July 10, 2024
Get an exclusive preview of the TARDIS' official memoir to celebrate the latest release from BBC Books.
I, TARDIS, the memoirs of the Doctor's iconic time and space machine, is out today in hardback and audiobook. Written by Steve Cole, this collection of stories from across time and space offers a unique account of the Doctor's adventures from the perspective of the TARDIS - and you can read an exclusive preview below.
I, TARDIS is now available in both hardback and audiobook (CD and Digital Download). Get your copy here.
The picosecond I am thumped into existence, my diagnostics kick in. I have sprung from the old but I am the same. Everything I had, I still possess.
Everything.
And, once, the old must have been new.
Scrutiny checks hum and flutter over hardware, firmware, wetware and software. Systems and registers. Controls and conceptions. My fault locator counts on its fingers and wrings its hands. There’s so much of me. I’m still building, spiralling outward. The new dark star at my centre threatens glorious collapse, pushing my potential into the infinite.
‘Stop… Stop. Concentrate on one thing. One thing…’
I remember the Doctor’s voice, echoing from so long ago, yet still fresh as successive seconds. Those are words I helped him to speak through new lips, that very first time I helped him change. They help my systems shift safely to stationary as I recall that when the Doctor’s body wore thin, I helped him to renew himself. A part of me exchanging life and light and power with a part of him.
We have changed and stayed the same across all of time and space.
But there was a time before.
The start of things.
It’s not easy to access the data around my origins. It is hazy.
Contradictory.
Gallifrey. Old gods. New lords. Black holes and dark matters and shush, don’t tell.
But more generally, I know that space-time units are grown rather than built. Like crystals forming not from a solution, but from all solutions. And, since we are born with every answer, we burn with the need for every question.
Structures and circuits, both mechanical and virtual, are grafted onto us and soldered with artron energy. At our core is a trans-dimensional link to a collapsed star, a vast power we must harness if we are to explore these questions correctly.
In the fullness of time – and in the vastness of space – explore I did.
Except, here’s the funny thing. There was one question I heard louder and brighter, over and over again, wherever I was taken.
HELP?
Each time I heard the question, I knew the right answer…
I, TARDIS is now available in both hardback and audiobook (CD and Digital Download). Get your copy here.