Interactive saga timeline
The published journey in experienced order, with historical placement kept separate.
First edition · Sources are the public chapters. Select a spoiler boundary before opening later material.
This timeline follows the order in which the saga presents the Doctor’s journey. That is not automatically the same thing as historical time: TARDIS travel, divergent histories and remembered events prevent book number from becoming a date.
Experienced stop 01 · Book 1 Threads of Becoming
A self remade; a universe coming apart.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 02 · Book 2 The Spiral Accord
A distress signal from Europa, and a story that will not stay spoken.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 03 · Book 3 Iron Testament
An intervention in wartime that reaches into the Doctor’s own limits.
Historical placement: Earth, wartime Berlin; the prose supplies the setting, not a complete calendar chronology.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 04 · Book 4 Carnival of Glass
A celebration whose audience wants more than a performance.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 05 · Book 5 The Shattered Treaty
Peace has rules. Someone must ask who wrote them.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 06 · Book 6 Of Time and Tragedy
Rescue has limits. Care continues beyond them.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 07 · Book 7 The Day Gallifrey Slept
A homecoming to a world whose silence is a warning.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 08 · Book 8 The Clockwork Masquerade
London’s Great Exhibition displays a dangerous ideal of perfection.
Historical placement: London, Great Exhibition, 1851 (Book 8, Chapter 1).
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 09 · Book 9 The Silence of Silver
An abandoned colony sends a request to remember.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 10 · Book 10 The Forgotten Cellar
A door in the TARDIS opens onto lives that were never lived.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 11 · Book 11 The Throne of Ash
The remnants of command survive the destruction of an empire.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 12 · Book 12 The Once and Future Owl
MINO is summoned to become what an authority says he should be.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 13 · Book 13 The Sun That Swallowed Tomorrow
A world without a sun holds an impossible store of futures.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 14 · Book 14 The Man Who Buried the Master
A sealed archive reopens an old act of mercy—or something less certain.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 15 · Book 15 The Masterpiece That Killed The Universe
Someone has made an exhibition out of the travellers’ wounds.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 16 · Book 16 The Hong Kong Chronicle
An ordinary city begins losing people from its records.
Historical placement: Hong Kong in the contemporary technological era; no year is asserted here without a chapter-level date.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 17 · Book 17 The Iron Orchard
A working moon hides a cost its production figures cannot explain.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 18 · Book 18 The Plastic Parish
A welcoming community offers a troubling answer to grief.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 19 · Book 19 The House That Remembered Him
A city has kept something the Doctor once put down.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 20 · Book 20 The Circle of Ravens
A companion becomes the centre of a struggle over possibility.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 21 · Book 21 Where the Light Goes Twice
Language and landscape offer more than one way to read time.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.
Opening chapter · Spoiler-light guide · Completed-book recap · ending spoilers
Experienced stop 22 · Book 22 Everything Vareth Was
Book 22 · A spoiler-light introduction to the current adventure.
Historical placement: No single historical date is established in the spoiler-light guide; experienced order only.