AHistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe

AHistory #3rd edition

by Lance Parkin, Lars Pearson

The Third Edition of AHistory amends and vastly expands the work of the sold-out Second Edition, continuing to incorporate the whole of Doctor Who into a single timeline. All told, this book takes nearly 1400 full-length Doctor Who stories and dates them in a single chronology — starting with the Universe's origins and working its way forward to the end of time. Specifically, this Third Edition covers all Doctor Who TV episodes through Series 6 starring Matt Smith; all New Series Adventures up through The Silent Stars Go By; the Big Finish audio range up through Army of Death (#155); all Torchwood episodes, novels and comics up through Series 4 (Miracle Day); all The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes, audios and webcomics up through Series 5; the K9 TV show; all Telos novellas; the IDW and Doctor Who Magazine comics; and a cornucopia of other Doctor Who spin-off series (the Bernice Summerfield novels and audios; Dalek Empire; Iris Wildthyme; Faction Paradox and more).

Genres: Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy

784 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 2012

About the author

Lance Parkin is an author who has written professional Doctor Who fiction since the 1990s. He is one of the few authors to write for both the 1963 and 2005 version of the programme — though much of his fiction has actually been based on the 1996 iteration. Indeed, he was notably the first author to write original prose for the Eighth Doctor in The Dying Days. He was also the author chosen to deliver the nominal 35th anniversary story, The Infinity Doctors, and the final volume in the Eighth Doctor Adventures range, The Gallifrey Chronicles. More recently, he has written for the Tenth Doctor in The Eyeless.

He is further notable for his work with Big Finish Productions, where he is arguably most known for writing the Sixth Doctor adventure, Davros.

Outside of Doctor Who, he has written things like Warlords of Utopia and (with Mark Jones) Dark Matter, a guide to the author Philip Pullman.

Reviews

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you thought there was NO WAY you could create a detailed, comprehensive, annotated time line of every Doctor Who story -- from the dawn of time to the end of the universe -- you were mistaken. THIS is an astonishing piece of SF fan scholarship, complete with a thousand footnotes! It's updated only as far as the end of David Tennant's second year as the Doctor...but it's still invaluable, entertaining, and utterly magnificent.

UPDATE FOR THE THIRD EDITION: a biblical length triumph that takes into account EVERYTHING in the "Doctor Who" universe up to the end of 2011. There simply aren't any words to adequately describe this amazing work of geeky scholarship.

[Dan J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finished the 3rd edition, over 700 pages of new information..god i love my life at moments like these