Episode Twelve: Vengeance Waiting

Our story races towards a titanic close. All turns on our vengeful heros of the deep, safeguarding the warm lights of Britain against a cruel and xenophobic world. But what of this new twisty-turny twist? Can the biocidal plans of the Center for World Peace become any more nefarious? Why is Sara so irritated by the Doctor? And what is the gleam of englightenment in the eye of the Bull?

Feast on souls, dear listener, and on the penultimate last episode but one of the Shadow in Eternity!

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Doctors in the Real Conference

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War are blogging from inside the Non-Proliferation Review Conference (link here). I don’t expect they’ll be exposing a Gaiacidal plot from the fifth dimension. But they will be trying to deal with a gaiacidal plot originating from us humans in the good old three dimensions plus time. So I’m glad that there are some real Doctors in the UN house.

Commenting on the President of Iran’s speech, they say:

Ahmadinejad […] stated plainly that any country that develops and stockpiles nuclear weapons only exposes itself to their hazards; that the “sole purpose of nuclear weapons is to annihilate all human beings and destroy the environment,” and that possession of nuclear weapons is “disgusting and shameful.” He spoke harshly and at length about the US, charging that it “has never respected any of its commitments.”

President Ahmadinejad will have some explaining to do, somewhere down the line, if Iran eventually commits the “disgusting and shameful” act of acquiring its own nuclear arsenal. In the meantime, his critique of the double standard that has placed enormous strain on the non-proliferation regime did not sound very different from what NGOs and many other NPT member states have been saying for many years.

Ahmadinejad’s entire speech (along with all the government statements from today and from each day of the Review Conference) is on the Reaching Critical Will website.

Two: Ripping Corpse Attack

‘Then, finally, Doctor . . .’

‘Then, finally, Doctor—can you tell me the meaning of this?’ The Master Doctor waved his hand rapidly several times before his eyes. ‘Do you see?’ he asked intently. He did it again, closer to the Doctor’s face. . . . ‘What does it mean, Doctor?’

Ripping Corpse Attack | The Shadow in Eternity, Episode Two. Podcast midnight, Sunday 21st Feb.

Scientific ethics . . .

‘No. Scientific ethics tells us that the least valuable person must be sacrificed.’ In the dim light, he looked calmly from the cleaner to Sara; and his eyes gleamed.

The Shadow in Eternity, second episode released midnight, Sunday 21st February.

One: The Baby Professor

Episode 1 | The Shadow in Eternity

The Shadow in Eternity

‘Consider, for a moment . . . ‘

. . . she raised her finger for attention.

‘Consider, for a moment, the combination of morphogenetic energy with the tricarboxylic acid cycle that drives living cells. That would be dreadful adversary: a superhuman monster, driven both by soul-force and cell chemistry, seeking revenge on the living for the indignity of its own aborted death.’

She looked sombre. ‘But such a thing could happen only when soul force flows back into a body at the exact moment of organic death; and that never happens.’

Doctor Who and the Shadow in Eternity. Weekly fan fiction podcast, begins midnight, 14th February.

The Doctor will call

Snow is foaming across York’s slate roofs as I write this.

The world’s bones are fractured: broken into rich and poor; ice-locked and sweltering; the listeners and the listened-to; the living and the dead.

Where is the bone-setter who can heal these breaks? Can the patient be persuaded that its fever, left unchecked, will devour it?

The Doctor will call.

But – this shadow! That has fallen across our hearts – is it the shadow of humanity’s collective guilt? Or is something yet more terrible drawing close to the surface? Some kraken that will beshadow the stars themselves?

The snow has ended. But this story will shortly begin.