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-> DECRYPT AND RECEIVE -> SUBJECT: PRIORITY MESSAGE FOR TRANSDIMENSIONAL INTERLOCUTOR FROM PORTWATCHER DEPT. "Between our major releases, the Divergent Wordsmiths have uncovered something rather interesting. In the intracausal linkages of the Catchvane, caught between the transmission lines, we've uncovered pages of a text called the Gallifrey Historia. A collaborative effort to construct a consistent historical text detailing the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. Using both preexistent knowledge of events and new accounts of the linkages that form the greater timeline. Over the past months, our technicians have been seeking out further entries that could link with the ups and downs of Time Lord society and civilisation. Recently, we discovered "Trial by Ordeal", a text detailing -- among other things -- Gallifrey's descent into totalitarianism and a coup launched against the Time Lords by their Gallifreyan brethren. This time, we have uncovered "Romana's Reconciliation", an era nowhere near short of incident. There are details of a Dalek invasion of Gallifrey, an attempted overthrow of President Romana by the Celestial Intervention Agency, a mysterious Galactic Famine, an encounter with one of the forefathers of Time Lord society, and even tale told of the Doctor's family home. Both texts are available to read now from the link here." Salutations Wordsmiths!
For our authors interested in the upcoming second volume of the Paul Spragg ReCollections, we've got official confirmation of the Paul Spragg Short Trips Opportunity on the Big Finish website. The deadline is expected to close at the end of June 2021. A quick checklist of what to expect for submissions in terms of content:
The publishing requirements of the competition are that you haven't worked with Big Finish before (ideal for any newcomers and fresh-faced authors) and the submission hasn't been published anywhere else. Further details, in depth, can be found at the link above. Best of luck to all involved and happy writing! ~Vworp, vworp! Salutations Wordsmiths!
Good news! An update for writers interested in submitting to the Paul Spragg ReCollections: Volume 2. We've just received news that the Paul Spagg Memorial Opportunity from Big Finish will be running in 2021, but has been delayed for a variety of reasons at the moment. We'll be keeping an eye out for more information as things develop. Until then, keep writing! ~Vworp, vworp!
It’s no underestimation to say that this trio has had an unerring ability to get under my skin in the best way possible. Despite the brevity of their tenure, there was a good sense of camaraderie to the three in the vein of the best Doctor/companion teams. Here were a trio that could be picnicking one moment and zapping Cybermen the next and yet, they weren’t terribly well explored in the twenty/thirty years of expanded universe media. Frobisher, the ever-faithful whifferdill, has still had cameos to this very day in comics, audio and novel, but this unerring link between comic strip and videotape remained as it ever was. Incomplete. As open-ended as the vanishing of Liz Shaw or the musing farewell of the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
As a writer, that’s difficult to resist, but where to begin? I wouldn’t be able to do justice to it in a directly visual follow-up to John Ridgway’s full-motion panoramas. My medium was the written word. The same words you're reading now. It would have to be in prose. Better, it would have to be a novel. A good challenge and a possibility to flex those creative neurons. The World Shapers, the final illustrated voyage of the trio, concluded in October 1987, almost a full year after the Sixth Doctor’s exeunt from his trial on television. In that borrowed time, the TARDIS had visited slavers on the hijacked Mayflower, the contrapuntal motion of Raygun Gothic Zazz, an old man’s gentle respite in Scotland and a mythology-cracking development on the planet Marinus. As steady an array of worlds as those visited before (and during) the '86 hiatus. I knew where I wanted to go next, a neat little place on Trailblazer Prime, but something caught the Doctor’s eye in Natasia Tor. The story itself is one steeped in the headlines and pop culture of 1987. One year after, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Aliens debuted in cinemas. One year after, NASA’s Challenger shuttle has exploded on a clear blue day and Chernobyl’s radiation cloud has fallen over Ukraine. It’s a bitterly Cold War at the present. Everything has an urbane formality, almost a chill, to it. But, nevertheless, the characters themselves refused to stay confined to that box (bless 'em). Over time, they've become a halfway-house rendition of how they appeared in Doctor Who Magazine and where they ended up at Big Finish. This is a Sixth Doctor of passion who’s been pitted against both the mad Astrolabus and obsessive Toymaker, a Peri who's negotiated both the Elohim of Paradise 5 and the dungeons of Sylvaniar, and a Frobisher who became both bounty hunter and worshipped as a living god (oops). Life returns to the Doctor, Peri and Frobisher after 33 years in stasis and one which has, so far, endured the test of time in the big ("They seek him here, they seek him there...") and small (who knew the Doctor's fourth self was also a fan of Winnie-the-Pooh?). That was a well and truly worthwhile experience and, best of all, it's a way for others to get into Doctor Who books that doesn't cost a mazuma. With more to come, alongside Divergent Wordsmiths' other projects, in the future." Vworp, vworp~! Alan Camlann I'm thrilled to announce a small treat for the holiday season from Divergent Wordsmiths!
