Lots of planets have a north!

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

OK, pot calling the kettle black (he had been so much like her when he had been in the service), but he was older now and (he liked to think) wiser: he knew this was not healthy.

Hey, so, here's a bunch of alternative covers for the 3rd (and last) volume of "Les Songes du Roi Griffu", the french fantasy comic series I've been drawing since 2020.

-> A Day to Yourselves by Dave Rudden (from Doctor Who: The Wintertime Paradox)

Top 5

A Day to Yourselves by Dave Rudden (from Doctor Who: The Wintertime Paradox) This is probably the one I’d most strongly recommend going into as blind as possible, but the basic premise really is exactly what the title promises, Nine gets a day to himself. Which, if you know Nine, is not exactly something he allows himself very often. It’s quiet, reflective, and has some absolutely delicious angst simmering under the surface in a way that feels painfully true to his character. It also does a really good job translating his mannerisms into prose, which is harder than people think. Nine has such a specific rhythm to him, the abruptness, the deflections, the way he weaponizes humor and casualness to avoid sincerity for approximately three seconds at a time, and this story captures that beautifully without making him feel like a caricature of himself.

The Red Bicycle by Gary Russell (from The Twelve Doctors of Christmas) I usually do not love stories that exist purely to explain a throwaway line because not every tiny detail needs a tragic backstory stapled onto it, but this is how you do it right. The reference is there, sure, but the story fully stands on its own and turns into something surprisingly thoughtful about Gallifrey, memory, and the mechanics of time itself.

The Patchwork Pierrot by Scott Handcock (from Doctor Who: Tales of Terror) Just a genuinely solid spooky Doctor Who story. I don’t want to say too much because part of the fun is letting it unfold, but it absolutely nails a very specific classic Who storytelling element that a shocking number of modern AND classic stories completely mishandle. It understands the texture of that kind of horror instead of just copying the surface aesthetics.

Pitter-Patter by Robert Shearman (from Doctor Who Annual 2006) Honestly feels like reading the script to a really strong bottle episode. The side characters are arguably more of the focus than Nine or Rose, and that works massively in its favor. Also this story is basically “what if you trapped the Doctor inside the video game 60 Seconds!”

Rose and the Snow Window by Jenny T Colgan (from The Day She Saved the Doctor) Rose is the main focus here, but what really got me was how well Nine himself is written. It’s one of the best prose interpretations of his voice and mannerisms I’ve read so far, behild only to Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner and A Day to Yourselves by Dave Rudden. Also, in true Doctor fashion, he accidentally gets married again.

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