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Another crappy meme attempt.
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The Paul McGann version from the audio Island of the Fendahl (No Image Available)
Who wore it (the Fendahl) better?
Thea Ransome
The Eighth Doctor
A painting by Philip James Allison based on the 1977 Doctor Who serial "Image of the Fendahl."
Kaldor City listening guide
Just archiving some interesting content from Magic Bullet's Facebook page. They shared a recommended listening order for the Kaldor City series, plus a few Magic Bullet extras, as well as some spoilery timeline notes. Synthesizing those lists with a few of my own additions, here's the complete Kaldor City experience:
"The Face of Evil" (Doctor Who season 14)
"The Robots of Death" (Doctor Who season 14)
"Image of the Fendahl" (Doctor Who season 15)
"Weapon" (Blake's 7 series B)
"The Logic of Empire" (Blake's 7 fan audio: only necessary if you watched all of Blake's 7, which you should tbh, it's good)
Corpse Marker (Past Doctor Adventures novel), set ~six years after "The Robots of Death"
"Occam's Razor", set ~two years after Corpse Marker
"Death's Head", set five months after "Occam's Razor"
"Skulduggery" (short story)
"Metafiction" (version 1)
"Hidden Persuaders", set four months after "Death's Head"
"Taren Capel", set one month after "Hidden Persuaders"
"Checkmate"
"Storm Mine", set [spoilers]
"Zugzwang"
"The Prisoner"
"Metafiction" (version 2)
"The Time Waster"
"Radio Bastard"
Image of the Fendahl by Ben Willsher
Missing Persons [Lesser Species: Group/Concept (City of the Saved)]
People vanish, it’s an uncomfortably universal truth that affects most sentient beings, a body at least offers certainty but the truly missing present only an absence that can be easily filled with a host of horrifying possibilities. The City of the Saved should be one of the few societies truly free of this fear, it is after all home to every human, posthuman and near-human who ever lived and while people may be hard to find within it there is a degree of safety in the knowledge that they are somewhere in the city in borderline indestructible bodies.
Sadly this is not the case, while it took some time it eventually emerged that certain people were completely absent from the city, a minuscule number in comparison to the city’s near limitless population but an alarming enough percentage that a number of districts established The Missing Persons Bureau to properly investigate these absences. The investigations tended to result in one of three conclusions.
The missing person was never human, often it is discovered that they were some manner of alien sleeper-agent, highly advanced android or in rarer cases amnesiac survivors of doomed worlds rocketed to human colonies.
They are a rare true immortal and must physically enter the city through the Uptime Gate.
The missing person was by all accounts human or near-human and is one of the truly absent.
Notable examples of the latter category include the film pioneer Louis Le Prince, minister and folklorist Robert Kirk, notorious terrorist Kerr Avon, journalist Ambrose Bierce, Cousin Octavia of Faction Paradox and Ramón Salamander, acclaimed inventor of Sun Store Technology. However as alarming as these isolated incidents are, the rarer examples of mass or spree absences present genuine cause for concern, with the most notable examples covering the entire late-era population of the planet Kaldor and a truly terrifying number of children across recorded history. What, if anything, these people did to be denied entry to the City is unimaginable, the city is hardly discerning with those it resurrects and the only alternative is the disturbing idea that there are forces within the universe that can actively prevent resurrection.
NOTES
Extract from The Bumper Book of War/Time Facts.
- Prof. M. Flowers.
“Image of the Fendahl,” 1977 episode of “Doctor Who,” set at Lammas Eve.
“Beware the Fendahl” by Richard Svensson, based on the Doctor Who serial “Image of the Fendahl.”
All spooky art posts this October (and previous Octobers) are tagged “Halloween.”
