notes for no future

p13 Doctor reflects on recent adventures, (alternate universe cycle) Note NAs and continuity (see also p191 below)

p13 He'd felt his handwriting stretching across the universe. Cornell refers to the Doctor's plotting as Time's Champion. As it is here and on p84 (see below) there's is a link of the defining characteristic of the seventh Doctor to Doctor Who in novel form.

I wonder if there has been discussion or analysis of this... what meaningful ideas exist because Doctor Who is in the form of the New Adventures? As a fanzine Broadsword knew the political ones as far as fandom was concerned. Virgin always referred to bigger and broader Doctor Who? Note NAs as novel.

p27 Broadsword definition. "... and a Broadsword unit is doing ... what ever weird stuff those guys do."

p30 Big Ben V for Vendetta - Note NAs and graphic novels.

p34 Danny sees Black Star in line with the Situationist - sparks questions on terrorism - good to ask a UK bod about terrorism in the time of IRA compared to WTC, Bali, Madrid and London transport bombing. Note NAs - a product of its time?

p45 Broadsword definition.

p 48 V for Vendetta - Note NAs and graphic novels.

p35 fractals now a blink - Note NAs a product of its time.

p35 sparks the question about what Ace's character had become in the New Adventures becoming a soldier as a result of Love and War.

I used to ask How (authors, editors) could that have done that to her?
I think I understand now, because its the wrong question, How else could the Doctor have behaved? Note the Ace question

Note unaware of the human experience

Note america in the uk

p46 ladborke grove

p84 'This is just the start. Right now you're a person. Soon you'll be just one of his characters.' The 7th Doctor's plotting is like writing a novel - a story with characters doing the right thing at the right time. Note NAs as novel

p101 Broadsword definition.

p107 a Buddhist mapping of the Doctor. Note NAs and Religion/mysticism

p132 discipline - kinky. Note NAs and sexual content/innuendo

p140 Cornell's love of music. Note NAs and popular culture - a desire for contemporary Doctor Who?

p146 But we all want to be the hero

p155 meaningless violence of their own, that childish thrashing of each other. Note NAs and the Doctor's view of humanity

p156 Cornell's awareness of the Doctor's methods and making the Doctor aware of this. Note NA authors as writers and fans.

p187 Benny considers the Doctor's morality.

p188-9 Saving people from monsters./ People and rabbits. Broadsword definition, Note Point of difference - NAs and Buffy.

p191 Benny reflects on events in Love and War This is one of many recollections of Ace, Benny and the Doctor in this novel. Note Continuity with characters. Reflection of past experiences in previous NAs. esp Love and War. Note NAs and continuity.

p35 and p191 - Love and War... This is a crucible for Ace and Benny. This is Benny's birth into the NAs. This is Ace's death in the NAs. Note the Ace question.

p191 What a chronovore is - this is an appeal for the mystical. Note NAs and Religion/mysticism.

Chapter 16 - The Capture of Artemis - mysticism vs the mediasphere.

Is our history and our human consciousness the sum of our technology/television? Is it techonlogy - CDs and VCRs etc (anachronisms the monk introduced) or is it the TV shows? Note Point of Difference - NAs and old TV series

The Monk embraces both the mystical and technological as does the Doctor (though i don't think embrace is the right word for the Doctor).

Mysticism - Brigadier, Artemis, Stonehenge etc Though isn't the idea of the mystical in the Doctor Who universe an anathema? Note NAs and Religion/mysticism.

This is not particular to the NAs, but for a novel to use TV as a character - then that is something particular, especially in a novel that likens the central character more to literary concepts. Note NAs as novel.

p262 'It'll get worse,' the Doctor told Yates. 'But one day, perhaps, it'll get better.' Note NAs a product of its time.

p266 Ace goes through an Orpheus thing... No Future is where Ace comes to a point of rest about Jan.