Short Trips: Defining Patterns

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[edit] Publisher's Summary

The known universe is home to countless trillions of lives, all interweaving with each other and affecting the line of history. When someone makes a decision, no matter how significant or seemingly irrelevant, they cause unknown effects throughout the ages…

Perhaps other, unreachable, factors at are play too: does the universe have a destiny? Are we all predetermined to follow a particular path? Do we reap what we sow or is it a case of what will be will be? Are coincidences really just that, or do we miss their deeper meanings?

Everywhere he looks, the Doctor sees the same patterns – the same events, decisions and actions cropping up again and again. Look at the bigger picture, however, and maybe – just maybe – you’ll see how the universe works. How the universe lives…

But, as the Doctor and his companions discover, are these patterns really there? Or do we, by the very nature of seeing them, define them?

[edit] Individual Stories

Title	Author	Featuring
Machine Time	George Ivanoff	Fourth Doctor
The Tide and Time	Neil Corry	Seventh Doctor Ace
Losing the Audience	Mat Coward	First Doctor Susan Foreman
One Card for the Curious	Xanna Eve Chown	Seventh Doctor Ace
Séance	John Davies	Seventh Doctor Ace
The Celestial Harmony Engine	Ian Briggs	Seventh Doctor
Mutiny	Robert Dick	Harry Sullivan
Numb	Dave Owen	Third Doctor Sarah Jane Smith
Closing the Account	Stephen Hatcher	Seventh Doctor
The Great Escapes	Simon Guerrier	Lucie Miller
Loose Change	Steven Savile	Sixth Doctor
Lepidoptery for Beginners	John Dorney	Second Doctor Jamie Zoe Heriot
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	Chris Thomas	Second Doctor Fifth Doctor Jamie Turlough
Homework	Michael Coen	Second Doctor Jamie Zoe Heriot
The Devil Like a Bear	Brian Willis	Seventh Doctor
Stanley	Lizzie Hopley	Fourth Doctor Leela
Twilight's End	Cavan Scott & Mark Wright	Seventh Doctor Nimrod
The Book of My Life	Ian Mond	Sixth Doctor
Linking Material	Ian Farrington	Sixth Doctor Emily Chaudhry Will Hoffman

[edit] Notes

• Michael Coen was the winner of a competition, run by Big Finish, to find new writing talent.