Doctor Who/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (PG)

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Title: Seeking Lethe by Kathryn Andersen
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: kerravonsen
Author Website: KatSpace
Why this must be read:

If you've ever wanted to read a fic about the Ninth Doctor getting drunk with Zaphod Beeblebrox then this is your chance. And if that's not a good enough reason to read it this fic also contains the single greatest description of the Time War ever written down.


The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about Time Lords:

The Time Lords may or may not have existed. Legend has it that they were the first race to discover time travel. Instead of doing something exciting, like conquering the universe, they stayed on their home planet, wearing elaborate and uncomfortable fashions, and writing treatises about peace, stability and mathematics. They had a strict non-interference policy: they wouldn't interfere with other civilisations, unless, of course, they discovered time travel; whereupon the Time Lords would quietly ensure that it turned out that those others hadn't discovered time travel after all. They preferred an orderly universe, where one thing happened after another. They were a stuffy, solemn lot, apart from those few who left out of boredom, megalomaniac ambitions, or pursuing research that wasn't approved of by bothersome ethics committees.

So it continued for thousands of years, until another race discovered time travel, who couldn't be tricked, bribed or bluffed into giving up the discovery: the Daleks. This species was about as different from the Time Lords as you could get: they did want to conquer the universe, and exterminate all other life forms[1]. These irreconcilable differences resulted in the Last Great Time War, which raged across the universe, the future and the past, until both sides ended up annihilating each other so thoroughly that they had never existed.


Seeking Lethe

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Thank you!

It was fun to write -- especially the Guide entry! 8-)

Probably a better link for the story is on my own site:
http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/SeekingLethe

I've noticed that the Multiverse feedback form doesn't always work; I get the email, but there's no content, so I don't know what folks have said!

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

That's the link fixed so it goes to your site. I thought it was a smashing fic, thank you for writing it.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks!