You were born on a planet called Earth? Is there also a planet called Soil?

Metafiction is the belated final entry in the Kaldor City range, first performed at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival in March 2011, then subsequently recorded and released in July 2012 it finally gives the listener an answer as to who on earth Kaston Iago really is...

Company Chairholder Uvanov has tasked his personal assistant Justina with finding out everything she can about the mysterious assassin Kaston Iago. But is his tale of criminality, revolutions, galactic war, and mindless violence, the truth... or some kind of strange space-operatic fantasy?

I'll give credit to writers Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore for crafting another fine little addition like their work on The Prisoner, for essentially giving us two people talking in a room for 15 minutes and yet it being one of the most engaging listens you could ask for. In addition to some excellent character work, the audio helps to reconcile the continuity of the Kaldor City series with the Big Finish plays Robophobia, Escape from Kaldor and subsequent spin-off, The Robots. But the most interesting thing is that the title of the story, meaning a fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the story's artificially, refers to the idea that Kaston Iago might in fact be Kerr Avon from Blake's 7, and as such the story plays with the listener's expectation of this. It's never confirmed nor denied if it ever really was him, and in all honesty, I feel it's a mystery best left unsolved.

Overall, Metafiction is a damn fine last hurrah for Kaldor City despite the notably aged Paul Darrow, it's still a series firing on all cylinders.

A reputation? What as? A bunch of crooks, killers and mindlessly destructive psychopaths.