History 101 (novel)

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History 101

Author	Mags L Halliday
Series	Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	58
Subject	Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Anji
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	July 2002
Pages	275
ISBN	0-563-53854-6
Preceded by	The Crooked World
Followed by	Camera Obscura

History 101 is a BBC Books original novel written by Mags L Halliday and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.^[1]

Synopsis

Set in the Spanish Civil War, the book (Halliday's first novel) explores the construction of history and the experiences of George Orwell.

The Doctor, Fitz, and Anji, after viewing Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" at the 1937 Paris exhibition, realise time has been changed. They travel back to Spain in order to uncover what affected the artist's vision of this terrible event.

Author

Liz Halliday (born 1971) is a British author who writes under the name "Mags L Halliday" in Doctor Who-series of science fiction. She is distinct from the writer Liz Holliday, who has also contributed to Doctor Who-related science fiction. In addition to History 101 (2002)^[2]^[3]^[4] she contributed to the Faction Paradox series including the novel Warring States (2005).

Reception

In Interzone, Matt Hills writes, "The strengths of this book lie in its own historical research - displayed via a bibliographical list of reading - and in its depiction of an alien race that objectively seeks to record history, the Absolute. [...] Notable for its cubist-inspired fragmentation of perspective, and its Orwellian clock that strikes 13, this addition to the range's story arc is a satisfying read in its own right."^[5]

In Continuum, Alan McKee writes, "Setting her story of time-travelling aliens in the midst of the Spanish civil war, and using Picasso's Guernica as a metaphor for the multiple perspectives from which humans see the world around them, Halliday argues that it is precisely the act of making sense - the existence of culture - which defines humanity. More than this, sensemaking is - she argues, necessarily subjective, and an aspiration to 'objectivity' is not only impossible, but undesirable."^[6]

Piers D. Britton, in TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who, describes the book as "one of the most intricate and demanding" of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, and states "History 101 digs deep into the heartland concerns of Dr. Who: the flow of time and possibility."^[7]

Notes

History 101 is the only EDA not to have an italicised note at the end of the back cover blurb identifying it as "another in the series of adventures of the Eighth Doctor". The blurb describes the novel as if it were a history textbook, and the last paragraph continues this conceit by explaining it should be read as part of "the ongoing 'Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor' history course".

The chapter names are all Clash song titles, translated into Catalan (for example, "Una Casa Europea Segura"="Safe European Home").

References

^ "History 101". BBC. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ Doctor Who Guide-History 101
^ sfbooklist.co.uk Archived 21 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ Google Books-History 101
^ Hills, Matt (February 2003). "'Neo-Retro' Tales of a Time Lord". Interzone. No. 186. p. 58. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
^ McKee, Alan (2003). "Popular Theory". Continuum. 17 (2): 207–213. doi:10.1080/10304310302741. S2CID 218542435 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
^ Britton, Piers D. (2011). TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 182–183. ISBN 9780857720092. Retrieved 20 January 2023.

External links

The Cloister Library - History 101
History 101 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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