Short Trips: The Muses

Doctor Who book

Short Trips: The Muses
Series	Big Finish Short Trips
Release number	4
Writer	Jacqueline Rayner
Publisher	Big Finish Productions
ISBN	ISBN 1-84435-009-6
Number of pages	209
Release date	September 2003
Preceded by	Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors
Followed by	Short Trips: Steel Skies

Short Trips: The Muses is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Jacqueline Rayner and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The stories are based on the nine Muses. Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

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Muse	Title	Author	Doctor	Featuring
Terpsichore	Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing	Robert Shearman	6th	None
Thalia	The Brain of Socrates	Gareth Roberts	4th	Leela
Melpomene	Mordieu	Tara Samms	8th	None
Euterpe	An Overture Too Early^[1]	Simon Guerrier	3rd	Sarah and The Brigadier
Polyhymnia	Hymn of the City	Sarah Groenewegen	7th	Ace
Erato	Confabula	Ian Potter	5th	Nyssa
Urania	The Astronomer’s Apprentice	Simon A. Forward	2nd	Jamie and Victoria
Calliope	Katarina in the Underworld	Steve Lyons	None	Katarina
Clio	The Glass Princess	Justin Richards	All	None

^ An Overture Too Early was later republished in Short Trips: Time Signature. The later collection explains and elaborates upon the events of this story.