Short Trips: Defining Patterns

Short Trips: Defining Patterns was the twenty-third Short Trips anthology published by Big Finish Productions.
== Publisher's summary ==
The known universe is home to countless trillions of lives, all interweaving with each other and affecting the line of history. When someone makes a decision, no matter how significant or seemingly irrelevant, they cause unknown effects throughout the ages...
Perhaps other, unreachable, factors are at play too: does the universe have a destiny? Are we all predetermined to follow a particular path? Do we reap what we sow or is it a case of what will be will be? Are coincidences really just that, or do we miss their deeper meanings?
Everywhere he looks, the Doctor sees the same patterns — the same events, decisions and actions cropping up again and again. Look at the bigger picture, however, and maybe — just maybe — you'll see how the universe works. How the universe lives...
But, as the Doctor and his companions discover, are these patterns really there? Or do we, by the very nature of seeing them, define them?
== Stories ==
# 	Title 	Author 	Doctor	Featuring
1 	Machine Time 	George Ivanoff 	4th 	
2 	The Time and Tide 	Neil Corry 	7th 	Ace
3 	Losing the Audience 	Mat Coward 	1st 	Susan
4 	One Card for the Curious 	Xanna Eve Chown 	7th 	Ace
5 	Séance, or Smoking is Highly Addictive, Don't Start	John Davies 	7th 	Ace
6 	The Celestial Harmony Engine 	Ian Briggs 	7th 	
7 	Mutiny 	Robert Dick 	4th 	Harry, Benton
8 	Numb 	Dave Owen 	3rd 	Sarah
9 	Closing the Account 	Stephen Hatcher 	7th 	Ace
10	The Great Escapes 	Simon Guerrier 	 	Lucie
11	Loose Change 	Steven Savile 	6th 	
12	Lepidoptery for Beginners 	John Dorney 	2nd 	Jamie, Zoe
13	One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 	Chris Thomas 	2nd 	Jamie, Fifth Doctor , Turlough
14	Homework 	Michael Coen 	2nd 	Jamie, Zoe
15	The Devil Like a Bear 	Brian Willis 	7th 	Ace
16	Stanley 	Lizzie Hopley 	4th 	Leela
17	Twilight's End 	Cavan Scott & Mark Wright	7th 	Nimrod
18	The Book of My Life 	Ian Mond 	6th 	
19	Defining Patterns 	Ian Farrington 	6th 	Emily Chaudhry, Will Hoffman
== Notes ==
* Michael Coen was the winner of a competition run by Big Finish to find new writing talent.
== Audio release ==
An audio version of Lepidoptery for Beginners, read by Duncan Wisbey, was recorded by Big Finish Productions and released as a free download for subscribers in October 2010, alongside A Death in the Family. Additionally, a reading of Twilight's End by Beth Chalmers was released to subscribers whose subscription included Robophobia in August 2011.
== External links ==
Category:Short Trips anthologies
Category:2008 anthologies
Category:Big Finish anthologies