B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (23 page)

[
18
] In
An Unearthly Child
, Susan defines the fifth dimension as “space”.

[
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]
The Death of Art

[
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]
Autumn Mist

[
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]
The Quantum Archangel

[
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]
The Shadow of the Scourge

[
23
]
Blink

[
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]
The End of Time
(TV)

[
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]
Time and the Rani

[
26
]
The Armageddon Factor
. It’s possible this is just hyperbole on the Shadow’s part.

[
27
]
Castrovalva.

Event One

The term “Event One” is first used in
Castrovalva
to mean the creation of “the Galaxy”, but in
Terminus
the Doctor talks of “the biggest explosion in history: Event One”, which he confirms is “the Big Bang” which “created the universe”. There are a number of stories where the writers definitely confuse the term “galaxy” and “universe”, and a number of others where they seem to. Rather than rule which is which, this book will list what was said in the stories, noting the more egregious examples, rather than ignoring them or trying to rationalise them away.

[
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]
The Curse of Fenric

[
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]
Benny: Epoch: Judgement Day

[
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]
All-Consuming Fire, Millennial Rites, Business Unusual, The Quantum Archangel, Divided Loyalties.

[
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]
White Darkness

The Great Old Ones

Novels such as
All-Consuming Fire, Millennial Rites, Business Unusual, Divided Loyalties
and
The Quantum Archangel
state that many of the godlike beings seen in
Doctor Who
have a common origin. These Great Old Ones are also referred to in
The Infinite Quest
.

The Great Old Ones were a pantheon of ancient, incomprehensible forces created by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, and adopted by the novels for this purpose. Perhaps the most well-known of Lovecraft’s creations, Cthulhu, had already made an appearance in
White Darkness. The Taking of Planet 5
uses Lovecraft’s characters, but has them as fictional characters brought to life by Time Lord technology.

Other
Doctor Who
entities explicitly referred to in the books as Great Old Ones include - but aren’t limited to - the Intelligence (
The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear, Millennial Rites
and
Downtime
), the Animus (
The Web Planet, Twilight of the Gods
), the Nestene Consciousness (
Spearhead from Space, Terror of the Autons, Business Unusual, Synthespians™, Rose, The Pandorica Opens
), Fenric (
The Curse of Fenric
) and the Gods of Ragnarok (
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Divided Loyalties
). Gog and Magog (or beings with the same name) appeared in “The Iron Legion” comic strip.

The Doctor claims in
Ghost Light
that Light is “an evil older than time itself”. From the context, this appears to mean that Light arrived on Earth before human history started, not that he existed before the universe’s creation, but he might also be a Great Old One.

The Great Old Ones in the audio story
The Roof of the World
, and the “Old Ones” mentioned in
Tomb of Valdemar
and
Beyond the Ultimate Adventure
don’t seem to be connected to this grouping.

[
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]
The Magic Mousetrap

[
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]
The Nightmare Fair
. The Doctor says the Toymaker has lived for “millions” of years, but it’s somewhat presented as his speculation about the Toymaker’s origins.
The Quantum Archangel
and
Divided Loyalties
establish that the Toymaker is both one of the Great Old Ones and one of the Guardians, meaning he’s actually much older than that.

[
34
]
SJA: Secrets of the Stars

[
35
] The White and Black Guardians are first referred to in
The Ribos Operation. Divided Loyalties
says there are six Guardians, adding Justice, Crystal and unnamed twins to the two from the television series. The same book establishes that they are members of the Great Old Ones, and also states that the Guardian of Dreams is the Celestial Toymaker.
The Quantum Archangel
assigns them their colours and adds the Gold Guardian (counting the twin Azure Guardians as one entity).

[
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]
Divided Loyalties
,
The Chaos Pool
.

[
37
]
The Coming of the Terraphiles

[
38
]
Synthespians™

[
39
] Chronovores first appear in
The Time Monster
;
The Quantum Archangel
and
No Future
clarifies their role.

