That's cool! I agree just taking what's already available in
AHistory would be wrong. As he's here I'd just like to give some
feedback on the book.

Brilliant.

You don't appreciate how hard a job producing something like this is
until you see it. I picked up the original slimline white version
with the green cover produced by Seventh Door (Panopticon '93 in
Coventry I think) but nothing prepared me for the latest mammoth
tome.

I only had a couple of niggles (sorry to pick up on these rather
than everything else - the stuff that's spot on is, well,
overwhelming). They all related to some of the 'dating notes':

The Big Bang - AH perpetuates the idea that the Terminus and Vipod
Mor stories somehow contradict each other, but could be aligned by
having the Vipod Mor's explosion triggering the Terminus fuel leak.
This is all rather complicated. Technically ALL ships that travel
back to the beginning of time and do not return would encounter each
other at the same point: the beginning. The fact that mass time
travel exists means that many ships could end up at the beginning or
the end of time. Vipod More and Terminus are just two that we know
about.

City of Death - this mentioned the problems with dating the story in
400,000BC because the first life was evolved earlier. While that may
be true, the entry didn't consider the possibility that when the
Jagaroth ship exploded it could have sent fragments BACKWARDS as
well as forwards in time. Obviously any version of Scaroth stuck in
a past devoid of life would die pretty quickly (if his genetic
material survived at all), but there's no reason the explosion in
400,000 BC didn't catalyse the creation of life milliojns of years
earlier.

Death Comes to Time - It doesn't get the same box-out treatment as
other stories, and seems to be the only one that has a "fans can
treat it with a pinch of salt" warning. What I noticed was that the
creation of the fraction was placed at a point when the Doctor
wasn't around, rather than during his lifetime. It also doesn't even
make mention of this as a possibility (or indeed any mention of the
Doctor being a founder member).

Considering how long the book is, my only having three niggles is a
testamnent to how good this body of work is. Even to the length of
distancing itself from some of the author's own works/opinions in
favour of a straight telling of the facts as seen. Even down to UNIT
dating which, despite having an opinion of my own, was probably
presented in the most neutral light possible.

--- In whoconcord@..., "Alexander Dante"
<alexanderdante@g...> wrote:
>
> --- In whoconcord@..., "oncoming.storm"
> <oncomingstorm@h...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi. I've just joined this group because I'm an old time fan
who's
> getting back into the new series.
>
> We've all been there :-)
>
> > I've bought a couple of the I Whos and AHistory by Lance Parkin
> and I thought I'd look for something to hook up with.
>
> Interestingly, Lance has joined this forum (look, see, he's the
guy
> reaching for the unsubscribe button!). Feel free to let him know
> what you think :-)
>
> > I probably have lots of questions rather than some answers, but
> I'm impressed by the various files and databases you are creating -

> and especially with how open you are to input.
>
> Well whoconcord strated as a project tied into the whoniverse.org
> site. I'm not sure how far things are progressing overall, but
> there's too much to input for one person.
>
> > I like the elemental and diseases dbases - I didn't kmow there
was
> so much! I also like the planets dbase - a reference to it is what
> dragged me here.
>
> I was on quite a roll earlier this year - before real life and the
> need to complete a contract got in the way. All that finished with
> the month of March, so I'll be adding more myself and keen (as
some
> of my posts have already indicated) to get input/comments/feedback.
>
> > I'm also keen in seeing more happen with the list of people the
> Doctor has met and the organisations. And I'd like to help filling
> in other databases seeing as I am going to be playing catch-up
over
> the next few months.
>
> Well AHistory will be a pretty useful resource to help me fill
that
> one in. It has nearly all the Doctor's famous meetings listed in
> chronological order - all for the sake of a few hours' reading.
>
> > Is there any reason why you haven't started off a chronology to
go
> with it? If not for classic stuff, maybe to cover facts from the
new
> series as they appear?
>
> Its a mammoth task, and we've both already mentioned AHistory, and
> thats the most definitive take on a chronology you're likely to
get
> for some time. There are omissions (a few oversights, but mostly
> stuff deliberately left out such as continuity from from comics,
> short stories, later publications, etc.), so there might be some
> mileage in listing some of the stuff that isn't captured there.
>
> What do others think?
>
> AD
>