Expanded Universe Sourcebooks

Unauthorized Adventures in Time and Space

These books are an amazing labor of love thanks to several fans for the incredible hard work put into the PDFs.

• The First Doctor - Expanded

• The Second Doctor - Expanded

• The Third Doctor - Expanded

• The Fourth Doctor - Expanded

• Index at Siskoid.com

Since Cubicle 7 will release sourcebooks for each Doctor over the next year BUT does not have the license to include material from extracanonical sources (novels, audios, comics, etc.), it's up to us, the fans, to design relevant material on a not-for-profit basis. I've offered to compile and edit the project, and possibly even craft the resulting PDF files (with full graphics that mimic the sourcebooks themselves, I should hope). But obviously, this is a project that "takes a village". For example, I've got a good handle on the Big Finish audios, but have only read (or own and still have to read) a fraction of the novels. So I'm looking for volunteers, contributions etc. from fans of the extracanonical material. Here's what I think the project should look like, feel free to discuss:

• • One "Extracanonical Appendix Sourcebook" per Doctor, two for Doc7 and Doc8 (split between novels and everything else, given the sheer volume of stories from the gap between the Classic series, the TVM and then New Who).

  • At least one element from each novel and audio (character, monster, gadget, location or rule/mechanic).

  • The comics and short stories shouldn't ALL be represented (issue by issue, etc.), but attention should be given to companions featured in those stories (the 1st Doctor's grandkids, for example), and the odd memorable element.

  • No dedicated summaries of the stories. There are other sources for these, and I don't want it to be full of spoilers, but rather encourage people to discover these tales.

  • Art! I'm all for poaching the art from the book covers, etc., but it might be nice to have fan artists allow their work to be used to represent aliens, places, etc.

  • Credit where credit is due. All contributors credited in the work. I see no problem with people submitting work already posted on the forum.

  • The project is already hugely ambitious (if you know me, then you know it's the only way I like to do things), so extracanonical works that DON'T feature the Doctor (Bernice Summerfield, Jago&Litefoot, Dalek comics, etc.) would be their own book, somewhere down the line.

So how do I think we should proceed?

In a series of posts on this very board, one for each proposed book, I will give a list of all the stories that must be covered (with at least one element). Contributors can call certain stories or suggest which elements they might pull from them. As these are defined, I'll update the top post/master list. Contributions can be posted directly in the thread, sent via private message, whatever the contributor prefers. THIS thread will be used discuss technical, format and content issues as they relate to the entire project.

I'd love for each Appendix to "come out" in the same order as the proper sourcebooks, but still think it should all be done simultaneously as far as the compilation of elements goes. I'll try to write up a 1st Doctor master list soon, and the other Doctors quickly after that.

So what do you think? Who's in? Who's got ideas as to how this could all work? Let's talk!

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