I spent part of the afternoon at the storage shed. I wasn’t searching for anything in particular<\/i>–I hoped to find a book on the history of astronomy I knew I owned and couldn’t find. If I didn’t find it, though, no great loss.<\/p>\n
I went through box after box.<\/p>\n
A book on the historical Arthur. That went in a pile of things to take home.<\/p>\n
My Lord of the Rings<\/i> tarot deck. That went in the pile of things to take home.<\/p>\n
The other half of my Doctor Who<\/i> audio collection. That definitely<\/i> went in the pile of things to take home.<\/p>\n
Some books on the history of philosophy. Those would be useful, definitely.<\/p>\n
As I leafed through one box, I saw a book I’d become afraid I’d lost. It was called Walking in Eternity<\/i>. It was a Doctor Who<\/i> fanthology, a book of stories written and published to raise money for a charity in the UK. It went in the pile of things to take home, too.<\/p>\n
I’d lost part of my library in an unfortunate mildew accident. I’d assumed that Walking in Eternity<\/i> was one of those books that I simply hadn’t gotten to, that it was down in the basement and done for. I’d think about it from time to time and feel, well, sad<\/i> about its loss because it’s something I know that I could never<\/i> replace.<\/p>\n
But there it was, in the box in the storage shed, safe and dry, so I had to take it home. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Walking in Eternity<\/i> has a very cute story by Star Trek: Corps of Engineers<\/b> cover artist Michael Collins<\/a> entitled “Hall of Me.” It’s a fanwanky piece, set in something like Star Trek<\/i>‘s Captain’s Table, where different incarnations of the Doctor get together and knock back a few drinks. The story has the fourth Doctor from “The Dark Dimension” (the unfilmed thirtieth-anniversary story starring the older Tom Baker as a fourth Doctor who never regenerated in “Logopolis”) meeting Jonathan Creek (revealed to be a Doctor from an alternate timeline) and Jessica B. Fletcher (also the witch from the film Bedknobs & Broomsticks<\/i> and revealed to be an alternate fifth Doctor created in a timeline where the fourth Doctor destroyed the Daleks forever in “Genesis of the Daleks”). It’s cute, in that fanwankish way, and at the end there’s an appearance by Jean-Luc Picard and Benjamin Sisko who had taken a wrong turn and think the Hall is the Captain’s Table.<\/p>\n I’m glad I recovered the book. I’m glad it’s safe. I feel fortunate, indeed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent part of the afternoon at the storage shed. I wasn’t searching for anything in particular–I hoped to find a book on the history of astronomy I knew I owned and couldn’t find. If I didn’t find it, though, no great loss. I went through box after box. A book on the historical Arthur.Continue reading “On a Fortunate Find”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4093],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}