Who fanfic ideas

[khaosworks]

I don't feel confident enough in my abilities to write a Doctor Who story with the "right" atmosphere to be able to do these, but maybe they can inspire people. Here's 3 CD covers for hypothetical Ninth Doctor stories with accompanying blurbs. I actually had myself as the Doctor (with pictures), but decided that was too vain.



Deep in the Arctic wastes of the 21st Century, a top secret installation toils on a project that will potentially change everything. The good news is that they are about to succeed. The bad news is that they are not supposed to for at least two hundred years.

Thanks to biogenic replicators in an alien blood sample taken from a certain Time Lord during the 1970s, Project Shiva is on the brink of unlocking the secret of nanotechnology, a secret that may spell disaster. The Doctor and Rose have arrived to make things right, but will their presence only accelerate the end of the world?



South-East Asia, 2023. Tropical island paradises with rich cultures, thriving sea trade, modern cities with advanced information technology economies peacefully coexisting with nature... and plantations that supply the world with the bulk of its rubber. Thanks to a new treatment that makes them as versatile as plastics, rubber products have integrated themselves into nearly all levels of human activity.

The Nestene are mounting a new offensive, and this time the Doctor may not be able to stop them. When the world is dependent on the invaders' products for survival, then survival becomes imperative over everything else...



The Web of Time is a delicate network of history, a skein of pasts, futures, what-ifs and what-could-bes that sit in a fragile balance that holds together all there is. However, the boundaries between worlds that should never have touched have been breached. Gallifrey is in ruins. The Time Lords have been deposed. The Earth is the seat of a new empire that stretches its reach across the Universe. A hundred different races toil as slaves under the ruthless dominion of the Daleks.

Once again, only the Doctor can save the day, but he's lost his TARDIS, his companion, and his memory. What can he do when he doesn't even know which history is supposed to be the real one? Not to mention the fact that, according to this universe, he's not even supposed to exist?

Comments

[acrobatty.livejournal.com]

Tease!

Now I want to read all of those. :((

BTW, the best New Who novels I have seen so far are by Blum & Orman's Unnatural History & Mind's I, Stone's Heart of Tardis, and Miles's Interference. Have you read those? And do you have any recommendations?

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe if I get bored enough over the summer I'll write up something with the Nth Doctor and Charity...

As for the novels, I stopped reading them after I think The Shadows of Avalon, which wasn't bad. All in all, though I prefer the Virgin New Adventures to the BBC ones. If you can catch a hold of those, they're worth picking up, particularly "Blood Heat," "Love and War", "The Left Handed Hummingbird" (Kate Orman's first novel), "Head Games", "Happy Endings" and "The Dying Days" (I think you can get a hold of the Dying Days on the BBCi website as an e-book).

You might also want to check out "The Sands of Time" (a sequel to Pyramids of Mars) as well. For a really good time, I'd recommend you look at the Big Finish Productions series of audio plays.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

So, do you know something I don't about the casting of Rose, or is that just a splendidly droolworthy piece of wishful thinking? =:o}

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

BTW, your "Web of the Daleks" plot reads a bit too close to the main through-plot of the EDAs. (Or is that the idea, that Ecclestone's era would follow on from the EDAs without "fixing" the universe first?)

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does sound pretty similar... I haven't read any of the stuff post-Ancestor Cell, although I am aware of the general thrust of the plot developments.

The idea is actually inspired by an element in the Big Finish "Dalek Empire" mini-series. If you haven't heard it, at the end of the first mini-series, Daleks from another universe where they reign supreme cross over into our universe and start a war with our Daleks, which is carried through into the second mini-series, "Dalek War".

What's happening in "Web of the Daleks", as I envision it, is that the Daleks of our universe have managed to search the Web of Time to find an alternative they like - one without the Doctor and where they have defeated the Time Lords - and made it overwrite "our" history. The Doctor therefore exists now as a temporal anomaly, and his amnesia is due to the discountinuity with his deep time memories of the real history and the current universe.

This kind of manipulation is pretty specific, so even if McGann had fixed the universe, the Daleks could have undone it to this small degree.

If I write it, I'll write it with an Nth Doctor as mentioned above, since I don't know Eccleston's characterization.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

As a side note, I was just throwing together ideas based on the title - which I like. If you have a better plot, feel free to share. :-)

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's one of the people rumored to be in the running.

[sdavido.livejournal.com]

VERY nicely done. Did you find a program for copying the CD covers, or are you just damn good at it?

*sheepish grin* If I give you a pic and a title, can you make one up for me?

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

I'm just... fair at it. :-)

Give me the pic and title.