Issue 39 of The Tides of Time has now been published and is free to download from this page. Thanks to all the members and friends of the Oxford Doctor Who Society who have contributed or helped in in other ways.

Limited print copies of this issue are still available to order by getting in touch at outidesoftime@gmail.com

Front and back matter

• Front cover with illustration by Sam Sheppard, after Vesalius
• Contents
• Editorial – Sadness of a Sontaran? by Matthew Kilburn
• Back Cover

Articles

• Eclosure of the Cybermen Insect parallels by Matthew Kilburn
• The End of the Universe Cosmic apocalypse in Doctor Who and its consequences by William Shaw
• Maximizing Smiliness Machine learning in Smile by Louise Dennis
• Nostalgia: 1997 The Eight Doctors discovered by James Ashworth
• Ood for Thought by Tom Marshall
• The Problem of Ashildr/Me by James Baillie
• From the Roof of the World to the Great Capital. Marco Polo, over fifty years later, part two by Katrin Thier
• St Luke’s, St Luke, and the Doctor How long has the Doctor been at St Luke’s University, and why is this university appropriate? by Matthew Kilburn
• Women’s Work Women and acafandom on the margins, by Melissa Beattie
• Xenobiology 1: Time Lords by James Ashworth
• Xenobiology 2: Adipose by James Ashworth
• Xenobiology 3: Ood by James Ashworth
• Xenobiology: Further Reading by James Ashworth

Fiction

• A Stone’s Throw, part one by John Salway
• How Sister Peren Came to Karn by Matthew Kilburn

Poems

• The Curse of Peladon by William Shaw
• Haikus by William Shaw
• Snakedance by William Shaw

The text of one article was revised on 6 June 2017 and the contents page changed accordingly after the author pointed out problems with a title. They were right. An editor must be an autocrat, but a considerate one…

The full PDF can be downloaded here as a PDF or if you want to download items one by one they’ve also been uploaded separately.