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A Better World was a short story written by Aristide Twain. It was the twentieth short story submitted by fans for the Doctor Who: Lockdown! series, for the Tweetalong of Turn Left. The main antagonist of the story, Auteur, was used under licence from Jacob Black.[1]
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In a crowded street in Shan Shen, Auteur notices Donna, and her significance to time. In a fit of hubris, Auteur decides to create a new timeline through Donna. He senses a power in the street, a Beetle, and Auteur tells its puppet, a fortune teller, to feed Donna to the Beetle. The plan is successful.
Auteur follows Donna to the new timeline, where he witnesses a Christmas Star firing upon the Earth. He knows the Renegade is dead, and, disguised as an ordinary human, shares a drink with a time-sensitive woman named Alice.
Auteur decides that he wants to tell Donna what he's done, to tell her she's the star of her story, but he's unable to reach her. Another time-sensitive woman stands in his way. One time, quite literally.
He's unable to do much, but he manages to sabotage an abandoned timeship, to seal the fate of the Renegade. Donna is sent back in time by a group of humans, and Auteur is left asking himself a question. Could she sacrifice herself for the Renegade?
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References[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Beetle is part of the Brigade.
- Auteur recalls the War and the fall of the Shining World.
- Auteur refers to second time-sensitive woman as the "Wolf-girl".
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- After the appearance of Bernice Summerfield in a previous Lockdown story, Twain felt "emboldened", and gained a commercial license to use Auteur from Jacob Black. Twain also made sure that other characters were more ambiguously named.[2]
- Shan Shen being "a land of opportunity for an initiate of the ways of Paradox" references the Monk's opinion of the planet in the audio story The Blame Game.
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The Curse of Fanfic! was a charity anthology published by Obverse Books in aid of Parkinson's UK. The anthology had a theme of unofficial crossovers between franchises, and it wasn't exclusively focused on Doctor Who/Iris Wildthyme. The anthology was edited by Paul Castle, with contributions from Paul Magrs, Kara Dennison, Simon Bucher-Jones, John Peel, Iain McLaughlin, John Dorney, Jon Arnold, and more.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Have you ever made up your own little stories based on your favourite telly shows, or wondered what would happen if two or more of your most loved characters came together in one mash-up of an adventure?
Between these covers, you'll find such disparate unexpected bedfellows as Basil Brush and Larry Grayson, Steve Zodiac and the Alien Alien Facehuggers, Doomwatch and Tomorrow's World, Inspector Gadget and the Cybermen, and many, many more.
Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
| # | Story | Author | Featuring |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monkees and Beatles and Addamses, Oh My! | Anna Maloney | The Addams Family, the Monkees, the Beatles |
| 2 | The Fox Files | Paul Magrs | Basil Brush, Larry Grayson, UNIT |
| 3 | Flash Forward | Kara Dennison | Cutie Honey, Mazinger Z |
| 4 | Tomorrow ('s World) the (Roland) Rat | Simon Bucher-Jones | Doomwatch, Danger Man |
| 5 | Alien Encounter | John Peel | Fireball XL5, Xenomorphs |
| 6 | Moonbase: Goodies | Simon A. Forward | The Goodies, Space: 1999 |
| 7 | 3am Eternal | Paul Castle | Arthur Dent, Fenchurch |
| 8 | Gadget Goes to Launch | Daniel Tessier | Inspector Gadget, Penny, Brain, Cybermen |
| 9 | A Creak-King Sound | Stephen Hatcher | Jonathan Creek, Jason King |
| 10 | Knight and Hawke | Kingsley Clennel-White | Knight Rider, Airwolf |
| 11 | The Times they are a-Chagin’ | John S. Drew | Lost in Space |
| 12 | Match of the Omega Factor | Iain McLaughlin | Match of the Day, The Omega Factor |
| 13 | Hey, Pyzanos! | William J. Martin | The Nanny, Super Mario Bros |
| 14 | Only Fools and Houses | Christopher Samuel Stone | Del Boy Trotter (Only Fools and Horses), Alexis (Dynasty) |
| 15 | No Strings Attached | John Dorney | The Persuaders! |
| 16 | Man Alive | Elizabeth Evershed | Red Dwarf |
| 17 | It's Raining Gin | Jon Arnold | Matthew Corbett, Sooty, Sweep, Soo (Sooty & Co.) "Katy Manning" Iris, Panda |
| 18 | A Matter of Time | Jenny Shirt | Time Team, Sapphire and Steel |
| 19 | The Other 1980s | Adrian Sherlock | UFO |
| 21 | Missing in Amsterdam | Sarah Groenewegen | Van der Valk, Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka |
| 22 | The Story of Worzel of Scatterbrook Farm and how he came to make the Golden Journey to Royston Vasey | Dan Barratt | Worzel Gummidge, the League of Gentlemen |
| 23 | Relight My Fire | Paul Driscoll | Fox Mulder, Dana Scully (The X-Files), Rentaghost |
| 24 | Space | Rachel Redhead | The Young Ones |
| 25 | The Night of the Cunning Fox | James Bojaciuk & Nicole Petit | Zorro, The Wild Wild West |
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- to be added
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
Official The Curse of Fanfic page at Obverse Books
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- You may be looking for the short story.
