B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (286 page)

[
423
] Dating “Hunger from the Ends of Time!” (
DWM
#157-158) - “Conventional filing has been obsolete here on Catalog for centuries.” The FHD squad’s uniforms and weapons are identical to those in “Echoes of the Mogor”, so the two stories are probably set around the same time.

[
424
] Dating
Time of Your Life
(MA #8) - It is “three weeks into Earth year 2191” (p1).

[
425
] Dating
Killing Ground
(MA #23) - This is set the same year as
Time of Your Life
. Grant’s departure from the TARDIS isn’t conveyed in canonical
Doctor Who
; by default, then, the short story “Schrodinger’s Botanist” in the
Missing Pieces
charity anthology serves to explain what becomes of him.

[
426
] Dating “Conflict of Interests” (
DWM
#183) - As with other FHD stories, this seems to be set in an early colonial period. Humanity doesn’t have translation devices. The story has to be set before “Pureblood”, when the Sontarans withdraw from human space. Aleph-777 is the planet seen in the back-up strip “The Final Quest”.

[
427
]
Benny: Beige Planet Mars

[
428
] Dating
Fear Itself
(PDA #73) - It’s decades after the Dalek invasion of Earth (p274), but still the twenty-second century according to the back cover and p4.

[
429
] Cyber Wars in the twenty-second or twenty-third century were postulated in
Cybermen
and
The Terrestrial Index
, and a number of stories that used those books as reference (including
Deceit, Iceberg, The Dimension Riders, Killing Ground
and
Sword of Orion
) have referred to “Cyberwars” in this time period. This is not the “Cyber War” involving Voga that is referred to in
Revenge of the Cybermen
. We might speculate that while the main force of Cybermen conquer Telos, another group remained active and travelled into deep space, perhaps colonising worlds of their own, and that this breakaway group was wiped out in the Cyber Wars. They seem to keep well away from Earth and only menace isolated human colonies.

[
430
]
The Janus Conjunction
(p98).

[
431
]
Deceit
(p23).

[
432
]
Interference
(p305).

[
433
]
The Nowhere Place

[
434
]
Seeing I

[
435
]
The Also People
(p29).

[
436
] “A decade” before
The Final Sanction
.

[
437
] Dating
Fear Itself
(PDA #73) - Anji is separated from the Doctor and Fitz for “four years”.

[
438
]
Fear Itself
(PDA). The “Paris crater” is evidently a reference to the Martian-propelled asteroid that obliterated Paris in the Thousand-Day War, as told in
Transit
and
GodEngine
.
Transit
specifies that Paris is rebuilt in the decade to follow this event, but a monument area might remain.

[
439
]
Dreamstone Moon
(p18).

[
440
] Dating
Wooden Heart
(NSA #15) - No date is given, but it’s “at least a hundred years” since the
Castor
was launched. The hints we get are that the
Castor
was operating very early in Earth’s era of interstellar travel, and the fact it’s “Century-class” might link it to the Century ships referred to in
Killing Ground
. Space is divided into sectors and largely unregulated, suggesting the Castor was launched before
The Space Pirates
.

[
441
] Dating
The Nowhere Place
(BF #84) - The story opens on 15th January, although Oswin files a report at 15:38 on the 16th, which suggests the Doctor and Evelyn don’t arrive until that date.

[
442
]
The Janus Conjunction
(p100).

[
443
] Four hundred years before
Benny: The Doomsday Manuscript
.

[
444
] Dating
Legacy of the Daleks
(EDA #10) - Susan met David when he was 22, and he’s now 54 (p15), so it’s thirty-two years after
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
. The blurb says it is the late twenty-second century. It’s unclear why the Doctor is searching for Sam by travelling in time, rather than space, yet that’s the implication of p27, where he “allows” for Thannos time. This does seem to mean he’s looking for Sam before he lost her in
Longest Day
circa 2202, but he is admittedly diverted to Earth by a telepathic signal from Susan. While the Doctor thinks he is in the right timezone, perhaps the TARDIS has taken him just a handful of years earlier.

See the dating notes under
An Earthly Child
for the argument as to whether
Legacy of the Daleks
has been erased from history or not.

[
445
]
The Pit
(p86).

[
446
]
Managra
(p63).

[
447
]
The Shadow of the Scourge

[
448
]
Genocide
(p27).

