'Short Trips': 'The Qualities of Leadership' edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido

King Loran of Zalezna is dead, the victim of an attempted coup. However, with the help of the Eighth Doctor, Loran’s son and heir, Mihal, is able to stop the rebels and claim the throne. Now Mihal faces the prospect of ruling before he’s ready. By way of helping Mihal prepare for his new role, the Doctor tells him of the many leaders he’s met over the course of his lives...

Join the Doctor as he regales Prince Mihal with stories from throughout time and space. There are tales of the Roman Empire, from Emperor Theodoric to rebels Spartacus and Calpurnia to Rome’s enemy Queen Boudica. There’s King Arthur and Plato as they’ve never been seen before, Martin Luther and King Henry VIII in the midst of rewriting Europe’s religious landscape and an unexpected side of William Wallace. The Doctor also travels to such exotic worlds as Rishik and Mitidiki, and arrives at a deceptively mundane department store.

Leadership comes in many forms. Some are unexpected, some are less pleasant than you’d think and some aren’t quite what history would later paint them to be.


The stories:

'From Little Acorns...' by John S. Drew
'One Fateful Knight' by Peter David
'The Slave War' by Una McCormack
'Goths and Robbers' by Diane Duane
'Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen' by Terri Osborne
'The Price of Conviction' by Richard C. White
'God Send Me Well to Keep' by Linnea Dodson
'Peaceable Kingdom' by Steve Savile
'Rock Star' by Robert T. Jeschonek
'On a Pedestal' by Kathleen O. David
'Cleanup on Aisle Two' by James Swallow
'The Spindle of Necessity' by Allyn Gibson
'Epilogue' by John S. Drew

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Publication Date:
May 2008


Notes:
*Published by Big Finish