Christmas short stories!

Maybe a Christmas Sci-Fi story?

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Let’s see whether Bill is as good at multitasking as Tian evidently isn’t :wink:

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Okay more on the main topic:

I finished the first of Twelve Docors. It is a great story where Vikki wants to experience a great Christmas!

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It wasn’t Christmassy but it did feature a bear, a penguin and a pelican being shot to the moon in a barrel to bring home some green cheese - so I guess it at least was sci-fi adjacent :grin:

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Sounds fun! I want to hear that story now!

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Wohooo, Bill is already turning his kids into sci-fi fans!

Me too! Can we start Bill’s Bedtime Story Club, where we listen to Bill read bedtime stories for us with that beautiful and soothing Danish of his? :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I have now found 8 different Christmas anthologies!

Did I miss any?

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I really loved 12 Angels Weeping—not all the stories were bangers but most of them were good and some of them were fantastic. Celestial Intervention: A Gallifreyan Noir my beloved!!

The only other one I’ve read is Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury. I remember it mostly being really fun—Never Seen Cairo and All Our Christmases were excellent, standout stories.

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There are four Christmas-themed anthologies in the Big Finish Short Trips book series? Four?

I remember using Christmas as an excuse to hang out with friends after school and eat apples lol. But it’s actually discouraged by schools here. Because it’s a foreign holiday. As if kids are converting to Christianity by hanging out (as they usually do but) only a bit later in the evening, and eating apples and cane-shaped candies. It’s so ridiculous. :melting_face:

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I’ve read one of the Big Finish ones, and the 12 Doctors.

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L. F. G.

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You might also consider the Adventure Calendar stories, which were published online and are also Christmas themed. I haven’t read them yet, but they are on my list when Christmas gets closer.

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Sounds fun. Might do them as an advent calendar in December :santa:

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Read the second one now. it was also good. Feels like this is a good collection!

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Yay! Come December I’m reading the 12 Doctors of Christmas this year. :smiling_face:

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The third one where the Third Doctor, Jo and Mike Yates meats Jackie Tyler during the Christmas Invasion was fantastic! There is a great conversation between Jo and Jackie about what happens to the doctor’s companions when he moves on. Both thought that they/Rose was the first to travel with the Doctor

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Listened to Four, Five and Six during the afternoon when I had to do some tasks. They where good but nothing special.

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I’m planning to read the Sixth Doctor stories from those books (except Treasury, Ghosts and Christmas Around the World, as I’ve already read them).

ā€œDr Cadabraā€ from Ghosts was fantastic, and in second place I’d put ā€œThe Feast of Seven… Eight (and Nine)ā€ from Treasury and in third ā€œThe Crackersā€ from Ghosts.

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Every year I do a bit of a Christmas Doctor Who story binge and I’ve worked my way through the first three Big Finish Christmas anthologies and am about a third of the way through Around the World which I’ll continue with in a couple of weeks when December starts. I also have the Benny Christmas anthology on audio which I’ll listen to a few more of.

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