[
449
]
Autonomy

[
450
] “The twenty-third century” according to
Cold Fusion
(p180).

[
451
] “They Think It’s All Over”

[
452
]
Colony in Space
. Many of the books pick up on this theme.

[
453
]
The Final Sanction
, no date is given on p146, but it must be some time before 2203.

[
454
] “Hundreds of years” after “Ripper’s Curse”.

[
455
] Dating
Longest Day
(EDA #9) - It’s “Ex-Thannos system, Relative Year 3177” (p15). In
Legacy of the Daleks
, it’s stated “In Thannos time it had been 3177” (p27), so it’s almost certainly not 3177 AD. This is the same time zone as
Legacy of the Daleks
(give or take),
Dreamstone Moon
and
Seeing I
.

[
456
] Dating
Dreamstone Moon
(EDA #11) - For Sam, six days have passed (p7) since
Longest Day
.

[
457
] Dating
Seeing I
(EDA #12) - Sam was en route to the planet Ha’olam at the end of
Dreamstone Moon
, and has only just arrived at the start of this novel. The Doctor sending out Data-umphs in 2202 looking for Sam must mean that he expects to find her in that year. “James Bowman” was the alias that Grace attributed to the Doctor in
Doctor Who - The Movie
.

[
458
] Dating
The I: I Scream
(BBV audio #26) - The unnamed central character of
I Scream
describes Earth as having “ground cars, power plants, killer smog and diseases” - a state of affairs that loosely fits conditions of the late thirtieth century. Then again, such a description could just be part and parcel of the Company’s propaganda machine, designed to prevent the Galspar residents from wanting to venture off world. Another X-factor is whether or not the I’s scheme has any measure of success; the period of the Earth Empire is documented well enough that people turning into I en mass would probably have warranted a mention in some other
Doctor Who
-related story. Either the scheme is thwarted off screen, then, or
I Scream
actually takes place in an indeterminate era. The dating is arbitrary, but fits an early colonial period.

[
459
]
The Janus Conjunction
(p98).

[
460
] According to
The Final Sanction,
p75. Page 146 suggests the war has been going on for a year.

[
461
]
The Final Sanction
(pgs 73, 255) says this occurs “almost a year” before 2204.

[
462
]
The Final Sanction
(p196).

[
463
]
Benny: The Relics of Jegg-Sau

[
464
] “Centuries” before
Benny: The Heart’s Desire
. Eternals first appeared in
Enlightenment
, but compared to the Eternals seen there, Hardy and Barron’s
modus operandi
is more akin to that of the Celestial Toymaker.

[
465
]
Benny: Another Girl, Another Planet

[
466
] Dating
The Final Sanction
(PDA #24) - The date is given (p4).

[
467
] Dating
Seeing I
(EDA #12) - The Doctor is imprisoned for “three years”. Oddly, according to
SLEEPY
, also by Kate Orman, FLORANCE was trapped in a lab at this point.

[
468
] “Fifty years” after
GodEngine.

[
469
] Dating
The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories
: “Doing Time” (BF #142c) - This all seems roughly in keeping with humanity’s stage of development per the likes of
Seeing I
. The participants don’t appear to be massively removed from present-day humanity - not only is the Gregorian calendar (or some local variation of it) in use on Folly, one of the locals references Bonnie and Clyde. Interstellar travel is possible, but takes some time - a year is here required to cross “three [solar] systems”. One of the Doctor’s fellow prisoners is alien, and relations with his race are such that his parents are allowed to visit.

While no year is given, the date of the explosion - 10th of May - is named as a Monday. In this era, and assuming the Folly calendar is exactly in synch with the Earth one (hardly a guarantee), that narrows the possibilities to 2202, 2213, 2219, 2224 and 2230.

[
470
] Dating
The Janus Conjunction
(EDA #16) - It is “Dateline 14.09.2211 Humanian Era” (p16).

[
471
] Dating
Benny: Secret Origins
(Benny audio #10.4) - Bernice names the year. Peter’s math is very bad when she does so, as he reckons that 2212 was “nearly three centuries” prior to 2609.

[
472
] Dating
The Cradle of the Snake
(BF #138) - It’s currently “Manussan Year 2215”, which is here presumed to be the same year in the Earth calendar (see the dating notes to
Snakedance
). Where the day is concerned, “Tomorrow’s New Year”.