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|title=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories

|author=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and others

|publisher=Puffin

|date=October 2014

|summary=A great collection of short, all-ages Doctor Who stories, that make a fitting celebration of his twelve regular incarnations.

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How long do you keep your birthday presents for? A week, a month, a year – or life? Is that time-scale different, perhaps, when you're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who is, of course, both 51 (in our earthly, televisual representation) and 900 and more in human years as a character. In 2013 we were given a great book that gave us a story for every Doctor Who we've seen on TV, in honour of the 50th birthday proceedings. But now is a year on, and we're a further Doctor down the line. And so what was ''11 Doctors, 11 Stories'' is now ''12 Doctors, 12 Stories.'' So while many of us would have cherished and kept said birthday present, the only addition is the last, which like the rest was available as an e-book. So it's worth revisiting what I said about the book last time, then chucking in the (what might only be temporarily) concluding story at the end.