton • Going Off the Rails • Needle Point • Best Friends • Birth of a Legend • The Secret of the Stones • Blind Terror • Disappearing Act • Speech Day

Eleventh Doctor era (2013 - 2014)

Summer Falls and Other Stories	About the Authors • Summer Falls: Introduction • Summer Falls • The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery • Devil in the Smoke

11 Doctors, 11 Stories	A Big Hand for the Doctor • The Nameless City • The Spear of Destiny • The Roots of Evil • Tip of the Tongue • Something Borrowed • The Ripple Effect • Spore • The Beast of Babylon • The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage • Nothing O'Clock

Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand	Tales of Trenzalore • Let it Snow • An Apple a Day... • Strangers in the Outland • The Dreaming

The Shakespeare Notebooks	Notes on a Play • Exits and Entrances • The True Tragedie of Macbeth • Cymbeline • Diary Extract • The Dream • A Prologue • The True and Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet • The Tempest – A Work in Progress • Exit, by Another Means • The Winter's Tale • Antony and Cleopatra • Troilus and Cressida • Pericles • Coriolanus • Master Faustus • The Sonnets • As You Like It • Double Falsehood • Hamlet • Timon of Athens • Hamlet's Soliloquy • Academic Notes • Ye Unearthly Childe • Appendix - The Last Will

Twelfth Doctor era (2014 - 2018)

12 Doctors, 12 Stories	Lights Out

Time Trips	The Death Pit • Into the Nowhere • Keeping up with the Joneses • Salt of the Earth • A Handful of Stardust • The Bog Warrior • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller • The Anti-Hero • A Long Way Down

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who	Sunset Over Venus • The Lost Generation • The Room with All the Doors • The Hungry Night • All the Empty Towers • Rewriting History • Silver Mosquitoes • In Search of Lost Time • Natural Regression • Potential Energy • The Arboreals • The Piper • The Girl Who Stole the Stars • The Mercy Seats • The Constant Doctor

Heroes and Monsters Collection	The Stranger • The Hero Factor • Mission to Galacton • Stamp of Approval • The Final Darkness • No Fun at the Fair • Taking Mickey • Needlepoint • A Dog's Life • The Secret of the Stones • The Planet That Wept • Disappearing Act • Once Upon a Time • Best Friends • Most Beautiful Music • Secret of Arkatron • Blind Terror • Amy's Escapade • Rory's Adventure • The Fifty-year Delay • Birth of a Legend • Lorna's Escape • Going Off the Rails • Normality • When the Wolves Came • Buyer's Remorse

Time Lord Fairy Tales	The Garden of Statues • Frozen Beauty • Cinderella and the Magic Box • The Twins in the Wood • The Three Little Sontarans • Jak and the Wormhole • Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday • Little Rose Riding Hood • The Gingerbread Trap • The Scruffy Piper • Helana and the Beast • Andiba and the Four Slitheen • The Grief Collector • The Three Brothers Gruff • Sirgwain and the Green Knight • The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes

The Legends of Ashildr	The Arabian Knightmare • The Fortunate Isles • The Triple Knife • The Ghosts of Branscombe Wood

The Legends of River Song	Picnic at Asgard • Suspicious Minds • A Gamble with Time • Death in New Venice • River of Time

The American Adventures	All That Glitters • Off the Trail • Ghosts of New York • Taking the Plunge • Spectator Sport • Base of Operations

Twelve Doctors of Christmas	All I Want for Christmas • A Comedy of Terrors • The Christmas Inversion • Three Wise Men • Sontar's Little Helpers • Fairy Tale of New New York • The Grotto • Ghost of Christmas Past • The Red Bicycle • Loose Wire • The Gift • The Persistence of Memory

Myths & Legends	The Mondas Touch • The Terrible Manussa • The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy • Jorus and the Voganauts • The Vardon Horse • Defiance of the New Bloods • The Kingdom of the Blind • The Labyrinthine Web • The Angels of Vengeance • The Jeopardy of Solar Proximity • The Multi-Faceted War • The Enigma of Sisterhood • Pandoric's Box

Tales of Terror	Murder in the Dark • Something at the Door • The Monster in the Woods • Toil and Trouble • Mark of the Medusa • Trick or Treat • The Living Image • Organism 96 • The Patchwork Pierrot • Blood Will Out • The Mist of Sorrow • Baby Sleepy Face