Bafflement and Devotion: Iris at the Edges was a charity anthology published by Obverse Books in 2021, collecting seventeen Iris Wildthyme short stories from out of print charity anthologies, some other non-charity Iris Wildthyme anthologies, and some previously lost stories that were released online. As such, some of the stories were unofficial reprints, though the elements owned by people such as Paul Magrs and Cody Schell were used under license.
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A blonde in a catsuit flirting with the 8th Doctor, a scruffy old dear exploring a universe hidden in a cupboard in the Bus, the spitting image of the glorious Katy Manning on Neptune with its anatomically extravagant inhabitants, an elderly author of lesbian fiction… Iris has had a lot of faces, and been to a lot of places. She’s been all the way to the edges and back again, so it any wonder some of her adventures have been misplaced over the years, or grown tricky to uncover?
Here, gathered together for the first time ever in a new charity collection, are the Iris stories which appeared in charity anthologies, on convention stages, got lost on old web servers and fell down the back of the sofa… a selection of tales, both old and new, from the very edges of the Obverse…
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| # | Title | Author | Featuring | First published in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bafflement and Devotion | Paul Magrs | Paul Magrs "Jane Fonda" Iris Eighth Doctor |
DWM 289 |
| 2 | In the Sixties | Paul Magrs Dr. Who "Jane Fonda" Iris |
Walking in Eternity | |
| 3 | Being an Extract from ‘The Amazing Adventures of Iris Wildthyme on Neptune’ | Iris Wildthyme | Tales of the Solar System | |
| 4 | An Unearthly Palaver | "Katy Manning" Iris Panda |
G’Day of the Doctor | |
| 5 | Entertaining Mr O | "Beryl Reid" Iris Tom |
Perfect Timing | |
| 6 | Hospitality | "lesbian novelist" Iris | Iris: Abroad | |
| 7 | It’s Raining Again | Paul Magrs, Stewart Sheargold | Iris Wildthyme | Perfect Timing |
| 8 | Iris Explains | Lance Parkin | "Jane Fonda" Iris Eighth Doctor Miranda Dawkins |
Missing Pieces |
| 9 | A World Apart | Dan Tessier | Iris Wildthyme, Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler | Iris Wildthyme Pages website |
| 10 | No Place Like Home | Iris Wildthyme | Stuart Douglas | Shelf Life |
| 11 | Faking It | Phil Marsh | Iris Wildthyme Pages website | |
| 12 | Iris Wildthyme and the Spiders from Magrs | Alan Taylor | Walking in Eternity | |
| 13 | Iris and the Outsider | Simon Bucher-Jones | Iris Wildthyme Pages website | |
| 14 | Cabinet of Changes | Philip Purser-Hallard | "Jane Fonda" Iris Sally Canine |
Walking in Eternity |
| 15 | Deleted Scene from The Key Lime Pie 2 Time | Cody Schell | "Katy Manning" Iris Panda Señor 105 |
Ebook extra to Iris: Abroad, later reprinted in Señor 105 & the Elements of Danger |
| 16 | Lost, Presumably Illogically Ignored | Anon[1] | Iris Wildthyme, the Doctor | FTP server |
| 17 | When Iris Met Billy | Stuart Douglas | Iris Wildthyme, First Doctor | A Second Target for Tommy |
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Jon Arnold's contribution to the then-recent The Curse of Fanfic! charity anthology, It's Raining Gin (featuring Iris, Panda, and the stars from Sooty & Co.) was omitted, due the fact that the charity anthology it was printed in was only released a few months prior.[2]
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- The cover featured art by: Blair “Baffled” Bidmead, Jay “el Logo Loco” Eales, Paul “Puzzled” Hanley, Bret “Befuddled” M Herholz, June “Discombobulated” Hudson, Jon “Wesley” Huff, Mark “Flummoxed” Manley, Mark “Missed” Michalowski, Cody “Vexed” Schell, Johannes Chazot, Zal Cryptid, and William Oxley.
