User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-6032121-20191202173217

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-6032121-20191202173217 Well, here's the thing: within the conceit of The Dalek Chronicles Found! being a clipping of an in-universe newspaper, it wouldn't be page 2, but rather the front page.

Ergo, while there's definitely a metafictional in-joke to that effect, we cannot chalk up the real-world Page 3 featuring Genesis of Evil to the in-universe Page 3 of the (nameless?) newspaper.

Consider that separately from the "See it begin on Page 3" line of the newspaper, there's a table of contents which clearly isn't part of the story any more than the box containing the editorial credits for DWMS The Dalek Chronicles.

Also, if the whole book were "part of the story", you'd expect true bookends, with a return to the conceit of a newspaper framing at the end of the book. There is none.

All in all, it's somewhat arbitrary either way, but I still think the most straightforward, common-sense way of covering The Dalek Chronicles Found! is as a short story "prologue", akin to DWM's comic prologues for novels and audioplays, rather than as a "reprint with additional framing device" like The Dalek Tapes or The Incomplete Death's Head.