The Book of the Enemy (short story)

The Book of the Enemy
Main character(s):	Tom
Featuring:	Sherlock Holmes
Main enemy:	The Enemy
Main setting:	London, 1910s
Key crew
Writer:	Andrew Hickey
Release details
Part of:	The Book of the Enemy
Release date:	25 January 2018
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The Book of the Enemy was the third story in The Book of the Enemy.

The story was accompanied by a briefing comparing the War-time powers to Earth geopolitical entities. This was written by Michael Simpson.

Summary

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Characters

• Tom
• Sherlock Holmes
• Martian ambassador

References

• Holmes and Watson visited Ruritania several times to assist King Rudolf.
• Britain established an alliance with Mars after the Martians' attempted invasion of Earth.

Notes

• The author published a list of references in the story.
  • The framing story with "the club's oldest member" was borrowed from P. G. Wodehouse's stories.
  • The hypothetical about a man named Reginald who served kippers was a reference to Wodehouse's character Jeeves.
  • The men in the British Museum's Select Manuscript Room -- the one who spilled his papers, and the one who helped collect them -- are Dunning and Karsell from M.R. James' Casting the Runes.
  • The narrator recalls Watson's stories about Holmes' "excursion across the moors" (The Hound of the Baskervilles) and "wrestling match on a precipice" (The Final Problem).
  • Imagery is borrowed from H. P. Lovecraft's work and the novel Alice in Wonderland.
  • History remembered the Martian embassy as being burned down in the siege of Sidney Street.
  • The account of the Martian invasion of Earth was inspired by H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and influenced by the anthology editor Simon Bucher-Jones' novel Charles' Dickens' Martian Notes.

Continuity

• Tom dreams of demons trapped in pyramids. (TV: Pyramids of Mars, AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh)
• Sherlock Holmes helped a Pope in PROSE: All-Consuming Fire.
• James Moriarty discovered that non-Euclidean geometry best describes spacetime; this discovery was attributed to Albert Einstein. (TV: Four to Doomsday, The Lie of the Land)
• Michael Simpson's list of powers that are not the Enemy, but have tried to take advantage of the Great Houses' paranoia, include the Mal'akh, (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, The Book of the War, et al) the end point summoned into the City of the Saved, (PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War, God Encompasses) mutineers from the Sixth Wave, (PROSE: The Book of the War) a progressive timeship, (PROSE: Toy Story, AUDIO: The Shadow Play, et al) and xenophobic mutants in personal war machines. (TV: The Daleks, et al)