The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop (comic story)
- You may be looking for the titular book.
The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop was the 2010 Christmas comic story from Doctor Who Magazine, and was therefore the current story when A Christmas Carol was enjoying its BBC One premiere.
Presciently, it presaged the televised 2011 Christmas Special by telling a story based upon The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, though it involved the Eleventh Doctor and a young Amelia Pond and Rory Williams in a heightened reality akin to Narnia. Only on the final page are readers shown that C. S. Lewis had been reading a story, and that the story with the Doctor wasn't real. Importantly, the story drew the parallels between Narnia and Doctor Who, and pointed out that Lewis died on the day before Doctor Who premiered in 1963.
Summary[[edit] | edit source]
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy present C. S. Lewis with a book, The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop, not unlike a piece of his future work...
Plot[[edit] | edit source]
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Characters[[edit] | edit source]
In the book[[edit] | edit source]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | edit source]
- Amelia and Rory were "sent away" because of the air raids.
- The bookshop is called Phoenix Books.
- The Queen wears a Time Lord collar, and the Seal of Rassilon appears above her throne. She also has the characteristics of a Weeping Angel while on the Desolation of the White Queen.
- The welcoming committee is made up of a Dæmon, a Nimon, a Pig slave, a Judoon, and a Cheetah Person.
- The Inklings met up at the The Eagle and Child.
Notes[[edit] | edit source]
- Working titles for The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop included The Storyteller and The Professor, the Wolf and the Bookshop.
- Writer Jonathan Morris revealed, in the commentary for the graphic novel compilation, the origin of The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop was conceived it in 2003 as an idea for a Doctor Who Unbound story, with his basis being, "What if Doctor Who had been the product of an earlier age, instead of the 1960s? What if it wasn't science-fiction, but a piece of children's literary fiction, like The Box of Delights, The Phoenix and the Carpet andThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?"
- The books are named after "scrapped" Who stories (Shylock, Scratchman, The Dark Dimension, The Master of Luxor, The Song of the Space Whale, The Imps) or books that the artist, Rob Davis, wrote as a child, including Zackzod, Doom Boxes, Blood Shed, Sirens of, and Titan. The most notable is the book Amy picks up, named Shada, after Shada.
Continuity[[edit] | edit source]
- The Professor, Amelia and Rory visit a desolated world not unlike Skaro when the First Doctor arrived with Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. (TV: The Daleks)
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