Doctor Who: A Handful of Stardust

by Jake Arnott · 2014

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The TARDIS is diverted to England in 1572, and the Sixth Doctorand Peri meet John Dee - 'mathematician, astrologer, alchemist, magician, and the greatest mind of our time'. ('Only of yourtime?', the Doctor asks, unimpressed.) But what brought them here? When the Doctor discovers that Dee and his assistant have come across a 'great disturbance in the cosmos, in the constellation of Cassiopeia,' he realizes that they are all in terrible danger.

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short · 45 pages
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