Like “Moon Graffiti”, “Dead Time” had its initial release in an audio anthology, Earth and Beyond read by Paul McGann, though unlike “Moon Graffiti”, this isn’t one of those stories that suffers from being in prose and not read aloud.  It does suffer from having to use Sam Jones as a companion though, as the story while set in the TARDIS and in a void like setting so Andrew Miller really focuses in on the Doctor/companion dynamic.  Except the Doctor/companion dynamic between the Eighth Doctor and Sam is a particularly weak one.  “Dead Time” is a story that also focuses on the Doctor as a character, locking some cosmic entity in his own mind’s past that is straight out of Gallifrey’s past as well.  The story would work better had there not been a companion included in the proceedings and we could just focus on how the Eighth Doctor integrates with Gallifrey’s past, especially considering this collection came out post-Alien Bodies (and directly would be the first time using Gallifrey proper since Lungbarrow).  Still Miller writes a solid story.  7/10.