Doctor Who Heart of Tardis by Dave Stone

The provided text features excerpts from the Doctor Who novel Heart of TARDIS, which explores a metfictional narrative involving reality-warping phenomena in the town of Lychburg. The author, Dave Stone, begins with a preamble regarding the structural use of asterisks in fiction before transitioning into a story where characters like the Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria encounter a world plagued by temporal inconsistencies and an alien intelligence known as Continuity. This entity has constructed a "killing-bottle" environment where different eras and fictional tropes collide, resulting in absurdities and gruesome murders. Meanwhile, military figures like Katharine Delbane and the Brigadier grapple with the Golgotha Project, a failed Cold War experiment intended to bridge dimensions through human belief. The narrative concludes with an appendix featuring a satirical pulp magazine that further blurs the lines between reality and fiction. Ultimately, the sources describe a universe where the fabric of time is fraying, turning existence into a series of incoherent, recurring scenes.