Myth Making

[calliope85]

Okay, so, things that aren't related to Biggles. They may be related to Who though.

1. Have been listening to the Gallifrey audio-dramas. I'm rather enjoying these from the sheer fan-glee perspective (Mary Tamm!! Yay!!! Multiple Romana stories!!!!), though I have the feeling that some of things which are confusing me a little about the plot aren't

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[crouchinglynx]

I may have already mentioned that a couple of the Virgin NAs involve the Land of Fiction (although in the first of those, this fact is the Big Reveal towards the end of the book, which makes such a recommendation a spoiler of sorts). They both involve some textual 4th-wall-breaking that I'd probably compare with Jasper Fforde if I'd read any.

Part of the "Voyager" arc (6th Doctor DWM comic strips) does this to a lesser extent - again playing to its own medium, with inventions like "shortcut to the next page".

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[crouchinglynx]

As I haven't put those boxes of books away yet, here's one that made my teenage brain explode - the afterword from "Decalog 3 - Consequences". (Out of print for a decade, so I have no qualms about violating rights by reproducing it here in full.)

Afterword
By Professor Arthur Candy
(as dictated to Steven Moffat)

The Doctor, of course, knows that we are watching. And when, as has happened more than once, a culture extrapolates his existence from multiple interventions in their history, the Doctor has a favourite `panic button'. He simply slips back in time and introduces himself as a fictional character in the popular mythology of that particular world. As a consequence, there are now millions of races all over the universe following his adventures in one form or another without ever realising their deadly significance. Naturally, it becomes all but impossible to explain to the Intelligent Tree Spores of Xandar 6 that the hero of their popular weekly bark carvings is a real and dangerous phenomenon when they're too busy

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[calliope85]

Doctor Who: meta-texting the hell out of its own fictional universe since 1963 ^___^

[calliope85]

Oooh, which ones? I can cope with the inevitable spoiler-factor ^_^ I need to glance through the EDAs 'Grimm Reality' and 'Crooked World' again, which both touch on fictionality in Who - it'd be good to add a couple of NAs to my reading list...

[crouchinglynx]

'Conundrum' (by Steve Lyons), and 'Head Games' (also by Steve Lyons). The former occurs in the middle of a "divergent universes" arc, but doesn't rely heavily on it.

[calliope85]

*grins* 'Coincidentally', Crooked World is a Steve Lyons too. Anyone would think the man had a favourite plot device.

[crouchinglynx]

There were several BBC releases that I glanced at in bookshops and, from the cover blurb, decided that they sounded very like the same author's NA/MA that I'd read a couple of years earlier. 'Crooked World' may well have been one of them.