Theory:Timeline - Iris Wildthyme

This page lists appearances of Iris Wildthyme in the order in which she experienced them — at least, to the extent that such an idea can ever be considered meaningful. This timeline is based upon observations of the Paul Magrs universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, as a general rule, that for each book or audio their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. There are also many gaps between stories.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on The Chart of Autism and other sources that allow us to make observations. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Not Panda
While Panda officially joins Iris in AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large, he has often been seen accompanying her on previous occasions, because timelines are tangled wotsits and the past just isn't what it used to be.

Series basics
Iris's stories can be roughly sorted by her most important incarnations.
 * Lesbian novelist
 * Brenda Soobie
 * Old Flames
 * "Barbarella"
 * Katy Manning

Lilith

 * PROSE: First Meetings (Alison flashback)
 * Iris still lives with the Clockworks, and hasn't met Panda yet.


 * PROSE: Wildthyme Beyond!

Lesbian novelist

 * PROSE: Marked for Life
 * PROSE: Does it Show?
 * PROSE: Could it Be Magic?
 * PROSE: Hospitality
 * PROSE: Dog Days of Summer (first segment)
 * A hand waved feebly, and Andrew saw there was a little old woman lying on the ground, wrapped in a cream-coloured shawl, her white upswept hair blending perfectly with the snow. She raised her head, revealing a wrinkled shrewish face with bright intelligent eyes.


 * PROSE: In Passing
 * "An old lady, with a long nose and a slightly drawn face."

Brenda Soobie

 * PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
 * Iris goes by Brenda Soobie.


 * PROSE: Party Fears Two
 * Iris goes by Brenda Soobie.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Death of the Author
 * Iris goes by Brenda Soobie.

Old Flames

 * PROSE: Old Flames
 * PROSE: The Wildthyme Effect
 * Iris collects houses.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Right vs Left vs Wrong
 * Iris doesn't have her Katy Manning incarnation speech patterns. The previous story had Brenda Soobie, and the next two Iris's Barbarella and Katy Manning incarnations (respectively), so presumably this is her Old Flames body.


 * PROSE: The Ninnies on Putney Common
 * Iris has white hair and doesn't speak like her Katy Manning incarnation.


 * PROSE: Verdigris
 * PROSE: The Sleuth Slayers
 * Iris and Tom have travelled together for a year.


 * PROSE: Minions of the Moon
 * PROSE: Beguine
 * PROSE: Blame Iris
 * PROSE: Came to Believe
 * PROSE: Rough Magic
 * PROSE: The Mancunian Candidate
 * PROSE: Iris and Irregularity
 * PROSE: The Evil Little Mother and the Tragic Old Bat
 * PROSE: The Blue Angel (alternate Eighth Doctor sections)
 * PROSE: The Scarlet Empress
 * Iris dies and regenerates into an incarnation resembling Jane Fonda.

"Barbarella"

 * PROSE: Femme Fatale
 * PROSE: Dog Days of Summer (second segment)
 * Iris has recently been in the 1960s.


 * PROSE: The Blue Angel
 * PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion
 * PROSE: Suitors, Inc.
 * PROSE: Interference - Book Two
 * PROSE: Iris Explains
 * Iris looks like Jane Fonda.


 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: Wandering Stars
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Bad Weekend
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars:  Chess-Mistress of Mars
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: Death on the Euphrates
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: And a Dog to Walk
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: Talking with Spores
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: Doomed
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: The Last Martian
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: Lilac Mars
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: City of Dust
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: The Calamari-Men of Mare Cimmerium
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme of Mars: Green Mars Blues
 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Wildthyme and the Wolf
 * Features Panda. "Her honey-blonde hair was huge, and one wondered how she'd managed to fit it into the bubble helmet that went with the now-sleeveless space suit she wore.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Michael Drake
 * A "blonde sex astronaut."


 * PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love (future Iris)
 * An Iris who looks like a young Jane Fonda. Though she's apparently from the Katy Manning Iris's future.

Katy Manning

 * AUDIO: The Wormery
 * PROSE: Most Horrid
 * PROSE: Buyer's Remorse
 * PROSE: Mix Her Own Adventure
 * PROSE: Scream in Blue
 * AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large
 * AUDIO: The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme
 * PROSE: The Golden Hendecahedron
 * AUDIO: Find and Replace
 * Iris is travelling with Panda.


 * AUDIO: The Elixir of Doom
 * AUDIO: Excelis Dawns
 * AUDIO: The Plague Herds of Excelis
 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns
 * AUDIO: The Sound of Fear
 * AUDIO: The Land of Wonder
 * AUDIO: The Two Irises
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: A Gamble with Wildthyme
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: Sovereign
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: The Unhappy Medium
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Library Pictures
 * Leads into Future Legend — "I'M ON PUSSYWORLD."


 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: Future Legend
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: Battleship Anathema
 * Has Rex Halidom.


 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: A Hundred Words from a Civil War
 * Iris tries to break into the City of the Saved and rescue her friends, probably including Rex, who appears in the story.


