White Canvas is a novella written by James Wylder. Released in 2018, it is a part of the 10,000 Dawns series and tells of Graelyn Scythes being sent to a mysterious town.
Characters[]
- Graelyn Scythes - an agent of the 10,000 Dawns trapped in the Town
- Archimedes Von Ahnerabe - a cyborg agent of the 10,000 Dawns
- Lady Aesculapius - a renegade member of the Firmament
- Auteur
- Gideon
- Hole
- Cá Bảy Màu
- Axastyakis
- Mullion
- Coloth
- Littlejohn
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Publisher's summary[]
Graelyn Scythes, once a grown-up agent of Dawn, has been returned to childhood and lives out seventeen years in a mysterious Town where nobody acknowledges the existence of anything beyond the White Canvas beyond the edges of the settlement.
However, in dreams, she keeps getting glimpses of another life, and of a case she was investigating with Archimedes Von Ahnerabe and Lady Aesculapius involving the painted warriors and a powerful artefact stolen from the Firmament's equivalents in another universe. The key to understanding what the Town is, why Graelyn remembers that other life, and why all her friends and foes from the 10,000 Dawns have been turned into fiction within the Town, lies with Graelyn's mysterious art therapist and the Town's founder and de facto mayor, a woman called Auteur whose trademark gauntlet bears a startling resemblance to the one in Graelyn's dreams…
Full summary[]
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In-universe continuity[]
- The in-universe version of Andrew Hickey's novel Head of State from James Wylder's short story Rachel Survived and the fictionalized Book of the Enemy from Andrew Hickey's short story The Book of the Enemy appears again.
- Graelyn Scythes mentions children being spun from looms.
- Auteur and Gideon first appeared in Jayce Black's short story A Bloody (and Public) Domaine.
- Hole, Cá Bảy Màu, Axastyakis, and Mullion first appeared in Niki Haringsma's short story What Keeps Their Lines Alive.
- The painted warriors and Plume Coteries originate from Nate Bumber's short story Cobweb and Ivory. Original Mammoths first appeared in Lawrence Miles' short story Grass.
- Sergeant-Instructor Littlejohn first appeared in Simon Bucher-Jones' short story The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale.
- Auteur and Gideon mention the Empire, presumably meant to be the Eleven-Day Empire.
- Vo'lach Prime (a major location in Simon Bucher-Jones' novel Ghost Devices) is mentioned.
- Coloth from Simon Bucher-Jones' short story War Crimes appears again, having previously appeared in Nate Bumber's short stories Cobweb and Ivory and A Farewell to Arms. He later becomes a major character in the series of the same name.
- Graelyn briefly sees Miranda Dawkins on the Berlin Wall (which happened in Lance Parkin's novel Father Time) and as the Empress of the Needle.
- The Quoth and the Vo'lach are present at the Christmas Needle Agreement.
- Wylder's short story The Gendar Conspiracy serves as a prequel to this story.
Sources[]
- TARDIS Wiki