The only thing with more random possibilities than a Doctor Who anthology is an Iris Wildthyme one. That's primarily thanks to the gin. For those who enjoy the transtemporal adventuress extraordinaire and her adventures on her bus that's smaller on the inside, there's nothing better than this. And though I'd never encountered the character of Panda before, I'm now a devoted fan. The book's start is a little rough-- "A Gamble with Wildthyme" by Steve Lyons is cute at best, "Sovereign" by Mags L Halliday never comes together, and "The Unhappy Medium" by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott is one joke stretched out beyond its breaking point, and it's an old joke at that-- but the book begins to sparkle with Stuart Douglas's "Future Legend", it shakes the sides with Philip Purser-Hallard's "Battleship Anathema" (guess what show's being parodied), and blows the mind with Cody Schell's "Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta" (his first publication, the jerkface). And none of the stories are particularly bad, or even remotely bad, aside from Steven Wickham's "Not a Drop", which is a stretched-out joke that's old and unfunny. I also have to give my kudos to Steven Cole's "Only Living Girls", a suitably unsettling note on which to end a fantastic collection.