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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Evitability
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'An eco-demonstration is taking place outside the gates of the U.S. military base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. The Doctor talks to a girl with telepathic powers ('plinging in her words). Using her powers the Doctor permits her to see the future by tapping into his memories, particularly her future and the incident where her use of her powers kills two hundred people at the base. She promises herself and the Doctor that she will not abuse her abilities and the vision will never come true.'

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/whotrip29.htm)

Sighted 3/6/11

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    y separately published work icon How the Doctor Changed My Life : A Short-Story Anthology Simon Guerrier (editor), Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2008 Z1783649 2008 anthology short story science fiction

    'The schoolboy whose twin brother vanished in the night. A woman whose house teems with alien refugees. The dad who dies every evening...

    All through space and time live people, ordinary people, whose lives have been turned upside down.

    People who've lost jobs and loved ones, or seen their homes destroyed, or found themselves on whole other planets. They've nothing in common with one another except that their lives can never be the same. Because they're people who've met the Doctor.'

    Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/whotrip29.htm)

    Sighted 3/6/11

         Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2008
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Works about this Work

The Doctor is In (the Antipodes) : Doctor Who Short Fiction and Australian National Identity Catriona Mills , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Doctor Who and Race 2013; (p. 213-230) 'British science-fiction family television program Doctor Who has always had a strong fan-base in Australia. This essay explores the ways in which certain of those Australian fans use the shorter forms of ancillary Doctor Who fiction to question the construction and promulgation of Australian national identity. By dropping the Doctor into significant crisis points in Australian history – from Gallipoli to the Port Arthur massacre – these authors literalize and question the process of constructing national identity, drawing to the surface the troubled and often negated role that race plays in ‘Australianness’.' (Author's abstract)
The Doctor is In (the Antipodes) : Doctor Who Short Fiction and Australian National Identity Catriona Mills , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Doctor Who and Race 2013; (p. 213-230) 'British science-fiction family television program Doctor Who has always had a strong fan-base in Australia. This essay explores the ways in which certain of those Australian fans use the shorter forms of ancillary Doctor Who fiction to question the construction and promulgation of Australian national identity. By dropping the Doctor into significant crisis points in Australian history – from Gallipoli to the Port Arthur massacre – these authors literalize and question the process of constructing national identity, drawing to the surface the troubled and often negated role that race plays in ‘Australianness’.' (Author's abstract)
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  • Pine Gap, Alice Springs, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory,
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