Toy Story (short story)

Toy Story
Main character(s):	Lolita, the Doctor's TARDIS
Featuring:	Male passenger, female passenger
Main setting:	Console room in the Ship, on a jungle planet
Key crew
Publisher:	Mad Norwegian Press
Writer:	Lawrence Miles
Release details
Printed in:	Dead Romance
Release date:	7 November 2004
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Toy Story was a short story published in the 2004 Mad Norwegian Press printing of Dead Romance.

Summary

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Characters

• Lolita
• The Ship
• Male passenger
• Female passenger

Worldbuilding

• Lolita and the Ship are "only half-Ship, on Mother's side."

Notes

• The story was first published in the 1999 charity anthology Perfect Timing 2. Minimal changes were made for the reprinting: namely, the removal of a few instances of the words "Gallifreyan" and "TARDIS".
• When the story was first published, it was the first appearance of Lolita, who went on to play a major role in the Faction Paradox audios. It also heavily foreshadowed elements of Compassion's plotline in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, particularly the events of the 2000 novel The Shadows of Avalon.
• This story takes place between the "Foreman's World" sections of Interference - Book One and Interference - Book Two, while the Doctor is away from the TARDIS and Fitz and Compassion are asleep. Lolita notes that the Doctor is off somewhere on the planet "going through the motions".
  • As the character of the Doctor is thus firmly, lawfully identified in in-universe terms through the context owned by Lawrence Miles, even though he cannot be referred to by name, this constitutes one of the few cases of the Doctor being personally, directly referenced in a Faction Paradox story, as well as one of the only appearances by his Ship in person.

• Ship has a name, though she does not reveal what that name is.

Continuity

• The room where Lolita and the Ship talk is described like the console room originally seen in TV: An Unearthly Child.
• The Ship mentions that she and her pilot once crossed paths with the future war and that her pilot discovered the identity of the enemy but then erased it from his memory. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
• The male passenger has been "replaced". (PROSE: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two) He has nightmares about his mother. (PROSE: The Taint)
• The Ship intends to become a mother, and no other timeships are willing to carry her pilot "yet". Lolita threatens that she will be destroyed. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)
• From one perspective, the Ships created their pilots, not the other way around. (PROSE: Dead Romance, The Book of the War)
• Lolita is at least partially vampiric. (PROSE: Head of State)

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