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In [[2020 (releases)|2020]], Davies released a 21st chapter, following on from page 197, where this novelisation ends. This was entitled ''[[Revenge of the Nestene (short story)|Revenge of the Nestene]]'', and released independently through Davies' [[Instagram]] as part of a [[COVID-19]] crisis ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!]]'' event, celebrating the [[List of anniversaries|15th anniversary]] of the television episode.

== Publisher's summary ==

=== 2018 edition ===

=== 2023 edition ===

== Chapter titles ==

Prologue

# Enter the Doctor

# The Turn of the Earth

# The Battle of London

# The Journey Begins

== Deviations from televised story ==

* [[H.P. Wilson]] is renamed to [[Bernard Wilson]], while his position at [[Henrik's]] is [[Senior Caretaker]] instead of [[Chief Electrical Officer]].

* The book opens with a prologue detailing Bernard Wilson's backstory and the events leading up to his death.

* Rose is recalling these events from [[Bad Wolf Bay]].

* The novelisation includes the scene from the end of the television story ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' where the [[Tenth Doctor]] visits [[Rose Tyler]] right before his [[regeneration]].

* The Powell Estate has two towers, unofficially called Enoch and Powell, of sixteen floors, with six flats per storey rising above a squat quadrant with shops on the ground level including a chemist, a newsagent, Dev the bookie's, and Chicken Shack & Rack.

* Mickey's backstory is explored. For his [[16 (number)|sixteenth]] [[birthday]], his grandmother [[Rita-Anne Smith|Rita-Anne]] had put his name down for a flat, with the Powell Estate being "first preference". By this time, he and Rose started dating, though she maintained that "it [was] nothing special. By age [[18 (number)|eighteen]],he got a flat, [[90 Powell Tower]], though Rita-Anne told him that he was "a [[pain]] and a nuisance and she wanted him out." The first thing Mickey did when he got his flat was make sure his friends were welcome inside. Before meeting the Doctor, he was interested in [[football]].

* Odessa visitied Jackie when Rose was born, with Mickey in tow.

* Mickey is in an R&B band called Bad Wolf (formely [[No Hot Ashes]]) with three of his friends - a transwoman named [[Sally Salter]] and [[Mook Jayasundera]] and [[Patrice Okereke]], who are attracted to each other.  

* Jackie met [[Odessa Smith]], [[Sarah Clark]], [[Suzie (Father's Day)|Suzie]] and [[Bev (Father's Day)|Bev]] and in the [[1980s]], they formed the "Wednesday Girls", who met every Wednesday night for [[wine]] and [[chips]]. She was also the karaoke champion of 'the Spinning Wheel' and the life and soul of every party she went to. As her relationship with Jackson deteriorated, Odessa relied on the the group to cheer her up for the one night of laughter of the week; other nights were darker. Jackie would later say that Odessa "could never really cope with money, with men, or anything really" and Rose said that she "just couldn't cope". In [[1989]], when Mickey was five, she wandered into her room and quietly committed suicide.

* Jackson Smith was working as an engineer and a part-time singer when Odessa died and was horrified to find himself a single dad and worked longer and longer hours and further further away from home until he found a job on the cruise ships moored alongside [[Tower Bridge]]. He was employed as the Second Engineer, but has aspirations to move up and sing on the ships. A two month contract was followed by a six month contract and then another, and Mickey never saw his father again. According to Rose, Jackson "just wandered off".

* Rita-Anne was known as a "firebrand, meddler and a troublemaker", took Mickey into her own home not long after his father abandoned him, but kept him in the same school and ensured he remained in close contact with his friends from the Powell Estate. On his sixteenth birthday, she put him on the housing list of the Powell Estate and pushed him to move back to be closer to his friends. Rose described her as "such a great woman" who would always slap Mickey around. Three hundred people came to her funeral, for she was an extremely beloved woman, and the residents of Waterton Street closed the roads off to have a party in her memory, where people "danced and wept" until 5am. At the end, Mickey was carried on "the crowd's shoulders like a king".  

* [[Who is Doctor Who?]] is instead called ''[[Have you seen the Doctor????????]]''.

* Clive shows Rose pictures of incarnations other than the [[Ninth Doctor]]: He seems to know the first thirteen known incarnations of the Doctor, except the War Doctor. Rose was distracted when being shown pictures of "[[Tenth Doctor|a man with two suits, brown and blue]]". The shown Doctors include

** "[[First Doctor|An old man with white hair and a black cape]]"

** "[[Third Doctor|A man with a fabulous grey bouffant]] with a [[Whomobile|hovercraft]]

** "[[Fifth Doctor|A rather hot blond man]] at [[Heathrow Airport]];

** "[[Seventh Doctor|A short man with an umbrella]]";

** "[[Eighth Doctor|A dashing, Byronic man]]" at an [[atomic clock]] opening;

** "[[Eleventh Doctor|A man with a fantastic jaw, dressed in a tweed jacket and bow tie]]";

** "[[Twelfth Doctor|An older, angry man in a brown caretaker's coat]], holding a [[mop]]", as well as;

** A photo of "[[Thirteenth Doctor|a blonde woman in braces]] running away from a giant [[frog]] in front of [[Buckingham Palace]]".

