Originally arising from the alt.drwho.creative newsgroup just prior to the 1996 telemovie, they've taken on an existance of their own: there are now over fifty IAs of various sorts. The stories range from light-hearted romps and fanwanky indulgence to gritty intensity and literary exploration. However, what makes the IAs different from other fan fiction is that they are Moderated Round Robin stories - in other words, each chapter is written by a different author, the allocation (and policing) of chapters being handled by one of the hard-working moderators.

At the time the IAs started, Virgin Publishing had just lost the licence under which they had quite successfully been publishing two ranges of Doctor Who novels: The New Adventures, which detailed the ongoing story of the Seventh Doctor; and the Missing Adventures, solo books that would detail an adventure of one of the previous Doctors and his companions that happened "off screen" as it were between the TV episodes. Naturally, these two ranges were referred to as NAs and MAs respectively, so substituting 'I' for 'N' gave the round robin series its own referential name. When the decision was made to do a past Doctor RR, those stories were for quite obvious reasons called Missing Internet Adventures after the second range of Virgin novels. Every time a new IA spin-off was created, the letter in front of IA was changed, thus producing the acronyms visible on the menu bar above.

The mailing list is a good place to start if you'd like to join in the fun. There is also a brief FAQ available that serves essentially the same purpose as this site but in a more portable form.

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