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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Iris mentions the occasion when the TARDIS fell off a cliff on [[Peladon (planet)|Peladon]]. The Doctor says that that has not happened yet in his personal timeline. <span style="font-style: normal; ">(</span>[[DW]]<span style="font-style: normal; ">: </span>''[[The Curse of Peladon]]''<span style="font-style: normal; ">)</span>
* Iris mentions the occasion when the TARDIS fell off a cliff on [[Peladon (planet)|Peladon]]. The Doctor says that that has not happened yet in his personal timeline. <span style="font-style: normal; ">(</span>[[DW]]<span style="font-style: normal; ">: </span>''[[The Curse of Peladon]]''<span style="font-style: normal; ">)</span>
* Iris was on [[Karn]] when the [[Fourth Doctor]] was there. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'')
* Iris was on [[Karn]] when the [[Fourth Doctor]] visited the planet. She was then a member of the [[Sisterhood of Karn]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'')
* Iris has an adventure in the Death Zone remarkably similar to [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]''.
* Iris has an adventure in the Death Zone remarkably similar to [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]''.
* The Master leaves Earth at the end of this story having escaped from prison in [[DW]]: '' [[The Sea Devils]]'' and aims for [[Skaro]], which leads to his next appearance in [[DW]]: '' [[Frontier in Space]]''.
* The Master leaves Earth at the end of this story having escaped from prison in [[DW]]: '' [[The Sea Devils]]'' and aims for [[Skaro]], which leads to his next appearance in [[DW]]: '' [[Frontier in Space]]''.
* At the end of the novel, Verdigris travels to the anti-matter universe to assist Omega against the Doctor (setting up events for [[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]).''
* At the end of the novel, Verdigris travels to the anti-matter universe to assist Omega against the Doctor. This sets up the events of [[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]''.
* Iris refers to the time she met the Fourth Doctor, [[Romana I|Romana]] and [[K9 Mark II|K9]]. ([[ST]]: ''[[Suitors, Inc.]]'')
* Iris refers to her encounter with the Fourth Doctor, [[Romana I|Romana]] and [[K9 Mark II|K9]]. ([[ST]]: ''[[Suitors, Inc.]]'')
* Jo recalls being dragged to future to face the [[Dalek]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks]]''), tussling with "[[Sea Devil|fish people]]" ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]''), being tied to an altar to be sacrificed to the [[Azal|Devil]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]''), facing "a [[Nestene Consciousness|malign alien consciousness]] that disguised itself variously in the form of shop dummies, plastic daffodils and trimphones" ([[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') and visiting [[Atlantis]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
* Jo and Iris would meet again in [[December]] [[2010]]. ([[CC]]: ''[[Find and Replace]]'')


== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==

Revision as of 20:27, 6 January 2012

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Publisher's summary

Jo Grant had no inkling of the ship that revolved in orbit like a discreet, preposterous thought in the mind of someone serene but bonkers.

High above London and its crust of smog, stretched tall above the soapy atmosphere of the Earth, is a ship the size and exact shape of St Pancra railway station.

On board, the Doctor and that mysterious lady adventurer, Iris Wildthyme, are bargaining for their lives with creatures determined to infiltrate the 1970s in the guise of characters from nineteenth-century novels.

Without the help of UNIT, the Doctor and his friends face the daunting task of defeating aliens, marauding robot sheep, the mysterious Children of Destiny and... the being who calls himself Verdigris.

Characters

  • Jo Grant
    • Is trained in lock picking and escapology.
  • Tom
    • Has been travelling with Iris for about a month.
    • Tom has a paranoid moment when he meets his mother and thinks he's destined to impregnate her.
    • Tom is gay.
  • Verdigris
    • Kisses Jo whilst wearing a mask which makes him look like the Master.

References

Planets

  • Iris summoned Verdigris from the planet Makorna.
  • The Doctor and Iris agree that the Nurses of Ionicaiy Six would go to the trouble of kidnapping humans simply to play doctors and nurses.
  • In Tom's first trip with Iris she took him to the planet Calgoria.

Alcohol

Notes

  • Paul Magrs crafts Iris Wildthyme as a sort of 'anti-Doctor', she drinks, smokes, generally kidnaps her companions. Also her companions are more or less opposite to the Doctor's; Jenny the lesbian traffic warden who "got the runs" as they went through the vortex, then there's Tom the black gay guy whom she also kidnapped.
  • Then there's the adventures she had which are similar...but not to the Doctor's.

Continuity

Timeline

Placement of this story is complicated given the various references throughout the book.

  • Iris mentions when the Doctor's TARDIS fell off the cliff, see continuity), which means in theory this occurs before DW: The Curse of Peladon.
  • However, the Master is not in prison so this story must take place after DW: The Sea Devils.

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