Wasporella

Wasporella, the abandoned the novel of Anderson and friend Dearden, is the first example of Anderson's conlang Piscean and has survived to this day. Associated with it are several drawn pictures featuring early Old Piscean (then called Gallifreyan) text.

Synopsis

It is difficult to comprehend how far the novel was completed because it never had a finalised plot and often involved 'making it up as one went'. Generally, it follows the capers of Sean, a human teenager abducted from Earth in order to revive the Doctor (who has depleted all twelve Time Lord regenerations), associate Nick and Chronotis, alongside several villains.

Chronotis' plot included capturing Sean using the new Doctor's phobia as an advantage: wasps. The formulated contagious disease Wasporella most prominently infected wasps, altering their DNA in order to make them enormous killing machines, while it was engineered to mutate in the bodies of various other animals, distributing the disease farther and causing often comical conditions:

'Further down, a man was feeding mammoth sturgeons fresh, top-quality salad, the same type that Nick had on the side of his plate with his pizza. Suddenly, the sturgeon went crazy and began to swim in super-fast circles around its tank, eating its fry and a couple of rays, and smashing the glass with its sharp nose. The water gushed out everywhere and the sturgeon flipped and squirmed about in it, hopelessly yearning to travel further. It was infected with Wasporella… but how? ... The man that fed the fish assisted Sean and Nick with finding a spider and a few ants. They put them together in a plastic container. The spider sat still and the ants went off to the other side of the container. Then, the man cut off a microscopic piece of salad and painted it with black food colouring so it looked like a fly. They put the ‘fly’ on the end of a bit of fishing line and dangled it into the container. After the spider took it, it scurried around its prison like the sturgeon swam round its tank. It then jumped onto the ants and ate them, afterwards attempting to get out but to no avail ...'