The Missy Chronicles	Dismemberment • Lords and Masters • Teddy Sparkles Must Die! • The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone • Girl Power! • Alit in Underland

The Day She Saved the Doctor	Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes • Rose and the Snow Window • Clara and the Maze of Cui Palta • Bill and the Three Jackets

The Triple Knife and Other Doctor Who Stories	The Triple Knife • Picnic at Asgard • Into the Nowhere • All The Empty Towers • A Long Way Down

Thirteenth Doctor era (2018 - 2022)

Twelve Angels Weeping	Halfway Into the Dark • Grey Matter • Red Planet • Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir • Ghost in the Machine • Student Bodies • A Soldier's Education • The Red-Eyed League • The Heist • The King in Glass • The Third Wise Man • The Rhino of Twenty-Three Strand Street • Anything You Can Do

Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories	Time Lapse

The Target Storybook	Gatecrashers • Journey Out of Terror • Save Yourself • The Clean Air Act • Punting • The Dark River • Interstitial Insecurity • The Slyther of Shoreditch • We Can't Stop What's Coming • Decoy • Grounded • The Turning of the Tide • Citation Needed • Pain Management • Letters from the Front

Star Tales	Chasing the Dawn • That's All Right, Mama • Einstein and the Doctor • Who-Dini? • The Pythagoras Problem • Mission of the KaaDok

The Wintertime Paradox	He's Behind You • Father of the Daleks • Inflicting Christmas • For the Girl Who Has Everything • Visiting Hours • We Will Feed You to the Trees • Christmas with the Plasmavores • A Girl Called Doubt • A Perfect Christmas • Missing Habitas Frond • A Day to Yourselves • The Paradox Moon • Canaries

I Am The Master	Anger Management • The Dead Travel Fast • Missy's Magical Mystery Mission • A Master of Disguise • The Night Harvest • The Master and Margarita

Adventures in Lockdown	A Message from the Doctor • Things She Thought While Falling • The Terror of the Umpty Ums • Doctor Who and the Time War • Revenge of the Nestene • Rory's Story • One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes • The Simple Things • The Tourist • Press Play • The Shadow Passes • Shadow of a Doubt • The Shadow in the Mirror • Fellow Traveller • Listen • The Secret of Novice Hame

Origin Stories	Chemistry • My Daddy Fights Monsters • The Myriapod Mutiny • The Last of the Dals • Murmuration • The Big Sleep • Doctor Jones • The Girl Who Tore Through the Universe • Clara Oswald and the Enchanted Forest • Velvet Hugs • Tempered

Fourteenth Doctor era (2023)

Origin Stories	Déjà Donna

Ten Days of Christmas	Under Control • Saviour • Not a Creature Was Stirring • Life in Oils • The Christmas Blessing • The Eternal Present • Gifts from Afar • The Big Store • Dark Waters • Into Control

Fifteenth Doctor era (2024 - present)

Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories	Fleeting Faces • The Dalmatian Terrain

The Adventures Before	The Boy and the Dalek • The Roots of Evil • Little Did She Know • The Four Faces of Immortality • Becky's Impossible Day • Smiley's Mirror Exhibit • The Fall of Apalapucia • The Morning of the Day of the Doctor

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Television	Logopolis • Castrovalva • Time-Flight • The King's Demons • The Five Doctors • Planet of Fire • The Mark of the Rani • The Ultimate Foe • Survival

Audio	Smoke and Mirrors • The End of the Line • Lesser Evils • The Auton Infinity

Prose	The Legacy of Gallifrey • Birth of a Renegade • Tabby Cats And Time Lords • The Time Savers • First Frontier • The Eight Doctors • Stop the Pigeon • A Town Called Eternity • Prime Time • How did this creep get in here, Professor? • The Velvet Dark • Omegamorphosis • The Quantum Archangel • A Handful of Stardust • Master Faustus • The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy • Dr. Seventh • Dr. Fifth • Winning • A Master of Disguise

Comics	Façades • Cat and Mouse • The Choice / Endgame • The Abominable Showmen / The Five Masters • Crossing the Rubicon

Video games	Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror • Destiny of the Doctors • Lost in Time

Considered not part of the DWU	A Call from the Master • Doctor Who? (66 • 70 • 107 • 210) • What If Doctor Who Was Produced By...?

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