Even though I lived in England during the Tom Baker years, I was never a fan of Dr. Who while growing up.  But when the new series started up, I heard enough good things about it from friends that I started watching.  And I enjoyed the first several episodes, but I still didn’t consider myself a fan of the show — it was just something fun to watch.

And then came the episode “Father’s Day.”  That’s the one that made me start calling myself a Dr. Who fan.  It was a brilliant story about love and loss and sacrifice.

The writer of that particular episode was Paul Cornell.  So, you can imagine how astonished and pleased I was to run across the following on his blog today, in which he listed his favorite short fiction of 2010:

‘That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made’ by Eric James Stone (Analog September), is a refreshingly positive depiction of interaction between human religion and aliens, in this case between a Mormon missionary and enormous creatures made from solar plasma.