[
40
]
The Masque of the Mandragora, Enlightenment, Falls the Shadow.

[
41
] “The Mark of Mandragora”

[
42
]
Beautiful Chaos
(p210). The Doctor also cites the Helix as being from “the Dawn of Time”.

[
43
] The Time Lords’ gods were mentioned or seen in a number of New Adventures such as
No Future, Set Piece
and
Human Nature
. The seventh Doctor was often referred to as “Time’s Champion”. Mortimus (the Meddling Monk) is “Death’s Champion” in
No Future
, and the Master is hinted as the same in the audio
Master
.
Vampire Science
has the eighth Doctor as “Life’s Champion”, and in
The Dying Days
he declares himself to be “the Champion of Life and Time”.
Happy Endings
establishes Life’s parentage (see that story). In
Seeing I
, Life appears as a cat.

[
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]
The Gemini Contagion

[
45
] The prologue to
Timewyrm: Apocalypse
is a brief history of the formation of the universe, and it follows the modern scientific consensus.

[
46
]
The Wedding of River Song

[
47
] Dating
The Pandorica Opens
(X5.12) - No date given. The Doctor and Amy’s reading of the message could happen at any point after the words are carved. This may be the same Planet One that Sebastiane lived on in
The Doctor Trap
.

[
48
] “Warrior’s Story”. It’s unclear if this means it’s home to the first known civilisation or physically the oldest planet. As Planet One (seen in
The Pandorica Opens
) is the oldest planet in the
universe
, not just the galaxy, it’s older than Xaos.

[
49
] Dating “The Life Bringer” (
DWM
#49-50) - The Doctor puts it best: “As I still don’t know whereabout in time we are, I suppose I’ll never be able to puzzle it out... if that was Earth I found him on... or if that’s Earth he’s heading toward.” The story is set either in the distant past before life as we know it began, or the distant future after it died out. A character called Prometheus appeared in
The Quantum Archangel
- he was a Chronovore, a race first seen in
The Time Monster
, so it would seem to be a different individual.

[
50
] Primordial soup appears in
City of Death
and
Ghost Light
; the quotation comes from the latter story.

[
51
]
The One Doctor

[
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]
Falls the Shadow

[
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]
The Chaos Pool

[
54
] Dating ”Voyage to the Edge of the Universe” (
DWM #
49) - The story occurs before the Daemons become extinct, seemingly at the height of their empire. The rocket is nuclear-powered, which doesn’t sound terribly advanced, although it does get them to the end of the universe. This can’t be the same Commander Azal as in
The Daemons
, for obvious reasons.

[
55
]
Tomb of Valdemar
. The Doctor repeatedly asserts this was “a million years” ago, but others call it “aeons”.

[
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]
The Daemons
. Light appears in
Ghost Light.

[
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]
Spearhead from Space

[
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]
The Infinite Quest

[
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]
The Forbidden Time

[
60
] “When the Universe Was Half Its Present Size”

The phrase, uttered by a Time Lord in
Genesis of the Daleks
, has no clear scientific meaning and should probably be considered a figure of speech, the Time Lord equivalent of “as old as the hills”. Then again, the universe at various points is referred to as having edges, a centre and corners, which suggests a discernible “size”.

[
61
] “Agent Provocateur”

[
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]
Lucifer Rising

[
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]
Zagreus

[
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]
The Beast Below

[
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]
The Quantum Archangel

[
66
] The robot is seen in
The Five Doctors
,
World Game
and
Beyond the Ultimate Adventure
.
The Eight Doctors
says that it comes from a time when “the Time Lords were young”.
Alien Bodies
mentions a Raston cybernetic lap-dancer, and Qixotl claims that the ancient legend is just the manufacturer’s marketing ploy.

[
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]
The Ring of Steel
, which describes the Caskelliaks’ creators as “an ancient race”.

[
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]
The Pit
, and further explored in
FP: The Book of the War
.