User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26285319-20170104192003/@comment-26845762-20170305233139

Moving forward is all well and good, but some of us don't want to leave anything behind.

George Mann considers Paradox Lost to be set in the same universe as his "Newburry & Hobbes" series. It reuses the character of Archibald Angelchrist and (from what I gather) features references to the story.

I'm pretty sure nobody has tried to get the Newburry & Hobbes series on tardis. That's because it completely contradicts everything we see in Dr Who! Paul Magrs is decidedly different. ""The Iron Legion and Beep the Meep and even the Second Doctor's exile to Earth with scarecrows and game shows are just as much a part of Doctor Who as anything to me."

- Paul Magrs

Compared to most of the major Dr Who writers, Magrs' DWU is a very large and whimsical place. When he reuses his characters/species from his Doctor Who, he intends for them to be the same thing and doesn't do anything with them that doesn't fit in with the rest of the DWU. In paragraphs which don't advance his stories in any way, he has characters mention bits of their past, bits that align with his Doctor Who work.

I agree wholeheartedly that these spinoff stories should not automatically grant coverage, but Vince Cosmos is a special case. His universe is connected to Iris Wildthyme, MIAOW, Barbra, and the Tomorrow Twins. Well, Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective is connected to all of that. It's set in the same period.

Magrs' Brenda and Effie series once crossed over with characters from The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story). I would suggest that the one story be considered, but it's ridiculous to suggest the entire series should be.

The thing that makes the DWU so special is that it doesn't have any definite bounds.


 * Bonus - least tangential things I could find:


 * Characters from a short story in Decalog 5: Wonders are reused in a Faction Paradox short story.
 * Guy Adams' Sherlock Holmes novel uses the same Thomas Carnacki as Iris Rides Out.