The authors state firmly that they have provided 'the most comprehensive, wide-ranging and at times almost shockingly detailed handbook to Doctor Who that you might ever conceivably need' and though it is a pretty large claim, I think they have succeeded.

This series of books about Doctor Who had previously been recommended to me by loveandgarbage here, scarlettina here, and strictlytrue here. Lolita is at least partially vampiric.Nwhyte8) About Time: The Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who, 1963-1966, by Tat Wood and Lawrence Miles (.( PROSE: Dead Romance, The Book of the War) From one perspective, the Ships created their pilots, not the other way around.Lolita threatens that she will be destroyed. The Ship intends to become a mother, and no other timeships are willing to carry her pilot 'yet'.( PROSE: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two) He has nightmares about his mother.

The male passenger has been 'replaced'.The Ship mentions that she and her pilot once crossed paths with the future war and that her pilot discovered the identity of the enemy but then erased it from his memory.The room where Lolita and the Ship talk is described like the console room originally seen in TV: An Unearthly Child.Ship has a name, though she does not reveal what that name is.As the character of the Doctor is thus firmly, lawfully identified in in-universe terms through the context owned by Lawrence Miles, even though he cannot be referred to by name, this constitutes one of the few cases of the Doctor being personally, directly referenced in a Faction Paradox story, as well as one of the only appearances by his Ship in person.Lolita notes that the Doctor is off somewhere on the planet 'going through the motions'. This story takes place between the 'Foreman's World' sections of Interference - Book One and Interference - Book Two, while the Doctor is away from the TARDIS and Fitz and Compassion are asleep.It also heavily foreshadowed elements of Compassion's plotline in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, particularly the events of the 2000 novel The Shadows of Avalon. When the story was first published, it was the first appearance of Lolita, who went on to play a major role in the Faction Paradox audios.Minimal changes were made for the reprinting: namely, the removal of a few instances of the words ' Gallifreyan' and ' TARDIS'. The story was first published in the 1999 charity anthology Perfect Timing 2.Lolita and the Ship are 'only half- Ship, on Mother's side.'.

Doctor Who by Lawrence Miles