User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20130929202135

I wanted to create pages for "The Book," the short story written by James Goss to promote his and Steve Tribe's The Doctor: His Lives and Times with BBC Books, then I started wondering how and where I would create these entries. Or if they are valid at all. "The Book" was published on the Doctor Who TV website on September 25, the day before TD:HLAT was officially released. From what I understand, the latter has a lot of short stories or scenes, such as River Song conducting an interview with Tegan Jovanka or the TARDIS describing how she views River and "Thief's" relationship. I think "The Book" is supposed to give an idea as to how the stories in TD:HLAT are told and perhaps hint at its conents. (i.e. "It even knew precisely why Queen Elizabeth I had run screaming from three men and a horse. 'Oh yes,' it giggled, 'and no one is supposed to know that yet.'") TD:HLAT is marketed as:

"He’s made a mark on almost every era of history, and he’s touched millions of lives across space and time. In these pages you’ll find just some of the stories behind those brief encounters, each of them addressing the question that must never, ever be answered: ‘Doctor who?’

''This is the story of an impossible life – of a man who borrowed a spaceship, travelled through time and continually saved the universe - as told by the Doctor’s friends, by his enemies, and by the man himself. Letters, journals, trial records, secret government files and the occasional bit of tabloid journalism reveal the never-before-told story of Gallifrey’s last Time Lord."''

My first problem was that I didn't know if "The Book" would be considered Online Fiction, like Snowfall, but after I started to work on it, I began second guessing that since it wasn't published on the typical BBC DW site. My second problem is: what is TD:HLAT? It sounds like it's part prose material and part reference material. So, how would it be viewed at by this wiki and does that impact the validity of "The Book" as well?