{"id":1830,"date":"2008-05-21T06:14:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T11:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2008-05-21T06:14:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T11:14:33","slug":"on-the-spindle-of-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;The Spindle of Necessity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s out.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Doctor Who<\/i> anthology, <i>Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership<\/i>, is making its way into readers hands as I type this.  Some of the authors and readers have had the book for about two weeks; I myself should be getting a copy a little later this week.<\/p>\n<p>I have a story in the book entitled &#8220;The Spindle of Necessity,&#8221; about the encounter between the sixth Doctor and Plato of Athens.<\/p>\n<p>The book also has brilliant stories from Terri Osborne, Richard White, Diane Duane, and a half dozen others.  Like mine, mainly in an historical vein.  More specifically, the &#8220;celebrity historical&#8221; like new series episodes &#8220;The Unquiet Dead&#8221; or &#8220;The Shakespeare Code,&#8221; as the Doctor has adventures with leaders past and future.<\/p>\n<p>(Wait! you say.  How could I have read them without having the book?  The galleys came as a PDF of the entire book; I read the whole thing last November.)<\/p>\n<p>The boook is available directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/24-Doctor-Who-Short-Trips--The-Quality-of-Leadership\">Big Finish<\/a>.  Other retailers, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whona.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=W&#038;Product_Code=bfst24&#038;Category_Code=bfbooks\">WhoNA<\/a>, have it in stock as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flockcredit\" style=\"text-align: right; color: #CCC; font-size: x-small;\">Blogged with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\/blogged-with-flock\" style=\"color: #999; font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Flock Browser\">Flock Browser<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s out. The Doctor Who anthology, Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership, is making its way into readers hands as I type this. Some of the authors and readers have had the book for about two weeks; I myself should be getting a copy a little later this week. I have a story in the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1830\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On &#8220;The Spindle of Necessity&#8221;&#8221;<\/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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}