![Five And A Half Wildthymes by Paul Hanley[3]](/w/images/Tardis_Images/thumb/6/64/The_incarnations_of_Iris_Wildthyme_by_Paul_Hanley.jpg/120px-The_incarnations_of_Iris_Wildthyme_by_Paul_Hanley.jpg)
Five And A Half Wildthymes by Paul Hanley[3]
![Iris Wildthyme by Zal Cryptid[4]](/w/images/Tardis_Images/thumb/b/b8/Iris_Wildthyme_by_Zal_Cryptid.jpg/117px-Iris_Wildthyme_by_Zal_Cryptid.jpg)
Iris Wildthyme by Zal Cryptid[4]
![Five And A Half Wildthymes by Paul Hanley[3]](/wiki/File:The_incarnations_of_Iris_Wildthyme_by_Paul_Hanley.jpg)
![Iris Wildthyme by Zal Cryptid[4]](/wiki/File:Iris_Wildthyme_by_Zal_Cryptid.jpg)
![Iris Wildthyme Remastered by Whoxley.[5][6]](/wiki/File:Iris_wildthyme_remastered_by_whoxley.jpg)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Bafflement and Devotion: Iris at the Edges page at Obverse Books
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Believed to be written by one of the Petit sisters.
- ↑ Obverse Books on Twitter
- ↑ Paul Hanley's piece on DeviantArt
- ↑ Zal Cryptid's piece on Twitter
- ↑ Iris Wildthyme Remastered by Whoxley
- ↑ Iris Wildthyme - Bafflement and Devotion
Curse Doctor leads[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Tenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)
Current: A person who logically would have been called the Tenth Doctor was the result of the regeneration of the Ninth Doctor.
Proposed: "The Quite Handsome Doctor", a thin, flirtatious man, was the tenth incarnation of the Doctor following the regeneration from the "Ninth" Doctor,
- Main article: Eleventh Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)
Current: A person who logically would have been called the Eleventh Doctor was the result of the regeneration of his previous incarnation.
Proposed: "The Shy Doctor", a timid, rotund man, was the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor, following the sudden regeneration of "the Quite Handsome Doctor".
- Main article: Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)
Current: The Twelfth Doctor from another universe was the result of the regeneration of the Eleventh Doctor.
Proposed: "The Handsome Doctor", a roguish-yet-sorrowful man, was the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor following the accidental regeneration of "the Shy Doctor".
- Main article: Thirteenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)
Current: An incarnation who logically would have been called the Thirteenth Doctor was the result of the regeneration of the Twelfth Doctor.
Proposed: "The Female Doctor", a blonde, suggestive woman, was the thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor, succeeding her predecessor, "The Handsome Doctor".
Time gear[[edit] | [edit source]]
Check the behind the scenes section, the revision history and discussion page for additional comments on this article's title.
In the second console room of Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS, there was a circular, bluish device exclusively on one panel of the control console. (TV: The Snowmen)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Within Doctor Who, the device is not named or given any functionality.