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- A Better World'' (short story) -

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.

Plot
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?

Characters

 * Auteur
 * Donna
 * Fortune teller
 * Beetle
 * Alice
 * Wolf-girl
 * Timeship

Publisher's summary
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.

Publisher's summary
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…

Cover art

 * 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.

WHHttMoDW?
What Has Happened to the Magic of 'Doctor Who'? was the first short story printed in the Short Trips anthology Indefinable Magic, written by Gareth Roberts. The story took the form of a series of imaginary letters to the BBC from fans to complain about Doctor Who. Each letter was interspersed throughout the anthology.

I
Mr Raymond Phibbs from Ebbsfleet writes to Verity Lambert about his opinions on the ending of the adventure set on the planet Marinus, which he considered "telly fare" as opposed to the "challenging and dramatic science fiction" of the thirteen previous episodes. He explains how he found those first thirteen episodes to be "strikingly atmospheric and surprisingly mature", giving examples of the music in the Dalek story, as well as the strong morality in those first few episodes. He considers the story where they travel to Cathay with Marco Polo to be the turning point in quality. He goes into much detail about what he considers the pitfalls of the latest serials.

II
On 19 February 1967, Mrs Janet Trent from Ipswich, Suffolk, writes to Innes Lloyd to complain about how he has drained Doctor Who of its magic since he has been producer. Janet considers the show's storytelling under producers Verity Lambert and John Wiles to be "special" in comparison with Innes Lloyd. Janet gives several examples of what she considers good storytelling, and before contrasting it with counter examples, she demonstrates how she believes the Doctor's character has become butchered with heroism. She even points out that how his companions are essentially pop-stars ("even the boys!"). Coming back to her point about the shift in storytelling, she states that all the series seems to be focused on "B-movie alien invasions - war Machines, Daleks, and those inane Cybermen". She asks Innes to return Doctor Who to its former glory or else the viewers will turn to ITV - Janet admits she already has.

Characters
(In order of appearance/mention)
 * Raymond Phibbs
 * Verity Lambert
 * The old Doctor
 * Susan
 * Marco Polo
 * Mr. Chesterton
 * Miss Wright
 * Kublai Khan
 * Innes Lloyd
 * Mrs Janet Trent
 * John Wiles
 * Steven the pilot
 * Vicki the space orphan
 * Ben
 * Polly

I

 * The series began with the discovery of the Tardis by the teachers.
 * According to Raymond, the stories prior to the one with Marco Polo exemplified an interesting dynamic between the four characters, such as:
 * The Doctor's condemnation of the teachers' willingness to kill the caveman,
 * The teacher's disagreements over the pacifism of the Thals.
 * Raymond also considered the drama to be convincing, whether it be in the cavemen's forest or on the H-bombed planet Skaro.
 * Raymond found the Doctor's "aches and pains" meeting of Kublai Khan to be played for strained laughs.
 * He believes that Susan has devolved into an ordinary and stupid American schoolgirl, such as the time she walked into the Gobi Desert without telling anyone.

II

 * Janet notes how the series often went from "comedy in the Wild West to high flying space adventures with the Chumblies, from the horrors of the massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve to the jungles of Kembel with the Daleks and their alien alliance.
 * Janet believes that the Doctor should only be a scientist and explorer, not a hero.
 * Janet believes that Steven and Vicki are actual characters, unlike Ben and Polly whom she considers "decorative sidekicks".

Continuity

 * to be added

Category:Short Trips: Indefinable Magic short stories Category:Stories about Doctor Who Category:Stories set in the 1960s Category:Stories set in the 2060s

Curse Doctor leads
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,

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".

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".

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".

The Curse of Fatal Death Doctors The Doctor • The Quite Handsome Doctor • The Shy Doctor • The Handsome Doctor • The Female Doctor

= Time gear =

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
Within Doctor Who, the device is not named or given any functionality.