*** He has photos of them in folders in incarnation order, seeing that the Ninth Doctor was in a box-file labelled "09". He also has two pictures of possible Doctors, including "[[The Doctor 1 (Rose)|a tall, bald black woman wielding a flaming sword]]" and "[[The Doctor 2 (Rose)|a young girl or boy in a hi-tech wheelchair with what looked like a robot dog at their side]]".

*** The illustrated edition adds in the [[Fugitive Doctor]], [[Fourteenth Doctor]], [[Fifteenth Doctor]], and two of [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|the Doctors]] from {{cs|The Brain of Morbius (TV story)}}.

* Clive explains to Rose that [[Gary Jonathan Finch|his father]] was present during the [[Shoreditch Incident]] of [[1963]]. It is revealed that he was exterminated by an [[Imperial Dalek]] when Clive was two years of age. This led Clive to begin his research into 'the Doctor'. Rose empathises with him and explains that [[Pete Tyler|her own father]] died when she was six months old.

** However, according to ''The Persistence of Memory, ''Clive was 14 in 1979, meaning he was born in 1965, two years after he claimed his father had died and four years after he claimed he was born.

* The original broadcast contained an unintended error where TV presenter [[Graham Norton]]'s voice was heard over a scene. This is included in the narrative with his voice being heard on a radio in the background.

* The Auton invasion is more gruesome, and includes [[decapitation]]s, where the Autons form their hands into sharp blades.

* The Doctor blows up Henrik's because the building is infested with plastic.

* There is no mention of Rose passing [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] after the Henrik's explosion.

* The Doctor wonders why he's never been ginger while examining his reflection, a disappointment which will carry onto his [[Tenth Doctor|immediate]] [[Eleventh Doctor|successors]].

* [[Clive Finch|Clive]] has two sons, Ben and Michael, instead of the one unnamed son on screen. This would appear to be a tribute to [[Michael Craze]] who played Second Doctor companion [[Ben Jackson]].

* Clive tells Rose a theory that people's memories of alien encounters have been wiped by [[Time field|cracks in time]], presaging the revelations in [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]].

* Clive met his wife Caroline at Durham University when his UFO society and her Reclaim the Night Enclave groups had both booked the same venue. His group left, but Caroline tracked him down to a bar where she apologised. They talked together through the night. They later married and had two sons, Ben and Michael. At some point, Clive became an estate agent. Sometime during February, Clive and his family visited Thorpe Park.

* Mickey lets the Nestene-controlled wheelie bin out through a gate.

* The duplicate of Mickey threatens to kill the people in the restaurant if Rose doesn't tell him about the Doctor.

* The duplicate of Mickey has one of his eyes pop out of his head during dinner with Rose.

* Rose notices the cut the Doctor got when the table smashed has disappeared and he says that, while it was twelve hours ago for Rose, it has been "weeks" since for him. In the interim, he fought a [[pterodactyl]].

* The Doctor tries to convince the Nestene to colonise an empty planet.

* The first Mickey that Rose finds in the Nestene lair is another duplicate, whom she lets slip about the anti-plastic to, ending the Doctor's negotiations.

* Instead of saying he fought in the war, the Doctor says he tried to stop it.

* Since the novelisation states Mickey's mother committed suicide, instead of saying she'll have to tell his mother he's dead, Rose says she'll have to tell his friends, his uncle and the kids from the estate.

* Clive deliberately slows the Autons down so his family can escape.

* The Auton massacre is told from the point of view of several victims, including Rose's old boyfriend [[Jimmy Stone]] who is robbing his current girlfriend Abena when he is cut into pieces as he leaves her house.

* Rose and Jimmy broke up after being together for a year, sometime in late [[2003]]. When he left, Rose told him that "he'd come to no good one day", as he stole her secondhand [[computer]] which he stashed inside his car.  

* [[Donna Noble|Donna]] has a cameo appearance sleeping through the Auton massacre.

* Rose speaks to Jackie on the phone after the massacre instead of hanging up when she answers.

* The Doctor shows Rose and Mickey the view outside the TARDIS doors.

* Rose is less dismissive of Mickey at the end, with their conversation ending after her "Thank you."

* The security guard that hands Rose the [[lottery]] money is given a name, [[Lee Lin]].

== Audiobook ==

== External links ==

* {{Penguin|1115552/doctor-who-rose-target-collection/}}

 

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