Now, at the end of last year, I wrote a full-length Doctor Who script. Maybe harder to find than the script itself is the blog post which accompanied its release on, a few days after Moffat was announced as RTD’s replacement. So for visibility’s sake, here’s another download link!

Lolita is at least partially vampiric.A few people have mentioned to me that, despite the fact that Lawrence Miles’ Doctor Who spec script “The Book of the World” is publicly hosted in several places, it’s still hard to find for those who don’t know where to look.

( 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