 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: The Dreadful Flap
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: And Not a Drop to Drink
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: Why? Because We Like You
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: The Scarlet Shadow
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus: Only Living Girls
 * AUDIO: The Panda Invasion
 * AUDIO: The Claws of Santa
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost
 * PROSE: Framed
 * PROSE: Just the Ticket
 * PROSE: The Party in Room Four
 * PROSE: Party Kill Accelerator!
 * PROSE: Apocalypse Slough
 * PROSE: The Delightful Bag
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme's Rainy Day Adventure
 * PROSE: The Colour Scheme
 * PROSE: Shadow of the Times Before
 * PROSE: The Fag Hag from Hell
 * PROSE: The Niceness
 * PROSE: Channel 666
 * PROSE: The Found World
 * PROSE: The Irredeemable Love
 * PROSE: Elementary, My Dear Sheila
 * PROSE: The Shape of Things
 * PROSE: Annabel Regina
 * PROSE: Chicken Fried Banana Republic
 * PROSE: The Midnight Washerwomen
 * PROSE: The Little Bighorn Casino
 * PROSE: How to Play Four-dimensional Chinese Checkers, and Win
 * PROSE: Panda on Ice
 * PROSE: Couch Potatoes
 * PROSE: Riviera Shakedown
 * PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Colonic in Space
 * PROSE: First Meetings
 * Mentions Tom, Jenny, and Panda.


 * PROSE: The Best Holiday Ever
 * PROSE: The Story Eater
 * PROSE: Enter Wildthyme
 * PROSE: Wildthyme Beyond!
 * PROSE: The Big Crunch
 * PROSE: Frank Reade, Jr.'s Electric Time Canoe
 * PROSE: Dance of the Voodoo Valkyries
 * PROSE: Iris in Dead Man's Gulch
 * PROSE: Her and Allan
 * PROSE: Running with Caesars
 * PROSE: Amser Gwyllt
 * PROSE: The Bronze Door
 * PROSE: Flash Rogers Conquers the Universe
 * PROSE: The Web of Terror
 * PROSE: The Many Lives of Zorro
 * PROSE: The Devil Wears Panda
 * PROSE: Lady Stardust: Modern Love
 * PROSE: Lady Stardust: Hang onto Yourself
 * PROSE: Lady Stardust: Slip Away
 * PROSE: Lady Stardust: Low/Profile
 * PROSE: Lady Stardust: Up the Hill Backwards
 * PROSE: Lady Stardust: Cracked Actor
 * PROSE: Lady Stardust: Letter from the Editor
 * Has to be written after the stories included in the anthology.


 * PROSE: Project: Wildthyme
 * Features the Katy Manning Iris


 * PROSE: Iris and the Caliphate
 * PROSE: Time to Exist
 * PROSE: Dog Days of Summer (third segment)
 * PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love
 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: The Girl Who Went up in Smoke
 * Iris has the bus.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: A Grove Invisible
 * The bus is destroyed. Panda and Iris leap through its remaining window, but might get split up.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Dolores Smith and the Birthday Bear
 * Panda and Iris were split up. Iris will have to call in a few favours, but should be able to get the bus fixed.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Onesies
 * Iris isn't travelling in the bus.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: The Opera of Samhain
 * Iris isn't travelling in the bus.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: The Midnight Empire
 * Iris isn't travelling in the bus.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Self Possessed
 * The bus comes back. The Shopkeeper travelled with an incarnation (the Wor Iris) in this Iris's future.


 * AUDIO: The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society
 * AUDIO: Iris Rides Out
 * AUDIO: Midwinter Murders
 * AUDIO: Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme?
 * AUDIO: Iris at the Oche
 * AUDIO: A Lift in Time
 * AUDIO: Comeback of the Scorchies
 * AUDIO: Dark Side
 * AUDIO: Kronos Vad's History of Earth Vol. 36,379
 * AUDIO: Oracle of the Supermarket
 * AUDIO: Murder at the Abbey
 * AUDIO: The Slots of Giza
 * AUDIO: High Spirits
 * AUDIO: An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium
 * AUDIO: Looking for a Friend
 * PROSE: Enter Wildthyme (chapter 24)
 * Occurs "a good long time" after Iris travelled with Panda and Simon.


 * AUDIO: High Spirits (Iris's ghost)
 * Iris is dead, in her Katy Manning incarnation.

Other Irises

 * PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love (future Iris)
 * An Iris who looks like a young Jane Fonda. Though she's apparently from the Katy Manning Iris's future.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Michael Drake
 * The Wor Iris — young, with perfect hair, and ridiculous affected Geordie accent. She insists that she no longer deserves the name Iris Wildthyme.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Michael Drake (framing narrative)
 * Iris is travelling with Panda, and aware of the Wor Iris's actions.


 * PROSE: The Perennial Miss Wildthyme: Closure
 * Iris is "all teeth and [blonde] curls."


 * PROSE: Gimme Shelter
 * Iris is travelling with Panda. She regenerated into a teenager months ago. She has frizzy blonde hair. She claims to be "five hundred and bloody three" years old. She has slightly lost her taste for gin.


 * PROSE: God Engine Rhapsody
 * Iris has an American accent, and a streak of crimson in her platinum hair.


 * PROSE: Our Tune
 * Iris is attractive and has hair "so dark it felt like looking into a black hole."

"…Miss Iris Wildthyme. I thought then for a moment about that strange old woman – her neat, trim figure, her bobbed hair, so black as to be almost purple in the firelight and her dancing, probing green eyes."
 * PROSE: Ouroboros
 * PROSE: Samsāra
 * Iris was a smoker. She abandoned the bus thirty years before settling in India. She regenerates into an Indian incarnation with an ouroboros bindi, who also smokes.


 * AUDIO: The Wormery (Bianca)
 * A future Iris in her last incarnation.