Doctor Who: Telos Novellas [001] - Time and Relative by Kim Newman & Dave Stone

Author:Kim Newman & Dave Stone
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9781903889022
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Published: 2002-02-28T23:00:00+00:00

Tuesday, April 3rd, 1963

No school today. Or the rest of the week. And then it’s the holidays. But after Easter, it’ll be back to normal.

It’s still cold, but sunny.

I tested a couple of snowmen. They’re empty of intelligence.

The electricity is back on, and the gas and water and the BBC. A lot of people died in the ‘cold snap’, but no one is mentioning the Cold Knights. Grandfather and I aren’t the only people on the planet who remember selectively.

Grandfather, at least, is remembering a lot.

By breaking the rule of non-interference, he seems to have dispelled his own fog-patches. I’m frustrated that it doesn’t work that way for me.

I don’t think I ever believed in the rule.

It was just something written into my brain with all the other stuff I’ve spent my time on Earth discarding. Grandfather stayed in the Box, but, despite qualms, he let me go to School. He must have had a reason for that.

I think he was using me to test the human race, sending me out among them to make a decision for him, to think through a problem he was too old to tackle by himself. If so, it was a close thing.

There’s Gillian and John and Zack and Malcolm. There was John’s Dad giving up his life for a girl he probably wouldn’t have liked if he’d thought about it. There was Dolly, feeling responsible for a little boy because he wandered into a café on her shift. There was Malcolm offering up his most treasured possession for a cause he didn’t understand. And there’s ‘Love Me Do’, Albert Finney with an air-rifle, The Magic Flute, Lyon’s Maid ice cream, St Pancras Station, Hancock’s Half-Hour.

But there’s F.M. and Mr Carker and the Haighs. And that’s not counting Nazis and atomic missiles and Double Geography.

I could have gone the other way.

If Gillian hadn’t talked to me on my first day at Coal Hill School, I might have been with Grandfather, standing back and letting the Cold Knights retake the planet and good riddance to bad rubbish.

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