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This issue is built around the theme of the Sixth Doctor.
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
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Companion Piece,
single work
short story
science fiction
Doctor Who fan fiction.
Two interlaced stories. In the first, the Doctor (either the Fifth or the Sixth Doctor) and his companion Peri find a dying man on a snowbound world, only to realise that the situation is a trap constructed by the Doctor's enemy, the Master. Interspersed with this story are scenes from the Master's manipulation and torture of inhabitants of an unspecified world, whom he keeps in thrall as servants.
The Master's behaviour in this story is sadistic even by his standards, including, at one point, hypnotising a man into cooking and serving his own child as a meal for the Master and his guests.
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Glasshouse,
single work
short story
science fiction
Doctor Who fan fiction.
The Sixth Doctor awakes in a small, empty house on a tiny, deserted island, surrounded by boundless ocean. He finds himself alone except for a taunting voice emanating from a mirror--which continues to emanate even after he smashes the mirror. As the world begins to come apart at the seams--flavours, colours, and sharp edges disappearing--the Doctor finds the strength to drag himself out of what he now realises is a cybernetic prison he built to trap an enemy, and to return to the TARDIS and to his companion Mel.
