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In 1978, the [[Season 16 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 16]] storyline concerning the conflict between the [[White Guardian]] and [[Black Guardian]] had elements very similar to the [[Cosmic Balance]] between [[Chaos]] and [[Law (The Coming of the Terraphiles)|Law]] of Moorcock's stories, with Season 16 being based around a [[universal balance]] between [[chaos]] and [[order]]. ''Doctor Who'' essayists such as [[Elizabeth Sandifer]] in ''[[TARDIS Eruditorum]]'' have argued for Moorcock being a clear inspiration for this storyline. | In 1978, the [[Season 16 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 16]] storyline concerning the conflict between the [[White Guardian]] and [[Black Guardian]] had elements very similar to the [[Cosmic Balance]] between [[Chaos]] and [[Law (The Coming of the Terraphiles)|Law]] of Moorcock's stories, with Season 16 being based around a [[universal balance]] between [[chaos]] and [[order]]. ''Doctor Who'' essayists such as [[Elizabeth Sandifer]] in ''[[TARDIS Eruditorum]]'' have argued for Moorcock being a clear inspiration for this storyline. | ||
Moorcock's fiction was a formative influence on [[Paul Magrs]], | Moorcock's fiction was a formative influence on [[Paul Magrs]],<ref>https://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com/2012/07/coming-of-terrapiles-by-michael.html</ref> who began writing ''Doctor Who'' in the 1990s. Magrs' character [[Iris Wildthyme]] has a similar parodic relationship with [[the Doctor]] to what [[Jerry Cornelius]] has with [[James Bond]], with both Wildthyme and Cornelius often dealing with similar themes of identity fluidity and incoherence, as well as being associated with the [[multiverse]]. The [[Eighth Doctor]] short story {{cs|Femme Fatale (short story)}} featuring Wildthyme is structured similarly to an average Cornelius story, also having similar plot devices, identity uncertainty, and an approach to integrating genre tropes into shocking headline events of the 1960s (with ''Femme Fatale'' focusing on the attempted assassination of [[Andy Warhol]]). Magrs features a cameo from Cornelius in the short story {{cs|In the Sixties (short story)}}, further showing his own multiversal continuity as owing a debt to Moorcock's. | ||
== Stories by Moorcock set in the Multiverse == | == Stories by Moorcock set in the Multiverse == | ||
