Author | Steven Savile |
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Series | Doctor Who book: Big Finish Short Trips |
Release number | 20 |
Publisher | Big Finish Productions |
Publication date | June 2007 |
ISBN | 1-84435-253-6 |
Preceded by | Short Trips: Dalek Empire |
Followed by | Short Trips: Snapshots |
Short Trips: Destination Prague is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Steven Savile and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . The collection features stories set in the future of Prague.
The Doctor complains about Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick . In the Doctor Who short story "Sunday Afternoon, AD 848,988", the Seventh Doctor tells his companion Ace that he has tried over a hundred times to read it but could never get past the first ten pages. [1]
Title | Author | Doctor | featuring |
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Midnight in the Café of the Black Madonna | Sean Williams | 3rd | None |
Room for Improvement | James A. Moore | 1st | Ian |
Life From Lifelessness | Keith R.A. DeCandido | 1st and 4th | Susan, and Romana and K-9 |
The Long Step Backward | Mike W. Barr | 1st | Vicki and Steven |
Strange Attractor | Paul Kupperberg | 6th | Peri |
Gold and Black Ooze | Robert Hood | 6th | Peri |
The Dogs of War | Brian Keene | 4th | Leela and K-9 |
Sunday Afternoon, 848,988 AD | Paul Crilley | 7th | Ace |
Nanomorphosis | Stephen Dedman | 4th | Sarah and Harry |
Spoilsport | Paul Finch | 3rd | Jo |
War in a Time of Peace | Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis | 8th | Charley |
The End of Now | Chris Roberson | 4th | Romana |
Suspension and Disbelief | Mary Robinette Kowal | 5th | None |
Leap Second | Bev Vincent | 5th | Peri |
Lady of the Snows | James Swallow | 8th | Charley |
The Time Eater | Lee Battersby | 2nd | Jamie |
Fable Fusion | Gary A. Braunbeck & Lucy A. Snyder | 7th | Ace |
Men of the Earth | Kevin Killiany | 5th | Nyssa and Tegan |
Across Silent Seas | Tim Waggoner | 2nd | Jamie |
The Dragons of Prague | Todd McCaffrey | 4th | Sarah and Harry |
Omegamorphosis | Stel Pavlou | 7th | None |
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