The second part of a still unfinished Doctor Who fiction about a stranded Cyberman (whom we might know) being restored to humanity on Karn with the help of a sister who once worked in a match factory in nineteenth-century northern England.

Title: The Brother of Karn
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: 13+
Pairings: None
Concepts and Characters: Sisterhood of ( Read more... )

Improving London's transport
The National Archives have a Flickr set of photographs from a 1946 edition of The Railway Gazette, illustrating improvements made to the London Underground between the late 1930s and mid 1940s. Areas covered include the construction of the present Kings Cross St Pancras Metropolitan and Circle tunnels and platforms, ( Read more... )

One of my rare experiments in Doctor Who fan fiction has now been republished at AO3. So back to 2008 and...

Rose Cottage

Also posted at http://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth.org/491254.html.

It’s rare, he tells himself. It’s rare that he gives in and creates a transuniversal parallel-parked intranebular causal refraction of an occluded potentially dimensional-temporal disruptive warp hole. Very rare.

Why, then, is the sensation of looking the wrong way down a telescope so familiar? Don’t answer that, a voice says, if you ( Read more... )