All recommendations are from the new series
18 Seconds by Kate Bolin
'He starts off by going north. Even though 'north' is a somewhat moot point when travelling in the five dimensions, it's still a place to start.' A neat character study of the Ninth Doctor. My favourite of the many stories that tell where/when the Doctor went in the titular 18 seconds
[Added 29/03/2007; Character Piece; 1000-2500; Doctor Who]
Entangled by Doyle
'You’ve always liked the thought of non-locality.' A clever & surprisingly sympathetic portrait of Adam, with a generous side helping of physics
[Added 13/06/2005; Character Piece; 1000-2500; Doctor Who]
An Inordinate Fondness by Dame Ruth
'"It's like being stuck inside a New Age relaxation video!"' This extended vignette meanders a bit, but with excellent character voices & interesting world building, I'm happy to go along for the ride
[Added 05/08/2008; Character Piece; 2500-6000; Doctor Who]
Looked Up in Perfect Silence at the Stars by Doyle
'If she concentrated with every ounce of herself she could see wisps of colour against the sky, a shadow of the Northern Lights.' A clever, disturbing short, set on Gallifrey, which centres around the Time War
[Added 29/03/2007; Drama; 1000-2500; Doctor Who]
No Sleepers Must Sleep by Fahye
'"Queen Lucy the Valiant," he says, and she can't work out if he's teasing her or not. "Do you have valour, do you think?"' A portrait of Lucy Cole as she becomes Lucy Saxon. Mesmerising and disturbing in equal parts
[Added 11/07/2008; Character Piece; 2500-6000; Doctor Who]
Nowhere Man by Selena
'"Being an undercover agent isn't glamorous heroism, children. Not if you want to survive and be effective. It usually involves fawning around people you despise, selling out people you like and doing absolutely anything to reach your goal."' An intelligent adventure plot which features the Torchwood team during the Year That Never Was. Garak, as always, is a bonus (Doctor Who/Torchwood/DS9)
[Added 05/08/2008; Drama; 6000-20,000; Doctor Who; Crossover]
Paleolinguistics, Paleolinguistics (The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Remix) by Astrogirl & KindKit
'A language with one speaker is a dead tongue. A language with two is alive.' Intriguing pair of shorts which highlight the differences & similarities between the Doctor & the Master
[Added 15/07/2008; Character Piece; <1000; Doctor Who]
Planned Obsolescence by Miggy
'Should an agent find himself/herself/itself stranded, he/she/it should immediately place an approved distress beacon model at a location that will hold a prominent place in the upcoming timeline of the area.' A clever story set after 'The Parting of the Ways', very much in the spirit of the series
[Added 05/12/2005; Drama; 2500-6000; Doctor Who]
The Polar Bears' Golf Club by Doyle
'Travelling with the Doctor, she'd sometimes thought about dying, but she'd never imagined it like this ... while she was posing as a schoolboy and wearing a really big false moustache.' Longer adventures are relatively rare in this fandom and this is a real treat, with just the right blend of slapstick humour, wacky action & clever plotting
[Added 05/08/2008; Drama; 2500-6000; Doctor Who]
The Ragged Edge by Jonquil
'On Gallifrey, each baby falls down only once.' Memorable short which captures both the alienness and the uniqueness of the Doctor
[Added 11/07/2008; Character Piece; <1000; Doctor Who]
So Let the Bells Ring Out by Doyle
'The flat hadn't burnt down and the Doctor hadn't disappeared; the microwave was in a hundred bits across the living room floor, but since it had fallen off the back of a Dixon's lorry in the first place he didn't think Jackie could complain too much.' Mickey, after 'The Christmas Invasion'. Doyle has an eye for dialogue, and the characters are all absolutely spot on
[Added 12/07/2008; Character Piece; 1000-2500; Doctor Who]
Spring Cleaning by infiniteviking
'He had changed; the equations had not.' Well-written portrait of regeneration from the inside
[Added 01/06/2005; Character Piece; 1000-2500; Doctor Who]
To Make In Hell For Us A Heaven by Tara LJC O'Shea
'Her blonde hair was twisted into a simple chignon that made him want to introduce entropy into her carefully maintained existence.' LJC draws parallels with Nine & Rose in this character study of the Master in relation to Lucy
[Added 05/08/2008; Character Piece; 1000-2500; Doctor Who]
A Triumph of Necessity by mswyrr
'The human body wasn't quite up to snuff.' Clever, funny & poignant, all at the same time. The shipper fic to end all shipper fic!
[Added 01/06/2005; Humour; <1000; Doctor Who]
Ulysses by Rheanna
'It's like a fingerprint on his soul, the one remaining touch of the fantastic on a life which has been in every other respect absolutely and perfectly unremarkable.' Insightful AU in which 'Human Nature'/'Family of Blood' ended differently
[Added 11/07/2008; Character Piece; 2500-6000; Doctor Who]
The War to End All Wars by Snowballjane
A precisely characterised short story, with more of the feel of an episode than much Ninth Doctor fiction. While the WW1 setting is a common one, here it's used to good effect in drawing parallels with the Doctor
[Added 22/07/2005; Drama; 2500-6000; Doctor Who]
