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    The Great Intellinux: Doctor Who fan fiction
    The Great Intellinux: Doctor Who fan fiction
    The Great Intellinux: Doctor Who fan fiction
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    The Great Intellinux: Doctor Who fan fiction

    By Matthew Sawyer

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    What is this Doctor Who fan fiction about? Well, I’m getting old and my favorite Doctor is Tom Baker – me being American, he’s who I first met. David Tenant is in a league of his own and he travels in this century. This modern age gives his incarnation an advantage. So, I’m leveling the field and bringing back Tom as the Doctor and Romana 2 as his companion. I’m giving both the modern, twenty-first century lore of Doctor Who.

    The Time Lord and Lady come to Cupertino, California. They’re here for an art show... Christmas come later.

    Apologies to Linus Torvalds. Linux is great. The Doctor merely makes the OS even more safe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Sawyer
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9781310067549
    The Great Intellinux: Doctor Who fan fiction
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    Matthew Sawyer

    I hate talking about myself. Like everyone, I suppose, I am a bit narcissistic, but not egotistical. My own failure for success is that I just do not think much about myself. That is not to say I spend too much time thinking about others. In truth, I should think more of everyone; and there is a dull guilt attached to that confession. There is something of who I am, I am old enough for regrets.At my age, I am prone to think about immortality And being an atheist, there seems no alternative but science. Even so, I know that science is beyond my lifetime. I have no faith nor hope, nor do I believe in ghosts, elves, unicorns...In that hopeless disbelief, I write so there remains a record of accomplishments in my life. Unrecognized and even scorned, I continue to tell stories so I will be remembered after I am dead. My struggle with grammar and punctuation are evidence of my effort to make my writing decipherable. Because, what success means to me are hieroglyphics upon a Pharaoh's tomb.

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      The Great Intellinux - Matthew Sawyer

      The Great Intellinux

      Doctor Who fan fiction

      by

      Matthew Sawyer

      Published by Matthew Sawyer at Smashwords 2013

      The Great Intellinux is a fictional story. Doctor Who and the characters in this story are properties of Doctor Who. I submit this tale as a fan for fans of the Doctor Who television series. Linus Torvalds is also a public figure and I hope I do him homage when I make him a friend of the Doctor.

      The Great Intellinux by Matthew Sawyer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Please contact the author for permissions beyond the scope of this license.

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      The Great Intellinux

      Episode 1

      The sun shines on central California even in the early twenty-first century. Westward and on the coast where the air is thicker, the sky is as bright as that over desert-land. Outside, the squat and flat buildings throughout the city of Cupertino proffer meager shade. Inside, they are refrigerated to temperatures equivalent a Spring morning.

      The Santa Cruz Mountains are on the wrong side of the globe, the Doctor tells Romana. The people on the West Coast don't have the benefit of early evenings. Every day is one late afternoon.

      These two travelers fly over the American mountain crest in the TARDIS, the Doctor's traveling time machine. Stuck in the blue shape of a last-century British police call box, the also space-craft zips through the air with both its door open wide. A protective pressure keeps out gale force winds and lets inside a breeze.

      Romana stands gently blown in the doorway. Her strawberry hair and waist-length ivory scarf waft into the beige console room. I'm happy you put the desktop back. The air circulation is much better in this one.

      The Doctor glances up from behind a bobbing hexagonal TARDIS console. He sniffs the breeze, one too weak and can't disturb one lock of his wild hair. His ridiculously long scarf and woolen overcoat stay locked in place, both too heavy and more inert than the force field at the front entrance.

      I was thinking of putting the top down, for this flight you know, the Doctor tells his companion.

      Romana protests. Please, no.

      The Time Lady spins from the open

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