A Christmas Cutaway stars Peter Cushing's Dr Who in a comfortable Christmas interlude from Iain McLaughlin. Creator of Doctor Who companion, Erimemushinteperem (better known as Erimem to her friends) as played by Caroline Morris. He is the author of Big Finish audio drama "Eye of the Scorpion", Thebes Publishing novel "The Last Pharaoh" (with Claire Bartlett) and much, much more across Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Sherlock Holmes, Kerides the Thinker and James Bond. Available to read in full now from our Theories and Addenda page on the website. Merry Christmas to all of you at home. Enjoy! Divergent Wordsmiths presents UNBOUND IMAGININGS, VOLUME 2 Well-known and beloved among the peoples of the Earth, there are many a myriad Time and space that have yet to be explored in Doctor Who. Beyond the horizons of even our own Doctors' vivid conceptions, experience eight bold, new adventures in this second volume of Unbound Imaginings! Foreword by Josh Wanisko (Forever Fallen, Farewell to Kindness) Afterword by J.A. Prentice (The Undying Truth, The Hollow Inside, A Half-Share of the Universe) Contents:
One of Divergent Wordsmiths' ongoing side-projects in between our major releases is the development of the Gallifrey Historia. A collaborative effort to construct a largely consistent historical text of events relating to the Doctor's homeworld in the constellation of Kasterborous. Today, after many months of work, we're delighted to release the first volume, "Trial by Ordeal". An entry covering the aftermath of the televised The Five Doctors and the audio drama Time in Office. As the Doctor regenerates after the traumatic events on Androzani, the life of his sixth persona runs parallel to a darkening vein on his homeworld. The emergence of new players in a Gallifrey wearied by failed governments and seemingly non-stop crises.
DOCTOR WHO: CHRISTMAS BEFORE THE LAST by Kevin M. Johnston A prequel to "Husbands of River Song" http://www.kevinmjohnston.com/xmasbefore.PDF In the city of Christmas, on a world held vigil by an old man, River Song finds... FROM THE HYPERCUBE Stories from contributors to Divergent Wordsmiths
Doctor Who: Lockdown! was a phenomenal period of creativity, both on and off the various livestreams, for fans and production staff alike. A chance to celebrate the show and bring together an isolated worldwide community under the same police box lantern. One such project was created with the assistance of Joshua Wanisko, author of "Farewell to Kindness" from Unbound Imaginings - Volume 1 and the inaugural Big Finish Short Trip, "Forever Fallen". Gathered alongside a bevy of other talents brought together by Selim Ulug (author of "Landbound") for something rather special -- The Eighth Day. An original tale for the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard, and a tribute for LGBTQ+ mental health service, MindOut. The results are nothing short of incredible and Josh has very kindly lain out his own thoughts on the behind-the-scenes of The Eighth Day on his blog here. Narrated by Conrad Westmaas (the voice of C'rizz, companion of the Eighth Doctor), illustrated by Sophie Iles (author of "A Song for Running") and sound design by Jaspreet Singh, climb aboard the TARDIS for a journey to uncover the black sheep of Time... And its shepherd. FROM THE HYPERCUBE... Fanfiction and other fan-driven media from abroad...
Tony Jones, author of the Big Finish Companion Chronicle "The Tactics of Defeat", featuring Ruth Matheson (Daphne Ashbrook) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury), is contributing new fan content for Doctor Who and short stories in general speculative fiction! As much a writer of prose fiction as audio plays, he has also contributed to Terraqueus Distributors' Unofficial Doctor Who Annual 1987, pitting the Sixth Doctor and Peri against their own dream-like imaginings, and Unofficial Master Annual 2074, where the Master falls afoul of a vault of secrets somehow linked to his unusual passengers. There's even more to be found further afield. Between engagements in relativistic time zones, he's contributed to the Castle of Horror, Volume Four: Women Running from Houses, celebrating Gothic Romance and also featuring the work of fellow Who writer Rob Nisbett (author of Big Finish Short Trips "A Heart on Both Sides" and "Intuition"). Two additional tales of Tony's can be found for free through The Infinite Bard, detailing the ongoing duel of identity between "The Princess and the Assassin" and the irrepressible charm of little memories in "Souvenir". FROM THE HYPERCUBE... Fanfiction and other fan-driven media from abroad...
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